Monthly Archives: March 2016
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Does school choice help or hurt students?
Last week over 10,000 schools and organizations across the country celebrated National School Choice Week with yellow scarves, marches on state capitols and a variety of ... -
Harvard Researches the Outside Factors that Affect Student School Performance
A new initiative from Harvard student researchers aim to dissect the education systems of six cities — and find out what outside factors influence student classroom ... -
Using Year-Round Schools to Close the Achievement Gap
In comparison to children from low-income and minority groups, children belonging to middle class families enjoy more learning opportunities even during school breaks. Thus, extended school ... -
Understanding Parental Involvement
When we discuss parental involvement in schools, we often concentrate on ways in which parental involvement can help schools perform better and how parents can help ... -
Tips to Help Students Cultivate Music Appreciation
**The Edvocate is pleased to publish guest posts as way to fuel important conversations surrounding P-20 education in America. The opinions contained within guest posts are ... -
4 Degrees to Make a Difference in Your Community
**The Edvocate is pleased to publish guest posts as way to fuel important conversations surrounding P-20 education in America. The opinions contained within guest posts are ... -
California wins $1.1 billion case against Corinthian Colleges
The hits against Corinthian Colleges continue to come. Corinthian Colleges Incorporated received a judgement against it in the amount of $1.17 billion to be paid to the ... -
5 Years Later and We Are Still Waiting for Superman
By Matthew Lynch Recently I viewed the documentary, Waiting for Superman, for the umpteenth time, and I noted that almost 5 years after the film’s September 24, ... -
Kids Discover Online Unveils ‘Search by Standards’ Feature
The new widget helps educators align engaging science and social studies lessons and units with state and national standards (NEW YORK, NY) March 29, 2016 – Kids ... -
Should Harvard stop charging tuition?
Political activist Ralph Nader decided to run for president on the premise of being a consumer advocate and one who fights against keeping America from turning into ...