Texas adds Huerta, Winfrey, drops FDR
Texas’ social studies textbooks may get browner, reports the San Antonio Express-News. A draft of the new curriculum standards adds “Dolores Huerta, Dr. Hector P. Garcia, Sandra Cisneros, Henry B....
View ArticleBooks for boys
Children’s authors and illustrators — mostly male — told 300 teachers and librarians — mostly female — how to hook boys on books, reports Mary Ann Zehr in Education Week. Boys like to read books about...
View ArticleLiteracy funds: early, middle and late
Congress is working on a $2.4 billion lliteracy bill that would double federal funding for reading, but spend only 35 percent on K-3 programs. Ten percent would go to pre-K, 50 percent to grades 4-12...
View ArticleBilingual mandate for voucher schools
Wisconsin is considering new regulations for Milwaukee private schools that take voucher students, including one proposal to require bilingual/bicultural education at voucher schools where at least 10...
View ArticleCarnival of Education
The Carnival of Education is in full swing at Jason’s Perspective. Mary Ann Zehr wonders what would have happened if she’d never taken AP Calculus. Maybe she wouldn’t have turned against math.
View ArticleThe ‘immigrant paradox’
The first generation comes to America and struggles, but their children do better and the third generation does even better. That’s how it’s supposed to work. But scholars are trying to understand the...
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