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Education blog looking at educational policy to help you find out what is really happening in our schools

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By Ashlea Campbell “If we want children to be happy now and continue to derive happiness from their love of places, then somehow our...

By Rachel Fuhrman As I gear up for the most unique school year I may ever encounter, I am focused on what I can do to provide an...

By Dr. Matthew Clay In the last couple decades, a lot of engineering language has slipped into conversations about how we structure and...

By Gene Deary My name is Gene Deary, and I am currently a 5th-grade special education teacher at MacArthur Elementary School in Waltham,...

Let’s be the first to give grace to fellow educators because we understand where they are coming from.

By Gary Greeno For the last 30 years I have loved being in the classroom teaching middle school and high school math. For 28 of those...

Taking time for rest and relaxation throughout the day also supports the right kind of energy for focus and impulse control.

I have not just been preparing for this job for the last three years; I have been preparing for this job as long as I can remember.

I cried on my second day of school--and the kids weren’t even there yet!

"Nobody should go to school and feel like there isn’t someone that really cares about them." - Stephen Smith, CEO Intellispark