| Teaching Creative Writing to Kids
A new report from the Department of Education finds that, controlling for background characteristics like teaching experience and prior academic achievement, the type of training a teacher receives has no significant effect on student achievement. |
| How Should Teachers Be Trained?
A new report from the Department of Education finds that, controlling for background characteristics like teaching experience and prior academic achievement, the type of training a teacher receives has no significant effect on student achievement. |
| Curriculum Reform at Harvard
The proposed shift from “ways of knowing” to “real-world context” will do little to address the Core’s real problem, which is that it promotes an atomized, individualistic type of learning while rarely encouraging undergraduates to take a meaningful role in each other’s educations. |
| A Quality Teacher for Every Classroom
It is a platitude to be told that good teachers make a difference. Yet not only do they make a difference, often they can make all the difference, irrespective of all other factors, even in the most besieged environments. |
