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Handwriting Matters

  • Guia Cortassa
  • June 5, 2014
A new scientific study has demonstrated that learning to write by hand before learning to type helps in developing children’s brains, and the benefits stretch from childhood to adulthood memory-wise.…
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Brown Bag Your American Literature, Quick

  • Casey Dayan
  • May 28, 2014
Michael Gove, Britain’s Education Secretary, is rewriting Britain’s public school curriculum to be more British. To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men, and The Crucible are among the titles…
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I Wasn’t the White Boy Everyone Thought I Was

  • Brian McGuigan
  • May 3, 2014
My connection to my Puerto Rican heritage seemed as tenuous as my connection to my white skin. I didn’t feel white, didn’t believe I had the privileges that came with whiteness.
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Studies Confirm: High School Sucks

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • February 13, 2014
…over the past 40 years, despite endless debates about curricula, testing, teacher training, teachers’ salaries, and performance standards…there has been no improvement—none—in the academic proficiency of American high school students.…
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Bill Ayers

  • Rachel DeWoskin
  • December 1, 2013
Author Rachel DeWoskin talks with her father-in-law, educator, writer, and activist Bill Ayers, about the private man behind the mythos and demonization of his public persona.
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The New York Comics Symposium: Brendan Leach and Nick Sousanis

  • The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium
  • November 29, 2013
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Monday nights at 7-9…
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American Adults Get Worse at Reading

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • October 14, 2013
Well, this is terrifying: The reading skills of American adults are significantly lower than those of adults in most other developed countries, according to a new international survey. What’s more,…
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For-Profit Schools from the Students’ Perspective

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • July 18, 2013
Talk about good timing: on the same day we posted Stephen S. Mills’s essay about working for a for-profit school, Racialicious reposted an essay looking at the issue from the…
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Talks with Teachers #3: Imprisoned Education

  • Oriane Delfosse
  • August 31, 2012
Chaska Conrow, who taught at a charter school that operates inside San Francisco County jails, discusses the myths and realities of teaching behind bars.
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The Rumpus Interview with Karen Prior

  • Christopher J. Gaumer
  • August 2, 2012
A formerly freckle-faced pothead with a penchant for getting arrested, Prior admits she doesn’t hide emotions well and so to some, she can be a handful.
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Québécois

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • May 30, 2012
“Québec has long been a holdout, but that era’s over. Which makes the students indisputedly right about one thing: the problem with ‘reforms’ like these is that they constitute an…
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Rethinking Sex Ed

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • November 17, 2011
“In its breadth, depth and frank embrace of sexuality as, what Vernacchio calls, a ‘force for good’ — even for teenagers — this sex-ed class may well be the only…
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