Education News from NY Times

“Since the dawn of recorded time, plainly speaking” by Alyssa, 15, from Culver City, Calif., is the eleventh of 12 winning poems in our fourth annual Found Poem Student Contest.    

Only after fully and publicly owning my disability have I been able to move past it and realize that I am so much more than just that boy whose walk was once confused with a drunk’s.    

What are your own experiences with ability grouping in school?    

Who went public on Sunday as the source of leaks about the nation’s surveillance programs? Why did he go public, according to the statement he made in a video interview?    

Can you choose the word pair that correctly completes the sentence?    

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This word has appeared in 138 New York Times articles in the past year.    

An ethnic integration problem that had been festering in the background for years at East Hampton High School has been brought to the forefront by student suicides.    

Our lessons are on summer vacation, but here are our social studies-related lesson plans for the 2012-13 school year.    

“I Cannot Tell” by Cristobal, 14, from Naples, Fla., is the 10th of 12 winning poems in our fourth annual Found Poem Student Contest.    

The correlation between going far away for college and studying abroad in more challenging countries has not been studied closely, experts say, but more general indications of comfort level often prove determinative.    

How do you handle personal conversations being conducted in public on cell phones or via messages that others can see?    

Which plays, actors and writers received Tony awards on Sunday night?    

Can you calculate how long it would take a spacecraft to reach one of the Earth-like planets that are 1,200 light-years away?    

Candidates taking the gaokao, the famously stressful national exam that determines university admission, declined slightly for the fifth straight year.    

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This word has appeared in 178 New York Times articles in the past year.    

Placing students in clusters according to ability, a tactic once rejected over concerns that it fostered inequality, has re-emerged in classrooms all over the country.    

At least 1,000 students in schools in the Netherlands will get iPads, in a teaching model developed by a foundation called O4NT.    

The Council for Assisting Refugee Academics, now 80 years old, has been helping the persecuted since the rise of the Nazis before World War II.