Education Policies and News
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Friday, February 3rd, 2012An online software program for beginning readers is being used in a hard-to-staff public school in New York City. According to his article, “Sharing a Computer Screen, if Not a Classroom,” New York Times writer Kyle Spencer describes the interaction between a first grader and his online tutor who is about an hour away working [...]
The Tutoring Boom in America
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012So, what should a parent expect from a tutor, and how much money are we talking? If you are a parent who has never hired a tutor or sought tutoring services for your child, you may be at a loss about how to find the right tutoring situation. Smart Money reporter, Missy Sullivan, offers a [...]
Developing Leaders of Tommorow by Incorporating the Finland Education System
Friday, January 27th, 2012There is no doubt that America’s education system is in dire straits. Public schools are closing in record numbers, parents are struggling to make payments so that they can send their children to private schools, and regardless of the education they receive, thousands of kids walk out of America’s education system unprepared for the road [...]
Fewer Preschool Programs Foretell a Bleak Future
Friday, January 27th, 2012Low-income kindergarten students who have not been enrolled in a quality preschool program tend to be about 18 months behind their peers. For this reason, public education has expanded the number of preschool programs across the nation until they became one of the casualties of the budget cuts that school systems have had to address. [...]
An Alternative to Printed Textbooks
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012The recent announcement of Apple’s iBooks 2 may signal a paradigm shift for students in the near future. NPR’s website posts an article “Apple Pushes to Put Interactive Textbooks on iPads” that lays out Apple’s plan to replace a typical student’s stack of printed textbooks. Their launch will begin with electronic versions of some high [...]
Top Schools in the Nation
Friday, January 20th, 2012Washington Post writer, Michael Alison Chandler, reported on the recent Education Week rankings of each state. Based on “an analysis of state-by-state education policies and student achievement,” the evaluation found no state that merited an “A.” However, Maryland received top honors in the nation with a B+ rating. “Maryland is an example of an all-around [...]
The Surprising Effects of a Good Teacher
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012New York Times writer, Annie Lowrey, recently reported in the article “Big Study Links Good Teachers to Lasting Gain” on the results of a very large study that indicate that having elementary and/or middle school teachers who help their students raise their standardized test scores might have “wide-ranging, lasting positive effect on those students’ lives [...]
Sex Education for Teens, Online or via Texts
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012Some school districts have chosen to provide immediate, anonymous sex education information for their adolescents through the technology that they have at hand. Jan Hoffman, a reporter for The New York Times, posted an article, “Sex Education Gets Directly to Youths, via Text,” on its education blog. Hoffman explained that this availability of sex education [...]
The WISE Prize, the Newest Prize in Global Education
Friday, January 6th, 2012Vicki Cobb, writer for Education Update Online, shared the exclusive announcement of outstanding educational achievement. World education leaders have given the first of a new prestigious prize in education. The WISE Prize, given by the World Innovation Summit for Education, is “an honor awarded for transformative work in education. The first WISE Prize laureate, Dr. [...]
Young Women Leave the Workforce to Increase Education
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012Huffington Post reporter, Catherine Rampell, reports that part of the reason for November’s lower unemployment rate is the shrinking labor force. Economists realize that some of those work force dropouts are young people who are upgrading their skills. For the first time in 30 years, there are more young women in school than in the [...]
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