It’s an Education Fact: September 3, 2014
1. For the one in 8 children born to a mother without a high school diploma, 84% live in low-income families, just 16% read proficiently by 8th grade, 40% don't graduate on time, and 27% are obese. 2. Nearly 40% of 18- to 24-year-old Americans believe they're not good...
Making Education News: September 2, 2014
1. New Jersey Governor Christie has rolled back the impact of tests on teacher evaluations from 30% to 10% next year. 2. A new study finds that struggling first graders do significantly better when taught traditional math than progressive methods. 3. A move is afoot...
Quotable Quotes: September 1, 2014
** "Education is in something of a Catch-22. If they have standards, there will be dropouts among people who don't want to do the work to reach the minimum levels. If they don't have standards, they are just an assembly line and that is bad for teacher morale. Because...
Education-Related Websites: August 28, 2014
** www.shelsilverstein.com: Here visitors can listen to the author reading his poems accompanied by animated cartoons, make a bookmark, download puzzles, and so much more. ** www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus: Here you'll find games, stories, printables, videos, and...
It’s an Education Fact: August 27, 2014
1. Four years ago, about 40 states were interested in the $370 million federally-funded online Common Core assessments. At least 17 have now backed away from them. 2. Of the 35 waiver-monitoring reports reviewed by the U.S. Department of Education, 17 states are...
Making Education News: August 26, 2014
1. 60 of America's largest school districts are joining Obama's "My Brother's Keeper Program" to improve the education futures of African-American and Latino boys from preschool to high school graduation. 2. The FCC has approved spending $2 billion over two years to...
Quotable Education Quotes: August 25, 2014
** "This entire accountability system that's based on tests will crumble. It's not a question of if. It's a question of when." ~ Dennis Van Roekel, president of NEA ** "I agree with the critics mostly. Testing is out of control, and the stress it causes students and...
Back-to-School Shopping, Jitters, and Tips
It is the second biggest shopping spree of the year, bested only by the winter holidays. It's also about the longest. That’s because, for months now, stores such as JCP, Target, Staples, and Kohl’s have been hawking their back-to-school deals with such catchy...
Recommended Education-Related Websites: August 21, 2014
** http://quizlet.com: This free-top-use site offers free study tools and apps for students and teachers, grade school through grad school, saying, "Our users define what they need to learn (or teach) and how they want to do it." ** www.quizbean.com: This free-to-use...
Education-Related Facts: August 20, 2014
1. Four years ago, about 40 states were interested in the $370 million federally-funded online Common Core assessments. At least 17 have now backed away from them. 2. Of the 35 waiver-monitoring reports reviewed by the U.S. Department of Education, 17 states are...
Education News: August 19, 2014
1. Washington is the first state so far to lose its NCLB flexibility, and now the government has rejected all of its requests not to have to notify parents if their schools are not meeting AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress) and allowing them to transfertheir kids to...
Quotable Education Quotes: August 18, 2014
** "Critics wondered how a competition among states--which would create winners and losers--could create educational equity (given that winners were chosen by how slavishly they bowed to the Education Department's reform tastes, and that the Gates Foundation spent...
It’s an Education Fact: August 13, 2014
1) Lawmakers in 27 states have proposed either delaying or revoking the Common Core; 44 signed on originally. 2) According to a School Improvement Network survey, 62% of parents with school kids support the Common Core; 22% are opposed; and 17% had no opinion. 3)...
Quotable Education Quotes: August 10, 2014
** "The U.S. education policy world--the entire country, for that matter--is on a quest to increase the ranks of future innovators in science and technology. Yet the programs that get funded in K-12 education do not support students who are already good at and in love...
Education-Related Websites to Visit: August 7, 2014
*** www.kidsreads.com ~ This site explains that it offers "thoughtful book reviews, compelling features, in-depth author profiles and interviews, excerpts from the hottest new releases and more ..." *** www.discoveryeducation.com ~ This Discovery Education site offers...
It’s an Education Fact: August 6, 2014
1. A recent Reading in Fundamental survey found that 83% of parents say it's very or extremely important that children read in the summer, but just 17% say it's the most important activity. 49% say #1 is playing outside. Also, 59% said their kids do the right amount...
Making Education News: August 5, 2014
1. The Government Accountability Office says the USDA should improve eligibility verification for those getting free and reduced-price school meals, as there is apparently a lot of lying going on. 2. Schools having trouble meeting the new federal nutrition...
Quotable Education Quotes: August 4, 2014
** "I think that 'good teaching' probably has many different dimensions. The coverage of standards-aligned content. The ability to improve other non-cognitive outcomes ... These things may or may not be highly correlated. So I think that what VAMS [value-added...
Recommended Websites: July 31, 2014
*** www.kidsknowit.com ~ This is "The totally free Children's Learning Network whose mission is to provide the highest quality education activities, products, movies, music, games, articles, textbooks, learning programs, lesson plans, and worksheets." All at no cost....
Education-Related Facts: July 30, 2014
1. About 82% of our public schools reported students enrolled in a dual-credit course in 2010-11; that's 1.4 million students taking 2 million courses. 2. Says MIT research: students remember only 10% of what they read, 20% of what they hear, 50% of what they see...
