By the time a child has reached the age of 12, they’ve learned that it’s more important to get the right answers than it is to ask thoughtful questions. The current education system focuses on teaching kids how to produce correct answers, but not how to find and...
Students who experience a transformational educational experience usually do so because an adult in a school saw their potential well before they saw it themselves. The converse is also true. Teachers expect that 58 percent of their white high school students...
The United States spends on average $16,268 a year on each student. The global average is $10,759. Spending so much money on each student may make it seem like the U.S. is offering a better quality of education, but that assumption would be wrong. In fact, American...
If you are young and you want to make a positive contribution to society it is likely that teaching will come across your radar as a career worth considering: an opportunity to address a spectrum of our nation’s challenges at their roots be they economic, cultural,...
Teaching is arguably the most frustrating job. Students hate school, parents and administrators love to blame teachers, and while one-on-one instruction is hard enough, teachers have to teach several classes. There is an opposing argument that teaching is, in fact,...
