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So by now I assume we've all heard of the sanctioned "cage fighting" in a Dallas, TX school.  As AP reports, school officials apparently condoned the use of a steel cage in which students could bare-knuckle fight their way ...

There's been so much talk lately of deep-needed reforms for education, but we neglect just how powerful a simple makeover can be.  I'm lucky to currently work at a school that has a patch of green, which fixes the broken ...

OK, guys.  So I got it from the horse's mouth at CUE.  According to the ISTE Director of Governmental Affairs, No Child Left Behind is not going away.   In the weeks leading up to the election, the Obama administration talked ...

I believe a classroom library is the heartbeat of a teacher's environment.  It is the window into their own personality, and it reflects the importance of literacy in the classroom.  I believe every teacher, no matter the subject taught, should ...

Check out my article in yesterday's Teacher Magazine outlining 5 little-thought-about strategies in teaching test prep.  Hope it helps you during your own Test Prep season. -Tweenteacher

The Register reports that DARPA (Defense Advance Research Projects Agency) is currently researching how to create robots that are "like some self-aware computer systems capable of "meta-reasoning" and "introspection..."  Their goal is to "Provide machines with an ability to reason ...

I recently heard Judy Willis (of "syn-naps" fame) speak at a conference.  In her pre-teaching life, she was a neurologist and she brings her knowledge to the classroom and to her lectures.  (See my recently published article in Teacher Magazine, "My ...

So I looked at my 8th grade students' scores after they took the MMA and sighed.  Their scores sucked.  

Science Daily is reporting that there has been a shift in how students are thinking as a result of their use of technology.  They believe it possibly lowers critical thinking skills and analysis.  Additionally, they wonder just how much schools ...

So I just got the January MindWare catalogue and I realize that here we have a toy catalogue that is solely for metacognitive purchases.  So this got me thinking: how can schools market metacognition?  I realized, of course, that until ...