Campus Cronical

Naimul Haq :About a year ago, seven year-old Afroza Khatun dropped out of school as her mother could not continue supervising her homework.The interruption in...

Lisa M Cope :It’s a heartbreaker. Your child comes home from school one day and says he doesn’t have any friends and that nobody likes...

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Linda Halgunseth :In the 1970s, my early childhood provider advised my immigrant Mexican American mother to stop speaking Spanish with me at home. They were...

Johanna Sorrentino :Every school day brings something new, but there is one status quo most parents expect: homework. The old adage that practice makes perfect...

Hannah Boyd :To require uniforms or not to require uniforms: that is the question many school districts are facing these days. Students in many cities...

(From previous issue) :The 1990s were dubbed “The Decade of the Brain,” and huge advances were made in neuroscience and how the brain relates to...

D. Stipek :The term “self-fulfilling prophecy” is apt because once an expectation develops, even if it is wrong, people behave as if the belief were...

Thomas Shuell :Learning is one of the most important activities in which humans engage. It is at the very core of the educational process, although...

Barbara Pressman :Classroom teachers don’t want subs to spend the day solving puzzles, handing out word finds, and playing games. After all, serious educational work...