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WISDOM FROM A FOURTH GRADER

“Learning is boring,” my fourth grade grandson told me one day as I picked him up from school. On the first day of school two weeks...

“I never got to do the job I wanted in my class last year,” my nine-year old grandson said one summer day. “What job was that?” “The...

Somewhere in Vermont a Wal-Mart and an asphalt parking lot now sit where a farm used to be. The farm was taken by eminent domain by the...

At 96 years old, Frances Crowe is still keeping on—marching, protesting, getting arrested, organizing, and speaking out. And in the...

I love teachers. They make an incredible difference in the lives of so many children. So why are they under attack? An amazing educator,...

In this posting I decided to print a poem about education that spoke to me called "Backwards Day." It's written by teacher/poet Daniel...

My grandson came to me one day when he was four years old and said, “Let’s do an experiment.” “What’s an experiment?” I asked him. He...

My daughter, a middle school Social Studies teacher, recently attended a workshop on Common Core Writing Standards. While there, she...

Equality means that we expect all kids to be the same. When they are not, we say there is something wrong with them. If they don't all...

First they came for my planning time so we could have ‘data talks’ and I let them have it because I knew I could still plan my own...