What is the Singapore Math Method & How Can it Help Your Students?
What is Singapore doing in their math classrooms that has resulted in so much success? Take a look and see how Singapore math methods could help your …
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Teaching Methods, Tools & Strategies
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Why Does Peer Tutoring Work So Well?
There have been many approaches to learning over the years among schools and educational settings in an attempt to get kids to learn faster and more …
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5 Ways the Common Core Impacts Reading Standards
The Common Core is a set of English language arts/literacy (ELA) and mathematics standards developed in an effort to make educational standards across …
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The US Education System Is Still Good, It Just Needs a Boost
The US education system has taken a lot of heat lately (some of it from yours truly). Should we be as strict as South Korea? Should we adopt a loose …
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UK vs. USA: Who Has the Better Education System?
Education in America still shares roots with its old colonial master. The system of primary, secondary and higher education is familiar. Yet there are …
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How the Canadian Education System Is Different (and Better) Than the United States'
Canada has achieved educational success by recruiting high-level teachers, embracing its diversity and working together while still competing on a …
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Could Cleaning Be the Key to Teaching Respect and Responsibility in the Classroom?
The janitor in an American school is commonly an object of ridicule and disrespect, but not in Japan. Every student, rich or poor, average or …
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Should the United States Care about Vocational Education?
One day, you will have to decide. Which direction will your education take you? Are you on an academic course with an advanced degree and an …
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The Confucian Education System - Can It Positively Influence U.S. Education?
Confucius believed that even peasants could elevate themselves with education. What could this theory mean for education in the United States?
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Improving Education in the U.S.: What Can We Learn from Finland and South Korea?
The U.S. education system ranks in the middle of the international pack: number 14 in the 2014 Pearson index, and in the 2012 PISA exams, American …
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