Salon 'Building A Better Teacher': Dissecting America's Education Culture WUWM Teacher effectiveness is a hot topic in education circles right now. How do you measure it, and how can you improve it?
Via Mary Perfitt-Nelson
In a time of populism and political polarization, children and young adults need to learn to think critically, with complexity and nuance. History, as a subject, is more important than ever.
To keep its prisons free of Nigerians, the United Kingdom is paying to improve the capacity of Nigerian prisons. The UK will pay up to £700,000 ($967,954) to build a new 112-bed wing at Kirikiri maximum security prisons, one of Nigeria's largest. Boris Johnson, UK's foreign secretary says sponsoring the prison will allow for some o
"The UK will pay up to £700,000 ($967,954) to build a new 112-bed wing at Kirikiri maximum security prisons, one of Nigeria’s largest. Boris Johnson, UK’s foreign secretary says sponsoring the prison will allow for some of the over 320 Nigerian inmates currently serving time in the UK to complete their sentences in Nigeria—in line with a 2014 prisoner transfer agreement between both countries."
These Malala Yousafzai classroom activities help teachers to introduce her inspirational story to their students. Easy for teachers, enriching for students.
It's time we brought back the hyperlink and learned how to really use it. It’s time we used information abundance to our advantage. And it’s time we disentangled our communications from platforms tuned for the spread of disinformation. The health of our democracies just might depend on it.
Higher education costs are at an all-time high, and landing the right scholarship could be the difference between graduating debt-free or paying off loans
Here are three new additions to my very lengthy The Best Tools & Lessons For Teaching Information Literacy – Help Me Find More: Fake videos are on the rise. As they become more realistic…
Professor James Banks will present “Civic Education for Excellence, Diversity, and Inclusion" on April 13 as part of the UW Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity’s 50th anniversary activities.
On the days before and after US secretary of State Rex Tillerson embarked on his first official trip to Africa, one issue has risen as the main concern among American officials: China’s ascendant role in the African continent. Testifying in front of the US armed services committee on Mar. 6, the top US genera
"Testifying in front of the US armed services committee on Mar. 6, the top US general for Africa Thomas Waldhauser said they were “carefully monitoring Chinese encroachment and emergent military presence” in Djibouti. The Horn of Africa nation is home to the only permanent US military installation in Africa. But last year, China opened its first overseas naval base there too, provided loans to the country, and built a railway connecting its seas to the Ethiopian hinterland to improve regional trade."
"Too often, student voice is treated as a novelty. But it should surprise no one that the same people who spend a majority of their time in school would have a lot of constructive ideas about it. ...This issue looks at student-led and school-based collaborations that elevate student voice and agency. "
Lots of resources in this collection of articles from ASCD. -JL
"Balancing Act explores the racial imbalance of schools and neighborhoods across the nation, finding that the racial composition of schools often reflects the surrounding neighborhoods. It suggests that racially concentrated schools are the result of residential segregation and how school district boundaries are drawn to separate populations. The authors also posit that charter schools, which are freed from the constraints of traditional boundaries, can interrupt the school-housing relationship. Yet the report finds that charter schools are, on average, more racially imbalanced than other public schools. The report deserves credit for tackling the complicated relationship between school and housing segregation, and for bringing renewed attention to issues that are often considered separately."
"Similar to the concern that Islamist terrorists are within our midst was the concern of many Americans that domestic communists were connected to and agents of a vast, foreign-based conspiracy to topple America [20]....To deal with this problem, between 1480 and 1680 tens of thousands of people—the vast majority of them women—were executed in Europe as witches, very often by being burned at the stake. Accused witches routinely confessed, generally (but not always) under torture, to such crimes as, in Steven Pinker’s enumeration, 'eating babies, wrecking ships, destroying crops, flying on broomsticks on the Sabbath, copulating with devils, transforming their demon lovers into cats and dogs, and making ordinary men impotent by convincing them that they had lost their penises [21-22].'”
One of my favorite things on the internet is Crash Course, a free, high-quality educational YouTube channel that offers “crash courses” on science, math, history, literature, philosophy, and so much more. The channel’s latest project is a 12-week miniseries all about media literacy. Hosted by Jay Smooth, the series aims to give viewers “the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create, and act using all forms of communication.” It’s hard to think of a more relevant tool to have in our current political and cultural climate. The series officially launches next, but here’s a preview video of everything it’s going to cover:
School Shootings Put Teachers in New Role as Human Shields is an article in today’s New York Times, which focuses on the questions in most teachers minds these days. Here’s an excerpt: …
Confirmation Bias is part of human nature. We all are susceptible to it. But why is it such a universal human condition? And what can we do to move beyon
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