Cooking with Joy
How many times have you left home without breakfast or lunch and longingly eyed the kids’ snacks during the day? You never have to go hungry again if you follow these tips for creating a mini-pantry in a desk drawer or filing cabinet.
Read About It
What are schools in need of improvement?
Education Humor
National columnist Regina Barreca brings her timely, insightful humor to Ed World.
This Week’s Survey Question
During your “summer vacation” from school, will you be going to school to work on a degree or learn new skills?
Last Week’s Survey Results
Some schools have reported students using peanut products to bully kids with allergies. Should students be charged with a crime for deliberately exposing allergic students to peanuts?
Alfie Kohn on Homework
The ideas that homework reinforces classroom lessons, helps children develop good work habits, and improves student achievement have no basis in fact, according to Alfie Kohn. Homework, he says, should be assigned selectively rather than automatically.
NCLB Updates
Students enrolled in the $6 billion federal Reading First program that is at the heart of the No Child Left Behind law are not reading any better than those who don't participate, according to a U.S. government report.
Turnaround Tales
The Waynesboro, Virginia, school district has been working with preschoolers and their parents for years to help children be ready for school and relies on a School Improvement Team when they fall behind. But expanded testing could mean problems with AYP.
Fit To Be Taught, Vol. 38
Sports4Kids improves recess by teaching children the rules of play; the high cost of food has school cafeterias struggling to meet nutrition requirements; school clinic keeps kids healthy and in school; students learn benefits of running and good nutrition.
News for Kids
Jeff Deck is traveling the U.S. correcting spelling and punctuation errors that he spots on signs.
In A Sub’s Shoes
With my stint as a substitute teacher at an end, I got to look back at the path I traveled in unfamiliar shoes and think about what I learned. My respect for anyone who stands in front of a class has grown, as has my understanding of today's students.
