Eric Westervelt

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Senators Try To Revise No Child Left Behind — A Few Years Behind

Monday, April 13, 2015

Tuesday, senators begin working out the details of a bipartisan update to the No Child Left Behind education law. The proposed revision would give states more control over school accountability.

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The Value Of Wild, Risky Play: Fire, Mud, Hammers And Nails

Friday, April 03, 2015

Part of our ongoing series of conversations with thinkers and activists on education issues

Filmmaker and radio producer Erin Davis' new short documentary shares its name with an adventure playground in North Wales called The Land. As Davis puts it, the film explores the "nature of play, risk ...

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Astronaut Twins To Separate For The Sake Of Space Travel

Saturday, March 28, 2015

Astronaut Scott Kelly has arrived at the International Space Station on a yearlong mission. He and Mark Kelly, his twin and fellow NASA astronaut, will take part in experiments comparing their health.

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Learning To Move, Moving To Learn: The Benefits Of PE

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

One of our occasional conversations with thought leaders in education.

When it comes to kids and exercise, schools need to step up and focus more on quality as well as quantity. And, says Dr. Gregory D. Myer, they need to promote activities that develop motor skills, socialization and fun.

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Six Things We Learned At South By Southwest EDU

Sunday, March 15, 2015

The NPR Ed team is back from Austin, where we connected with hundreds of educators and people excited about education at the annual South By Southwest Edu Conference. As with many conferences, there's just as much to be gained from conversations in the hallways and chance encounters as from the ...

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Where Have All The Teachers Gone?

Tuesday, March 03, 2015

Enrollment at teacher training programs is down in many parts of the country, raising fears of a looming teacher shortage.

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Behold The Humble Block! Tools Of The Trade

Tuesday, March 03, 2015

Math. Measurement. Balance. Negotiation. Collaboration. And fun. You might call blocks the anti-app: These smooth maple pieces need no recharging, no downloading.

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Teaching The Holocaust: New Approaches For A New Generation

Sunday, March 01, 2015

Writer and philosopher Hannah Arendt once wrote that, with the German genocide of European Jews, human history "has known no story more difficult to tell."

And there may be no topic more difficult to teach.

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps of ...

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Hoops By Day, Hops By Night: This Phys Ed Teacher's Got A Secret Brew

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

"Your friends are gonna tell you, 'Your beer is great.' It's another thing for people in the market to actually buy it and drink it," says gym teacher P.T. Lovern, founder of Line 51 Brewing.

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Q&A: Blocks, Play, Screen Time And The Infant Mind

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Our "Tools of the Trade" series is taking a look at some of the iconic objects that form a vital part of our educational lives. For an upcoming piece, I'm reporting on how young children learn through that most basic of preschool education tools: simple wooden blocks.

Dr. Dimitri Christakis ...

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Egypt's Citizens Still Wait 'To Breathe Deep The Air Of Freedom'

Saturday, January 03, 2015

Amid all the holiday celebrations, you may have missed this story from overseas.

An Egyptian court announced a retrial for three journalists from Al Jazeera who have been languishing in jail for more than a year for the crime of reporting the news. The scheduled retrial is a small step ...

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NASA Hopes A Hack Will Overcome Mars Rover's Memory Gap

Saturday, January 03, 2015

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Orca Calf Shows Signs Of Whale Midwifery

Saturday, January 03, 2015

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How Pete Seeger Revealed The Power Of Music To Me

Saturday, December 27, 2014

Before he died this year at the age of 94, Pete Seeger influenced scores of musicians and millions of people — including me.

Growing up, my father would regularly drag me to folk festivals up and down New York's Hudson River Valley and across the Northeast, especially Pete Seeger's annual ...

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'Restorative Justice' A New Approach To Discipline At School

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

In the second of two reports on Restorative Justice, we look at a "harm circle" session with two students who've been in a fight at an Oakland Middle School.

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An Alternative To Suspension And Expulsion: 'Circle Up!'

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Oakland's restorative justice program is at the forefront of efforts to rethink school discipline.

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Teach For America At 25: With Maturity, New Pressure To Change

Monday, December 01, 2014

Now a fixture on the education landscape, TFA faces new challenges — from inside and out.

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Are NOLA Schools Failing Students With Disabilities?

Thursday, November 20, 2014

In New Orleans, 9 in 10 children attend charter schools. But parents and activists say the city's nearly all-charter system is failing many children with disabilities.

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Pythagoras' iPhone: Is Listening A Lost Classroom Art?

Friday, November 07, 2014

Listen and learn, the saying goes.

But are students and teachers these days fully listening to each other?

What, exactly, is good listening, and why does it matter when it comes to learning? Is "close listening" a doorway to understanding that too many of us are keeping only half-open?

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50 Great Teachers: Socrates, The Ancient World's Teaching Superstar

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

It's been 2,400 years since he taught his last class, but the teaching method Socrates created, and that bears his name, lives on today.

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