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1: Kids Need Geography. So Why Won’t Public Schools Teach It?
As part of a broad campaign against foundational knowledge and basic facts, the Education Establishment particularly targeted geography, which is the starting point for the study of so many other subjects. We need to bring back geography ASAP.
2: Teachers Educated Outside Canada
Is there a chance for teachers educated outside Canada?
3: School assembly - Is it just a routine or a generative force?
This article throws open a couple of questions for schools to think on the routines they follow. The article majorly deals with one such routine - assembly time across schools. The article questions the purpose and kindles the readers to discover and share their views on how assembly time could be used as a generative force.
4: Intrinsic Motivation and its effects on Student Academic Achievement
This article makes a case for the importance of intrinsic motivation, as it relates to overall academic achievement. The article also contains test data of a sample of 60 middle school students and the relationship between their grade point averages and scores from an intrinsic motivation test.
5: Emotional Abuse In the Name of Academic Success in Indian Schools
This article is about bad practices that are in practice in Indian schools. Students are overwhelmed with the work load that they have to carry to succeed in schools and also to get into professional courses. I believe that this is one of the many bad practices that Indian schools must stop using to avoid long term damages on younger minds.
6: Conspiracy? Why Would Anyone Think There Might Be A Conspiracy??
To fix the schools, we need to be brutally honest about what went wrong in the first place. Maybe the educators had secret plans...
7: INDIAN SCHOOLS ALL SET TO IMPLEMENT RFID AND GPS BASED TRACKING SYSTEM
Indian schools are all set to implement a high-tech solution that will enable the school and parents to monitor students' entry into and exit from school buses.
8: knowledge of the subject matter or the ability to relate with the students?
The ability to relate with the students is more important than knowledge of the subject matter.
9: Tips To Develop Your Child's Mental Skills
Children have brains like that of a sponge because it can absorb all new ideas and knowledge being handed out to them.
10: Foreign Language Classes as a Paradigm For Successful Instruction
Foreign language are typically taught today as they were taught 100 years ago. The fads hurting so much of public education have not normally been allowed to retard French, etc. This is great news. Let's reflect upon why the average French class is probably much closer to the ideal than the average history class.
11: How to Simplify your Homeschool Curriculum
Some years down the track in homeschooling, you throw out so much homeschool curriculum which you have bought and never used and keenly look to simplify your homeschool curriculum. I am concerned that some publishers are just viewing homeschooling as another market and we are steered into thinking that each child needs to have a textbook for each subject each year! Is there another way?
12: Cool Science Experiments - The Way to get your kids excited about Science
How do you get your kids really hooked on science? Cool science experiments! Recently it has been confirmed in my own mind, that a real and extremely valid way for kids to love Science and be keen to know more, is to provide them with time to play around with really cool Science experiments.
13: Times Tables – Causes of Difficulties (6 – 8)
The next three causes of difficulties in mastering the multiplication tables are considered in this article: the times tables from 11 to 20, poor memory of pupils, and the use of calculators.
14: Five Things to Know About the Transition from Homeschool to University
This article reviews five things you should know about transitioning from homeschool to university.
15: Assessment is Continuous (Part 1 of 3)
Since 1986, The Adventurous Child has specialized in outdoor classrooms and children’s outdoor play equipment. Dedicated to childhood education, the company’s outdoor play and learning products support and encourage the state’s Early Learning Standards. The Adventurous Child’s equipment is designed to help children six months to six years mature in physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development milestones. By proxy, teachers and day care center instructors can use The Adventurous Child’s products to assess their children.
16: Differences between Internet and Paper based TOEFL Test
TOEFL test is undeniably the world’s most popular English Language test. It is conducted at over 45000 administration site across 165 countries. The test so far has been taken by about 25 million students so far. The TOEFL is now conducted globally in two formats Internet Based Test (IBT) and Paper Based Test (PBT). It is very important to know the difference between the two tests in terms of pattern, structure and benefits according to individual applicant.
17: A Tale of Two Movies About American Education--Which One Can You Trust?
Two recent documentaries give conflicting views on public school education. Which one is right?
18: How Your Child Can Benefit From Reading
We all know how reading can benefit us both in our personal and business lives. When we read, we learn many things and we even have the opportunity to improve our communication skills although we may not be aware of it.
19: Educational Propaganda
Recently, students across the country took the Advanced Placement English Literature exam. This three hour test, which grants college credit to qualifying students, is the culmination of a year of int..
20: S Standardized Testing: A Race to Nowhere
Race To Nowhere is an excellent description of the standardized testing movement. The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, increased the role of the federal government in public education and also expanded the role of standardized testing.
21: What Students Need To Know To Thrive In College
Students who have the following personal qualities are much more likely to thrive in college.
* Self-awareness and self-acceptance
* Proactivity as opposed to reactivity
* Perseverance
* Skill in setting short and long-range goals
* Use of effective support systems
* Strong emotional coping strategies
* Self-awareness and self-acceptance
* Proactivity as opposed to reactivity
* Perseverance
* Skill in setting short and long-range goals
* Use of effective support systems
* Strong emotional coping strategies
22: For Parents of Special Needs Students: Raising a Successful College Graduate
Children with special needs have experienced more frustration and academic failure than most other children. Yet, some of them become successful college students who graduate with a specialty in a chosen field.
Sadly, most do not. Only about 57 percent of students with disabilities graduate from high school, and only about 10 to 15 percent of those graduating attend college.
What are some reasons students succeed in college? How can parents help their child be among those who accomplish this challenging undertaking?
Sadly, most do not. Only about 57 percent of students with disabilities graduate from high school, and only about 10 to 15 percent of those graduating attend college.
What are some reasons students succeed in college? How can parents help their child be among those who accomplish this challenging undertaking?
23: Theory on Curriculum and Instruction
The relationship between curriculum and instruction is an extremely powerful relationship where one cannot survive without the other. It is important that teachers and curriculum committee members communicate and are constantly on the same page. If the curriculum is weak, then the instruction will be weak which will not benefit the students or help them meet the standards. It is essential that the curriculum meets the needs of all students especially those with learning difficulties.
24: Teachers’ Union Complicit in Union Busting?
Should teachers' unions be advocates for Race to Top funding? Should teachers' unions support merit pay?
When a school's faculty is told, without consultation with staff, that it will be getting a merit pay program the next year and find out the union leadership is behind it, one wonders who the union represents.
When a school's faculty is told, without consultation with staff, that it will be getting a merit pay program the next year and find out the union leadership is behind it, one wonders who the union represents.
25: How American Public Education Became A Doomsday Machine
In dumbing down the country, our Education Establishment dumbed itself down. And then the machinery got stuck on auto-pilot.
26: How To Improve Your Grammar And Punctuation
Individual words too can have relatively different meanings in different cultures depending upon expectations, values and experiences.
27: Neurochemistry in the Classroom
This article discusses the memory and attention-enhancing properties of the neurotransmitter/hormone norepinephrine and ways to activate it in the classroom
28: Times Tables – Causes of Difficulties (4 – 5)
The next two causes of difficulties in mastering the multiplication tables are considered in this article: criteria of mastering and the lack of drill.
29: Parents Must Act if Their Child is Being Bullied
Most Americans do not take bullying seriously. Sadly, school personnel don’t take it seriously either. One of the most common myths about bullying is that it is “normal” and “everybody does it.” Nothing could be further from the truth.
Children with special needs may become the victim of a bully. If your child has been, or is, being victimized, he or she feels alone, unsafe and may even feel the victimization is justified. The effects of bullying impact mental and physical health and academic performance, often for many years after the actual incidents occur.
Children with special needs may become the victim of a bully. If your child has been, or is, being victimized, he or she feels alone, unsafe and may even feel the victimization is justified. The effects of bullying impact mental and physical health and academic performance, often for many years after the actual incidents occur.
30: When Boys Don’t Read, Here’s What To Do
Boys not wanting to read is a big problem. An even bigger scandal is that, all too often, boys are not taught to read in the first place.