Quick Key Mobile Made The Top Ten! Quick Key is honored to be ranked number 6 on Edsurge's Top Ten S'cool Tools in quarter two of 2014. This honor is shared by all the members of our Quick Key community, in schools and in Social Media that help us to share Quick Key with teachers and [...]
Monica Almeida/The New York Times Does Starbucks Care More about the future of American Education than the Department of Ed? The news has broken, Starbucks will support college education for its employees! According to Richard Perez-Pena of the New York Times, "Starbucks will provide a free online college education to thousands of its workers, without requiring that they remain [...]
We Need More Teacher Voices California's teacher tenure laws have been struck down. According to Jesse Rothstein of the New York Times, "In short, while the notion of 'clearing the stables' of bad teachers seems attractive, it is almost impossible to get right in practice. No conceivable system can eliminate all 'grossly ineffective' teachers, and efforts aimed at [...]
Brian Stauffer Drop Out Factories It is no surprise that many students from poverty stricken areas who lack the proper support are dropping out. The schools even have a name, they are called "Drop Out Factories". Yet what is required to support these students is not an enigma. We have already seen how these students from [...]
Michael Mabry In The Age of Technology, the Human Element is More Important than Ever. According to Maria Konnikova of the New York Times, hand writing is an important part of brain development and literacy. Konnikova states "Cursive or not, the benefits of writing by hand extend beyond childhood. For adults, typing may be a fast [...]
Getting Girls to Code Accordiing to Nitasha Tiku of the New York Times, "A huge nationwide push is underway, funded by the nonprofit Code.org’s corporate and billionaire donors, from Amazon and Google to Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, to introduce American schoolchildren to coding and to redefine it as a basic skill to be learned alongside the three [...]
“How maddening it was to have been born in a cotton field with aspirations of grandeur.” As the news of Maya Angelou's passing touches the nation, I am both saddened and heartened. In reflecting on her life two things stand out. First, she was a testimony of grit, letting no obstacles stop her from pursuing her [...]
Graduation ceremonies at Temple University in Philadelphia this month. The pay disparity between those with college degrees and those without continues to grow.CreditDavid Swanson/The Philadelphia Inquirer, via Associated Press NEW YORK TIMES' DAVID LEONHARDT WRITES: COLLEGE IS WORTH IT According to David Leonhardt of The New York Times, "Yes, college is worth it, and it’s not [...]
John Gress/Reuters True Grit According Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times, "In 2011, a malnourished 14-year-old Vietnamese village girl named Phung arose in the wee hours each morning in a herculean struggle to get an education. After I wrote about her, readers responded with a torrent of $750,000 in donations to Room to Read, the aid organization helping [...]
Robert Neubecker According to the New York Times, "Too many people, including plenty of brand-new college graduates, fall far behind on their student loan payments for no good reason." As teachers we encourage all of our students to attend college. And the results are clear, students who graduate with a four year degree earn significantly more [...]