By Jason Dobrow, PhD School is supposed to be fun! That is not a misprint, nor some pie in the sky ideal. While not every student will enjoy every school related task, overall school should be, and more importantly must be, fun for students. With high stakes testing, and the implementation of Common Core, the […]
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Raising Boys' Achievement Involves More Male Teachers
It’s no shock to any reader, teacher, or parent to learn that boys are not just falling behind; they’re sinking. In the middle school where I teach, of our nearly 1,100 students, roughly 80% of the special education students are male. More than 2/3 of the students failing classes are male. More than 75% of […]