Ultimately, the question every professor should ask is this: Is this a task students need to be able to perform on their own?

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I started teaching middle school students in 1995. The school was private, with a strong governing association, so there was some discretion regarding what and how things were taught. My main subject ...

Students raise their hands to answer a teacher's question at the KIPP Academy in the South Bronx, part of a network of public middle schools that is becoming a model for educating poor children. KIPP ...

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Stanford University professor Nel Noddings, the author of several notable books on progressive education, does not much like conventional schooling. Among the punches she throws in the first chapter ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Torrey Trust, UMass Amherst and Robert Maloy, UMass Amherst (THE CONVERSATION) When ...