We know there's good practice out there, but as with many things in education, it's important that schools learn and share the best ideas.
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And students from disadvantaged families need schools that expand time to learn through longer school days and years, in order for them to catch up.
Spending more money is not the impressive thing that KIPP has managed to do and that public schools should learn from, but spending the money well.
We are phobic about saying out loud that children differ in their ability to learn the things that schools teach.
The most dangerous of these views come from those who would roll back the progress of NCLB, backing away from its demands that all children be given the opportunity to learn and achieve and that schools be held accountable for student success.
Some experts argue that the programs belong at trade schools and that students should use their undergraduate years to learn something about the world before heading to business school for an M.
Both "The Lottery" and "Superman" use successful charter schools to illustrate that all children can learn as long as they're in the right environment.
His reform team has deflated the bureaucracy, sacked teachers at the worst-performing schools, and demanded that students actually learn things before being promoted to the next grade.
One reason I think public charters are a good idea (at least in theory) is that they can help traditional public schools learn through experimentation.
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Why can't we, in the schools that are good, why can't we use them to work with the schools that are not as good to see if they can learn from each other.
To compete, business schools are going to have to learn some of the entrepreneurial lessons that they are so adept at teaching.
With wider oversight responsibilities, the NCAA will help prevent all types of violence because schools that fail to deal appropriately with misconduct in their lucrative sports programs will soon learn the difference between winning a championship and not even being allowed to compete.
He said he had been flabbergasted to learn that computer science was not taught as standard in UK schools, despite what he called the "fabulous initiative" in the 1980s when the BBC not only broadcast programmes for children about coding, but shipped over a million BBC Micro computers into schools and homes.
The best schools could be given more autonomy and incentives to help train teachers, ensuring that newcomers learn from the best of their profession, not the middling performers.
It is fashionable to say that teaching children Welsh and English will help them to learn other languages and it is true that Welsh-medium schools have produced above-average results.
But given the regular appearances and the schools' 17 combined Sweet 16 appearances since 1985, you might be surprised to learn that 2013 is the first time that both Michigan and Michigan State have made the tourney's regional semifinals in the same year.
Now that tablets have proliferated widely both at home and in schools, and students really can learn any time, any place, so long as they are motivated, the next logical question becomes: How do we build content for mobile platforms that is personalized enough, engaging enough, adaptive enough, and rigorous enough to make kids the drivers of their own advancement towards Automaticity, and beyond?
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That's a job for our schools, but right now our children don't learn the words of "The Star-Spangled Banner, " let alone how a bill becomes a law.
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