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It’s About Time
Teachers and students often squander a school's most valuable resource. Time diaries can make a difference.
Book Reviews
Getting Back to Basics
Mike Schmoker's new book lays out an achievable prescription for resuscitating classroom learning
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Enjoy the Game, but Turn Down the Sound
Useful history of school choice exaggerates threat to public education
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The Evolving Science of How We Read
Survey has lots about eye-movement measurement, less about comprehension
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Why Do Schools Cling to ‘Stupid’ Ideas?
Two education scholars explore that question in a new book
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A Distorted Lens on the Teaching Profession
Though a few themes do ring particularly true
Book Reviews
How Teachers Unions Became a Political Powerhouse
A nuanced look at the role of unions in education policy
Book Reviews
How to Get to Sesame Street—in 1990s Russia
A tale of perseverance, flexibility, and the conviction that a children’s show could matter for kids in a land of oppression
Book Reviews
Resisting the Youth Sports Industrial Complex
Children’s sports are corrupted, but parents don’t have to play along