Bob Collins
On Thursday morning on MPR News with Kerri Miller, Jana Shortal is hosting a discussion on changing hypermasculinity. The NewsCut is audience is invited to help out by joining in. Let’s talk. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Education
Ayrton Little, 16, Opelousas, La., just kept hitting ‘refresh’ this week, waiting for word on whether he was accepted to Harvard under the university’s early acceptance program. Read more →
Keaton Jones called his mother to pick him up at school the other day. He was afraid to go to lunch where, he says, kids poured milk on him, threw bread at him, and put ham down his shirt. Read more →
Sawyer Stevens wants to use the money to go to medical school and become a pediatric neurosurgeon.
Because of his own experience on a bus one afternoon in Cottonwood, Minn., he someday might save some other kid’s life. Read more →
Why do some kids excel in school and others don’t?
A big reason — by no means the only one, of course) is contained in the Pioneer Press’ story about the St. Paul Public Schools sending home report cards with the wrong grades. Read more →
Teachers face a constant struggle to make their lessons relatable to their students. An engaged student is an educated student. It’s a form of the ‘by any means necessary’ method of education.
That’s why we have the Zombie Based Learning curriculum. Read more →
School trips to Washington are a rite of passage for America’s school kids. But fear has won out in North Ridgeville, Ohio, where school officials have decided the threat of terrorism is too real to risk the eighth-graders’ lives by showing them the capital of the land of the free.
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William Craft, the president of Concordia College in Moorhead, hit it out of the park this week when he responded to posters around campus saying, ‘It’s OK to be white.’ Read more →
It’s only coincidence that on the same day I post about a high school kid giving the finger to a ref in high school soccer’s biggest game of the year, NPR has waded into the waters of the high school classroom and the kids who drop ‘f-bombs’ in class. Read more →
From the Department of What Were They Thinking comes this adorable picture of Ebony Smith and Kasson Abdullah, the homecoming king and queen of the North Shore Senior High in the Houston area. Lovely purple hair, Ebony. Who wouldn’t love it? Officials of the North Shore Senior High and the school district which photoshopped a Read more →
It’s been 10 years since Claire Longmoor, of Nottingham, England wrote up a test for her math students.
It was nothing particularly difficult. Read more →
Is there a good reason why a boy shouldn’t be allowed to dance on the girl’s team? Maybe, if it denies a spot to Superior High School girls and they’re denied the athletic opportunities that boys have.
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Here’s a free tip for teachers: If you’re going to dress down a student for her attire, don’t do it in front of the class. Read more →
Lt. Gen. Jay B. Silveria, who runs the Air Force Academy, conducted a clinic on Thursday for any leader on how to respond to racial and sexual harassment.
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If you don’t want to take part in the Pledge of Allegiance in the Pasco School District in Florida, you’ll need a note from your parents.
So when a 6-year-old took a knee during the Pledge, he got an admonishment from his teacher. Read more →