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Skipping class is one thing. It's disrespectful to the professor and it's usually detrimental to your own education, but at least it doesn't bother anyone else. Being late to class on the other hand is disrespectful, detrimental, and a nuisance to...

"They never tell you in teacher school, and it's rarely discussed elsewhere. It is never, ever portrayed in movies and tv shows about teaching. Teachers rarely bring it up around non-teachers for fear it will make us look weak or inadequate.  Valerie Strauss in the Washington Post once put together a series of quotes to answer the question "How hard is teaching?" and asked for more in the comments section. My rant didn't entirely fit there, so I'm putting it here, because it is on the list of Top Ten Things They Never Tell You in Teacher School.

The hard part of teaching is coming to grips with this:  There is never enough. There is never enough time. There are never enough resources. There is never enough you."

They send a letter to Harvard's president explaining why.

The Kinds Of Grading Mistakes That Haunt Students

Should grades support, report, or punish?

If to support, support who?

If to report, report what, and to whom?

Blogger Elena Aguilar proposes that teachers make positive phone calls home common practice.

Parents should seek out educators who have outside intellectual lives, follow the data and ask terrific questions.

I'm not a It's not just because laptops are distracting — but because taking notes by hand forces you to actively listen.

Star Trek gave us six TV series, spanning over 700 episodes, because it's such a rich universe. And a Federation starship is the perfect vehicle to tell unforgettable stories. But which Star Trek stories are the best? To find out, we painstakingly compiled the 100 greatest Trek episodes, from any of the series.

Many textbooks aren't even close to authentic reading experiences. Minimize student struggle by identifying purpose, assigning reasonable homework, and teaching them to self-monitor for understanding.

Young African-Americans must see their reflections in their communities and have a chance to succeed in school and society, U.S. official tells Askwith Forum.

Pull up a seat, take a breath, relax, and enjoy these 21 images that reaffirm what teaching is all about. After all, you know these realistic stock photos sum up your day.

Joanne Lipman writes that today's educators are too soft. It is time to go back to the discipline of the past.

The companies that create the most important state and national exams also publish textbooks that contain many of the answers. Unfortunately, low-income school districts can’t afford to buy them.

Stop giving standardized tests that are inextricably tied to specific sets of books. At the very least, stop using test scores to evaluate teacher performance without providing the items each teacher needs to do his or her job. Most of all, avoid basing an entire education system on materials so costly that big, urban districts can’t afford to buy them.

8 solid, actionable tips for using tech in ways that actually improve the classroom.

Five questions faculty members should ask themselves before they weave a recent controversy into their courses.

A new study shows that internet trolls really are just terrible human beings.

Your professors are not your friends.

Here's to ivy-covered buildings, critical thinking, independence, making friends for life, asking hard questions, becoming global citizens, and discovering who you really are....

Four years after Apple introduced its popular tablet, many districts are switching to laptops.