Only the Educated are Free

I have been interviewing at schools in Virginia over the past few weeks and it has forced me to think about the aims of education and the changes in society that are affecting what we teach and how we teach. Technology and diversification seem to be the hot topics of education right now; teachers must [...]

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From the Eastern Arizona Courier:
Study shows benefits of turning off TV
By Lindsey Stockton, assistant editor

When Ret. Lt. Col. Dave Grossman spoke to teachers on March 1 about the impact large doses of violent visual media has on youth, he ended his seminar with a case study that was hard to ignore.
Stanford University Medical School recently [...]

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Yahoo News posted this story on March 8 that every teacher should read. Teachers get too much of the blame for why our students do not succeed. In this opinion editorial, Patrick Walsh explains that there are many other factors that go into why students fail, starting with the student himself. You can have the [...]

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This blog was begun as an assignment for a grad class I am currently taking. I am enjoying it so much that I am definitely going to continue with it after the class is over. It also gave me the idea to use blogs in my classroom. I set up another blog for my humanities [...]

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Accessed via PEDABLOGUE:
“The Chronicle of Higher Education will be publishing a supplement in early March that explores the interplay between primary secondary and high education. The publication will be sent free to all readers who sign up at http://schoolandcollege.com/free:
SCHOOL & COLLEGE will report on how well (or not so well) America is preparing its young [...]

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CBS News ran a story about an autistic student in an upstate New York high school who was given a chance to shine. (To access the video clip after clicking on the link, go to the section on the left hand bar for CBS Evening News and it should be the first story). Watching the [...]

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At one point, e-books seemed to be the wave of the future. But in 2006 publishers are still trying to figure out how best to market them and make them a viable alternative to the traditional paper-bound book. One area where they felt this could be accomplished was through the use of e-textbooks. Any college [...]

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Check out the techLEARNING blog for cutting edge information about technology and teaching. The article titled “Laptops are 21st Century Pencils” has some interesting insights into different methods being used to integrate laptops into schools as a learning tool.
There is one site referenced in that article that I would like to point you toward. It [...]

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One Canadian university thinks so. Lakehead University is limiting WiFi access on their campus because of fears that the electromagnetic forces pose a heath risk to students. We’ve heard this about cell phones, microwaves, iPods and practically every other new technology that becomes widespread. Studies so far are inconclusive but companies obviously need to protect [...]

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So I took a trip around the web and visited most of the state education websites to see what’s going on outside of my corner of the world. I wasn’t too surprised by what I saw; most states are focusing on making themselves look good for NCLB. However, my other goal was to find out [...]

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