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80Activity-based Learning
Activity-based learning is the acquirement of schematic concepts through activities that involve the task or concept to be learned. The old 4-H motto “learn to do by doing” sums up this approach.
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80High Stakes Testing: A Parent's Guide
Do you know what high stakes standardized testing is? Is your child a victim of "teaching to the test" or never-ending test prep? How is your child's education affected by test-based accountability?
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78Dispatch From the Education Front: The Rise and Fall of Teachers' Status in the Community
Teachers: like the old slogan for Timex. They take a lickin' but they keep tickin'
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74Special Education Law and Student Needs
A brief explanation of Special Education Law, which offers a perspective from a current teacher.
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75Who Really Suffers When No Child is Ever Left Behind? The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly with our NCLB Policies
What happens if "No Child is EVER left behind?" Our schools are faced with a double-edged sword- ALL students have to graduate or else they LOSE- BUT if ALL students graduate without the skills necessary for the "real world" who is really the LOSER?
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75The Essence of Teaching and Learning
I remember when my eighteen month old son toddled up to me, put his little finger on my shirt button and said, "That’s a button!" His first complete sentence. Made me proud and excited. The potential. Somehow he had learned language. When I...
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74What is Inclusion: What Parents Need to Know
The No Child Left Behind Law’s push to advance education for all students, regardless of disability or difficulty, has led to a push to include more students with disabilities in the general education...
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74Trapped Inside the Bubble of High-Stakes Standardized Testing
Many American parents are unaware of the negative impact high-stakes standardized testing has on our children and public schools. Be informed and take action to save our schools.
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75US History - President George W. Bush (2001 - 2008) - Outgoing Surprises
The successes and failures of the George W. Bush Presidency have been passionately debated by opposing political parties, US citizens, historians, analysts, media pundits, and others. The first decade of the 21st century would prove to be a provocatively tumultous ten years.
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74NCLB: Benefit or Hindrance
NCLB: Beneficial or Hindrance? Our schools are in desperate need of assistance. We rank 28 out of 40 countries in mathematics. We have only a 75 percent of all of our students who actually graduate compared to a common occurrence of 95 percent...
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