It’s an Education Fact: July 23, 2014
1. Findthebest.com finds that New York state spends the most per student with an average of $21,168, while Utah spends the least at $7,388. 2. According to FLN, 96% of respondents were familiar with the term "flipped learning," up from 73% in 2012, and 75% of...
Making Education News: July 22, 2014
1. Obama's 2015 budget includes $120 million to create safe schools and intervene early on in the early lives of troubled children. $25 million is for violent-prone schools, and $50 million is to train staff in violence- and bullying-reducing strategies. 2. Obama has...
Quotable Education Quotes: July 20, 2014
** "Inexperience with technology might frustrate many students taking the computerized Common Core assessments. As I recently realized after debriefing with hundreds of students who had participated in pilots of computerized assessment items, even many digital natives...
The Downside of Helicopter Parenting
The other day, I went Internet exploring about the dos and don’ts of parenting prompted by a scene I witnessed at a seven-year-old kid’s drop-off birthday party. Not all invitees were seven, however. Two were younger and two were older—all either neighbors or...
Education-Related Websites to Visit: July 17, 2014
** http://powermylearning.org ~ Here you'll "find and use thousands of FREE games, videos, and interactives in all major K-12 subjects and aligned to the Common Core. ** www.procon.org ~ This site's mission is "promoting critical thinking, education, and informed...
It’s an Education Fact: July 16, 2014
1) Overall, teachers in the largest metropolitan areas were at school 94% of their scheduled hours--but 16% of them were chronically absent, missing 18 or more school days a year. Another 16% missed just 3 or fewer days. 2) A Gallup poll of about 1,900 superintendents...
Making Education News: July 15, 2014
1. In a case brought by 9 students, a California judge has thrown out key state laws governing tenure and other teacher job protections because the current system discriminates against low-income and minority students by giving them ineffective teachers. 2. The two...
Quotable Education Quotes: July 14, 2014
** "The American Statistical Association just slammed the high-stakes 'value-added method' (VAM) of evaluating teachers that has been increasingly embraced in states as part of school reform efforts. VAM purports to be able to take student standardized test scores and...
Education-Related Websites to Visit: July 10, 2014
** http://schoolfamilyeducation.com ~ This site offers thousands of printable activities and games for your kids, plus schooling information and more. ** www.readingrockets.org ~ This site is all about reading--teaching it, helping struggling students, and covering...
It’s an Education Fact: July 9, 2014
1. The U.S. has the second-highest level of child poverty among 35 economically advanced countries--23% vs. Finland's 5.3%. 2. Students and graduate students now owe more than $1 trillion in education loans, putting it right behind the housing debt. 3. The federal...
Making Education News: July 8, 2014
1. Code.org has rolled out its computer-science education programs at 30 school districts across the country, providing curriculum and professional development, as well as mentor teachers. 2. Sean McComb, an English teacher at Patapsco High School and Center for the...
Quotable Education Quotes: July 7, 2014
** "Reading used to mean sitting down with a book and turning pages as a story unfolded. Today it may mean sitting down with a device that offers multimedia experiences and blurs the line between books and toys. All of this has led to a major disruption in how, what,...
Recommended Education-Related Websites: July 3, 2014
** www.factmonster.com ~ This site from Information Please offers up facts on everything from sports and science to math, money, and the world. You'll also find a Homework Center, games, quizzes, an encyclopedia, thesaurus, and more. ** www.scholastic.com/elmers ~...
It’s an Educational Fact: July 2, 2014
Data reveals 1) Charter schools receive an average of $3,509 less per students than those in traditional public schools. 2) Data reveals that by 8th grade, 48% of girls receive a mix of A's and B's compared to 31% of boys. Plus, boys account for 71% of all school...
Making Education News: July 1, 2014
1. The Obama administration has started requiring poorly-performing Head Start providers to compete against other local providers--and win--in order to keep their grants for the next five years. 2. The bi-partisan Success and Opportunity through Quality Charter...
Quotable Education Quotes: 6/30/2014
** "....Very few educators or parents have learning or scholarship in their hearts as the end-game for their children, except in the sense of their kids getting good grades. Most of us would prefer our children become the very best people they can be, capable of...
Education-Related Websites to Visit: 6/26/2014
** http://code.org ~ With its mission to expand participation in computer science, this site believes that "every students in every school should have the opportunity to learn computer programming." ** www.scholastic.com/island of lemurs/ ~ This site explains that...
1) 13 states do not belong to either the PARCC or SBAC Common Core testing consortia, considerably more than at the outset. 2) According to a Gates Foundation survey of 20,000 K-12 teachers, 73% said they're "enthusiastic about implementing the Common Core, and 73%...
Making Education News: 6/24/2014
1. The U.S. Department of Education handed out $53.6 billion in Obama's stimulus money to help K-12 budgets as long was they publicly reported on numerous education indicators, such as the performance of charters and the percentage of high school grads completing...
Quotable Education Quotes: 6/23/2014
** "On Thursday, Secretary of State Arne Duncan informed Washington that he was revoking the waiver that had freed it from impossible-to-meet requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), including the quixotic mandate that 100 percent of students be proficient...
