Grants from the Royal Society are allowing schools to do cutting edge experiments in the classroom.

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Grants allow real school science

How well children perform in the classroom could be linked to how physically active they are, suggests a Dutch review of previous studies.

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Active children get best marks

Welsh teaching union leaders claim “a quiet revolution” is under way to help them take back control and improve standards in the classroom.

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Teachers claim ‘quiet revolution’

It’s Monday morning at Georgetown University, and Michael Eric Dyson is on Page 176 of “Decoded,” the memoir of rap superstar Jay-Z. Pacing the classroom in his boxy, Hoya-blue suit, the sociology professor pushes his glasses up his nose and dives into the rapper’s musings on race and self-image: “Jay-Z is speaking about the imagistic conception of blackness that is evoked in a white world thinking about black culture.” Read full article > >

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Hoyas and Hova — Georgetown sociology course focuses on rap star Jay-Z

Somerset Primary school teacher Nigel Leat, 51, filmed himself sexually abusing young girls in his classroom, a Bristol court hears.

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VIDEO: Primary school teacher filmed abuse

A Somerset primary school teacher pleads guilty to charges of sexually abusing children in his classroom.

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Teacher admits abusing children

As pupils from ethnic minorities increase their competence in the classroom, their white peers become less tolerant, according to research.

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‘Tensions’ as ethnic pupils excel

Trying to bring a Civil War history lesson to life, teacher Jessica Boyle turned her fourth grade Norfolk classroom into a slave auction: She ordered black and mixed race students to one side of the classroom. Then, the white students took turns buying them.

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Va. teacher holds mock slave auction

Nick Stuban was all about football, a quick-footed linebacker at W.T. Woodson High School in Fairfax County who did well in the classroom, too: four As, two Bs and a C for first quarter. His history teacher described the 15-year-old as a “model student,” and his German teacher was impressed by his…

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Suicide turns attention to Fairfax discipline procedures

The genetic factors children bring to the classroom are just as influential as the school environment, researchers find after a study of 8,000 UK twins.

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Genes ‘play key classroom role’

We’ll continue to update this post, which provides a variety of ways to address the breaking news about Egypt in the classroom.

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The Learning Network: Teaching About Egypt

Fraser Speirs, the software developer behind FlickrExport, Viewfinder, and a number of other products, has been visiting and talking with schools who are interested in using Apple’s iPad to help create a better learning environment, but aren’t sure how. Speirs, who teaches computing at Cedars School of Excellence, has found that most schools simply replace old PC labs with iPad labs and aren’t using the tablet the way it was meant to be used. I speak to a lot of schools who envisage the iPad in the roles that PCs formerly occupied. The “laptop trolley” becomes an “iPad trolley”. The “checkout netbooks” become the “checkout iPads”. The “PC lab” becomes the “iPad lab”. That’s not how the iPad is designed and, it seems to me, the iPad is an extremely uncomfortable fit for those roles defined in an earlier era. The iPad is not another “thing” to have in your classroom in the way that you might buy one thermometer for every seat in your science lab. You can’t easily share an iPad the way you might have pupils share a digital camera. The iPad is an intensely personal device. In its design intent it is, truly, much more like a “big iPhone” than a “small laptop”. The iPad isn’t something you pass around. It’s not really designed to be a “resource” that many people take advantage of. It’s designed to be owned, configured to your taste, invested in and curated. The idea that you can use an iPad without leaving a data footprint on the device is not outright wrong, but such an approach to this device will either lead to confusion or a lot of time taken up with “restoring” iPads back to known-clean backup images. Hardware sharing is a solved problem on Macs and PCs with multiple-user operating systems. iOS, for better or for worse, simply isn’t that kind of OS. Read the full story at Fraser Speirs . H/T Daring Fireball .

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How the iPad Is Supposed to Be Used

For once, a happy ending: The hostage situation in a French kindergarten is over. French Gendarmes entered the classroom, freeing the last of the 20 children who’d been taken hostage by a sword-wielding teen several hours before. The 17-year-old boy…

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French Hostage Situation Over

The federal government should create a corps to develop better math and science high school teachers.

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Drawing our best math and science minds into the classroom