Thanks so much for visiting me here on my newly revised website. Along with an altogether new look, the changes allow me to more readily offer you timely, informative articles, websites to visit, and even quotes to use in your teaching. There’s also, of course, my free, monthly The School-Wise Newsletter, keeping readers up-to-date on all that’s happening in education.
Meanwhile, I’m hoping you’ll check out my blog from time-to-time and follow me on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Be sure to visit me on examiner.com, too, where you’ll find numerous articles on education, parenting, and family life. You’ll also find me at bizymoms and ezinearticles.
To contact me, simply click here. You’ll hear back from me right away—or close to it. Promise.
22/05/2013 | No Comments »
- www.persuasivegames.com/games ~ This site offers a variety of quality video games for educators and others–and all so much better than “Angry Birds.”
- www.starfall.com ~ This site teaches children “to read with phonics using a systematic phonics approach and in conjunction with phonemic awareness.”
- www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/ ~ This site offers up games, stories, printables, and videos aimed at the young.
Tags: Education, Education-Related Websites, Phonemic awareness, Scholastic, Video Games
Posted in Helpful Resources
21/05/2013 | No Comments »
- According to an UCLA survey, 87.9% of freshmen this year said “being able to get a better job” is an important reason to go to college.
- Between 2005 and 2011, 45 states increased the number of 8th graders taking Algebra I. Nevertheless, states that didn’t actually performed 9.2 points better in 2011 than in 2005 on the NAEP, but students who took algebra in 8th grade only improved by 5.2 scale points.
- According to a National Center on Education Statistics, 3 million new students enter higher education and 50% of them must take at least one remedial course. Total cost: $7 billion a year for these non-credit bearing courses.
- According to a Kaplan Test Prep survey, college-bound students said they’d prefer taking the SAT with paper and pencil rather than online on a computer; nevertheless, 60% of their parents thought they would have preferred the online version.
- Interest in teaching dipped 12% last year, marking the 8th straight annual decline. Only 16,450 educators earned their credentials in 2011-12 compared with 23,320 in the 2007-08 school year. Meanwhile, the number of students enrolling in teacher preparation programs slipped from 51,744 to 34,838 in that same time period.
Tags: Cost of Remedial College Courses, Declining Interest in Teaching, National Assessment of Educational Progress, Online vs Paper & Pencil Test-taking, Questionable Benefits of 8th Grade Algebra, SAT
Posted in Interesting Facts
