Monthly Archives: April 2016
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3 Ways to Instill Lifelong Learning Skills in Students
A recent PWC survey found that millennials value training and development from their employer, above all else. Interestingly, appropriate training and professional development equates to higher ... -
Are Teachers The Greatest Common Core Casualty?
Common Core has certainly changed the K-12 classroom scene in its short implementation and perhaps the group that has suffered the most during the transition period ... -
Another Failed Charter: Do These Schools have a Future?
In February of 2013, the Einstein Montessori School in Orlando became a casualty of the charter school experiment. State officials closed the school that had 40 ... -
High School Dropout Rate: Solutions for Success
This week I’ve been blogging about the bleak numbers that surround the national high school dropout rate and examining more closely the underlying causes. Many of ... -
Economy Improves, School Spending Continue to Fall – So What Gives?
As the news headlines regarding the current U.S. economy continue to improve, there is one area that is still feeling the squeeze from the recession years: ... -
Bilingual Education: 5 Reasons it should be Required
By Matthew Lynch This generation of K-12 students is growing up in a society that is increasingly bilingual. While foreign language requirements have long been a ... -
School Community Collaboration and Peer Observation as Levers to Student Success
A guest post by Mark D. Benigni, Ed.D., Thomas W. Giard III, and David Levenduski Meriden Public Schools, Connecticut We are in an unprecedented era of ... -
Obama calls for limits on school testing. Here’s why
Kalpana Jain, The Conversation President Obama has urged states to cut back on too much testing. In a Facebook video message October 24, the president urged ... -
Is today’s university the new multinational corporation?
**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 ... -
Study: College students feel unprepared for job market
In a startling new survey conducted by the Higher Education Authority, a significant amount of international college students “feel they are not learning job skills” — which ...