Recently added articles from NEA Today:
The iPod Professor
Oct 01, 2009; ... File this one under news from the end of the world: In a recent study, university students who downloaded a podcast lecture scored significantly higher on a content exam than kids who actually attended the same lecture. THE DIFFERENCE MAY BE that those students could replay the difficult ...
Ring, ring! Cheater calling!
Oct 01, 2009; ... VITAL STATS MORE THAN A THIRD of teenagers with cell phones admit to using them to cheat - a shocking, but not entirely surprising finding from a recent Common Sense Media poll. "I could spend entire class periods just policing cell phones," says Arizona high school teacher Kristy Dunn ...
IMPROVING EDITOR DOUG WALKER dwaiker@nea.org ACHIEVEMENT GAPS
Oct 01, 2009; ... Although frequently out of the news, achievement gaps remain a constant challenge to public educators. NEA's work in improving student achievement for all students, however, continues non-stop. Tennessee member Mae Pardlow relates a success story in our Last Bell column (page 56). Her school ...
talk back
Oct 01, 2009; ... Bravo for Drama Teachers Article Il felt sheer elation upon seeing this month's NEA Today ("Discipline Tips from Drama Teachers," August/September). As a theater director, actress, and English teacher for many years, I have always felt that requiring theater studies of all students would ...
NCLB 'IF I WROTE THE LAW...'
Oct 01, 2009; ... EDUCATORS EXPLAIN WHAT SHOULD BE KEPT AND WHAT SHOULD CHANGE IN 'NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND.' On January 8, 2002, President George Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act, a 1,100-page, bipartisan overhaul of the largest federal education aid program. Originally launched in 1965 as the ...