by David Safier
This Sunday’s meta-Ed post is a collection of random items.
- Want to see today’s front page of your old local paper in Minneapolis or Calcutta, India, or Bogota, Columbia? Go to the Newseum’s Today’s Front Pages site. You can view it as an interactive map — put your cursor on a spot and a small version of the page comes up, then click on it for a full view — or in list form. You can also see their archived front pages that begin with 9/11/01 and cover significant days since then.
- Student Engagement Found to Rise as Class Size Falls. Students pay more attention when class sizes are smaller, especially the harder-to-teach students. (My experience was that I could focus on the entire class when numbers were under 25. Beyond that, students got lost in the shuffle.)
- The Charter School Idea Turns 20. Charter schools began as a progressive idea opposed by many conservative education reformers. Now the positions are reversed.
- The Disappearing Field Trip. A combination of shrinking budgets and increased emphasis on testing has nearly wiped out the field trip. Those in low income, low performing schools, where students can most use the exposure to the world beyond their communities, are least likely to take field trips.
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