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I’m sitting at my desk in Baltimore. It’s piled full of books I’ve been reading for classes: stacks of novellas and chapbooks ...
A Georgia teacher was fired from his job after a video that circulated on social media showed him writing a racial slur on a ...
F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel has spent years on high school reading lists. How are literature professors teaching it ...
The notes went from defining total utility to him asking, "Are you kidding me right now?" Nick called Salem a "menace" for getting behind the computer as he tried to work. He knew she wanted attention ...
Designing a classroom takes more than just putting furniture in place. The desk setup influences how students interact, how the teacher moves, and how well the room functions throughout the […] ...
All the girls in my class had boys’ names, and they all spelled them with an “i” at the end—Andi, Franki, Sami, Bobbi, Randi, Rikki, Nikki, Tomi, Stevi and Charli. They thought that was cute. Charli’s ...
I knew I must have had some talent in writing because as a freshman I had written a theme paper titled "The Dwindling Duck." The theme described the drying up of the Dakota pothole country in the late ...
In one memorable Chalkbeat essay, Katie Kraushaar, now Katie Hicks, wrote that the pandemic revealed that “to teach is to ...
The way teachers manage classroom discussion with pupils plays a key role in the teaching of writing, a new study shows.
Despite the community’s attempts at maintenance, the classrooms have deteriorated, leaving pupils from primary 1 to 3 sitting on the bare floor while teachers are forced to sit on windows due to the ...
When David Bergeron went to work at the office that would become the Department of Education nearly 50 years ago, higher-ups pointed him to a provision that barred staffers from getting involved ...