Posts Tagged ‘Education’
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
With two weeks left before the presidential election, we now have a chance to hear what the Republican and Democratic candidates have to say about education issues and strategy.
Education Week is hosting along with the Teacher’s College at Columbia and the National Association of Secondary Schools, a live debate on the education plans of the Republican and Democratic candidates. Their education advisors will be representing the campaigns for this debate – Linda Darling-Hammond for Barack Obama’s campaign, and Lisa Graham Keegan for John McCain’s campaign. It is an in-depth debate that we haven’t had the opportunity to hear straight from the candidates, so here are the plans from their advisors. (more…)
Tags: Barack Obama, Debate, Education, Election, John McCain, President
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Christopher Dawson, a teacher and IT administrator for Athol, MA High School and regular contributor of ZDNet, has an interesting take on a story about a small group of homeschoolers selling freshly-roasted coffee to learn about business development, marketing, and accounting.
Dawson tells his readers: “Homeschooling isn’t for everyone, but their original motivation of providing hands-on, practical, experience-based lessons to kids really should be.”
Read more at Homeschooling + marketing = great coffee?
Tags: Accounting, Business Development, Children, Education, Homeschooling, Kids, Marketing
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Got a corn-allergic kid? How about educating him or her with an online game show?
The University of Illinois Extension has a game called the “Great Corn Adventure“ hosted by Zea Mays. It is part of a collection of educational games for kids.
Lovely Ms. Mays takes the viewer on a tour of the corn world, starting with the Native Americans in the valley of Tehuacan in Pueblo Mexico in 5000 b.c. (more…)
Tags: Allergy, Corn, Education, Game, Kids
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Our boys received a wonderful gift this year for the holidays- a beautiful hardcover copy of Zoolidays, Written by Bruce Glassman and illustrated by up and coming artist Rolandas Kiaulevicius, and if that wasn’t enough they also got tickets to a wonderful show about that book and more called GIRO.
This book is a wonderful read, and the show is a fabulous must see for any emergent reader and budding artist. My boys absolutely loved the book from cover to cover, and the show really delighted their imaginations in a way that the book alone couldn’t do. (more…)
Tags: Activity, Animal, Art, Book, Child, Children, Coloring, Coloring Pages, Draw, Drawing, Education, Event, Family, Fun, Illustration, Kids, Performance, Review, Zoo
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Sunday, October 21st, 2007
You don’t need to rely on a future preschool teacher or the television set to teach your child literacy. Proactive parents can do quite a bit for their children at a very young age to set the stage for early reading and lifelong success at school. A child who feels successful has confidence, and as we all know, one who struggles with failure will often times develop poor coping skills and very low self-esteem. Don’t wait until your child is formally enrolled to start thinking about literacy. Start now. There are 10 very simple things parents can do with their toddlers that will ensure future success at school. (more…)
Tags: Activity, Book, Child, Children, Early Literacy, Early Reader, Early Reading, Education, Family, Home-school, Homeschooling, Kids, Leapfrog, Reading
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Monday, October 8th, 2007
This topic idea was born out of necessity in our house. My very precocious 4 year old has run the gamut on dangerous and costly experiments, always conveniently performed in the space of 90 seconds or less. When he finally stopped up my toilet with an entire double roll of toilet paper I decided it was time to stimulate his devious mind with something a bit less destructive than an inch of water splashed across my tile floor and a pipe so stopped up we needed a plumber. I powered up the computer and began to show him the ropes. Within a few weeks he had a basic grasp of dragging, dropping, clicking, and closing. Together with my boys, and with the help of a few other moms, I have compiled a list of the top ten websites for preschoolers and their parents that do more than just entertain, they educate too! (more…)
Tags: Computer, Education, Educational, Game, Homeschool, Learning, PC, Preschool, Preschooler, Website
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Thursday, August 9th, 2007
As the 110th Congress begins to take a second look at the reauthorization of Public Law 107-110, we need to consider one very small population of public school children that is being left behind. The much needed NCLB (No Child Left Behind) act covers the immigrant child, the special needs child, the minority child, the child that lives in an urban school that is under-funded and under-performs, the child whose needs cannot be met in the school district for which he lives…. Or does it?
What if that very same child was also gifted, functioning two or three grade levels above his peers and soaking up new knowledge like a sponge? There are currently no provisions for such a child, nor is there funding, as the NCLB act has forced many states, including Illinois, to reallocate funds from gifted programming toward achieving better test scores among at risk populations [1]. (more…)
Tags: Brain, Child, Children, Development, Education, Educator, Elementary School, Engineer, Funding, Gifted, Home-school, Knowledge, Learning, NCLB, No Child Left Behind, Preschooler, Public School, Public School System, Research, School, School District, Scientist, Special Need, Testing
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