Teaching

Cutting Arts Education

Arts, Culture & Media

Visual Thinking Strategies is an innovative method for teaching art that students and teachers love. It’s designed to flourish in poorly funded schools, but it isn’t immune to the cutbacks. Produced by Tara Geer.

High School Reunion

Arts, Culture & Media

The Substitute

Arts, Culture & Media
Books

Meet the teacher who got Kurt Andersen excited about books

Books
Jose Garcia 4

If things keep going as they are, in 100 years teachers still won’t be as diverse as their students

Education
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Teaching teachers to better connect with their immigrant students

Education

A teacher offers lessons on how other educators can connect with students who are new to this country.

Marco Antonio Tabin Garcia, in Antigua, Guatemala, Skypes with a student in Chicago.

This Spanish teacher in Guatemala doesn’t need to move to the US for a better job, he’s got Skype

Marco Antonio Tabin Garcia has never left Guatemala. When he was younger, he considered moving to the United States. But he decided against it and instead taught Spanish at a local school in Antigua for over 20 years. But in the past few years, he’s found a way to make a better living, by teaching Spanish lessons over Skype.

New movie re-opens old debate on education reform

Arts, Culture & Media

Won’t Back Down, out this fall, follows parents trying to wrest control of their school from the school district. It’s a movie-rendition of the real battle playing out across the educational system, where school reformers are confronted vested interests as everyone tries to figure out how to improve America’s school system.

An experiment in teacher pay

A charter school in New York will pay a salary of $125,000 to teachers, to find out if better pay means a better education.

The World

Redesigning Teachers: Inside the Design Studio

Arts, Culture & Media

We recently heard from some teachers who hate the old-fashioned iconography that haunts their profession: blackboards, apples, chalkboards. They called it, “apple crapple.” The task, then, is to rebrand educators for the 21st century.