Education News Nuggets
If we start using electrical brain stimulation to improve math skills, do you think we will increase or decrease America's fear of math??
If we start using electrical brain stimulation to improve math skills, do you think we will increase or decrease America's fear of math??
?There's accumulating evidence that there are racial differences in what kids experience before the first day of kindergarten. They have to do with a lot of sociological and historical forces. In order to address those, we have to be able to have conversations that people are unwilling to have.?
Here's a story about school districts in Texas offering online credit-recovery courses to any student who fails a class.
Though?New York City's academic achievement gains over the past eight years are still matters of dispute, on Joel Klein's watch the nation's largest city also turned out to be among?its most impressive when gauged by the kinds of structural and policy changes that comprise intelligent, promising?modern-day school reforms.?(New Orleans is the only real rival for that title, along with the Distri
A post on National Review's The Corner blog arouses a months-dormant education topic: vouchers in Washington, D.C.
The United States and India plan to increase their collaboration on higher education. Starting in 2011, for instance, the countries will hold annual summits on the topic.
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