Educators and Administrators are watching intently how this next experiement upon learning methods will effect graduation rates and the meeting of standards. This experiment by the Adams 50 district will remove age-based, developmental-based, grade levels and exchanged them for academic, achievement-based levels. At first glance this could be a "small step, giant leap" scenario, ...
-- a great post I came across by Özge Karaoğlu, thought I'd share it with you -- "I believe as teachers, we are about to have the biggest discussion on education: How do we learn? Some of us have already explored the potential of social networking, media-sharing and other Web 2.0 tools though they are not ...
In education we would like to think that every academic subject synthesizes together into a final product that the student "needs" to be successful in our world. In reality only grammar and math are the "needed" subjects. This is not to downplay other areas that lead to a fulfilling and "successful" life, but if a ...
Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/education/la-na-obama-education25-2009feb25,0,2871040.story?track=rss Los Angeles Times, by Frank James "Right now, three-quarters of the fastest-growing occupations require more than a high school diploma," Obama said. "And yet, just over half of our citizens have that level of education. We have one of the highest high school dropout rates of any industrialized nation. And half of the students who ...
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