The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that about 75% of 18- to 24-year-olds nationwide are ineligible for military service. That’s because they don’t meet the enlistment standards in at least one “the three M” categories — medical, moral and mental. In Philadelphia,some folks– including retired Lt. Gen. Dennis Benchoff and Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams — argue [...]
Today I get to use one of my favorite teacher words: efficacy. In a multi-state study of 67 preschool teachers, researchers from Ohio State University found that a teacher’s sense of his/her efficacy resulted in greater literacy gains for students. Results indicated that students whose teachers had high self-efficacy showed gains in one measure of [...]