Orion Magazine - https://orionmagazine.org/category/education-2/ America's Finest Environmental Magazine Fri, 10 Feb 2023 15:52:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 195321810 Into the Field https://orionmagazine.org/article/into-the-field/ https://orionmagazine.org/article/into-the-field/#comments Wed, 22 Jun 2016 17:43:38 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=42354 Why science education needs to leave the classroom. ...

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]]> https://orionmagazine.org/article/into-the-field/feed/ 9 42354 The Blossoming Child https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-blossoming-child/ https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-blossoming-child/#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2016 21:59:20 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=42003 A father turns to nature to find solace for his ailing child. ...

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]]> https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-blossoming-child/feed/ 40 42003 The Science of Citizenship https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-science-of-citizenship/ Wed, 23 Oct 2013 21:42:32 +0000 http://orionmagazine.org/the-science-of-citizenship/ ONE OF THE MOST remarkable scenes in Rebecca Skloot’s 2010 work of science journalism, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, happens about halfway through the book, in a smoky Baltimore kitchen. ...

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]]> 7810 Look, Don’t Touch https://orionmagazine.org/article/look-dont-touch1/ Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:09:02 +0000 http://orionmagazine.org/look-dont-touch1/ THE KIDS HAVE BEEN UP since seven-thirty playing computer games and watching cartoons. What a travesty for them to be inside on such a beautiful day, you harrumph to yourself. On ...

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]]> 6929 The Schools We Need https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-schools-we-need/ Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:03:34 +0000 http://orionmagazine.org/the-schools-we-need/ IT’S A COLD DECEMBER EVENING in Lexington, Kentucky, and I’m sitting by the fire with a teetering stack of final essays from ENG 104: Freshman Comp. I know what I’m in ...

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]]> 6401 A Walk in the Woods https://orionmagazine.org/article/a-walk-in-the-woods/ Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:44:57 +0000 http://orionmagazine.org/a-walk-in-the-woods/ A FEW YEARS AGO, I visited Southwood Elementary, the grade school I attended when I was a boy growing up in Raytown, Missouri. I asked a classroom of children about their ...

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]]> 4401 Unplugged Schools https://orionmagazine.org/article/unplugged-schools/ Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:58:37 +0000 http://orionmagazine.org/unplugged-schools/ Educators say the darndest things. Consider this from a high school social studies teacher who told me, “Kids don’t read anymore. The only way I can teach them anything is by ...

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]]> 334 Leave No Child Inside https://orionmagazine.org/article/leave-no-child-inside/ https://orionmagazine.org/article/leave-no-child-inside/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:53:25 +0000 http://orionmagazine.org/leave-no-child-inside/ AS A BOY, I PULLED OUT DOZENS — perhaps hundreds — of survey stakes in a vain effort to slow the bulldozers that were taking out my woods to make way ...

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]]> https://orionmagazine.org/article/leave-no-child-inside/feed/ 3 240 Charlotte’s Webpage https://orionmagazine.org/article/charlottes-webpage/ Fri, 02 Sep 2005 09:37:50 +0000 http://orionmagazine.org/charlottes-webpage/ THOMAS EDISON WAS A GREAT INVENTOR but a lousy prognosticator. When he proclaimed in 1922 that the motion picture would replace textbooks in schools, he began a long string of spectacularly ...

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