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The quality of public school teachers is, improbably, in the news these days, as activists push to overturn decades-old teacher tenure and retention laws in California and New York. Journalist ...

On a freezing morning in February, teachers from a Bronx high school pore over excerpts and guidelines, trying to figure out whether they should teach The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or leave it to ...

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Early in our careers, when we were fresh-faced and idealistic (we still are!) the prepackaged curriculum and the advice of more experienced colleagues was the go-to resource. Largely, we were advised ...

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In multidisciplinary engineering system design, we integrate. From the very start of the design process, we combine the physical system with sensors, actuators, computer control, and human interfaces ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Teaching and teachers do not enjoy high status in Australia. I find this curious for a number of reasons. First, teaching is an ...

Hard, challenging, difficult. Painful, disorienting, life-altering. There are so many words we reach for in response to the difficult experiences of life. We feel how words fail, how they are all ...

A recent newspaper story reporting that more than half the schools earning rewards in the first year of the Texas pay-for-performance program will not be eligible to receive bonuses this year had the ...