A panel of educators convened by the nation’s governors and state school superintendents proposed a uniform set of academic standards on Wednesday, laying out their vision for what all the nation’s public school children should learn in math and English,...
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Mar 13th, 2010 “Researchers found that among 160 5- to 18-year-olds with asthma seen at their center, the 46 with peanut allergies generally had more hospitalizations for asthma exacerbations than children without the food allergy. They also had a higher rate of treatment...
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Mar 12th, 2010 When my son had some funky test results after a medical check-up last year, his doctor’s first advice to me was “don’t Google it.” I did anyway, of course, and he was right. Googling was a bad idea.
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Mar 12th, 2010 “Have you ever seen a 4-year-old play with an iPhone? It’s actually kind of shocking. Kids take to the iPhone’s multitouch user interface like they do trucks or dolls. They instinctively know that the iPhone is a toy, and they...
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Mar 12th, 2010 “Teachers and administrators hope students will become as proficient in technology as they do in reading, writing and arithmetic. It’s not cheap, and there’s no proof that having the latest gadgets available will increase student achievement or help them pass...
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Mar 11th, 2010 Young adults who were conceived through in-vitro fertilization are doing as well as the average young American as far as physical health, though their rates of certain psychological problems appear elevated, a new study finds.
“As charter schools have grown in New York City, both in number and in popularity, public school principals like Ms. Espinal are suddenly being forced to compete for bodies. So among their many challenges, some of these principals, who had...
ON A WINTER DAY five years ago, Doug Lemov realized he had a problem. After a successful career as a teacher, a principal and a charter-school founder, he was working as a consultant, hired by troubled schools eager — desperate, in some cases — for Lemov to tell them what to do to get better. Related Link: Uncommon Schools
"Please understand: I adore my son more than I ever thought possible. I’d happily give him my limbs or kidneys, and would just as easily remove the limbs or kidneys from anyone who endeavored to harm even one of the few hairs on his head. But, after one year of AP, I can no longer be his one and only." Related Link: Crying it Out
High doses of lead have for some time been linked to chronic kidney damage. But a recent study out of Johns Hopkins Children’s Center found that even small levels of lead exposure may be damaging to children’s kidneys.
