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Written by Stacy Teicher Khadaroo - CS Monitor
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Tuesday, 22 February 2011 |
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Article Source: CS Monitor
Some 150 schools districts sent officials, school board members, and teachers union reps to Denver this week to hear how collaboration can improve student achievement and boost education reform. Can history of acrimony be overcome?
Can school teachers and administrators be friends? Secretary of Education Arne Duncan hopes more of them will be, and this week he has helped to trumpet a handful of success stories of labor-management collaboration in a bid to lessen the acrimony that can stifle education reform efforts.
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Written by Mike Snider - USA TODAY
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Tuesday, 22 February 2011 |
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Article Source: USA Today
WASHINGTON — A mystery is brewing at the Smithsonian Institution, and the scientists there want the help of the nation's middle-schoolers to solve it. Children and teens ages 11 to 14 can get involved in uncovering the mystery in Vanished, an online science-fiction interactive mystery event that starts April 4. Kids can sign up for the event, conducted by the Smithsonian and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at vanished.mit.edu.
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Written by Pam Belluck - The New York Times
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Saturday, 22 January 2011 |
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Article Source: The New York Times
Taking a test is not just a passive mechanism for assessing how much people know, according to new research. It actually helps people learn, and it works better than a number of other studying techniques.
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Written by Gregory M. Lamb - CS Monitor
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Tuesday, 11 January 2011 |
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Article Source: CS Monitor
A Venezuelan poverty program brings its musical discipline to underprivileged youths in the United States.
Brighton, Mass: In Venezuela, some 250,000 mostly poor children spend several hours each day playing classical music. But much more than learning Mozart or Beethoven happens. Lives are transformed as many of the students find their way out of poverty, stay in school longer, and begin careers. The program, called El Sistema ("the system"), boasts a world-famous graduate in Gustavo Dudamel, the dynamic young conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. And the program's signature performing group, the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra, has won ovations from sophisticated audiences at famed concert halls in places like Boston, New York, and London.
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Written by Susan Greene - The Denver Post
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Thursday, 30 December 2010 |
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Article Source: The Denver Post
"Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed," advised Italian educator Maria Montessori.
More than a half-century after her death, Montessori's legacy lives on at Mile High Montessori Early Learning Centers, where kids are being taught to defy the statistics against them. About 90 percent of the children at Mile High Montessori, a program that has applied for Season to Share funding, are being raised below the poverty level.
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