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How Germany Keeps Kids From Dropping Out
It may be hard for Americans to fathom a world in which corporations, instead of merely lamenting the shortage of skilled labor, volunteer to train vast numbers of the non-college-bound.
Our STEM Major Shortage
The word “stem” is tossed around so much at education meetings these days, you’d think you were at a gardening seminar. STEM is shorthand for “science, technology, engineering, and mathematics” — all fields that are growing, providing lucrative jobs, and key to future American competitiveness
Amid Changes, Law School Tries to Get Real
The financial crises and recession of recent years left no part of the global economy unscathed, and that includes the rarified legal field, which has seen revenues drop 10% at U.S. firms since 2008.
Mathematician KURT GODEL
Kurt Godel was born in 1906 in Brunn, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and now part of the Czech Republic, to a father who owned a textile factory and had a fondness for logic and reason and a mother who believed in starting her son’s education early. By age 10, Godel was studying math, religion and several languages.
Does Obama’s Education Plan Make the Grade?
On March 15, President Obama unveiled his plan for reforming the nation’s education system. The bulk of the plan, which looks to overhaul George W.
The Drug War Bogs Down
It is lunchtime in New York City’s Chelsea district, and Barry, a young drug dealer, is out on the streets hawking his wares. Business is good
Super Bowl School: What the NFL Can Teach Teachers
NFL analogies get tossed around all the time in the education world. And they get fumbled too.
Beyond Wis. Union Debate: Five New Rules for Teachers
Given their place as the most powerful public-employee alliance, teachers’ unions are front and center in the debate that is going on in Wisconsin. But beyond the high-decibel clashes between Tea Partyers and public-employees’ unions are contentious education-policy issues that reformers, teachers’ unions and analysts have debated for years.
Education: The Moral Curriculum
“The most important product of education is a constructive, consistent and compelling system of values around which personal and social life may be organized. Unless teaching and learning provide such a focus, all the particular knowledge and skills acquired are worse than useless.