How Parents and Teachers Can Help Teach Critical Thinking Skills
Today’s students have difficulty solving real world problems. During the 90’s the focus was on hardwiring our children up until age three or younger to become geniuses. Parents began force feeding infants and toddlers special DVDs and flashcards in the hopes of their child becoming the next einstein. But in pursuing the development of rote memory, we have forgotten the... Read More
Teacher resignation letters paint a bleak picture of US education
As teachers’s resignation letters become public it has become evident that teachers are not leaving solely due to low pay and retirement but also due to a broken education system. In a group of studies, by Michigan State University education expert Alyssa Hadley Dunn and other colleagues examined the new phenomenon of teachers posting their resignation letters online. Their findings... Read More