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Professor Dads Need Work-Family Balance, OYTEX Winner Finds

Sick kids. Sleepless nights. Conflicts between work and day care. Although research suggests that most dual-income couples share parenting duties, many people still...

 
 

The Merits of Merit Pay

Does paying teachers based on how well their students perform lead to better teaching? There’s no shortage of polarizing issues when it comes to education, but...

 
 

Un-principal-ed

Only about half of high school principals in Texas stay in one job for three years, and the schools most in need of steady, long-term leadership are the least likely...

 
 

Play Hard, Work Hard

Cutting physical education in order to boost test scores has the opposite effect, studies show. There’s a certain amount of irony here. For several years now,...

 
 

Should Kids Be Clocking Overtime?

Advocates of longer school days say they lead to improved academic performance, but the research shows keeping kids longer isn’t intrinsically better. Proponents...

 
 
 
 
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