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Articles

Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy. -- Jay Griffiths

I recommend the following articles for discussion with parents and colleagues.

Child Development and Parenting

  • Adrian Peterson Didn't Just "Go Too Far" — Research Shows It's Never Okay to Hit a Child
  • Hard Knocks: I Was Hit by a Teacher in an East Texas Public School. It Taught Me Nothing.
  • Playing with Children: Should You, and If So, How?
  • Children Need Free Play, but Are ‘Unschoolers’ Giving Them Too Much?
  • Parental Disappointment on Display
  • Trophy Children
  • How Finland Keeps Kids Focused Through Free Play
  • 12 Conversation Starters on What Parents Want You (Teachers) to Know
  • Don't Send Your Kid to the Ivy League
  • Sending Mixed Message: Do Parents Value Kids’ Achievement Over Empathy?
  • How Exercise Can Boost the Brain
  • School Should Be More Like Camp
  • Teacher Visits Hit Home
  • The Danger of Back to School
  • Why So Many Kids Can't Sit Still in School Today
  • Study Finds Reading to Children of All Ages Grooms Them to Read More on Their Own
  • Study: Nagging Parents to Help Their Kids Learn to Read Works
  • Pediatrics Group to Recommend Reading Aloud to Children from Birth
  • Talk Talk Talk to Your Kids
  • Parent-Teacher Interviews Without a Gradebook
  • Study Finds Reading to Children of All Ages Grooms Them to Read More on Their Own
  • Families May Differ, But They Share Common Values on Parenting
  • A Conversation with Meredith Rowe About How to Lay the Groundwork for Your Child's Vocabulary Growth
  • Is Kindergarten the New First Grade?
  • The Problem with Cute Kids
  • Let ‘Em Out! The Many Benefits of Outdoor Play in Kindergarten
  • Recess for High School Students
  • Opt-Out Parents Have a Point
  • Attention Parents: Your Neighborhood Matters More Than You Do
  • Early Academic Training Produces Long-Term Harm
  • A Brief History of the Bizarre and Sadistic Presidential Fitness Test
  • Push, Don’t Crush, the Students
  • Can a 5-Year-Old's Parents Know He's Transgender? Yes.
  • Rebellious Kids Grow Up to Out-Earn Rule-Followers
  • What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?
  • ‘How to Raise an Adult,’ by Julie Lythcott-Haims
  • How to Be a Better Parent
  • Things We Say to Kids That Sound Positive but Can Be Detrimental
  • Kids of Helicopter Parents Are Sputtering Out
  • Most Parenting Advice Is Worthless. So Here's Some Parenting Advice.
  • Parents Sure Are Keen on Their Kids Becoming Pro Athletes

Children's Rights and Equity Issues

  • Watch Obama Break Down Gender Stereotypes
  • A Summer Job Isn't What It Used to Be
  • This Is Why Men Need Feminism
  • US Attorneys Office Reveals Civil Rights Investigation at Rikers Island
  • Lands' End Announces Science-Themed Tees For Girls After Mom's Letter Goes Viral
  • Powerful Ad Shows What A Little Girl Hears When You Tell Her She's Pretty
  • Students in Maryland Test Civic Participation and Win the Right to Vote
  • Victory! A.C.L.U. Wins 11-Year-Old's Right to Protest Without Paying for Police detail
  • Scotland Let 16-Year-Olds Vote. The U.S. Should Try It too.
  • Controversial Colorado History Plan Still Alive
  • Discussion Between Mark Oppenheimer and Dan Greenberg
  • Helping the Poor in Education: The Power of a Simple Nudge
  • Students in Maryland Test Civic Participation and Win Right to Vote
  • Black Girls Are Suspended from School 6 Times More Often Than White Girls
  • Experts Worry Suspensions Create School-to-Prison Pipeline
  • Why Are Toys So Gendered?
  • Toys Are More Divided by Gender Now Than They Were 50 Years Ago
  • Who Runs the World? Finnish Girls
  • Voting at 16 in S.F.? Supervisor Says the Time Has Come
  • The Civics Teacher Who Turned His Arrest into a Classroom Lesson
  • I Never Noticed How Racist So Many Children’s Books Are Until I Started Reading to My Kids
  • LEGO Adds More Women in Science to Its Lineup
  • 8% of California Households Dependent on Smartphones
  • Target to Remove Gender-Based Signs
  • Picture Books Where the Girls Kick Butt
  • On Seeing Children as "Cute"
  • Parable of the Polygons
  • Why Trust Is a Crucial Ingredient in Shaping Independent Learners​

Classroom and School Design

  • On the Clock
  • This School Has Bikes Instead of Desks — and It Turns Out That's a Better Way to Learn
  • Standing Desks Are Coming to Schools, to Cure Obesity and Increase Attention Spans
  • Improv Activities for Design Thinking
  • Creating Learning Environments
  • A Former Google Exec Reinvents Elementary Education by Putting an R&D Lab in School
  • This Is What a Student-Designed School Looks Like
  • Elementary Schools Start Using Standing Desks for Students
  • Letting Kids Move in Class Isn't a Break from Learning. It IS the Learning.
  • A Group of Schools in Sweden Is Abandoning Classrooms Entirely

Deeper Learning and Project-Based Learning

  • The Pygmalion Effect: Communicating High Expectations
  • Helping Students Find Purpose and Appreciation for School
  • Make a Difference: Show Students You Care
  • Encouraging Passion: The Discovery of What Curiosity Can Do for Children’s Exploration and Knowledge
  • Time and Space to Learn and Reflect
  • Turn Genius Hour into Genius Year
  • Helping Students See Themselves as Thinkers
  • Hit the Reset Button in Your Brain
  • The Character Factory
  • The Secret of Effective Motivation
  • How Do We Increase Empathy?
  • Teaching Students How to Talk Less, and Think More
  • Tony Wagner: All Students Need Digital Portfolios
  • The Real Stuff of Schooling: How to Teach Students to Apply Knowledge
  • Deeper Learning: Highlighting Student Work
  • Reflect on Learning with a Portfolio Defense
  • 'Most Likely to Succeed': Schools Should Teach Kids to Think, Not Memorize
  • The Role of Advisory in Personalizing the Secondary Experience
  • Student-Led Conference Faculty Handbook
  • The Critical Skills Program
  • West Virginia Study of PBL Impacts
  • Projects That Soar​

Inspiration

  • A 12-Year-Old Football Fan Asked Every NFL Team Why He Should Root for Them -- And He Got Responses
  • Boy, 13, Builds Braille Printer with Legos, Starts Company
  • Creative Father Colors in His Kids’ Sketches During His Work Trips
  • Teacher Keeps Promise to Mail Thousands of Former Students Letters Written by Their Past Selves
  • Stop Trying to Be Creative

Math Instruction

  • Video Games & Making Math More Like Things Students Like
  • “You Have to Create the Itch Before You Scratch It.”
  • [Confab] Tiny Math Games
  • Fluency Without Fear
  • Why Do Americans Stink at Math?
  • Building a Better Worksheet
  • Should We Stop Making Kids Memorize Times Tables?
  • Math Programs: How They Rate on Common-Core Alignment
  • John Urschel Talks About Why More Young Kids Don't Love Math
  • An Advocate of Explicit Instruction Experiences the Limits of Explicit Instruction​

Professional Development and Teaching Practice

  • 8 Ways to Energize Your Next Meeting
  • Why People Didn't Like Your Conference Presentation
  • Connected Educator Month Starter Kit
  • How to Showcase Teacher Effectiveness
  • DIY Professional Development Resources
  • The Daily Routines of 26 of HIstory's Most Creative Minds
  • Self-Proclaimed ‘Experts’ More Likely to Fall for Made-Up Facts, Study Finds
  • What If We Had Genius Hour for Teachers?
  • Dipsticks: Efficient Ways to Check for Understanding
  • Back to School: Preparing for Day One
  • Does Group Work... Work?
  • Four Ways to Spot a Great Teacher
  • The Pygmalion Effect: Communicating High Expectations
  • Should Teachers Be Allowed to Touch Students?
  • Teaching: What Do Great College Professors Have in Common?
  • Impromptu Twitter Master Class on Homework Strategies​

Reading Instruction

  • One More Really Big Reason to Read Stories to Children
  • Why Kids Should Choose Their Own Books to Read in School
  • Report: Requiring Kindergartners to Read — as Common Core Does — May Harm Some
  • Reading in School​

Social Studies Instruction

  • 50 Ways to Teach Current Events
  • 9/11 Anniversary 2015 Education Conundrum: How Should Teachers Discuss Terrorist Attacks in Schools?​

Teaching Profession

  • Why Journalists Hate to Write About Education
  • Teacher Certifications Decline as New York State Uses Tougher Exams
  • Rick Bobrick: Why Not Legal Protection for Teachers Who Are Conscientious Objectors?
  • Jack Schneider: Education is HARDER Than Rocket Science
  • U.S. Public Schools Are Better Than They've Ever Been
  • Will Millennials Stay? Examining Teacher Retention from a Generational Perspective
  • Teacher Wars and Teaching Machines
  • Go with the Flow
  • Teach for America Has Faced Criticism for Years. Now It’s Listening — and Changing.
  • Teaching Is Not a Business
  • My First Year Teaching in Finland
  • South Korea's Education System Hurts Students
  • Should Teachers Have Tenure? Should Anybody?
  • To Close the Achievement Gap, We Need to Close the Teaching Gap
  • Why Teachers Have a Tougher Job Than Doctors
  • A Guide to No Child Left Behind as Congress Tries to Rewrite the Law
  • Why So Many Teachers Feel So Bad So Much of the Time
  • What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success
  • Liberal's Don't Homeschool Your Kids
  • Why Homeschooling Is a Boon to a Liberal Society
  • Why Teaching Is More Like Basketball Than Baseball -- and Why Does It Matter?
  • Teacher stress is killing my profession
  • Teach for Finland? Why It Won’t Happen.
  • The Mismeasure of Teaching Time
  • How to Get People to Pitch In
  • How Students with Top Test Scores Actually Hurt a Teacher's Evaluation
  • Ebola Doctor Kent Brantly Tells Grads Why He Didn't Feel Like a Failure When He Lost Patients
  • Elon Musk’s Ex-Wife on What It Takes to Be a Mogul
  • What Should Educators Have in Our Heads?
  • Is Silicon Valley Driving Teachers Out?
  • ​Teachers as Designers​

Technology in Schools

  • Machine Learning and Teaching
  • Grooming Students for a Lifetime of Surveillance
  • L.A. Unified Survey Finds Little Use of iPads' Curriculum
  • High School Football Gets Its Own Technological Revolution
  • 10 Things Every Teacher Should Be Able to Do on Google Docs
  • Helping Students Develop Digital Literacy
  • Smartphones Don’t Make Us Dumb
  • Can Students Have Too Much Tech?
  • Edutopia
  • Our Schools All Have a Tragic Flaw; Silicon Valley Thinks It Has the Answer​

Writing Instruction

  • Why an English Teacher Introduced Her Class to the World
  • The Writing Revolution
  • Cursive Handwriting Is Useless, but Politicians Want Students to Learn It Anyway
  • High School Teachers Guide Students Into Self-Publishing
I believe that education is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. -- John Dewey
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