Policy & Reform
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California education funding sees a boost
Pre-recession spending levels are back in California. Well, at least California education funding has returned to pre-recession levels. Students are seeing the same funding ... -
How to Help Second-Language Learners Thrive in American Schools
If you’re a teacher helping ELL students succeed in regular education classrooms, there are a few things you must consider. First, you need to ... -
6 Ways to Help K-12 Students Fall in Love with Learning
What students desire from their school experience is not necessarily what their parents and members of the larger community want them to learn or ... -
Digital Doom? 3 Effects of Texting and Tweeting on Students’ Writing Skills
Internet and cell phone cultures have brought a whole new meaning to American slang. Not only are kids these days speaking informally, but now ... -
Math Learning – A Universal Language?
Fifth-grade students at Woodward Elementary School had an interesting math assignment this fall: watching college football games. Though seemingly fun on the surface, the ... -
Year-Round Schooling: How it Affects the Economy
In this series I have been writing about different facets of the year-round schooling debate. First I looked at the effects on students and ... -
ESSA to boost music education nationwide
Music education will receive a boost due to the rewrite of a major federal education law. Signed into law by President Obama earlier in December, ... -
Maryland to improve education of immigrant students
There are more than 65,000 English language learners who attend public schools in Maryland and one in every 10 students in elementary school is ... -
Diversity: Why Classrooms Need It
School climate and school culture directly impact student success. As a result, it is particularly important for the school culture (and the classroom culture) ... -
Academic Plateau: The Worse-Off Generation?
The great dream of all parents is that their children will grow up to have even better life circumstances than they do. Parents want ...
