What do we know about our history? Too many textbooks used in US public schools are from an almost totally Eurocentric perspective. The September 11th Committee For Racial Justice workshop at Virginia ...
Mathematics is a unique subject in that mathematics-related motivation and learning are often accompanied by strong emotions, ...
When I was an elementary school student — lo these many years ago — we spent a lot of time studying and learning. But we didn’t only study. We celebrated Halloween. And Christmas and Thanksgiving. The ...
Yale is helping to launch an innovative, $10 million program that will train and support a wave of highly qualified teachers in New Haven’s public schools. “Based on years of study, we know that an ...
Kids can learn a lot of essential skills with their family: how to tie their shoes, how to ride a bike and — in many homes — how to cook. But just because cooking is an often-important part of daily ...
California’s teacher workforce needs stronger stewardship. Our state has established high standards for English, math, science and history that lay out what students must know and be able to do. But, ...
Bruce Rudy fell in love with teaching during his first teaching assignment as a doctoral student at the McCombs School of Business at UT-Austin. Ironically, he hadn’t even considered teaching before ...