Making kids play team sports in PE is neither healthy nor educational. By Jessica Olien | Originally Published at Slate. May 12, 2013 | Illustration Credit; Photograph by Presidio of Monterey | Source Flickr As a kid, I wanted desperately to be good at sports. This was [...]
Illustration; post typography You might have mused about how you helped and how you have hurt your children. Perhaps you have asked yourself if you have done too much or if you did too little. Can we save a child who has gone astray? Is it possible [...]
No significant learning can occur without a significant relationship." ~ Dr. James Comer [Leave No Child Behind: Preparing Today's Youth for Tomorrow's World, 2004 ] All learning is understanding relationships." ~ George Washington Carver. [American Scientist, Botanist, Educator, and Inventor] To teach we must be taught. Our [...]
Orchard Gardens, a school in Roxbury, Mass., had been plagued by bad test scores and violence -- but one principal's idea to fire the security guards and hire art teachers is helping turn it around. NBC's Katy Tur reports. By Katy Tur | Originally Published at NBC [...]
Originally Published by Deb Meier on April 28, 2013 Friends, The continued existence of democracy, much less an even stronger one, is what is in a crisis. The “school crisis”, along with many others, is a distraction. Just a symptom of the more serious crisis we face. [...]
"Stay in School." "An education will serve you well." These are the words of a Mom, Dad, or Guardian who cares and perhaps, has yet to achieve their dream. Persons who did as is customarily done, echo the same. However, there are hints evident in their faces [...]
RNC To Discuss Growing Opposition To Controversial Common Core Curriculum Originally Published at The Illinois Review April 11, 2013 Los Angeles - The concerns about the federal Common Core curriculum and the national standards it would impose on local schools reached the level of the Republican National [...]
By Tom Arcaro | Originally Published at Richmond Times Dispatch. April 7, 2013 12:00 AM “Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories. And to render them safe, their minds must be improved to [...]
