Neal Kingston, director of the Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation at the University of Kansas, believes there’s a better way to evaluate what special-education students know, and don’t know. In October, the U.S. Department of Education awarded his center a $22 million grant – the largest in the university’s history – to develop a [...]
What was it like to teach during the Great Depression? Well, if you were like Ann Marie Low, living in Dust Bowl North Dakota, it was probably pretty tough. $50 a month, no heat in the hotel room you share with another unpaid teacher, when you’re not forced to take [...]
I remember that old Steve Martin routine, Getting Small, whenever I visit with my family. “Let’s get small,” Steve would say, like a crazed drug fiend, and raise the mike stand over his head. With fifteen other family members crowded around my sister’s Thanksgiving table, I feel just like him, my concerns dwarfed beside my [...]
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