I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
As the sun rises, Lee Baker, a religion teacher at Archbishop Rummel High School, warmly embraces Mark Daniels Jr., a senior student. Baker inquires about the amount of water that flooded Daniels’ street and home. Daniels replies that his area …
The U.S. Department of Labor is currently examining the hiring practices of a group of charter schools in Ohio. Specifically, they are looking into the employment of Turkish school employees who were hired using special federal visas in the past …
On a rainy day, four parents and their young children, ranging in age from 2 to 5, gather in the library of Green Holly Elementary School. Jeannine Finnacom, the school’s family-support coordinator, brings out a small cage containing a white …
The white butcher paper affixed to the wall in Reginald Barnes’ office communicates a clear message. The superintendent of Mississippi’s West Tallahatchie school district has meticulously listed the names and employment status of the new teachers in his schools this …
What if English and language arts teachers completely changed their approach to focus solely on the texts that students are reading? This was the topic of discussion among chief academic officers from 14 urban school districts last month. It represents …
Dialogue is an important part of essays because it allows the writer to convey information in an interesting, engaging way. In order to include dialogue in an essay, the writer must first learn how to write effective dialogue.
Effective dialogue …
The young boy sitting nervously in front of me is visibly agitated, with his hand clenched and his neck covered in red blotches. He is grappling with the question that has haunted him since his diagnosis – "Why am I …
It can be challenging to assess the prevalence of inappropriate relationships between teachers and students since obtaining statistics is problematic, and anecdotal evidence can lead to misleading conclusions.
A survey by YouGov in 2007 found that one in six among …
Sir Michael Barber was known as New Labour’s "mad professor" and was the architect of the literacy and numeracy strategies during the government’s first term. Later, when he worked as the head of the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit for Tony …