Category: School & Teaching
A Self-Fulfilling Cycle: Since When Is It OK to Be Bad at Math?
Math Problem: Lack of Skills Has Effects in Region, Country. One parent came because he could barely help his daughter with her 8th-grade homework. Another because math frightened her. And another because algebraic equations were as foreign as Chinese symbols. In the cafeteria of Fall Mountain Regional High School earlier …
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Why Tiger Moms Are Great: Tiger Parents Express their Love Through Expectation of Greatness, Not in Acceptance of Mediocrity
It’s time for some tiger cubs to approvingly roar for our strict parents, their domineering ways and their inflexibly high standards. The current depiction of tiger parenting is decidedly negative. Kim Wong Keltner’s book on “Tiger Babies Strike Back” and Su Yeong Kim’s report “Does Tiger Parenting Exist? Parenting Profiles …
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CHILDUP BESTOF: Most Math Being Taught in Kindergarten Is Old News to Students
Kindergarten teachers report spending much of their math instructional time teaching students basic counting skills and how to recognize geometric shapes — skills the students have already mastered before ever setting foot in the kindergarten classroom, new research finds. The findings reveal a misalignment between what the students are being …
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Dual Language in Early Education Best for Youngest ELLs, Report Says
Young English-language learners who are still developing oral and literacy skills in their home languages benefit most in early-childhood programs that regularly expose them to both languages. That’s one of several major takeaways in a new federally funded analysis of the large, and growing, population of dual-language learners, ranging from …
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Reading Wars Pit Literacy Instruction Methods Against Each Other
The most complex war you’ve probably never heard of has been waged in elementary school reading lessons for at least 50 years. The “reading wars” pit what literacy experts call “phonics-based” instruction against “whole language” instruction. Battles over which approach is more effective have raged in academic ivory towers, but …
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The Education Gap: Poor Little Rich Kids Feel the Heat
If you doubt that we live in a winner-take-all economy and that education is the trump card, consider the vast amounts the affluent spend to teach their offspring. We see it anecdotally in the soaring fees for private schools, private lessons and private tutors, many of them targeted at the …
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Wanted: Men to Work in Swedish Preschools
The lack of men working in Sweden’s preschools is cause for concern, according to Equality Minister Maria Arnholm, who has said she’s open to altering employment rules to make it easier for men to enter the education field. “I’m thinking about a national strategy increase the percentage of men in preschools,” …
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Australian Public Schools Abandoned by Wealthy Families
Wealthy families are deserting the public education system, with poorer students making up double the number of wealthy children at Australia’s government schools. This privilege exodus is most pronounced in high school, with more than 75 per cent of the highest earning families enrolled in independent and Catholic schools, according …
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Give Poor Kids a Chance with Early Education
President Obama should stay strong on his universal preschool initiative. This is about giving low-income children a good start. In his state of the union address this year, President Obama proposed “working with states to make high-quality preschool available to every single child in America”. It was one of the …
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Reading, ‘Rithmetic & Keyboards? Local Schools Buck Teaching Shift
The lessons may not look or sound like the penmanship classes many readers recall from days gone by. But, despite a growing national debate and focus on teaching the computer keyboard ahead of cursive handwriting skills, elementary students in Gloucester and in other Cape Ann schools are still very much …
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