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Cultural catchphrases for parenting styles abound. From the "tiger mom" to the newly coined "guerrilla dad," each purports to capture a distinct set of parenting behaviors. Even the micromanagerial methods of the "helicopter parent" have garnered a place in our pop culture vernacular.
Published: Thursday, December 11th, 2014 @ 5:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For tired teens, it's a dream come true: Slapping the snooze button has lost its stigma. Once the luxury of the lazy loll-about, those extra minutes of morning ZZZ's are just what the doctor ordered. Alarmed by an "epidemic" of sleep-deprived adolescents, the nation's pediatricians are urging...
Published: Monday, October 6th, 2014 @ 8:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For many students, summer is synonymous with sunning and snoozing.
Published: Monday, July 21st, 2014 @ 8:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Chronic homework overload is producing stressed-out, sleep-deprived teens too burned out to learn. So say disgruntled parents, who increasingly are leveraging public platforms to share anecdotal homework horrors — from The Atlantic Monthly article, "My Daughter's Homework is Killing Me," to...
Published: Thursday, May 22nd, 2014 @ 9:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The first week of February brought Wayne County mother Jennifer Strickland an eye-popping surprise. A letter from the principal indicated that one of her twin boys — a stellar, straight-A student reading at an almost sixth-grade level — was in danger of being retained in third grade...
Published: Thursday, March 20th, 2014 @ 2:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the New Year launches, disquiet over Common Core testing is building. States from Kentucky to New York to North Carolina have posted abysmal scores on early tests aligned with the math and English language-arts standards adopted by 45 states.
Published: Tuesday, January 7th, 2014 @ 9:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Attention is the coin of the realm in learning. The ability to "attend" to a task - to concentrate completely - has profoundly positive effects on learning and retention.
Published: Sunday, November 10th, 2013 @ 4:22 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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In the classroom, nothing beats a good teacher. Abundant research affirms teacher quality as the most significant in-school predictor of student achievement. Teachers know they have the power to leave a profound imprint on the minds of students; for many, this core belief shapes their choice of...
Published: Wednesday, September 4th, 2013 @ 5:01 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Around the nation this spring, simmering parental anger over student testing boiled over into all-out revolt. As testing increasingly co-opts curriculum and classroom, many parents have grown weary of talk, talk, talk. No glib platitudes can quell this uprising; instead, moms and dads are taking...
Published: Monday, July 15th, 2013 @ 9:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In the field of K-12 innovation, the digital device dominates. An increasing number of school districts nationwide are leveraging electronic...
Published: Thursday, May 23rd, 2013 @ 8:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In K-12 education, nothing matters more than ensuring that schools -- and the children within -- are safe. The recent heartrending shooting at a Connecticut elementary school serves as a tragic reminder that violence is real. And it compels us to act.
Published: Monday, March 25th, 2013 @ 2:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a world increasingly dominated by technological shorthand, it's hard to imagine why students would need to know the meaning of an unwieldy word like "perspicacity." Yet in the information age, a good vocabulary is more important than ever.
Published: Tuesday, January 8th, 2013 @ 10:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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New 2012 SAT scores, released weeks ago, unleashed a fusillade of commentary about the state of American achievement. Many hammered the decline in reading performance; others celebrated the largest-ever pool of students to take the SAT.
Published: Friday, November 2nd, 2012 @ 1:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Technological and online tools are revolutionizing education in exciting and near-limitless ways. Web-based documentation means teachers can share on-the-spot editorial input even as student scribes craft essays at home.
Published: Wednesday, September 26th, 2012 @ 5:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's a truism in education that high standards fuel rigor. Expect more; get more -- or so the thinking goes. Such a view has spawned a years-long curricular "pushdown" requiring children to learn content and master skills once relegated to their older peers.
Published: Tuesday, July 24th, 2012 @ 9:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Twenty years ago homeschooling was relegated to the fringes of K-12 education -- the spurned stepchild in a newly blended family of schooling options. Today homeschooling is a credible, viable educational choice that is garnering respect, even admiration, from outside educators.
Published: Saturday, May 19th, 2012 @ 8:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Across the K-12 spectrum, student vulnerability manifests itself in myriad ways. Some troubled kids act out; others drop out.
Published: Thursday, March 15th, 2012 @ 5:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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