Teachnologies

Where education and technology collide.

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Teacher Who Dedicates Life To Students Total Fucking Bitch 

MERIDIAN, ID—Students at Union Junior High School reported Monday that eighth-grade history teacher Evelyn Carmody, a tireless educator who has dedicated her whole life to the vocation of teaching, is a total goddamn bitch. “I fucking hate her,” 14-year-old Scarlett Ramsey said of the woman who not only stays up well past midnight providing individual feedback on each paper she grades, but also sets aside nearly $1,000 of her income each year to buy books and basic supplies for students who can’t afford them. “Give us homework over a three-day weekend? Who does that bitch think she is? I hope she dies.” Sources also stated that eighth-grade English teacher Mark Bradstone, who doesn’t really give a shit about his job and shows up hungover most mornings, is super popular and very cool.

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This is totally impractical (it only works if you're halfway through your book), but I want eleven of them.

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I haven't decided if I agree or disagree yet, but this is definitely an interesting counter-perspective. Here's a quick excerpt:

I’m on a train one day when I overhear several teachers talking about how much they hate grades and how they wish they could throw out their grade books. I chime in, saying how much I agree. For one, even for students at an early age, grades undermine a love for learning and curiosity by imposing external motivators.

But when I explain that I teach at a private school, I receive what has become a familiar, disapproving stare, as though I’m one of those teachers—privileged and misguided, and entirely shameless for even calling himself a teacher. My initial enthusiasm for discussing grading has devolved into an empty, unwelcome feeling, like I’m trespassing on public-school territory and "real teacher"discussions.

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Poorer parents are just as involved in education, leisure, and sports activities with their children as better-off parents, a new study has found. Dr Esther Dermott and Marco Pomati analysed survey data on 1,665 UK households and found that poorer parents were as likely to have helped with homework, attended parents' evenings, and played sports or games with their children in the previous week.

Poorer parents are just as involved in their children's activities as better-off parents

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"Don't even bother trying to be cool," Jason says. "Just get out there and get rejected, and sometimes it's going to get dirty. But that's OK, 'cause you're going to feel great after, you're going to feel like, 'Wow. I disobeyed fear.' "

By Making A Game Out Of Rejection, A Man Conquers Fear | NPR

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When recess takes place before kids sit down to eat – instead of after - fruit and vegetable consumption increases by 54%.

“Recess is a pretty big deal for most kids. If you have kids chose between playing and eating their veggies, the time spent playing is going to win most of the time,” said Joe Price, an economics professor at Brigham Young University. “You just don’t want to set the opportunity cost of good behaviors too high.”

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This Chrome extension shows you lower textbook prices when you look at your campus bookstore’s website.

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Colorado Sells $34 Million Of Cannabis: $3.4 Million Goes To Schools, Crime Down 15%

So there's that answer.

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When students draw on their tests, this teacher add something to it (full gallery here)

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The 2015 Reading Challenge

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How to Build a Human

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Percentage of Students on Reduced and Free Lunches in United States Schools (1969-2014)

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Parents angry after school tells 13-year-olds they can have sex, choose gender | Fox News

A) That’s not what the children were taught. That’s what you get when Fox “News” writes the headline.

B) The parents who are upset about their children learning about sex, ways to obtain consent, and what gender really means are the same parents whose children can otherwise expect to have some challenging life problems (some which involve the services of Planned Parenthood).

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13 Emotional Stages Of Surviving A Group Project (in GIF form)

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House and Senate leaders have agreed to cut funding for the nation’s largest source of grants for college students to pay student loan contractors, according to legislation that would fund the federal government through next year and avert a shutdown. Money appropriated for the Pell grant program this year would fall $303 million, or 1.3 percent, to $22.5 billion...

Congressional Leaders Agree To Cut Aid To College Students To Pay Student Loan Contractors