Education News

The profession's standard reference guide, DSM-5, changes definitions for some disabilities commonly seen in schools.

Even the best-laid plans for storm shelters and tornado drills may be no match for powerful storms like those seen in the Sooner State over the past few weeks.

A director of college counseling offers some final words of advice to help graduating high school seniors prepare for college this fall.    

Online learning is our present and our future, or so many school reformers and entrepreneurs say. Here in the first of a few pieces on the subject is Larry Cuban, a high school social studies teacher for 14 years, a district superintendent (seven years in Arlington, VA), and professor emeritus of education at Stanford University, where he has taught for more than 20 years. His new book is "Inside the Black Box of Classroom Practice: Change without Reform in American Education." This post appeared on his blog.

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Where did tornadoes and severe flooding occur on Friday?    

How well do you think your first name suits you? Why?    

Can you calculate the approximate share of the expected budget surplus per resident of California?    

From Page 101 of "Cognition: From Memory to Creativity," by Robert S. Weisberg and Lauretta M. Reeves:

Rote repetition can result in some information being retained, although it is not a particularly effective method of encoding information into memory.

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Seven years ago, when I first wrote about Paula Lazor’s teenage son ,John, his future was uncertain. My headline read: “Bright, But Falls Asleep in Class.”

Educators at both public and private schools had helped him for years with his learning disabilities. But homework was still torture and he had trouble following what teachers said. The nodding off in class had begun in eighth grade.

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This word has appeared in six New York Times articles in the past year.    

A new state system will include teachers of subjects that are not typically evaluated.    

Students in air-conditioned classrooms have an unfair advantage over roasting peers.    

After the Maryland General Assembly approved legislation to overhaul the Prince George’s County public schools two months ago, residents were left wondering what changes would be in store for the 123,000-student system.

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Steve Stuban visits his wife and son at Arlington National Cemetery about once a week. They are buried there together, in Section 64, grave plot 2301.

He lost his son in 2011, when the 15-year-old committed suicide amid the fallout of a serious discipline infraction that upended the teenager’s life at W.T. Woodson High School in Fairfax County.

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