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Teachers at High Risk for COVID-19 Face a Terrible Choice: Your Job or Your Health

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Crystal herself has asthma, and so does her 5-year-old son, who may start kindergarten in the fall. Am I failing my husband by putting their health in jeopardy’” and going back to work, says Crystal, a middle school math teacher who asked to be identified only by her first name to discuss sensitive family health matters.

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Middle school science teachers often have shaky scientific knowledge

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Middle school science teacher Kent Heckenlively has spent part of his time teaching, well, not science. Heckenlively works at Gale Ranch Middle School in San Ramon, California. Related: How the science of vaccination is taught (or not) in public schools. middle-school science teachers have no scientific background.

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Consequences of Plagiarism

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Berliner is Regents’ Professor of Education Emeritus at Arizona State University, a member of the National Academy of Education and the International Academy of Education. I had a chunk of one of my published papers lifted out and used in a doctoral thesis at a Christian school.

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What Does Innovation Mean in Higher Education?

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You can’t walk around any college campus, school district or company without hearing the word “innovation.” Does one have to be among the first in a field or community to push the idea or product, or does reinventing (and improving) the wheel count too? Is there a limit or consensus to what innovation actually means?

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Babies and Mobile Devices. Where Are YOU on the issue?

Kevin Corbett

Does the Fisher-Price Apptivity Seat promote laziness? When babies look at a screen, they’re not following their parents’ eyes and movements; instead, they are staring at something that does not interact with them. Babies can neither make eye contact with, nor imitate an avatar — no matter how cute. It Takes Effort.

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Readers react: Should vets get college credit for experience?

The Hechinger Report

Military Academy. In other words, “I’ve cooked food for years, so I should get automatic credit in culinary school,” or “I’ve been a mechanic for years, so I should get automatic credit in automotive school,” or “I was in the navy for years, I should get a free degree in marine biology,” etc.,

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Innovative Educators named Bammy Awards finalists!

The Innovative Educator

The Academy of Education Arts and Sciences announced the finalists for the second annual Bammy Awards which recognizes the contributions of educators across 23 categories. School librarians and school technologists are new to the list this year. Deven Black - School Librarian Deven makes a difference in many ways.