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Why Giving My Students More Choice Was the Most Punk Rock Thing I Could Do

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As much as the sentiment of students standing up to the powers that be warms my punk rock heart, it’s hard to balance my beliefs in authority with the need to always be the leader in control at the front of the classroom. Instead of assuming this was the case for my classroom, I did what any unsure teacher does and asked my students directly.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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There are widespread beliefs about the best way to teach and learn that have been proven wrong by science, yet they persist. Among the choices educators make are what instructional technique to use, when and how to give feedback, and when and how to test student knowledge.

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Could Giving Parents Homework Help Students? Schools Try ‘Family Playlists’

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Of the 100 students participating in the pilot that began last January, 91 percent of families participated; of those, 84 percent submitted optional feedback, amounting to more than 300 personal messages to teachers last spring. Baer described the involvement of the families as “fantastic.”