As the first school in Southwest China to partner with The Independent School (TIS), HPA implements an authentic North American Blue Ribbon high school curriculum while actively exploring localized approaches to international education.HPA’s high school students were divided into four groups, each pai...
B Brody Ridder attends The Academy of Charter Schools in Westminster, Colorado. When he got his yearbook(学校年刊), he went up to people and asked them to sign his yearbook but most of them refused. He collected only two or three names from classmates and two notes from his teachers. ...
Because the basis of reading is language, learning to read is, in some sense, a skill that starts in the baby years, says Timothy Shanahan, distinguished professor emeritus at the University of Illinois—Chicago and former director of reading for Chicago Public Schools. Studies show reading to...
Ph.D. program alumni often say they were mistreated by faculty during graduate school. A global survey of graduate students and postdoctoral researchers at academic science institutions, published in May 2021, revealed that 84% of current and former science Ph.D. students and post...
Stuart Brown, founder of NationalInstitute for Play, “High-techindustries such as NASA’sJet Propulsion Laboratory have found that their best overall problem solverswere master tinkerers in their youth.” Inthe United States (as well as in numerous other countries), schools struggle toteach these...
"Schools have to open," Trump said in an interview that aired Sunday on Fox News. "Young people have to go to school, and there's problems when you don't go to school, too." Young people are less likely to become seriously ill if they are infected with the coronavirus. But a ...
The introduction of elite schools is also typical for most countries of Central and Eastern Europe, as a response to the centralized system of education, uniformly imposed under communism.2 In the year of their introduction (1989), only two elite schools were opened. By 1999, 44% of the ...
Eight primary schools were chosen randomly (four schools in Chicago area, US and four schools in a province of Ontario, Canada) where a total of 1000 questionnaires were distributed. To increase the representativeness of our sample, we used a stratified sampling technique. In that regard, fifty...
Indeed, we were delighted to find fellow travelers along the way, creative and engaged pedagogues who introduced us to a broad range of projects. We present a sampling of some of the most innovative work to spark conversation among like-minded colleagues on how we can live up to the values...
Participants were randomly assigned to conditions; with the same constraints as those in Study 1. Participants were recruited from local schools in the same school district as in Study 1. Permission from the relevant institutional Ethics Board and School Board was obtained. Written informed consent ...