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posted by: Cindy Omlin
| March 01, 2012, 03:43 pm
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Teachers in the classroom today all remember being issued their textbooks in grade school year after year. Decades old charts and graphs accompanied by the occasional pencil drawing have been standard issue for generations. Currently the textbook business is a $4 billion-a-year industry; however, with dawn of new technologies and new insight into their true effectiveness, paper textbooks are on the fast track to possible extinction.
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posted by: Cindy Omlin
| February 28, 2012, 02:31 pm
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Just days after a new federal report was released highlighting the decline in violent crimes in schools, tragedy struck a community outside of Cleveland, Ohio, when a high school student opened fire on his classmates in the Chardon High School cafeteria yesterday morning. While several students remain in critical condition, currently three students remain hospitalized and two students have died as a result of close range gunshot wounds.
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posted by: Cindy Omlin
| February 27, 2012, 03:39 pm
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Chicago has been an education reform epicenter ever since newly elected Mayor Rahm Emanuel took the reins in January 2011. Everything from length of school day to teacher pay have been hot topics of late; however, last week the issue hit critical mass as teacher union leaders called on educators throughout the city to ditch their classes in favor of blocking Mayer Emanuel's reforms.
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posted by: Cindy Omlin
| February 23, 2012, 10:22 pm
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Violent crimes in public schools have been a hot topic in the American discourse for years. From Columbine to Virginia Tech, communities have realized that violent incidents can strike anywhere. Just this past January, Education Matters featured a story on the warning signs of school violence for educators. Although violence in schools remains a threat, a new report illustrates that violent crimes in the nation's schools have declined in recent years, while cyber bulling and youth suicides have risen.
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posted by: Cindy Omlin
| February 21, 2012, 11:51 pm
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Congratulations to Lisa Lopez, a 2nd-3rdgrade teacher at Bruneau Elementary School in the Bruneau Grandview School District! Ms. Lopez has been awarded a $250 New Classroom Start-Up Grant from Northwest Professional Educators (NWPE). Cindy Omlin, NWPE Executive Director, presented the grant at a staff luncheon on February 15. 2012. The award will fund the purchase of student school supplies, teacher resource manuals, posters, nonfiction books, and chairs for a classroom library.
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