We encourage teachers to become leaders in their disciplines, masters of their material, then allow political hacks, school boards and well-meaning but often uninformed parents to trump their knowledge and methods.
Hundreds upon hundreds are the enduringly salient quotes on the nature and purpose of education, my favorite being the one from Will Durant, who in the middle of the last
Cornell educator Amy Palo has been named as the state’s top history teacher this year by the prestigious Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Palo, a high school social science teacher at the Cornell School District since 2007, says her work is motivated by a drive to turn her students into effective civic participants.
Cornell High School teacher Amy Palo was named the PA History Teacher of the Year, an award presented by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
Seton Hill University, Greensburg, will host middle and high school educators from around the country for a two-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for Educators being held Monday,