| Title |
Description |
Category |
Date |
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Earth Team |
EarthTeam's mission is to create a new generation of environmental leaders by introducing into the classroom and the community environmental experiences that are so active and engaging that they inspire dedication to a healthy environment. |
Green School |
1/4/2009 |
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How to Start an Environmental Club at Your School |
Starting an environmental club at school is a great way to get students energized about taking care of the Earth and helping their community while learning about some of the most important issues facing the world in the 21st century. |
Green School |
1/4/2009 |
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The new £4.7m school that won't call itself a 'school'... because it has 'negative connotations' |
t has 500 pupils, scores of classrooms, a headmistress, staffroom and playground.
But woe betide anyone who refers to Watercliffe Meadow as a school. |
Administration |
1/4/2009 |
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Trying to Find Solutions in Chaotic Middle Schools |
The difficulty of educating this age group is felt even in many wealthy suburban school districts. But it is particularly intense in cities, where the problems that are compounded in middle school are more acute to begin with and where the search for solutions is most urgent. |
Trends |
1/3/2009 |
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For Teachers, Middle School Is Test of Wills |
Faced with increasingly well-documented slumps in learning at a critical age, educators in New York and across the nation are struggling to rethink middle school, particularly in cities, where the challenges of adolescent volatility, spiking violence and lagging academic performance are more acute. |
Trends |
1/3/2009 |
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Obama Pledge Stirs Hope in Early Education |
The $10 billion Mr. Obama has pledged for early childhood education would amount to the largest new federal initiative for young children since Head Start began in 1965. Now, Head Start is a $7 billion federal program serving about 900,000 preschoolers. |
Trends |
1/3/2009 |
|
Teaching the teachers: What's changed in education |
Karen Landolph has seen her profession go through a lot of changes since she began teaching elementary school in the Bedford district 33 years ago, but she still loves her job. |
Teachers |
1/3/2009 |
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Former tagger now teaches art |
On a quiet Sunday morning, a man wearing baggy shorts and a black hoodie stood in a parking lot and pulled out a can of spray paint. His burly right arm, inked with the image of a dragon, hung in midair as he worked the nozzle. Across the way, where railroad tracks met an overpass, a concrete wall covered with black letters displayed the work of neighborhood taggers. |
Teachers |
1/3/2009 |
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Making Sense of School Consolidation |
Over the years, it has made economic sense to many public officials to merge three districts like these and perhaps throw in other tiny nearby districts like Montauk, Wainscott and Sagaponack. That would result in lopping off the jobs, and the salaries, of duplicate superintendents and business officers, and perhaps closing a building or two, potentially saving taxpayers money. |
School |
1/3/2009 |
|
Museum Field Trips Tailored To Teach To The Test |
Many children visit museums for the first time with their classmates on school-organized field trips. But as school districts face budget cuts and teachers feel pressure to prepare students for a battery of standardized tests, museum field trips are falling off of the curriculum. |
School |
1/3/2009 |
|
Blue Man Group Creates High-Tech NYC Preschool |
At first glance, Blue School seems very normal in comparison to the blue-headed performance artists. There are cheery classrooms, books, clay, blocks — all the things expected in a good preschool. There are a few Blue Man things, like the speaking tubes that snake along the ceiling and allow kids to speak to each other from a distance. |
School |
1/3/2009 |
|
2008 saw new diplomas, familiar exam success stories and an utter Sats fiasco |
This was the year of not only huge changes to the curriculum but also the first teachers' strike for 21 years and exams chaos that claimed the scalp of more than one education chief. |
School |
12/30/2008 |
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Male teachers face more behaviour problems |
Male teachers face more problems with behaviour in the classroom than their female peers, according to a new survey. |
Teachers |
12/30/2008 |
|
Pupil mentors to help tackle school bullies |
Pupils will be taught how to listen to each other's problems and help classmates who struggle to form friendships or cope with bullying, under government plans announced today. |
School |
12/30/2008 |
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Chicago School Reform Could Be a U.S. Model |
At Cameron Elementary School west of downtown, most kids don't know the alphabet when they start kindergarten, nearly all are poor, and one was jumped by a gang recently, just off campus. But the school this year posted its highest reading and math scores ever -- a feat that earned cash bonuses for teachers, administrators, even janitors. |
Trends |
12/30/2008 |
|
Teens prove adversity doesn't have to impede education |
The graduates took different paths to finish their schooling. Some, such as Bradley, attended alternative schools. Others, including several teen mothers, completed independent study courses. Another two dozen finished their schooling behind the locked gates of the county's juvenile detention camps. |
Students |
12/30/2008 |
|
Judge blocks mandatory algebra testing for California eighth-graders |
A Sacramento Superior Court judge Friday blocked a controversial state plan requiring that all California eighth-graders be tested in algebra. The state's algebra mandate would have been the most ambitious in the nation. |
Trends |
12/30/2008 |
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Los Angeles Unified suspends key arts program |
he Los Angeles school district has suspended a key arts program because of a spending freeze, a sign of what may be ahead for the state's largest district, which is facing a serious budget shortfall. |
Administration |
12/30/2008 |
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All’s Fair in the Middle School Scramble |
Many parents fear that picking the wrong school could dash their children’s chances for a top high school or college. |
Parents |
12/30/2008 |
|
Pupils 'still prefer text books' |
Provisional findings from a study commissioned by the Government's technology agency Becta shows that England's teenagers like traditional teaching methods. |
Technology |
12/30/2008 |
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