Would tailoring classrooms to different learning levels do more for kids in school?
The American Dream is Dead
May 20, 2012 By 3 Comments
Children from low-income families have only a 1 percent chance of reaching the top 5 percent of the income distribution.
55 Years in School: Pondering the Pencil Grip
May 14, 2012 By 3 Comments
What does the way a student grips a pencil tell us about education?
Maybe Old Dad Wasn’t All Bad
May 13, 2012 By 1 Comment
Should loving fathers come on a little stronger about their sons’ grades?
55 Years in School: Changing Guard
May 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Carl Bosch contemplates the school kids of the upcoming generation that he won’t know.
5 Reasons Why Bullying is Getting Worse
April 30, 2012 By 23 Comments
Cameron Conaway lists five reasons bullying is on the rise, as well as concrete methods of combatting this increase.
55 Years in School: Beyond the Beltway, A 60 hour field trip
April 25, 2012 By 2 Comments
Carl Bosch reflects on his recent field trip to our nation’s capital with a host of 8th graders.
Bloomberg News: Less Educated Men Harming US Economy
April 17, 2012 By 23 Comments
How do we close the education gap that is leaving men at risk for poverty, jail and divorce?
One Billion Reasons Why Your Kids Should Spend More Time on the Computer
April 14, 2012 By 4 Comments
Dad blogger ‘Showtime’ wants his children to embrace technology without fear. The reasons are endless.
The Greatest Generation
April 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
We can find the ultimate example of the Good Generation in the Greatest Generation.
Panoramic Pupils
April 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Sleepy students huddling together for a group photo have no idea just how close to their futures they really are.
Lunchroom Logistics
April 3, 2012 By 3 Comments
Inside school cafeterias are complex societies full of a hyper-awareness of social status, in which popularity is traded like stock.
I Didn’t Go To College and I’m Proud of It
March 31, 2012 By 5 Comments
Yashar Ali broke with his family’s tradition, and made his way in the world without a college degree.
The Write Stuff
March 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Adam Braun’s Pencils of Promise is bringing education to impoverished children
55 Years in School: Teachers Get the Short Straw During Evaluation
March 20, 2012 By 5 Comments
Want to evaluate teachers by student achievement? Fine, but we have to make it fair.
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“I spent years in confusion that led me to ask awkward even wholly inappropriate questions at the wrong moments…”
This is a comment by James on the post “What Happens When We Don’t Teach Our Boys About Sex”.