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Can Kids Be Taught To Read?
If you're like me, you'd remember being taught to read. Whether by phonics, memorisation or by Montessori techniques, we've all been painstakingly led down the path to literacy by teachers, parents, librarians, and any other adult involved in our early development. In a new blog at Psychology Today however, Peter grey argues that kids can’...
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Teacher Writes “Loser” Student’s Assignment
North Carolina primary school teacher Rex Roland has an interesting method for motivating his students. He calls them “losers.” Mother Patty Clement wants Roland removed from his position after the teacher repeatedly wrote “loser” on her year six daughter’s papers. Some parents of Roland’s other students disag...
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They Say: Kids Who Buy School Lunch Less Healthy
Kids who eat school lunches have higher bad cholesterol and consume twice as many fatty meats and sugary drinks as those who don't, according to a new University of Michigan study. Children who purchased lunches were more likely to be obese, at 39 percent, while 24 percent of those who brought lunches from home were obese. Other numbers were mo...
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What Educators Could Learn From Video Games
Video games have a bad reputation. While kids spend hours upon hours engaged in sedentary electronic play, parents wring their hands and bemoan the wasted time. But while there may not be any real-world advantage to mastering Super Mario, at least one expert believes that video games do have something worthwhile to teach us. Namely, how to teac...
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Ethics Classes for Religious Ed Drop-Outs
Back in my day, if you opted out of non-compulsory religious education classes you were sent to the library for free time. But a trial program in Sydney schools aims to replace this time with something potentially much more valuable - ethics classes on topics such as bullying, graffiting, stealing and children's rights. Other issued covered...
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Video: ‘Scholar Ladies’ Cover Beyonce’s “Single Ladies”
Meet the students from Milwaukee's HOPE Christian School. Instead of extolling the virtues of engagement, they're endorsing the virtues of education - by 'putting an A on it'. "It inspires kids to see it's cool to be smart and reach goals," said Charmaine Taylor, a sixth-grader who is the backup dancer on the left as the video starts. Charma...
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School Gardens Bad For Kids?
Few things warm the cockles of my crunchy, alternative-education loving heart like the site of a thriving school garden carefully tended by the local primary kids. My daughter’s kindergarten has one where they grow the usual school garden fare: bulbs, herbs, a few hardy things that can’t be easily killed by a horde of overenthusiastic garden...
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MySchool
Since its launch on January 27th, the Federal Governments MySchool website has proved a huge hit, with nine million hits on the first day alone. The website contains a report on every primary and secondary school in the country (public and private) and shows results from national literacy and numeracy tests among other information. While educ...
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Principals Under Attack Following MySchool Launch
Parents are pulling their children out of school in the first day of term and re-enrolling them at local alternatives following the release of comparative data on the MySchool website last week. Jim McAlpine, president of the NSW secondary principals council, told the Sydney Morning Herald that one principal spent 45 minutes persuading a set of...
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