The LA Times is reporting on a “Spirituality for Kids” curriculum being presented in some Los Angeles public schools. ‘Spirituality for Kids’ is not religious,” said Karen Timko, who is in charge of elementary counselors for the Los Angeles Unified School District and has included the group in a resource fair for counselors. “It’s tools …
NY TImes: Is It Time to Retrain Business Schools? Still, there have been signs that all is not well in business education. A study of cheating among graduate students, published in 2006 in the journal Academy of Management Learning & Education, found that 56 percent of all M.B.A. students cheated regularly — more than in …
It’s amazing to see this [Link: World On the Web » World New Media Archive » Ideas have nothing to do with reality] … Teachers cannot – except serendipitously – fashion moral character or produce citizens of a certain temper. … showing up on the web so soon after the article I discussed in my …
This reminds me of so many other untested beliefs. Parents and teachers have been of the opinion lately that students will understand math better using real-world objects to illustrate abstract concepts. Research now suggests this is wrong. “The motivation behind this research was to examine a very widespread belief about the teaching of mathematics, namely …