Tag: put kids first
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Should the U.S. Switch to Year-Round Schooling?
The traditional school year, with roughly three months of vacation time every summer, was first implemented when America was primarily an agricultural society. We have changed ... -
Computer Science in K-12 Classrooms Needs to Catch Up
It’s estimated that in the next decade the number of computer science jobs in the U.S. will outnumber qualified people by 1 million. That’s 1 million ... -
The Japanese Philosophy of Kaizen and U.S. School Reform
Education may very well be the single most important ingredient in allowing a person to achieve success in life. The ascendancy of each individual defines the ... -
Survey: Internet helps education, hurts morality
The Pew Research Center has released results to a poll of relatively new internet users in developing countries that found the internet is viewed pretty favorably, particularly ... -
Year-Round Schools: How it Affects Teachers
In my last post, I talked about the ways that students are impacted when they are on a year-round school schedule, instead of having traditional summers ... -
Next Generation Science Standards are Smart
Earlier this month California became the seventh state to adopt a new brand set of K-12 science outlines, dubbed Next Generation Science Standards, or NGSS. The ... -
High School Dropout Rates: A Crisis?
It seems that the phrase high school dropout is often accompanied with the word crisis. Depending who you ask, kids everywhere are giving up on education ... -
3 Ways to Improve U.S. Students Standing Worldwide
The latest international report on student knowledge and success worldwide once again paints U.S. pupils in a bad light. This is not the first time American ... -
How Smart Schools Are Stretching their Budgets through Gifts-in-Kind
Note: The following guest post comes to us courtesy of Gary C. Smith, the president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Exchange ... -
Should Ethnic Studies be a High School Requirement?
This fall, the Los Angeles Unified School District voted on measures to make it mandatory for high school students to take an Ethnic Studies course before ...
