|
posted by: Cindy Omlin
| September 27, 2012, 05:31 pm
|
|
Have you experimented with Skype in the classroom? This new educational trend is surprisingly flexible, immediately engages students, and is probably easier than you think. With the ever-increasing role of technology in the classroom, more and more classes are experimenting with and embracing Skype.
|
|
|
|
|
posted by: Cindy Omlin
| September 27, 2012, 05:20 pm
|
|
It appears that everywhere you turn people have been talking about having high expectations in your classroom. It’s no wonder, either. The benefits of having high expectations have been known for decades, going back to Harvard Professor Robert Rosenthal. Rosenthal found that when teachers expected students to dramatically increase their IQ, students did.
|
|
|
|
posted by: Cindy Omlin
| September 24, 2012, 01:43 pm
|
Education in America takes center stage as NBC News kicks off the third annual Education Nation summit this week. The event is a chance for some of the leading minds in the country to work together toward meaningful education reform.
|
|
|
|
|
posted by: Cindy Omlin
| September 18, 2012, 12:47 pm
|
Paying for substitute teachers is traditionally a difficult task for many cash-strapped districts across the country. Earlier this month, the Nampa School Board in Nampa, Idaho approved a controversial new policy that allows community volunteers to serve as unpaid substitutes. The school district's decision has sparked a national dialogue on the merits of substitute teachers nationwide.
|
|
|
|
posted by: Cindy Omlin
| September 18, 2012, 12:23 pm
|
|
With the release of the highly-anticipated movie Won't Back Down just around the corner, many parents viewing the movie will undoubtedly leave the theater inspired to take up the same fight as the dedicated mothers in the film. Fortunately there is a new tool for parents and other education stakeholders to inform them about their own child's education from the Center for Education Reform (CER). Released this week, the new Parent Power Index ranks the states based on how much power parents have over their children's education.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<< Start < Prev 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 Next > End >>
|
|
Page 144 of 214 |
Print
Permalink