Tag: edreform
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Education: “The saddest thing in life is wasted talent” (from A Bronx Tale)
**The Edvocate is pleased to publish guest posts as way to fuel important conversations surrounding a P-20 education in America. The opinions contained within guest posts ... -
3 Challenges and Rewards of Educating Undocumented Students in America
Immigration reform has been a hot button issue in the United States for decades. Earlier this year, the Obama administration, along with members of the Republican ... -
The Global Race for Online Learning: How Does America Compare?
The potential for K-12 online learning in the U.S. is still being realized. It seems that every year the amount of K-12 students taking courses online ... -
3 Reasons America Needs School Choice
There are a lot more options for receiving K-12 education today than when I was growing up. Long gone are the days when parents had to ... -
4 Future Trends You Are Bound to See in K-12 School Libraries
Modern K-12 public libraries will offer intensely engaging learning environments to all students. How they will go about doing this is less certain, but the principal ... -
Do Teacher Compensation Systems Work?
Teacher compensation systems rank among current hot-button issues in the world of education. While there’s no doubt as to the reality of a teacher salary issue, ... -
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: ... -
Survival Tip: Integrating Standardized Test Preparation into the Curriculum
In this age of accountability, teachers are responsible for ensuring that their students learn. In order to measure what students know and don’t know, states all ...
