Education News: 3/18/2013
For the fifth year in a row, Maryland's public school system earned the top spot with a B+ in Education Weekly's Quality Counts 2013. Massachusetts, New York, and Virginia cam in next with overall grades of B. Former D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee's Students...
Education-Related Websites: 3/14/2013
www.assistments.org ~This is a free "online platform that allows teachers to write and select questions, students get immediate feedback and useful tutoring, and teachers receive instant reports to help inform their classroom instruction." This site also offers...
It’s an Education Fact: 3/12/2013
Currently, 20% of all men and 1/7 of all women between 20 and 24 lack a high school diploma, making it difficult for them to get good-paying jobs. About 38% of the $7.76 billion education-technology market goes to "instructional support." Companies providing that...
Education Quotes: 3/11/2013
"America's downfall doesn't begin with the 'low information voter.' It starts with the no-knowledge student. For decades, collectivist agitators in our schools have chipped away at academic excellence in the name of fairness, diversity, and social justice....
Quotable Education Quotes: 2/25/2013
"If Twitter had existed in Homer's day, would he have tweeted? If his time had been so occupied, would he still have been able to compose his twin masterpieces, The Illiad and The Odyssey--the foundation texts of Western civilization? More important, if a person...
Education Websites Worth a Visit: 1/21//2013
http://klasskids.org ~ This site "provides parents with a free browser plug-in designed to protect children from corporate tracking and family computer malware and more. www.remind101.com ~ Here you'll find a safe way to text message students and keep in touch with...
Current Education Facts: 2/20/2013
Currently, 20% of all men and 1/7th of all women between 20 and 24 lack a high school diploma, making it difficult for them to get good paying jobs. About 38% of the $7.76 billion education technology market goes to "instructional support." Companies providing that...
A Must-Read: Character Building for Kids
Childrearing books abound, but it is rare to find one that addresses such a wide range of kid behaviors--and in such a humorous, compassionate way. Topics include impatience, greediness, unreasonableness, swearing, texting, and so on--all the things that worry and...
Quotable Education Quotes: 2/18/2013
"By all means, let us take a hard look at our national obsession with tests and scores and grades, and let us think more generously about what kinds of people we want our schools to develop. Part of such reconsideration would include a reclaiming of the full meaning...
Making Education News: 2/14/2013
In addition to the Race to the Top for districts granting awards of $5 million to $40 million over 4 years to districts, the FY12 budget included Effective Teachers and Leaders State Grants of $2.5 billion. For the FY13 budget, the Title II Teacher Quality Grants are...
Education-Related Websites: 2/13/2013
http://gelessons.com ~ As the site explains, this is a free public resource that "provides teachers with the tools needed to enhance their instruction using Google Earth, the free program that brings the world to the classroom." www.arkive.org ~ This site lets...
Education Facts: 2/12/2013
According to an ASCD survey, 32.34% of teacher would like additional taxpayer dollars to support a reduction in class size, and 8.56% want an increase in teacher pay. Only 2.64% want to see an increase in school security. According to a Gallup Student Poll, almost 80%...
Quotable Education Quotes: 2/11/2013
"Imagine a profession whose influence on individual lives is more significant than that of nearly any other occupation, whose role in society is universally acknowledged to be among the most critical to the future, and whose practitioners are often described as...
Quotable Education-Related Quotes” 2/4/2013
"What gets tested is what gets taught." ~ anonymous "When I grew up (a baby boomer), our social life was outside. We hung out. The next generation spent time at the mall. This generation spends time at home--connected. Kids have to be social. It's all part of the...
School Choice: Is it All That It’s Cracked Up to Be?
The movement started in Minnesota with the opening of City Academy back on September 7, 1992. Today, more than 2 million students attend some 5,600 charter schools scattered across 41 states. We’ve come a long way since those early start-up days and, right now, folks...
Education New Update: 1/31/2013
In a Forward Institute report, among low-income schools, traditional public school students have higher achievement scores than those at charters, and, at public schools serving mostly low-income students, "the effects on achievement were less damaging in traditional...
Education Websites: 1/30/2013
www.discoveryeducation.com ~ This site "supports teachers in accelerating student achievement, bringing the world of Discovery into classrooms to ignite students' natural curiosity." http://quizhub.com ~ This site offers educational quiz games, K-12, in everything...
It’s an Education Fact: 1/29/2013
Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and Tennessee will add at least 300 hours of learning time in some of their schools. Just over 1,000 schools across the country already have expanded schedules, 53% more than in 2009. The National Association for College...
Binge Drinking: Alluring, Intoxicating, and Risky
As we’re all aware, it’s legal to drink in the U.S. at 21, with thanks to the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984. But that’s not stopping the younger set from imbibing—and often to excess. As college student Brandie,explained, “Everybody’s aim is to get drunk...
Quotable Education Quotes: 1/28/2013
"Unless we're willing to make the [school] environment as conducive to learning as possible--all the studies and tests and educational theories might as well be thought exercises. Because sometimes it just comes down to the bricks and mortar." ~ Patrick Welsh,...
