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The population of English learners in our schools continues to grow every year; if you’re a teacher reading this, you have probably taught at least a few students whose first language is not English. In many school systems, students who are newcomers…
This is Part 3 of an interview series with Barry Garelick and J.R. Wilson about Traditional Math: An Effective Strategy that Teachers Feel Guilty Using. You can read Parts 1 & 2, and the rest of the saga as it comes out, here.
Q3: How does a traditional approach to math teaching offer opportunities for students to learn from their errors and failures? And how does it address struggle?
Barry: Students will make mistakes in math class; that’s unavoidable. Mistakes offer an opportunity to identify and correct misconceptions and common errors, as well as providing students a closer look at…
Bishop Camuto emphasized the need to safeguard human life in the development of Angola’s infrastructure, saying, “We should always take into account that man is the essential factor for the functioning of these structures.”
He went on to advocate for simplicity. He said, “Angolans have a habit of complicating things, especially at work. If we can make life difficult for the other and don’t feel compassion, don’t feel pain, don’t feel sorry for the brother, I don’t know where we are heading to.”
Complexity on the part of Angolans, the 59-year-old Catholic Bishop who has been at the helm of…
Today, on Wednesday, May 17, congressmen and -women from the House and the Senate gathered on Capitol Hill to mark the reintroduction of comprehensive paid family and medical leave legislation—the FAMILY (Family and Medical Insurance Leave) Act—which would finally bring the United States in line with the rest of the world.
The US is one of only six countries on the planet, and the only wealthy nation of those, with no national paid family and medical leave policy. Sen. Bernie Sanders, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, along with…
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About a year and a half ago, I did an interview with two educators, Shane Safir and Jamila Dugan, about their new book, Street Data. The book is about the approach they had developed to help schools transform. As soon as I read the book, I…
Jakarta (ANTARA) – Minister of State-owned Enterprises (SOE) Erick Thohir was instructed to include into the permanent blacklist those found cheating in the joint state-owned enterprises’ recruitment examination.
Thohir emphasized that firm actions would be taken against those involved in all forms of cheating at the joint recruitment examination, as it runs counter to the core values of state-owned enterprises.
“I had been informed about some participants who cheated during their recruitment examination. This is unacceptable, and I press for firm actions to be taken against those who cheat and are detected by the ministry’s digital technology system,” Thohir noted…