After giving a midterm examination last year, I briefly considered quitting my lifelong job as a teacher. The stimulus was the declaration during the test by a student -- incensed at my “unfair” ...
What can I do when a student keeps misbehaving even after they repeatedly promise to improve? It’s not easy for students to change ingrained habits. Here’s something I wrote related to the topic for ...
Misbehavior, however, may also be due to factors arising from the teacher themselves. In some cases, teachers aren’t that they are indirectly a cause of the poor classroom behavior, making it clear ...
Brittany Krzak said she was at her wit's end by the time she showed up to a Lorain City School District board of education meeting in March. Her daughter's kindergarten classroom at Toni Morrison ...
School had been in session at Lead Elementary for less than an hour, but already Andrea Quinn had paused teaching her first graders nearly 20 times, she told The Hechinger Report. First, there was the ...
About 1 in 4 elementary students in the United States reports being bullied at least once during a given school year. Children who are frequently bullied are more likely to struggle in school, ...
President Biden has made fighting the pandemic issue number one on his agenda, followed closely by getting students back into classrooms. If the President is successful, our children will be back in ...
Have a child who misbehaves in school? He or she might be on the road to a lucrative career. At Brookings, Nicholas Papageorge, assistant professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University, writes, ...