>>“School’s out for the summer!” Remember when you used to wait for that final bell to ring on the last day? The exhilaration? The anticipation?...[Read More]
Tag Archives: teachers
>>“Did you know that more than 40 percent of Duke’s teaching faculty are not tenured professors?” “What if I were to tell you that I...[Read More]
>>By many measures the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act >>was a failure . Kids have been burned out by constant standardized testing; teachers have...[Read More]
>> My third grade teacher was terrible. I mean, she was really, really rotten. She once — and this is true — gave a class...[Read More]
>>Last time you went to work, did you visit a supply room for your pens and sticky notes, or did you buy them out of...[Read More]
>>A school district in Oklahoma recently produced and posted a >>powerful video about the state of teaching and the profound challenges that teachers face every...[Read More]
>>Last week was conference time at my kids’ school, and boy did those teachers look tired. They’ve just finished the first quarter of the year,...[Read More]
>>Years ago, I was in a horrible parent-teacher meeting. One of my students failed my class and wasn’t going to graduate. The mother wanted me...[Read More]
>>In just a few days, my first-born heads off to kindergarten. This is the kid whose nursery I obsessed over, whose first steps were anxiously...[Read More]
>>The first school bells on the traditional school calendar are scheduled to ring in less than a week, but administrators have no idea how much...[Read More]
