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Education

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7 Ways to Spread Sunshine in Your School

10 Strategies to Fight Mandatory Retention & Other Damaging Policies

A Brief History of Education

A Funder's Guide to the Common Core State Standards

A Letter to Teachers on the Use of Stoplights in the Classroom

A Thousand Rivers: What the Modern World has Forgotten About Children and Learning

A Word to the Not Yet Wise

Activist Teachers Challenge Senator Bernie Sanders on Corporate School Reform

Back to School List

Be Glad for Our Failure to Catch Up with China in Education

Behold the Humble Block! Tools of the Trade

Bernie Sanders Explains Puzzling Education Vote

Budget Allocates $10 Million for Training in Positive Discipline

But Waldorf Toys are so Expensive

Call for Children to Start School at the Age of Seven

Can You Measure and Education? Can You Define Life's Meaning?

Child Care and Development Block Grant: Where are we Now?

Children Don't Like School Because They Love Freedom

Children Teach Themselves to Read

Class Dismissed: It's Not Homeschooling, It's Unschooling

Classroom Management: Resource Roundup

Column: Hey Teachers, Please Stop Using Behavior Charts. Here's Why

Community-College Students Learn Math By Using It

Congress Passes Replacement for No Child Left Behind

Conventional Schooling Conflicts With Trustful Parenting

DAP: What Does it Mean to Use Developmentally Appropriate Practice?

Dear Government: Leave Our Kids Alone

Dear School, It's Not Me, It's You

Dear Teachers: You're Not Fooling Me

Democracy as First Practice in Early Childhood Education and Care

Denisha Jones: Beware the Education "Reformers" Who Co-Opt the Language of the Civil Rights Movement

Defending the Early Years Mobilizing Kit

Do You Have the Personality to be an Inquiry-Based Teacher?

Doing More Time in School: An Unimaginative, Mean Proposal

Early Academic Training Produces Long-Term Harm

Educators Call on State Ed to Delay Early Childhood Learning Standards Again

Effective Control Revolves Around the Environment, Not the Children

Exploring Pre-K Age 4 Learning Standards and Their Role in Early Childhood Education: Research and Policy Implications

Funding Sources for Educator Professional Development

Golden Rules for Engaging Students in Learning Activities

Good Start, Grow Smart: The Bush Administration's Early Childhood Initiative

Hard Evidence: At What Age are Children Ready for School?

Hey Higher Ed, Why Not Focus on Teaching?

Hey Teachers, Behavior Charts are Not the Problem. Here's Why

Homework is Wrecking Our Kids: The Research is Clear, Let's Ban Homework

Homework: Enough Already!

How Schools Ruined Recess - and Four Things Needed to Fix It

How Teachers Can Help 'Quiet Kids' Tap Their Superpowers

How to Get the Most Out of Your Study Tour to Reggio Emilia

How to Turn Your School Into a Maker Haven

Ideal Purposes of Schools: Readers Weigh In

In Defense of the Progressive School

Inside the School Where Punishment is Banned

Investing in Teacher Pay Could Spur Big Gains for California Students

Is 21st Century Learning Really Progressive Education Incognito?

It's No Secret That Most Professional Development is Awful. Less Well Known is That Some of It's Great

Kids Have Three Times too Much Homework, Study Finds; What's the Cost?

Kinesthetic Learning Styles: 24 Activities for Teaching

Kinesthetic strategies

Let's Get Serious About Education Policy

Let the Playing Commence!: A Tribute to Bev Bos

L.A. Unified Adopts New Policy on Student Behavior

Making Learning Visible Through Pedagogical Documentation

Marginal Unschooling

Mindfulness in Unschooling

Must the Courts Improve California's Schools?

Neuroscience Improves Early Childhood Education Quality

New Survey Ranks U.S. Students 36th in the World - How Do We Improve?

Nine Visionaries Who Changed the Way We Look at Education

Notes for a New Faculty Member

Not Okay

Oldest Kids in Class Do Better, Even Through College

Our Social Obligation: Educational Opportunity, Not Coercion

President Obama Signs Education Law, Leaving 'No Child' Behind

Principal: School Doesn't Work for Most Kids

Proceedings of the Lilian Katz Symposium

Progressive Education: Why it's Hard to Beat, But Also Hard to Find

Public Schools Use Bill to Quash Charter

Raising Awake Children in a Broken System

Reggio Emilia: How a City in Italy Started an Education Trend

Report Debunks 'Earlier is Better' Academic Instruction for Young Children

Rip Those Behavior Charts Off the Wall and Burn Them

Rise of the Home 'Unschoolers' - Where Children Learn Only What They Want to

Scaffolding

School Starting Age: The Evidence

The School Readiness Playbook: Guide for Community Partners

Schoolchildren 'Banned From Running in Playground'

Schools Are Good for Showing Off, Not for Learning

Seven Sins of Our System of Forced Education

Share if You Think Every School Should Have a Year-Round Organic Gardening Program!

Stanford Researchers Show We're Sending Many Children to School WAy Too Early

Stanford Study: Common Core is Bad For the Brain

"School Readiness" Fear-Mongering

Teacher: I See the Difference in Educational Privilege Every Day. I Live it. I am Disgusted by it. 

Teaching Children How to Think Instead of What to Think

The Technology of How to Treat Human Beings

Ten Obvious Truths About Educating Kids That Keep Getting Ignored

Ten Questions Local Policymakers Should Ask About Expanding Access to Preschool

The 8 Minutes That Matter Most

The Crucial Role of Recess in School

The Global Search for Education: How Should We Measure Success?

The Hard Part

The Incredible Ridiculousness of Readiness

The One Reason I Quit Teaching

The Reality Television Paradigm of All-Charter School Systems

The Reggio-Emilia Approach: A Social-Constructivist Pedagogy of Inclusion

The Teach For America Bait and Switch: From 'You'll Be Making a Difference' to 'You're Making Excuses'

The Teaching Crisis That Unions and School Districts Won't Address

The Theory of Loose Parts

There's No Revolt Against Common Core

Time For a Stronger No Child Left Behind

"Today I Resigned From the School Board." From Teacher Wendy Bradshaw PhD

Today's 4-Year-Olds Often 'Not Physically Ready' for School, Experts Warn

Traditional Teaching Faces a Threat From School Model

Understanding Loris Malaguzzi

Using Words to Create Positive Classroom Culture

We Can't Give Up on Struggling Students

What Classrooms Can Learn From Informal Learning

What Should We be Teaching Young Children?

What is "Scaffolding" and the "ZPD"?

What is Democratic Education?

When Homework is Useless

When Someone Says Teachers Don't Deserve a Raise, Show Them This Letter

Where Have All the Teachers Gone?

Where's the Joy in Learning?

Who Has Been Saved?

Why Are Finland's Schools Successful?

Why Dividing Us By Age In School Doesn't Make Sense

Why Do American Students Have So Little Power?

Why More Urban Parents Are Choosing Homeschooling

Why Our Coercive System of Schooling Should Topple

Why We Say "No" to Homework

Why We Should Stop Segregating Children By Age: Part III

Zero Tolerance

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