The only rule of the exercise is there are no abstractions allowed. Two hours later, my computer, our classroom, is closed. Those 12th graders wondered why SCHOOL DIDN’T TEACH THEM how to gracefully lose and graciously win. I am on my knees wondering why I am energized, satisfied, but ...
So this is a survey of 9th through 12th graders, and this year the sample size was over 17,000 young people collected in schools across the country. Again, we’ve been doing this survey for more than 30 years. It is part of a system of surveys. So the data that I’m talking with...
In the baby supplies aisle, we discovered that some baby wipes are now called “cleansing wipes” because they’re useful for so much more than babies’ bottoms. I appreciate that. It’s long been a strategy for people with mobility issues, and chronic illness and/or pain to use wipes wh...
While that content changes some as students move from Kindergarten to 12th grade, in general, the kinds of things we ask our 2nd graders to study are similar to what we have our high school seniors study. In classic education (in certain parts of the world anyway), ‘content areas’ were...
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Since the goal of high school is to prepare students for college, it makes sense that the classes that you take in high school are called "college prep classes." After all, the way you get ready for college is by learning what there is to learn in high school!
A 2010 survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 74% of all 7th to 12th graders had at least one profile on a social networking site, while another study found that 98% of college students had a Facebook profile (Egan & Moreno, 2011; Rideout et al., 2010). Using social ...
Ms. Thorpe teaches English to 12th-graders at the International High School Langley Park, where 95 percent of pupils are from low-income families. She redesigned their courses for the English department to make it culturally relevant to her pupils who are from mostly Africa, the Middle East, ...
Jews KILLED Christ and thus ALL Jews are involved in “corporate guilt.” Unless YOU and others who identify as that particular SECT called Judaism and identify as Jews REPUDIATE the crime of DEICIDE then you will all spend eternity in hell. SEE my Video: The Four Curses On Judaism @ http...
I teach Algebra I to 10th graders. This happened recently. I put this problem on the board to illustrate the concept of distribution: 3(x + 1/4)(distribute the 3) I then wrote the following: 3x + 3/4 I immediately heard a chorus of “Where did the 3/4 come from?” So off to...