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«unexpectedly entertaining»... «tackle [s] a potentially mindfogging subject with cutting clarity... they're reading those mushy, brain - numbing education stories so you don't have to!»

FiveThirtyEight, created by über — data geek Nate Silver, shows a lot of potential but has only produced two education stories so far (understandable since it doesn't have a dedicated education reporter).

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The paradigm of Emmaus is so significant in this matter but often misused by catechists schooled in the approach of Our Faith Story to bolster up a false approach to catechetics and religious education.

So when you look for stories for your events, platforms, or just your individual education; seek us out.

The issue of blatantly false (or at least extremely embellished) news stories has gotten so bad, that researchers at Stanford's Graduate School of Education call it «a threat to democracy» after a «dismaying» study found that most American students can't tell the difference between which headlines are real and which ones are fake.

The most disturbing thing about the so - called «Trojan Horse» affair wasn't that Muslims are teaching their children to be Muslims (we should be used to that) but rather the reports that followed on the back of the story of The Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED) inspections of Muslim independent schools in other areas.

An accessible and reliable education is so important for new mothers because too many moms hear breastfeeding horror stories from the people they admire most, he continues.

Gove revealed a bit about his personal story and childhood to the audience, whose most avid followers are so far accustomed only to getting snippets about the education secretary's private life from his wife Sarah Vine's columns in the weekend papers.

You know our story, two veterinarians Drs. Karen Becker and Donna Raditic recognized the need to provide education to the pet vested community about nutrition and wellness so they formed CANWI, an independent grass roots organization.

It's a tale you hear over and over with yogis who have practiced for many years - the story of starting with the physical practice (asana) along with the breath (pranayama), then beginning to feel like something was missing or there was more to learn, so naturally moving towards education and observation of other limbs of the yogic tradition like meditation, and the yamas and niyamas.

This coming - of - age story watches education combat the crippling effects of poverty in the lives of these so - called «bad - kids.»

I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its ficstory of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its ficStory (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.

Also focused on the access to education for communities of color, The Pushouts, directed by Katie Galloway and co-directed by Dawn Valadez, tells the story of professor and author Dr. Victor Rios, a former gang member, who attempts to inspire the youth in neighborhoods similar to those where he grew up, so that they can change their personal paths in spite of a system that sets them up for failure.

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So far, our new year's content list is full of more stories detailing work important to the field of education and those who work with it or within it.

So there, from Education World's «Principal Files» principals, are just a handful of stories of teachers who each day «Wow!»

The aim for 2018 is to share these stories so that teachers have practical tools and insight to help transform education.

Strong causal evidence is actually relatively rare in education policy, so we are mostly stringing together bits of anecdotes and non-causal evidence to tell stories that justify our preferred positions.

I work in special education so told the story myself and this was a visual aid - just as well I'm a bit of a drama queen!

Stories in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and many other newspapers, most written not by education reporters but by Washington - based political and legislative correspondents, reported Gates's assertions in an unquestioning, almost awestruck tone that made one thing clear: if high schools are bad enough for Bill Gates to declare them a disaster, then it must be so.

The fact that there are so many cohorts, and cohorts within cohorts just goes to show how many stories of education there are.

As I read, I kept feeling grateful to Paul Tough for having done this work — gathering the stories of kids like Keitha Jones, the traumatized Southside Chicago teen who reminded me so much of a handful of kids I've taught; connecting Keitha's experience to research on neurochemistry and infant psychology, and situating these elements in both a socio - economic context and in the landscape of an education world focused on developing children's cognitive (and testable) skills.

You can learn about these wonderful teaching tools in this week's Education World CURRCIULUM story, So You Want to Teach About the Amistad?

For more information about the CHS - designed Amistad curriculum, see this week's Education World CURRICULUM story, So You Want to Teach About the Amistad?]

The Philadelphia story, then, is not so much a tale of for - profits winning against nonprofits or district - run schools, but a valuable lesson in how to approach education reform effectively and produce real results.

I moved to Edutopia because after so much time reporting on the failures of education in the United States, I want to tell the stories of success.

It didn't help that I kept reading so many negative news stories about education.

What So Proudly We Hail With this high school - level curriculum, educators Amy A. Kass and Leon R. Kass demonstrate how story, speech, and song enhance civic education.

So the story of a group of very successful Jewish lawyers in New York not only points to the period when they were born, a time of low birth rates, which meant that the New York City public schools they attended were uncrowded and gave a good education, but also to a Jewish propensity to seek out and seize opportunity.

False or misleading information found in new stories published by trusted sources is detrimental to the important work that so many educators, administrators and state education officials have undertaken over the last five years.

We each have our own story about what makes us get up every morning and continue fighting so that every child has the opportunity to receive a great education.

So with the «five and out» myth debunked, the education press needed a new juicy story to jump on, and unsurprisingly, The New York Times came to the rescue.

Christi Ham, chairwoman of Military Families for High Standards, tells the story of «Michael,» a fictitious military - connected child who is a symbol for all children of service members, «because so many military families endure similar obstacles in ensuring a quality education for their children while...

Thanks so much everyone who read and commented on contributor Richard Lee Colvin's column from last week, asking some hard questions about the New York Times feature on the «Googlification» of American schools, to the indefatigable Diane Ravitch for picking up this recent column from The Grade from contributor Amy Shuffelton about PBS's decision to air School, Inc, and to the Annenberg Institute for praising contributor Tara Garcia Mathewson's column about finding diverse voices to tell education stories.

There are so many education implications in this New York Times story about child safety agencies discriminating against poor minority parents: How are children's academics affected by being removed from their parents» homes and sent to foster care?

So education writers have an important entryway to unearthing meaningful stories about a community experiencing a natural disaster.

So far, at least, most of the attention paid to the disinformation issue among education journalists has been focused on coverage of students and teachers being trained to discriminate between fact - based stories and other kinds.

There are so many stories that I could tell — the story of my guidance counselor's sixth - grade, learning disabled child who feels like a failure due to constant testing, a principal of an elementary school who is furious with having to use to use a book he deems inappropriate for third graders because his district bought the State Education Department approved common core curriculum, and the frustration of math teachers due to the ever - changing rules regarding the use of calculators on the tests.

Education leaders say both stories are true and that Louisiana has been so far behind in the quality of its public schools for so long that even significant gains in the past two decades leave the state well behind most of its peers.

«A team of documentary filmmakers began following affected families and educators, policymakers, and advocates as the closures unfolded — and their stories became a jumping - off point for exploring so many urgent questions facing public education today.»

What must be particularly galling to education ministers is that this has turned success stories into trip wires - no more so than the disastrous delivery of this year's national tests for 11 and 14 year olds in England.

Robin shared the story of how she is seeing special education students who used to do anything to avoid going to the cafeteria for lunch because they had no one to sit with since they spent so much time in separate classrooms.

Now I understand that it would be bad business to highlight the weaknesses of the organization, but if what's good for TFA is bad for the country's education system then it is quite irresponsible for TFA not to give the whole story so legislators can make informed decisions about, for example, whether or not to spend millions of dollars of tax payer money to bring more TFAers to their districts.

So, like often in education, scrapping subjects is not the whole story, but there is an interesting shift in educational thinking towards making learning more relatable for students, and to make it more meaningful.

Although CTU leader Karen Lewis stated in her remarks at the beginning of the strike that «we must do things differently in this city if we are to provide our students with the education they so rightfully deserve,» [16] the real story in Chicago was one of a unique context with two charismatic leaders.

«We are so thankful for Kobo's commitment and generous donation to help us shed light on the importance of education and literacy, while bringing to life Aboriginal stories and culture to youth across Canada, enriching the lives of young people and helping to preserve a piece of Canada's history.»

The silver lining to this story is that more Americans are pursuing higher education, even if they are taking out loans to do so.

Capital One and Credit Canada Debt Solutions are kicking off Credit Education Week (which runs next week) with a Twitter - based contest that calls on Canadians to tell their own stories about how they triumphed by being frugal and reaped dividends by so doing, but learned the hard way that choosing the least expensive option and being «cheap» can come at a cost.

Once a year, I like to take a column off from the usual education, rants and opinions I am so full of and take a breather to tell amusing stories about creatures and their people.

Both TIME mag and NYT are poised to report news of new literary and movie genre dubbed «cli fi» — coined by yours truly from my earlier «polar cities» work, one things leads to another — and the NYT story will be about «climate science education» issues and «climate change education» issues in higher education in USA and overseas...... so it's a story that interview academics and professors of science education etc...... and TIME mag will be about new NOAH movie by Darren A set 5000 years ago and TIME is calling it a «cli fi movie» on its cover March 24 issue, get ready.