Author: Matthew Lynch
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Use These 4 Time-Tested Tips to Motivate Your Students
One of the pitfalls when it comes to motivating students is that teachers get themselves too fixated on curriculum. Teachers are afraid that when students fall ... -
Why Teachers Should Embrace Technology in Their Classrooms
By Matthew Lynch Teachers have a lot on their plate when it comes to measuring achievement. Student success is determined by assessments, graded materials and even ... -
Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has a plan to ease student loan debt
According to Forbes.com, the latest candidate to jump in the 2016 race for president, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, would work to forgive some student loan debt ... -
How the pain of 9/11 still stays with a generation
Dana Rose Garfin, University of California, Irvine The Sept. 11, 2001 (9/11) terrorist attacks were the worst acts of terrorism on American soil to date. Designed ... -
Science achievement gaps start early – in kindergarten
F. Chris Curran, University of Maryland, Baltimore County The annual back-to-school season is filled with high hopes for making new friends, meeting new teachers – and, ... -
Here’s how homeschooling is changing in America
Kyle Greenwalt, Michigan State University As children head back to school, an increasing number of their homeschooled peers will be starting their academic year as well. ... -
How civic intelligence can teach what it means to be a citizen
Douglas Schuler, Evergreen State College This political season, citizens will be determining who will represent them in the government. This, of course, includes deciding who will ... -
To fix America’s child care, let’s look at the past
Corey Shdaimah, University of Maryland and Elizabeth Palley, Adelphi University In what might be the most contentious election campaign season yet, the main presidential candidates seem ... -
Want an Olympic legacy? Get primary school children trying out a range of different sports
James Rudd, Liverpool John Moores University and Colum Cronin, Liverpool John Moores University With sports lovers still basking in the gleam of Great Britain’s Olympic medal ... -
Do kids who grow kale eat kale?
Garrett M. Broad, Fordham University It’s back-to-school time in the United States, and for countless children across the nation, it’s also time to get back into ...
