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Enhancing Education Through Comics

If you asked me a week ago what I thought about when I heard the word comics, I would have mentioned the colored “funnies” in the Sunday newspaper, or the brightly illustrated magazines featuring superheroes rescuing their damsels in distress. Not anymore! Today, the art medium that uniquely uses both text and imagery is being woven into education to promote literacy and hands-on interaction [...]

By Emeli Warren|2018-10-19T15:55:42-04:00February 19th, 2013|

Keeping Kids Interested in Poetry

I’m not a poet, and I certainly do know it. But long before the times when I was asked to analyze the symbolism of “The Raven,” back when I was an eager pupil who thought “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” was about Santa Claus, poetry was fun. Part of what made it fun was the activities my teachers would assign. From [...]

By Kate Carroll|2018-10-19T15:52:06-04:00February 12th, 2013|

Controversial Laws for Underperforming Schools

Won’t Back Down is a 2012 drama starring Maggie Gyllenhaal as a single mom to a dyslexic daughter, Viola Davis as a teacher at a failing inner-city elementary school and Holly Hunter as a teacher’s union representative. In the movie, Gyllenhaal’s and Davis’s characters use a fail-safe law to take over the underperforming school. The film plays out in typical Hollywood fashion with plucky [...]

By Lori Becker|2018-10-19T15:37:47-04:00February 5th, 2013|

New Online Resource for High School Students

High schools are always changing. During my time in high school, I was a member of the unlucky class required to take standardized testing junior year, and then again senior year when the state decided to change the grade level being tested. Washington State students, however, aren’t just presented with the inconvenience of extra testing, but with the added pressure of another course. [...]

By Eileen Neary|2018-10-19T15:41:41-04:00January 29th, 2013|

Why Students Should Not Write Off STEM Education

As a person a little scared to so much as add without the help of a calculator, I understand why STEM has a menacing reputation among high school students. The STEM skills—that is, science, technology, engineering and math—are often considered complicated and unnecessary lessons to students who don’t want to be scientists, technicians, engineers or mathematicians. Many students assume they’re better off avoiding [...]

By Rose Pleuler|2018-10-19T15:32:22-04:00January 22nd, 2013|

Computer-Based Testing Model May Improve Writing Proficiency in Students

With answers becoming so accessible that students can find them with just a click of the mouse, it’s understandable that some may worry that technology is becoming more of a hindrance and less of an improvement to education. For students who saved their summer reading until the last minute, finding detailed book summaries has become relatively easy. With the variety of online games [...]

By Gabby Balza|2018-10-19T15:30:22-04:00January 15th, 2013|

A Step Back in Desegregation

As a Latina riding on the school bus to my predominately white elementary school, I remember the way we would all peer out the windows with our faces half hidden when the bus from the northern part of town passed by us. “That’s the school with all the black people,” someone would say, and we’d turn to her and wonder how she could [...]

By Gabby Balza|2018-10-19T15:35:33-04:00January 8th, 2013|

Getting Serious About Physical Education

In high school, I tried to avoid gym. Who wanted to change into shorts in the middle of the school day, run a mile, and return to class sweaty—because who really used those showers? Not me. I had friends whose physical education requirements were waived for any reason from varsity sports to asthma. While my friends took extra nonathletic electives, I learned the [...]

By Rose Pleuler|2018-10-19T15:27:25-04:00January 2nd, 2013|

Freshmen in Brooklyn Already on the Career Path

Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) in Brooklyn entered its second year this September, touting a unique six-year program that goes from grade 9 through grade 14, after which students graduate with an associate’s degree. The initiative began in September 2011 to develop science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills in students to better prepare them for the job market. In [...]

By Rose Pleuler|2018-10-19T15:18:33-04:00December 18th, 2012|

Responsive Classroom

Elementary schools are saying, “Class dismissed!” to traditional lectures. The Responsive Classroom approach, a teaching technique promoting social-emotional learning strategies, was discussed this past fall at a meeting that the Society for Research on Education Effectiveness (SREE) hosted. The study, funded by the US Department of Education and conducted by researchers at the University of Virginia, found that fifth graders who were taught [...]

By Eileen Neary|2018-10-19T15:15:33-04:00December 11th, 2012|
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