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1.	Bookmarks: 4	A Dark Future For IRAs and 401(k)s? Dr. Ghilarducci has presented a socialist solution to a problem that could easily be dealt with using rudimentary controls that would limit the amount of risk allowed inside these tax deferred savings devices. She also ignores the fact that most self-directed money lies in voluntary, privately sponsored, employee benefit programs--- emphasis on voluntary and private.
2.	Bookmarks: 0	Social Media: Making a significant mark in education Social media can bring prominent change in the educational practices by making them effective in their approach. So those schools that are blocking the usage of social media platforms for educational purpose should not make restrictions, as it can really bring a good change.
3.	Bookmarks: 0	Professional Training of Physical Educators A survey of 120 schools in the UK found that with regular physical activities, students are not engage fully, and they are not motivated to carry out the exercise in their home as well.
4.	Bookmarks: 7	Online Degrees You Can Get From Online Education Nowadays, it is impossible to get a job without a post secondary degree. The reason being that everyone has a degree so employers view having a post secondary degree as the new bare minimum. A degree in higher education should therefore be your top priority after you graduate from highschool. Also, if you think the program of your choice doesn't have an online equivalent, think again - there are over 1,500 different types of online degrees you can choose from.1. Associate...
5.	Bookmarks: 14	Navigating The Summer Job Market Most people believe summer is the worst time to conduct a job search. Between college students and high school students eating up the market, vacations, lagging budgets, etc. hiring would seem to lag during the summer making it a bad time to conduct a job search. In reality, summer is a very good time to job hunt. Here are some tips to make your summer-time job search more effective:Spiff up your telephone skills. With people on vacation, you will be receiving more voice ...
6.	Bookmarks: 2	Effective Study Habits Effective study habits are essential for achieving and maintaining a high GPA. More importantly, effective study habits help you to store information in long-term memory, allowing you to use the learned information in a novel setting. Applying the following rules for studying will aid you in earning excellent marks in school.Do: 1. Keep the area around your desk neat and tidy. If possible, the area should also be quiet. If you are having trouble finding a quiet place to s...
7.	Bookmarks: 4	Where Can I Find Teaching Materials For Homeschooling? How do you successfully determine what method of teaching, what lessons to teach and at what speed? Having decided to educate your kids at home for the purpose of giving your children the needed attention they require, do you still follow the school's standards of what subjects to cover and take up and when? Has keeping with the rules and standards of the school meant hurrying your children through anything by driving them to memorizing certain areas of the subject matter so ...
8.	Bookmarks: 4	Tips to Help Your Child Succeed in School Try these often over looked tips to help turn your underachiever into an over achieving scholar.
9.	Bookmarks: 1	The Classical Home Schooling Option Home schooling is an attractive option to consider for many parents. The program offers many advantages over learning in traditional schools. Home schooling also provides more one on one teaching time where the teacher can focus on the student as opposed to handling numerous students at the same time. This will allow children to obtain quality instruction.Students of home schooling also benefit from having a very comfortable and familiar environment for a classroom. Home-...
10.	Bookmarks: 2	Testing All Texas Schools Athletes For Steroids? It Could Happen Soon Professional athletes have been in the news a lot over the past few years, either being accused or admitting to taking performance-enhancing drugs. Major league baseball has taken several hits with accusations being brought against some of their top players, such as home-run king Mark McGwire, who took the fifth amendment to not incriminate himself during Congressional questioning on the subject. Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants, Jason Giambi of the New York Yankees, a...
11.	Bookmarks: 9	Teach Your First Grader How To Spell Our education begins from the day we're born. While we don't immediately plunge into school, we're constantly exposed to new things that help develop our minds. Academics are only part of our long journey to knowledge.By the time we enter kindergarten, we are ready to begin the reading and writing aspects, but at a slow and steady pace. Too much too soon can overwhelm and confuse us. When we hit 1st grade, we are more prepared to tackle the nitty gritty. I recall my 1st g...
12.	Bookmarks: 3	Student Motivation: Inspiring The Future One of the most important aspects of a teacher's job is to motivate students. In order for a student to be motivated, he or she must possess a desire to learn and be willing to aim this desire toward achieving academic goals. For successful student motivation to occur, a student must want to participate in the learning process.This is not a simple task for teachers to accomplish; but when done correctly, student motivation can have great results. A high school student who...
13.	Bookmarks: 8	How Do I Find The Best Homeschool Curriculum? Being a parent is a huge and very important job! You provide your children loving care for their physical needs as well as their emotional and spiritual needs. You are the one they look to for love, help, care and concern. You fix boo-boo's, read stories and chase away scary closet monsters at night. You play games, tell stories, and if you are like a lot of parents, you prepare and then send your children to school.But wait! You have made the awesome, wonderful, and some...
14.	Bookmarks: 12	Educational Toy Ideas For Your Preschooler If you are searching for the right educational toys for your preschooler, you may be overwhelmed with all the options available. Toy manufacturers are now busier than ever, working hard to keep up with the latest trends and styles, and competing to make their toys the best and most popular among small children. Though the decision of what to buy your child can be difficult, here are several suggestions that may help you. When choosing an educational toy, you want to be ...
15.	Bookmarks: 5	Denver Schools Are A Model Of Good Health Colorado has a reputation as one of the healthiest places to live in the country. Lots of skiers and healthy outdoors types usually come to mind. Denver Schools are doing their best to make that perception a reality. Denver Public Schools Student Services and the Nutrition Center have created a unique health initiative to bring information and medical attention to needy children in Denver Schools. The Nutrition Center is run by the University of Denver and is aimed at providi...
16.	Bookmarks: 18	Benefits Of Homeschooling Why let Tim and Lisa learn at home than send them to school? Well, first of all, you don't have to wake them up at 7 every morning and bundle them off to school with umpteen numbers of instructions, and wait with an anxious heart till they return. Homeschooling gives you more control over the influences that affect your child. The growth and development of your child is removed from the realm of the unknown. You, and you alone can decide what your child needs to do or learn. ...
17.	Bookmarks: 1	A Preschool Children's Fitness Business Helps Kids Get in Shape Help preschoolers learn how to exercise the fun way by starting your own preschool children's fitness business...
18.	Bookmarks: 1	Acting Camps: Preparing Your Young Actor or Actress for Industry Success Helping your young acting hopeful prepare for a successful acting career can be an incredibly rewarding experience for the parent. All parents like seeing their children being creative, expressing themselves, and, most importantly, having fun. There are some very simple pointers you can follow that will have a powerful impact in the immediate sense and create long-term opportunities for the professional acting success of your son or daughter.
19.	Bookmarks: 4	Why Home School? Why let your children grasp education at home rather than send them to a public classroom? Well, to start off, you don't comprehend to get everyone awake at 7 every morning and put them on the bus with lists of directions, and wait until schools out and the kids are home. Homeschooling gives you larger upper hand over the influences that affect your child. The improvement and progression of Tim and Lisa is removed from the realm of the unknown. You, and you alone can wish wha...
20.	Bookmarks: 13	Utilizing Resources If parents utilize all the resources they have available to their child, they can guarantee their child’s home school success.
21.	Bookmarks: 0	The Use Of Preschool Games In And Out Of A Classroom For children under the age of five - or for those who have not yet started Kindergarten – a preschool program is an introduction to the classroom environment, where students have the opportunity to learn imperative social and educational lessons in a structured but informal environment. Research has shown us that a love for learning fostered in the preschool – through a comfortable, nurturing environment and guided by skilled teachers – can do much to ensure a lifetime of suc...
22.	Bookmarks: 1	The Use Of Books And Computers In Home Schooling Learning is never-ending for even as adults, people continually learn new facts and things every single day. In today's modern day and age, new techniques and additions are making both teaching and learning challenging as well as interesting. For parents, who are home schooling their children, it is of utmost importance that the student's particular needs, interests and abilities should be taken into consideration before deciding on what method or technique of teaching is to ...
23.	Bookmarks: 5	The Benefits Of A Free Online Typing Test There are many benefits to taking a free online typing test. First though, let’s take a look at how important the skill of typing has become in our society. In the past, most people communicated by means of handwritten communications. With the advancement of the typewriter many people would go to business school to learn how to type and develop other secretarial skills, data entry and word processing was handled by employers, not software programs.Computer knowledge and t...
24.	Bookmarks: 0	San Francisco Schools Fight Fat Childhood obesity is at alarming levels in this county. Children in the San Francisco Schools are no exception. Too much television and video games, and too little time spent playing outside has led to an epidemic of juvenile health issues. It sure doesn’t help that the San Francisco Schools have had to cut funding for physical education over the years. But the 2007-2008 school year does have something positive going for it. Several San Francisco Schools will provide fresh sa...
25.	Bookmarks: 1	Preschool Is Important For Healthy Child Development Preschool Activities And Games Help Create The Personality Of A ChildPreschool children should have a variety of different activities and games to encourage physical and mental development. Young children by nature are easily distracted, having very little attention span and any attempt to introduce them straight to academics will be met with frustration and failure. On the other hand, they would embrace learning willingly and well if imparted through fun and games.Ho...
26.	Bookmarks: 0	Las Vegas Schools Kicks Off Several Events For The New School Year Las Vegas Schools ’ Cheyenne High School Host Specialist in Gender Neutral EducationDr. Leonard Sax, one of the foremost authorities in the success of gender neutral education, addressed the teachers and staff of Cheyenne High School. This was part of a professional development day scheduled before the start of the new school year. Dr. Sax is an author, psychologist, and family physician who has become a leading scholar on the topic of how gender differences affect studen...
27.	Bookmarks: 6	Important Aspects Of Home Schooling Some 26% of parents in each of the American states consider home schooling for their children over normal school classes. This is because of the benefits both the parents and the children get as a social being. Home schooling gives them the chance to be free of old school days with pressure and daily assignments. Due the old set up, many members of the family have become isolated from each other allowing them just a few precious times with their loved ones.There are four ...
28.	Bookmarks: 20	How Do I Determine The Length Of The Home School Year? Homeschooling is a practical alternative or replacement to schooling institutions. In conformity with your state laws concerning this kind of education, children study and learn under the parents’ supervision. Parents have several explanations and justifications why they need or want education at home. They have concerns regarding the safety of their children, the quality of education that is offered in public schools, the expensive cost of private schooling and the strug...
29.	Bookmarks: 0	Homeschooling - Shape Your Child's Future Schooling at home is called homeschooling. This is where children are educated at home, either by their parents, or by private tutors. Homeschooling has become popular these days especially with kids whose parents have a shifting job.
30.	Bookmarks: 0	Fall: Back To School Gifts For The New Teacher Back to school lists are everywhere. Stores are crowded with people rushing around to prepare kids for school. September approaches quickly! Whether your child is in first grade or fifth; a simple gift for their new teacher is a great idea!Some schools have teacher appreciation days; other teachers never receive the recognition they deserve for their hard work. There are many small easy ways to appreciate and recognize the teacher in your child’s life. Teachers spend coun...
31.	Bookmarks: 1	Community Involvement Important For Portland Schools Public schools need the support of their communities to succeed. They are, after all, public and open to all. It is our responsibility as members of the community to give whatever help and support we can to our neighborhood schools. No one can argue that receiving such support from both individual citizens as well as businesses and corporations are a hindrance. They enable the school communities to feel that they are a part of the neighborhood they serve, and that they are pa...
32.	Bookmarks: 0	A Special Education Success Story With Add and ADHD In our rapidly moving culture, students diagnosed with ADD or ADHD (Attention Deficit Disorder or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) are an ever-increasing challenge for teachers. This is a true story of success in a six-week project where middle school children diagnosed with ADD and ADHD enjoyed the same success, if not more than, the other students.
33.	Bookmarks: 1	After School Activity for the Hyperactive Child ADHD refers to attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder. Most children who suffer from this disorder suffer from attention problems as well as hyperactivity. Parents of such children are well aware that inattention and hyperactivity continue throughout the day. Keeping such children busy after school hours can be as difficult as keeping them safe during the school day.
34.	Bookmarks: 1	Adhd After School Most forward-thinking teachers and instructors understand how to meet the special needs of children with ADHD. Unfortunately, many parents don't. ADHD is an acronym for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Children with ADHD struggle with attention problems, as well as hyperactivity. Teachers are trained to help ADHD kids deal with their personal obstacles and meet their learning potential. However, parents can often find it difficult to keep children safely occu...
35.	Bookmarks: 3	Thinking Outside the Books - Homeschool Math Lab Days
36.	Bookmarks: 0	The Preschool Learning Difference The preschool environment is designed to educate young children prior to the age of five – when most children begin kindergarten. Preschool is an optional learning experience; some preschool programs are offered through the public school district, but in most cases preschool is offered privately – either in a non-denominational setting or through a religious institution. Because preschool meets the needs of young children, preschool learning differs quite a bit from the learn...
37.	Bookmarks: 0	The Importance Of Preschool Teachers Preschool is an optional school experience designed for children at least two and a half years old, up until the age of five when they enter kindergarten. While some preschool programs are offered through the public school system, most are offered through private or religious institutions. Such programs generally offer a play-based curriculum that prepares children for the school environment. Preschool teachers facilitate this experience for children in their classroom.Pr...
38.	Bookmarks: 2	The Advantages Of Getting A Graphic Design Degree Graphic design could be a great career opportunity for you. It's a growing, rapidly changing field that takes both talent and technical expertise, and those who are good at it are in great demand. If you are considering college or thinking about making a career change, you might consider getting a degree in graphic design.Why get a degree? It is true that there are a lot of talented graphic designers who pretty much learned everything they know on the job or by the s...
39.	Bookmarks: 0	Texas Schools Offer Diverse Magnet School Options Students attending Texas Public Schools have many choices. They literally have a plethora of magnet programs to choose from. Depending on their grade level, they can choose to attend a school that focuses on providing the 3 Rs with a slant; the Arts, Science, Technology and Foreign Language are all examples of the different types of Texas Schools kids and their parents can choose from. But what is a magnet school, anyway? A magnet school is a one that, while meeting t...
40.	Bookmarks: 0	Teaching The Latin Language In High School Latin was the language of the Roman Empire. All of the Romance languages, including French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian, are directly descended from this native tongue. Our own English language is heavily influenced by roots from the Latin Language (as many as 80 percent of our language can be traced to Latin). Today, Ecclesiastical Latin is the official language of the Roman Catholic Church and the Vatican. With so much influence on our own language coming from Latin, i...
41.	Bookmarks: 15	Teaching reading to your child Teaching reading to your child is 100 times easier when you employ the use of a subject that children naturally want to know more about.
42.	Bookmarks: 0	Playing The Game: The Future Of Animation And Game Design The popularity of video games is a staple of our culture and appears as though it's going to stay. From the different genres of video games to the complex stories and character developments, video games have become an entity that spans generations of gamers. For many, it is an escape into a new world of fantasy and adventure. As a result, it is no wonder why so many high school and college graduates are going into the field of animation and game design. Several colleges offer...
43.	Bookmarks: 3	Online Degree Program Scores With Video Game Enthusiasts When high school students spend hours playing video games, parents ofen say its a waste of time. However, these video game players, or gamers, can now find professional opportunities to complement their interest.
44.	Bookmarks: 6	Mysteries of language development in children You can don the mantle of a teacher to optimize learningSince ancient times, parents have held a child’s hand and taught him or her everything they know. Skills and ways to earn a living were handed down from father to son and mother to daughter. In the fast paced and ever changing world of today, you must know how a child learns in order to help it develop appropriate language skills.
45.	Bookmarks: 0	Learning After School Every child needs an education. But traditional education, that which is taught in a standard school setting, cannot fully prepare a child for the expectations of our demanding society. Learning after school, through social programs and team-building activities, can help kids grow in every way.After school programs are basically designed to develop talents or skills in areas that are ignored by regular school curriculums. The programs can be recreational or educational in...
46.	Bookmarks: 12	Home Schooling Is Loaded With Fun Activities There are many reasons why parents choose homeschooling for their children. A lot of times this choice is made by parents who are dissatisfied with the way formal education is being run. Also by those who are concerned about safety issues. In addition, there are those parents who wish to freely instill some religious values in their children, while some feel that having their kids taught at home helps tighten their family bond.Nowadays, there has been an uprise in the...
47.	Bookmarks: 1	Detroit Schools Excel in National Competitions Schulze Elementary, representing the Detroit Schools, has won several awards, in this year’s Academic Games Leagues of America Competition. The elementary school had several teams competing in the Academic Games Leagues of America Competition. Both team and individual awards were given for performance. The teams have won state awards at the Michigan League of Academic Games competition held in Grand Rapids and the Academic Games Leagues of America Competition held in Eatonton, Georgia.
48.	Bookmarks: 3	Choosing Educational Software For Children In recent years, computers have become an integral part of everyday life. Now, more people own computers than ever before, and the numbers continue to rise. As a result, children are learning how to use computers in school at a much earlier age than ever before. There is a wide array of educational software available for children of all ages. This provides you, the parent, with many options when choosing educational software for your children. Since many educational g...
49.	Bookmarks: 0	Being An Involved Parent Of A Child In Miami Schools Being a parent of a school aged child has never been an easy task. And with all the choices facing young people these days, the job is getting even harder. But a new program run by Miami Schools is trying to alleviate some of the burden on parents with a number of programs designed to keep parents informed on some of the most important issues facing young people in the Miami Schools.Parent Academy in Miami SchoolsThe Miami-Dade Public County School system runs a year-...
50.	Bookmarks: 2	Randomizing Class Choices: Breaking Up the Monotony Much has been said and written lately about providing students with choices. I'm all about any methods which will improve student involvement in class, giving them ownership in their learning. There are many ways to give students choices, options, or just to provide random results and change up the monotony. This article will discuss how to use random results in typical class situations.
51.	Bookmarks: 0	Learning Spanish - Part 12 - Conversational Spanish Lessons This article discusses some of the benefits of conversational Spanish lessons. I explain what my lessons were like at the Spanish school I attended in Antigua, Guatemala for two weeks and in what ways they helped me to improve my overall level of Spanish.
52.	Bookmarks: 2	Learning New Things To Improve Memory Keeping our brains active can help improve memory performance. While the old tried and tested method of repetition is still an important part of memory techniques, we also need a bit of novelty to keep our minds awake and to stimulate our brains.We all have times when we’d love to be able to improve memory – for school tests, college exams, business presentations or even just in our day to day lives. Pregnant women are particularly prone to memory loss, and often seek way...
53.	Bookmarks: 4	Emergency Lesson Plans, Real Lifesaving Tools for Teachers Everyone gets those situations in life where an emergency has come up, and you don't have the time (or sometimes the ability) to get a good lesson plan in to school for your students. Maybe you have a family emergency or a disrupted travel plan and you just cannot get into school to leave detailed lessons. That is why it is essential for you to have an emergency lesson plan available and handy.
54.	Bookmarks: 0	Beverage Company Sponsors Teen Games As part of an effort to contribute to the community that has added to its success, Fire Mountain Beverage Co. recently sponsored this year's L.A. Watts Summer Games, the largest high school athletic competition in the nation.
55.	Bookmarks: 0	Bartending School Is Just The Beginning While you may be thinking about attending bartending school, keep in mind that a bartending career is not all fun and games.Bartenders work hard, and are often paid minimum wage. Working at a top club will, of course, up your take-home pay in the form of tips (sometimes as much as thousands per night), but you'll have to do your time and gain experience at smaller clubs and bars first. Initially, you’ll also work the less crowded shifts. Some bars and clubs even requi...
56.	Bookmarks: 0	After School Activities That Make Dismissal Time Worth Waiting For School is all about stress, whether we’d like to admit it or not. It’s all about slaving over the latest math problem, sweating bullets just trying to balance the next chemical reaction, and getting headaches over explaining how Tolkien’s Middle Earth is not an allegory for the real world – in a hundred words or less. The work is stressful, but if you don’t let the stress get to you, then school can actually be something to look forward to.
57.	Bookmarks: 0	The Afro-brazilian City – Salvador The capital city of the State of Bahia, Salvador, is alive with African influence that can be seen in locally prepared dishes, ancient ceremonies and rituals that are still being conducted, as well as in the churches and schools of the area. Salvador has approximately 2,250,000 residents, and is widely known as “The City of Joy.”The history of Salvador can be traced back to 1549, when the city was founded by a group of Portuguese settlers. During this time, Salvador was B...
58.	Bookmarks: 0	Portland Schools Exceed Budget By $ 1.7 Million Superintendent of Portland Public Schools, Mary Jo O’Connor announced that the Portland Schools have exceeded their $81.7 budget by about 2%. This is despite $500,000 in cuts made in May of 2006. O’Connor explained that the increased spending was due to factors beyond the control of Portland Schools officials.Unavoidable Increases for Portland SchoolsO’Connor stated that the deficit was “regrettable but unavoidable”. Federal and state education mandates, increased uti...
59.	Bookmarks: 0	5 Reasons To Study A Foreign Language Many schools or universities require the study of a foreign language. Before you start resenting the very idea of it, consider that it could be to your advantage for you to study and master a foreign language. Make no mistake about it: the whole world does NOT speak English. For anyone who has travelled to anywhere but the very largest of the world’s capitals, local people still primarily speak the local language and not English. To speak with them, the only way to do so will...
60.	Bookmarks: 0	The Top 10 Summer Getaways Approximately 70% of society takes their main holiday between May and September. Not only does this coincide with children’s summer breaks from school, it also coincides with the more favourable weather in the majority of the world’s popular vacation destinations. There is a lot to be said for taking a summer vacation. It is mid-way through the year, and thus a perfect time slot to recharge even the most rundown of batteries. It is also equidistant from last and next Christma...
61.	Bookmarks: 0	Capitalizing on the Benefits of a Foreign Language Translation Firm In order to succeed globally, you must consider foreign language translation as a necessary faction of your organization. Whether you are considering opening offices internationally, or you just want to make your services available to foreign markets
62.	Bookmarks: 0	Who Created the First US Flag of 50 Stars? How did a 17 year old, high school sophomore, from Lancaster Ohio turn a 1958 high school project into the American Flag that we have known and loved since 1960?
63.	Bookmarks: 2	North Florida -- Full Of Culture, History, Sports, And Outdoor Adventure North Florida is comprised of such large cities as Tallahassee, Panama City Beach, Jacksonville, Gainesville and Pensacola. Tallahassee is largely popular for being the state capital as well as home of Florida State University. This school's mascot is the Seminoles and has an exceptional athletics department consisting of a basketball, baseball and championship football team. While in Tallahassee you may want to visit the Governor's Mansion, the eclectic art districts or o...
64.	Bookmarks: 0	Will High School Rankings Affect Your Future? With all the emphasis on mandatory testing and national standards it’s no big surprise that high school rankings have been getting a lot of attention. American high school students face a global economy, high technology demands, and the reality of living in a capitalistic society without the benefit of a solid financial education. Parents, teachers, and students look to high school rankings to help them evaluate their school’s progress and to consider moves to new areas....
65.	Bookmarks: 0	What Ails The Washington DC Schools? Problems that Face Washington DC SchoolsDistrict of Columbia Public schools are faced with increasingly serious challenges. The 55,000 student system is plagued by gaping disparities between schools that serve the affluent, and those that serve the city’s poorest neighborhoods. And that’s just the beginning. Education officials and concerned Washington DC citizens have identified numerous shortfalls in the system which threaten to polarize schools and students based on th...
66.	Bookmarks: 0	WebQuests Let Students Explore Independent ally in Indianapolis Schools The Indianapolis Schools Click Program, a professional development program for teachers, helped teachers designed web based learning activities for students, called WebQuests. The Indianapolis Public School website offers a range of WebQuests, arranged by grade level (K – 2, 3 – 5, 6 – 8, 9 – 12) and subject area.
67.	Bookmarks: 0	Questions Rising Concerning Spending Of Funds By The Mayor And The New York City Schools Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New York City schools Chancellor Joel Klein, together, have made sweeping changes within the New York City schools. Yet, many are questioning their intentions and spending of funds.Creating smaller class sizes, especially in the elementary grades, has long been a priority of most parents, teachers and advocates in New York City. Many states and cities have passed laws requiring smaller classrooms, such as the state of Florida.Studies have r...
68.	Bookmarks: 0	Proposed Budget For The New York City Schools In June 2006, the city announced a proposed operating budget of $14 billion for the New York City schools. Parents and educators are still waiting pessimistically to see the final cut.Though this year’s unveiling of the New York City schools budget was received more peacefully than in recent years, the city’s past track record makes optimism difficult. Last year’s proposed budget was drastically different after the final cuts were made. Students returning to school last S...
69.	Bookmarks: 0	New Learning Standards For Chicago Schools Kindergartners Chicago schools educators were surprised during their teacher training session in mid-September with new state learning standards for kindergarten students. Previously, Illinois was one of 11 states that did not have learning standards for kindergarten. The state adopted standards for grades one through 12 in 1997 and even have specific “early learning” standards for preschoolers.Setting academic goals for kindergarten students was not a priority, since attending kinderga...
70.	Bookmarks: 0	Las Vegas Schools Open New Schools and Hire New Teachers Las Vegas Schools have ten new schools opening for the 2006-2007 school year. Nine are brand new schools, while one is a replacement of Rancho High School. This is part of a long term plan to meet student population demands and create modern facilities. The schools opening in August are six elementary schools, two middle schools and two high schools. The new elementary schools are Hayden Elementary, Schorr Elementary, Steele Elementary, Thompson Elementary, Ward Elementary and Wright Elementary.
71.	Bookmarks: 0	Kids' Activities: The Magic Bag Is A Great Way to Introduce Kids To Fossils The Magic bag is a great kids' activity for introducing fossils. It is simple to do and captivating with any age group. The lesson plan is easily adapted to classroom or home school settings.
72.	Bookmarks: 0	Inequitable Funding For Some Within The New York Schools In an attempt to get more funding into the poorer school districts and reduce funding for the wealthier districts, Governor Eliot Spitzer replaced the very rigid, long-standing formula for funding of the New York schools. The old formula gave the same per student funding to all New York schools districts without regard to needs or demographic/economic differences. Spitzer convinced Senate Republicans in wealthier districts, such as Long Island, to vote for his final budget b...
73.	Bookmarks: 0	Affordable Home Schooling Maybe you understand now that you have made the leap to Homeschool and are getting ready to jump into the great world of teaching your children in your home. You are now a one-payroll family choosing to teach your son or daughter at home sweet home. Or possibly you are still in the choosing stage. Besides fully thinking about your child's happiness and if homeschooling is the correct direction for your child and which core curriculum to check out, the other thing on your cons...
74.	Bookmarks: 3	Online Business Degree Programs & Career Advantages Careers in Business --- The class of 2006 is experiencing the best employment market since the year 2000 and the highest demand is for business students. If you're interested in a career in business , you'll have to first graduate from high school and later enroll in a business school. Business schools offer associate degrees or bachelor's degrees and depending on which degree type you pursue, you should obtain a business degree anywhere from 2 to 4 years.
75.	Bookmarks: 2	Washington DC Schools Improves Its After-School Program The Wallace Foundation Invests $8 Million in Washington DC SchoolsWashington DC Schools after schools and out of school programs are getting a boost from the nonprofit DC Children and Youth Investment Trust Corporation and The Wallace Foundation. The DC Children and Youth Investment Trust Corporation is works to increase the quality, quantity and accessibility of services for children, youth and families in the Washington DC area. The DC Children and Youth Investment Trus...
76.	Bookmarks: 3	The #1 Secret to Money Making Success The common thread that ties together all successful entrepreneurs. This single trait launched the businesses of Microsoft, Intel, Hershey, JP Morgan, Amazon.com, Nike and so many others. It's not anything you'll be taught in Business School, it has nothing to do with accounting, and it doesn't even have anything to do with what you're selling or how you're selling it.
77.	Bookmarks: 4	How To Get Your Business Bachelor Degree Online The world of business is breaking new grounds each and every day. There are always new careers coming available and bright entrepreneur opportunities for a person with the right degree. If you are worried that you just don't have the time to go back to school, then a business bachelor degree online may be the perfect solution.In today's society, it is becoming increasingly crucial to have a bachelor's degree if you plan on climbing the corporate ladder. If you are look...
78.	Bookmarks: 0	Aptitude Test - Know Yourself It it very important to know ourself well. In my career I have constantly try to figure out what do I want to do and what is suitable for me. Since secondary school time I have started to think hard on what I want to be in the future. During University time I did a lot of reading and test to understand myself more.
79.	Bookmarks: 0	From Work At Home Guitar Teacher To Full Music School Andrew James Hymel is the owner, proprietor, and music director of Andy Hymel School of Music in Gretna, Louisiana, just outside of New Orleans. It is a success story that has blossomed from one man’s dream of music education into a consortium of teachers and students who strive for excellence and value the importance of the preservation of the arts in today’s New Orleans.When asked about his Post Katrina experience, Hymel relied, It was scary to reopen the school and it...
80.	Bookmarks: 0	Mothers And Kids Deal With Anxiety “Perfect Madness: Motherhood In The Age Of Anxiety” is a good study on the effects of society and the pressure it places on parents. However, it only touches upon test anxiety, which is an increasing problem among schoolchildren.
81.	Bookmarks: 0	What The Middlesex County Vocational School Is All About Gail was born and raised in Trenton, New Jersey. Since this person didn’t think of working after finishing from high school and become a homemaker instead, college was never a priority for this person.The one talent this woman was cooking. The skill of cooking some exotic dishes was passed on from one generation to the next and since Gail wanted to know more about it, this person checked around to see if thee was a school that specialized in the culinary arts. The institu...
82.	Bookmarks: 0	The True Determinants Of Building Wealth Elite Formal Education is OverratedThere is a huge myth that going to a great school and getting a great job will help you build wealth. In reality, it’s more likely to bury you in so much debt that you’ll be close to retirement by the time you’re debt free. When I graduated from college (we won’t say exactly how long ago that was!), I had friends that had already accumulated about U.S. $80,000 in debt. And for some of those friends that went to med school or law school a...
83.	Bookmarks: 0	Finding A Job With A High School vs. College Graduation Whether you choose to enter the job market with a high school vs. college graduation under you belt can have a very significant impact on the jobs you will be able to do and the amount of money you will be able to make.According to a report entitled “The Big Payoff: Educational Attainment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings,” a person with a high school degree can expect to earn an average of $1.2 million over the course of their working life, and a person with ...
84.	Bookmarks: 0	Should Business & Personal Finance Be Taught At School? What business & personal finance advice do you wish had been taught to you when you were at school? Isn't the purpose of education to prepare children for the real world?I believe that all children should learn basic business & personal finance skills from the age of twelve to sixteen years. Why not teach children how mortgages and pensions work. Everybody needs a place to live and if they have a long life they will need to retire one day.Schools should teach their st...
85.	Bookmarks: 0	Staying In School: Beating The Late Fall Doldrums If you are like most University students, November can be a tough month. You might have just finished all of your midterms, or maybe you’re still writing midterms. No matter the situation, it can seem like you have eons to go before Christmas break in December, and even longer before you will be finished with your degree. Here are some tips for staying motivated in school.Pros and ConsRemind yourself why you are in school. What kind of a job will you be able to get wh...
86.	Bookmarks: 0	Arizona Schools Benefit Form Science Foundation Grant In April 2007 the Science Foundation Arizona (SFAz) announced an investment of $3.2 million into a K-12 Student & Teacher Discovery Program that will benefit the Arizona Schools. The Arizona Schools grants are the third awarding of SFAz funds intended to create a top-notch science, engineering and medical core in Arizona. The foundation intends to create this by supporting and funding secondary and university level Arizona Schools.Why Fund Science in Arizona Schools?S...
87.	Bookmarks: 0	7 Tips for Teaching Children Science The world is changing fast. It's more important than ever to get your kids interested in science at an early age. And it's easier than you think. Find out how with these great tips on turning everyday activities into fun learning experiences.
88.	Bookmarks: 0	Career Planning in Today's Turbulent Times What you were taught in school no longer applies to the job searching skills needed in today’s market. The rules have changed…from the resume through the interview. Don’t be caught with an “objective statement” on your resume, or asking the interviewer questions you should have researched on the web on your own.
89.	Bookmarks: 0	What A Black Belt Means To Me - A Way Of Life Being a black belt is more than just another rank in the martial arts. It’s a milestone that every martial artist strives for but only a small percentage actually achieve. Obtaining a black belt or equivalent ranking in any art takes a lot of dedication and perseverance. The journey appears never ending as a kyu rank (under belt), but once you reach that stage its an amazing achievement. When I was 13 years old I passed my Sho Dan test. I can remember sleeping with my belt pr...
90.	Bookmarks: 0	Teen Hair Styles Looking attractive and sexy on the first date or on the school prom night is an indispensable part of every teenage life! So being a teenager teen hairstyles shall just help you rediscover the beauty and confidence in yourself and in your looks! If you belong to the highly fashion and image conscious teen brigade of the 21st century then you must have quite a bit of knowledge about all kinds of latest and hot teen hairstyles. Being a girl/boy in the teens you’ve got to deal w...
91.	Bookmarks: 0	Teaching Children To Speed Read How many of us wish we had known how to speed read back in grade school when the teacher assigned a book report over the winter holiday break? Although reading is fundamental in the learning process, for many children it is a tedious task. They become overwhelmed because they are looking at a book of well over two or three-hundred pages and they see that as hours that could be spent outside playing in the snow or doing an activity with their family.For children who have t...
92.	Bookmarks: 0	Self-acceptance And Self-improvement The first graderPerhaps the example of children in grade school will help us to understand this. These children in the first grade do not reject themselves because they are not in a higher grade, or because they do not know as much, or are not as capable as those children in the higher grades. They accept themselves as they are, and are happy with themselves with their present level of abilities and knowledge.Yet, no child would accept remaining in the same grade the ...
93.	Bookmarks: 0	Sceptical About Laser Eye Surgery? Learn The Basic Facts And Clear All Your Doubts Sam was a famous boy in our school. No he was not great at any kind of sports, also it never occurred to any of our teachers that Sam was academically promising. Nor had anybody ever heard or saw him taking part in any kind of extra curricular activities. You might be wondering, then why on earth the boy was famous in the school! Well, he was famous, or should I say made famous by his oversized and thick glassed spectacles. We never met since we had left the school in mid- 19...
94.	Bookmarks: 0	Learning How To Deal With A Bully Most people at some stage of their lives will become the victim of bullying. People may think that this only occurs at school, however a lot of bullying also occurs in the workplace and even by your local neighbours. This article describes how I have learnt to deal with these nasty people, by playing what I call the nutter card.
95.	Bookmarks: 0	How To Be A Woman Of Distinction Most people think Mother Theresa started off this wonderful, compassionate person. She didn't. She started a school teacher, one day walking down the streets of Calcutta she had an experience that little did she know it would change her life forever.
96.	Bookmarks: 0	Confidence And Poise… Girls Do You Have It? How many of us are not confident about how we handle life’s situations? Truth is you may be confident in some area of your life but not others. I grew up a very shy person and was not comfortable going out of my comfort zone. I always stayed in the background and tried to make myself less noticeable. It was especially painful in-group activities that involved boys. But as luck would have it, it was at a school dance that I had a breakthrough. I was sitting in the back...
97.	Bookmarks: 0	Aptitude Tests Though you may think you are done taking tests when you are done with high school and college, there may still be times when you need to take them. You won’t be graded in the way you were in school, but these tests might be even more important.
98.	Bookmarks: 0	Reprogram Your Mind to Be a More Confident Learner Do you feel as if learning new things in school or at work is hard for you? A lack of confidence will actually make new learning even harder! Here is a technique called visualization that can help to improve your learning.
99.	Bookmarks: 0	Getting Schooled On Student Credit Cards Student credit cards will probably be one of the first things you will encounter as you go off to college. This very 'adult' financial tool can be a great help during emergencies when cash is tight and you need to pay for goods or services immediately. As a substitute for cash, it provides a safe and convenient method for purchasing. How to get the best deal on your student credit cardGetting your student credit card is a lot easier than you think but if you're not c...
100.	Bookmarks: 0	Why Exercises To Flatten Stomach Muscles Are Popular There are many times in a person's life when they really want to look their best. Perhaps it is for a high school reunion or for a wedding, and probably the most popular time for wanting to look good is during swimsuit season. For all of these times, and many more times, most people's focus turns to their stomach and they start thinking about excursuses to flatten stomachs.