November 28, 1853 Providence, Rhode Island October 28, 1944 Kittery, Maine Helen Magill White, née Helen Magill (born November 28, 1853, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. died October 28, 1944, Kittery Point, Maine) educator who was the first woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. degree.
Testing young children has been so out of favor that even the test-based No Child Left Behind law doesn't start testing students' reading abilities until after third grade — at which point, some educators believe, it is too late to remedy deficiencies.
This thought alone is a great focal point for educators.
The results provide a starting point for educators and researchers seeking to assess cross-disciplinary approaches to project-based learning.
New Haven-based startup and current Y Combinator Summer 2013 participant Panorama Education is looking to address a major pain point for educators, students and parents around school with its polling app targeted at K-12 students.
I believe we are now at a turning point where educators, politicians and the private sector have little choice but to ensure that a relevant, quality education is available for all.
These examples provide a good starting point for educators and curriculum designers.
Whether health systems are better suited to be taught as a cross-cutting theme or as focused course(s) of its own, or both, is an important discussion point for educators.
The corporatization of school leadership positions has skewed the moral perspective of educators to the point that some educators are now all about the money, not the motivation found in helping students to learn.
This has been an important point, as science educators (particularly evolution educators) recognize a change in understanding to be an appropriate goal for science teaching and have long held that focusing on changing students' acceptance of this construct is "off limits" as a goal for instruction (Smith and Siegel 2004).
