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Education Humor With Regina Barecca
“The interesting and fighting-words part of The New Yorker article can be summed up as follows: you can’t tell from a piece of paper who’ll be effective in a classroom."
Fit To Be Taught, Vol. 59
“Pep rallies" relieve stress, motivate students for high stakes tests; state weighs banning junk food from schools; schools consider breath tests for all students before dances; program integrates cooking and academics.
Starr Points
What are your new year’s resolutions? Perhaps they even bear some resemblance to the resolutions expressed by the composite teacher in the poem, A Resolve to be Better -- in Verse!
Guide Offers Practical Character Education Lessons
With more teachers and parents seeing the need for character education, the non-profit Heartwood Institute has released a book of lessons for teachers and counselors to teach children ethics, social and emotional skills.
Education World
In the Classroom
Click to read Lessons from Our Nation’s Schools, Whatever It Takes,
In A Sub’s Shoes, and Teaming Up to Achieve series.
Issues Spotlight 1
Alternate routes to certification
Issues Spotlight 2
Teaching geography
Issues Spotlight 3
Kindergarten
Issues Spotlight 4
Web 2.0
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Green Schools
Schools Melding Alternative Energy into Lesson Plans
Students at Michigan's St. Clair County RESA Career Technical Center are learning about alternative energy by calculating actual energy outputs from school-owned windmills, solar panels, and a hydroelectric plant.
Inspiring Teachers
Teacher Composes Lyrics for Classical Music
In search of a way to teach troubled teens about classical music, Archway (Utah) Youth Services School teacher Debbie Rowe penned lyrics for about 70 pieces, including Gregorian chants and music by Mozart and Beethoven. The lyrics detail the composers' lives and the histories behind the masterpieces.
School Safety & Security
More States Tackle Cyberbullying
Cyberbullying, which in extreme cases has led to targeted kids committing suicide, has led to a push among states to pass laws aimed at clamping down on harassment via the Internet.
See more education news headlines in our EDscoops Archive.
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Turnaround Tales
Rapid enrollment growth initially distracted Palmdale (California) Elementary School District officials from NCLB requirements, but the district finally had to seek new curriculum and governance strategies for schools in restructuring.
No Educator Left Behind
Under the No Child Left Behind Act, how are successful schools and teachers rewarded?
Read About It
What are alternate routes to certification?
News for Kids
Windmills, which used to dot the landscape, are making a comeback.
NCLB Updates
Wondering what’s going on with the No Child Left Behind Act? Peruse our list of news stories about the federal law.
 School Doodle Behavior management on a stick.
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