Education Policies and News
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2013The superior performance of math students from Singapore has been reported repeatedly over the last few years. One can argue that their methods have yielded consistent, outstanding performances on global assessments for several years. It should be no surprise, then, that some school districts across the country have begun implementing “Singapore Math” into their math [...]
School Apps for Every School
Friday, May 3rd, 2013Parents who were looking for a way to keep up with their five children’s multitude of extra-curricular activities created a new company that allows schools “create custom mobile apps to engage with their communities.” Auli Akanegbu reports on EdTech’s Focus on K-12 that their company, SchoolInfoApp, began as TeamInfoApp, a mobile application focused on school [...]
Parents Complain About Research Based Program
Friday, April 26th, 2013Parents at Warstler Elementary School in Plain Township, Ohio are complaining about the school’s implementation of mindfulness programs in their school. An article by Carolyn Gregoire in The Huffington Post reports that despite the growing body of research that supports the incorporation of mindfulness activities in schools, parents at Warstler don’t like it. Mindfulness, or [...]
Minimizing Distractions During Virtual Classes
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013Learning online has a lot of appeal for both students and the institutions of learning. After all, the student doesn’t have to leave home, and schools can teach many more students more cheaply than they can teach in traditional classrooms. For these reasons and more, schools offer even more online courses; however, a recent article [...]
Digital Textbooks Inform Teachers About Student Engagement
Friday, April 19th, 2013Technology is advancing so quickly that it is changing almost overnight—or so it seems. David Streitfeld, New York Times writer, reports in his article that new technology helps college professors know how much, if at all, their students are reading their textbooks. CourseSmart textbooks have been piloted by some professors at Texas A&M, and it [...]
Promoting Student Engagement in STEM
Tuesday, April 9th, 2013Anita Krishnamrthi, director of STEM policy for Afterschool Alliance, penned a post for The Baltimore Sun, about how Maryland, the state ranked highest in education, needs to step up student interest in STEM—science, technology, engineering, and math—subjects. She asserts that one way to achieve this is through more after-school programs. Her assertion is based on [...]
Kindergarten Test for Career Readiness
Friday, April 5th, 2013Many would argue that America’s children are on a continual testing treadmill as they navigate through their years in the education system. The last thing that our children need, they assert, is another test. However, the company that administers the ACT obviously disagrees; it has created a career test for students in kindergarten through high [...]
Algebra in Middle School
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013Many middle school students are encouraged to take advanced math courses by both school officials and their parents. The reason is simple: If they take advanced math courses in middle school, students will be able to take more advanced math in high school, and the schools will see a rise in the overall math scores [...]
E-books vs. Print Books
Tuesday, March 26th, 2013A recent post on EdWeeks’s Curriculum Matters Blog reports the findings of a survey of American children about their choice of reading formats. The survey results show that a large number of children embrace e-books, but a significant number of them still like books. The respondents had this to say about e-books: More students reported [...]
Good Schools Make Math a Priority
Friday, March 22nd, 2013An interesting series of articles by the author of The Trouble With Boys and The Good School, Peg Tyre, director of strategy for the Edwin Gould Foundation, have been posted on the Take Part website. Tyre’s series focuses on advice for parents about what to consider when choosing a school for their children. One article, [...]
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