Using picture books as mentor texts is the perfect way to teach verbal, dramatic, and situational irony to middle school students.
Examples of diversity in higher education encompass a spectrum of identities and experiences, including racial and ethnic diversity, gender diversity, socioeconomic diversity, cultural diversity, and ...
The idea of a more personalized approach to education has gained a lot of traction in the last decade. But there’s a lot of variation among those claiming “personalization.” Some are teacher-driven ...
The professional conscience of every great educator guides them to prepare children with an education that develops the skills and knowledge to be successful in the world. Not our current world, mind ...
The math textbooks rejected by the state of Florida included word problems that discuss racism and practicing empathy with others, according to examples released Thursday by the Department of ...
After a delay of nearly a week, the Florida Department of Education has released examples that it says backs up its rejection of dozens of math textbooks because they contained questions and exercises ...
So far in this series of articles about learning and education, I've said almost nothing about teaching. That has been deliberate. In our culture we do too much teaching, or too much of what we call ...
The first time Sacred Heart Sr. Mary Atimango reached out to a group of gang members who had been carrying out attacks and robberies around Juba, South Sudan's capital, she was overwhelmed with fear.
In Part One of this pair of blogs—The Unity of the Human Race: Our Precarious Future —I made the case that we are getting perilously close to planet-destroying forces that could unwittingly and to a ...