Who doesn’t have fond memories of the children’s television show Reading Rainbow? A quick poll of the office here couldn’t find a single naysayer. In just 24 hours the Kickstarter […]
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Learning is something people, like other animals, do whenever our eyes are open. Education, though, is uniquely human, and right now it’s at an unusual point of flux. By some
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Bob Fecho, a University of Georgia professor in the Language and Literacy Education Department, and Stephanie Jones, a UGA associate professor in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice, sent
The federal government spends almost $8 billion on preschool programs across the country, mostly on low income 4-year-olds. States spend billions more. But with at least 30 states planning to
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Sara Stevenson is the librarian at O. Henry Middle School in Austin, Texas, who is sick and tired of assaults on the very notion of public education. Here are her reflections
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Sitting in class as a student, one of the last things you think about is where all of the classroom supplies came from. The school fairy, maybe? But realistically, at
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As the appetite for educational data on students has grown across the K-12 sector, so has the stated desire among many state lawmakers to try to protect the privacy and
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More than 25,000 parents, students and educators are expected to converge on the Oklahoma Capitol on Monday to rally for more money for public education. Organizers hope to persuade legislators to
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The concept of assistive technology to help special education students achieve more in K-12 classrooms is nothing new, but the portability of many of the devices is a relatively new
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Several schools have sparked public outrage recently for how they’ve handled children who seemed to veer from gender expectations – including a short-haired Virginia girl who seemed too boyish to people at
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