In "Bart Gets a Z," Bart Simpson has a young substitute teacher who's seriously wired. He sends a mass text to assign homework: "20 MINUTES OF TWITTERING." At one point, the teacher asks, "Who can tell me what the Monroe Doctrine was?"
An unfortunate student starts to answer: "The policy" [...]
A teacher’s cowboy curriculum is motivating high school students in Colorado and elsewhere, reports the Denver Post. Ann Moore, who teaches at-risk students and English Learners at Cherry Creek High, was inspired by Jim Owen’s Cowboy Ethics, which aims to teach values to Wall Street bankers. Her curriculum [...]
He only wrote once for Politics K-12 that I can dig up, but Sean Cavanagh's departure from Education Week is a big loss. He may have been the newspaper's specialist in covering math and science, and its prolific Curriculum Matters blogger, but he had a knack [...]
Consultants are profiting from telling the obvious to Arkansas schools, writes Brian Kisida of Mid-Riffs.
Fayetteville School District’s new Phi Delta Kappa curriculum audit will bear an uncanny resemblance to a Dilbert cartoon, Kisida predicts.
Of course, Phi Delta Kappa’s report will turn community members’ idea [...]
BoardBuzz recently wrote about whether engineering should have a place in the school curriculum. And, of course, we think it should. But as the National Academy of Engineering says, engineering is often the missing letter in STEM education. So BoardBuzz was pleasantly surprised to learn that Derby Public Schools [...]
If the new high-quality-schools lawsuit hinged on Florida science scores alone, it'd probably be a slam dunk.
"Florida students are pretty much last in the nation for science," says a power point presentation that Todd Clark, the Department of Education bureau chief for curriculum and instruction, gave to a statewide education group' [...]
Lincoln University, a historically black institution in Pennsylvania, doesn't have much in the way of a core curriculum. To graduate, you can take one year of foreign language or two courses in computer science ("Computers for Health Education" counts). They do make you take some intro survey sorts of' [...]
Thomas Edison State College is using a new federal grant to develop a series of distance education courses for which all materials are provided on flash drives. The idea is that while a student would need to connect to the Internet to submit materials to an instructor, the curriculum [...]
Al Sharpton and Newt Gingrich, along with Arne Duncan were impressive on Meet the Press. Yes, they flubbed some lines indicating confusion about charter schools, curriculum, and international test scores and they spoke in phrases like "I was told ..., students are told" [...]
SmartBrief is ASCD’s [Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development] daily e-mail newsletter of all things school-related. Their links point mainly on policy and research news, but SmartBrief also includes a listing of new education jobs and the occasional ad.
Summary: SmartBrief is a bit like the Metamucil of education media; [...]
The Orlando-based parent group Fund Education Now is raising concerns that Florida lawmakers are pushing students and teachers to do too much on the cheap.
The group considers the current round of education reform too rigid, wondering "what ever happened to the bell curve of life?"
"Clearly, not every child is going to" [...]
