BOSTON (Reuters) – Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both academic heavyweights and often neighborly rivals, are joining hands in a new partnership to offer courses online and for free. The two schools, located near each other in C…
Continue Reading →Deb Garvey, left, and Lindsey Chastney fashion a looping track during training at Cogswell Elementary School in Haverhill, Mass., last week. The participants learned exercises intended to teach concepts like problem-solving, collaboration, communicat…
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After reading a story about a Mexican hat dance, 1st grader Ethan Wheeler tries out the dance himself at the Wharton K-8 Dual Language Academy in Houston, one of the oldest schoolwide dual-language programs in the cou…
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As educators, we weep for our extended family in Chardon, Ohio: students, parents, teachers, counselors, administrators, law-enforcement personnel, and so many others. They are all now stricken with heart-wrenching pain and haunted by q…
Tools of the Mind, an early- childhood education curriculum, has drawn a lot of attention in recent years for its potential to increase young students’ ability to self-regulate. Yet new research suggests the play-based program may be no better than t…
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The father of a high school girls’ hockey player in Winthrop, Mass., was charged Tuesday with disturbing the peace after allegedly shining a laser pointer in the eyes of an opposing go…
Salman Khan, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Harvard Business School, was working as a hedge fund manager when he began posting videos on YouTube six years ago to tutor young family members in math. That led to the 20…
Continue Reading →At a time when U.S. political and business leaders are raising concerns about the need to better nurture creativity and innovative thinking among young people, several states are exploring the development of an index that would gauge the extent to w…
Continue Reading →U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., right, announces that he is endorsing Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at a town hall meeting in Manchester, N.H. The two squared off for the GOP candidacy in 2008 before Mr. …
Continue Reading →Published Online: December 15, 2011
Math teachers trained through the Boston Teacher Residency program are, on average, initially less effective at raising student scores in that subject than other novice teachers. But within five years, their ins…
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