After 9 1/2 years, New Horizons is about to give Earthlings an amazing view of Pluto! On Tuesday, July 14th, after 3 billion miles, the spacecraft will be within 7800 miles of the dwarf planet (which was still considered a planet back during the 2006 launch...
On July 4th, the Tour de France began and will end on July 26th. It's considered the world's biggest and most exciting bicycling race. Athletes competing in the race will travel approximately 2072 miles during the 22 day race. This year's Tour de France began in Utrecht,Netherlands.Cyclists will...
Why is it that fewer black and Hispanic students continue to be represented in our school’s gifted programs?
For instance, you might have 300 white students at a school and 160 have been identified as gifted. On the other hand, you have 200 black students,...
C. M. Rubin's Global Education Report - Around the World in 30 Days
This past month, I spoke to education innovators around the world about topics ranging from improving city schools to inclusivity to the increasing importance of film festivals in the digital age. The perspectives were manifold and...
Last year, the U.S. Department of Education issued a call, under its Excellent Educators for All initiative, for every state to provide an “equity” plan detailing how they would ensure that effective teachers were in every school. In doing so, ED implied we can no longer stand by policies or practice that shortchanged high-need schools when it came...
It’s safe to say that most college graduates going into teaching have little knowledge of the needs of gifted children.
In one case, researchers Berman and Shultz, when working with pre-service teachers—some obtaining their master’s degrees before heading into the classroom- found that they had virtually no knowledge of the needs and nature of...
Effective leadership in the classroom, according to Theo...
E. Paul Torrance, the late psychologist who dedicated his life to study of creativity, proposed that you can enhance creativity in children by establishing the right conditions. Like a plant that needs sunlight, water,...
Do you know who is on a ten dollar bill? If you answered Alexander Hamilton, you are correct...for now. The U.S. Treasury has announced that there will be a change coming in 2020. A woman's face will be featured on the ten dollar bill! The year, 2020, is the 100th anniversary of the 19th...
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