1. Every person has his own idea of a perfect house.
 
Since the time immemorial people always wanted to make their dwelling a place, where one feels comfortable and cosy, where one always wants to come back to.
A dwelling of my dream is not a flat but a two-storeyed mansion. And as a real hostess I’d like to arrange everything in the

• house
• dream

 
“What should I choose as my future profession?” – this is a question that every young person asks himself entering the adult world. Of course, it’s not an easy thing to choose a profession out of more than 2,000 existing in the world. It’s especially difficult if you like doing different things, if you have

• profession
• future

There are no bells at Salt Lake City’s Innovations Early College High School, and no traditional “classes.” Students show up when they like, putting in six and a half hours at school between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. Working with a mentor teacher, students set their own goals and move through self-paced online lessons. They can take more

• high school
• eduucation

 
Почти все мы когда-либо начинали учить английский: в школе, университете, на курсах или с репетитором. Однако только единицы могут похвастаться тем, что выучили его. Что случилось с остальными? Большинство из них бросили изучение языка, но почему? Если мы попросим человека назвать причину, из-за которой он прекратил занятия, то, скорее

• английский язык
• мотивация

Как вы могли понять из заголовка (и подзаголовка) к данному посту, английский не мой родной язык, так что писать на английском для меня не простая задача. После восьми с половиной лет ведения блогов — в основном моего личного блога и unadocenade.com  — я решилась открыть для себя новые возможности, новые сообщества и новые инструменты.

• английский язык

 
This article is part of a new Education Next series commemorating the 50th anniversary of James S. Coleman’s groundbreaking report, “Equality of Educational Opportunity.” The full series will appear in the Spring 2016 issue of Education Next.
Fifty years after the release of  “Equality of

• teachers
• achievement

There are many interesting and noble professions. I want to be a doctor. It is an interesting profession.
I understand that it is necessary to study a lot to become a doctor. I also understand that this profession requires great responsibility because it deals with the most precious thing that a person has — with his health.
My mother and

• doctor
• profession

William Shakespeare, the greatest and most famous of English writers, and probably the greatest playwright who has ever lived, was bom on the 23d of April, 1564, in Stratford-on-Avon.
In spite of his fame we know very little about his life. At the age of six he was sent to school, but had to leave it at the age of 13. His father, John Shakespeare,

• William Shakespeare

Smoking is the best way to bad health. Today half the men and a quarter of the women in the world smoke on the average.
Some people think that there is not much sense in refraining from smoking, since the inhabitants of many cities and even villages breathe air contaminated with industrial and automobile wastes. They are very wrong. Vehicle

• smoking
• cigarette

Good table manners avoid ugliness. All rules of table manners are made to avoid it. To let anyone see what you have in your mouth is offensive. So is to make a noise. To make a mess in the plate is disgusting. So there are some rules how to behave yourself at the table:
Do not attract undue attention to yourself in public.
When eating take as

• Table Manners
• advice

 
If there’s anything that could rival the bliss of getting completely lost in a book, it’s doing so while lounging on a towel with a cool glass of rosé at arm’s reach. Part of the magic of summertime is that it provides ample opportunities to catch up on your reading; whether you’re on a train ride

• summer
• book
• vacation

Benjamin Stepp, an Iraq war veteran, sat in his graduate school course trying to focus on the lecture. Neither his classmates nor his professor knew he was silently seething.
But his service dog, Arleigh, did. She sensed his agitation and “put herself in my lap,” said Mr. Stepp, 37, of Holly Springs, Miss. “I

• dog
• veteran

The most fun and joyful holiday of the year! Summer! Vacation! The sun! Freedom of action! The opening of all amusement parks and attractions! Cheerful, enthusiastic, happy baby face!!! And no less festive and cheerful faces of the relatives, any adult who built this world of happiness, who gave strength and health for happy today, this is still a

• children's day

 
In divisive times, the work of teachers and school leaders grows ever more challenging. What happens at home, in the media, and in the political sphere makes its way into schools, affecting policies, classroom conversations, and relationships among students and staff. This spring, faculty and students at the Harvard Graduate School of

• equity
• empathy
• and citizenship

Erin Kommor and Jonah Broscow in rehearsals for “The Man in the Ceiling,” a musical adaptation of the book by Jules Feiffer.
 
Jules Feiffer sat on the sidelines quietly watching as actors sang, danced and manipulated puppets representing superhero characters that he had drawn. Then he leaned slightly left toward Jeffrey

• musical
• cartoon

The following is an edited version of a talk Andy Smarick gave to AEI’s Leadership Network about schools, subsidiarity, and civil society.
Although this was probably billed as a talk about school reform, it’s mostly an argument about an approach to governing. I just don’t think we can have a serious conversation about education

• Government
• schools

 
Portability is a key issue in the pension debate. But what exactly does this mean?
Portability is the ability for an individual to take their contributions and investments with them wherever they may go, whether across state lines, organizations, or sectors.
Traditional pension benefits aren’t portable. When a teacher moves to a new

• teachers
• benefits
• opinion

hen we first visited schools in spring 2016 for this project–a multi-year, multi-method study of systemic efforts to support schools implementing personalized learning—teachers seemed to be taking on an unsustainably heavy lift as they transitioned to personalizing student learning (PL). Teachers were often rewriting units and

• teaching
• teachers
• students

 
Chronic absenteeism, defined as missing more than 10 percent of school days in a year, is one of biggest barriers to school success — one that a variety of states are targeting in their accountability plans under ESSA (the Every Student Succeeds Act). It’s an issue for children as young as kindergarten and first

• kids
• school
• parents

 
Across the United States, black and Latino students are far more likely than their white classmates to be removed from school as punishment. These disparities have led to widespread concern about a potential “school-to-prison pipeline,” in which detentions, suspensions, and expulsions ultimately lead to the overrepresentation of

• school discipline
• teacher race