Dual Language Learners: What's Happening at Head Start?

by Admin 6. March 2010 12:26
This is the second in a four-part series zooming in on dual language learning in early childhood. Our first post provided a summary of the research on effective approaches to teaching young language learners and the many questions left to answer. Today we are examining Head Start’s s... [Continue Reading »]

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Making History in the Classroom

by Admin 4. March 2010 12:19
The newly unveiled national curriculum takes a back-to-basics approach "They didn't teach it like that in my day." For years, that was the lament of parents worried that an out-of-touch school system was failing to equip their children with the basic skills needed ... [Continue Reading »]

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Chess Champ Offers Lesson for Students

by Admin 2. March 2010 12:08
Washington Math & Science Institute sixth-grader Brandon Kam can do something most adults have trouble with the first time -- moving a knight around an entire chess board. Kam impressed even 1989 U.S. women's chess champion and University of Texas at Dallas professor Alexey Root.... [Continue Reading »]

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Raising Multilingual Children

by Admin 1. March 2010 13:20
We live in a multilingual world. It is not uncommon to walk down the street in any U.S. city and hear several different languages being spoken. Around the world, children are learning English as a second language at a very young age, enabling them to develop the skills necessary to interac... [Continue Reading »]

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Back-to-Basics Approach for Australia's Classrooms

by Admin 1. March 2010 12:15
Australia'S national school curriculum will return history, grammar, literature and phonetics to the classroom, in what Prime Minister Kevin Rudd describes as a ''back to basics'' approach to education. However, it will also place Aboriginal and Asian ways of seein... [Continue Reading »]

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Doctor Says Overtexting Teens May Need Time Out

by Admin 27. February 2010 13:49
It's the type of addiction that might seem harmless.  But if bad texting habits are left alone, they could affect your child's grades and even their future.  ABC2 News Joce Sterman has more on why teens need to take a texting time-out. You might be shocked to hear K... [Continue Reading »]

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Let's Grade Schools Like We Grade Kids

by Admin 27. February 2010 13:08
When parents send their child to school, they want to know he or she is in an academic environment with a high learning standard that encourages growth and development. Right now, all they have to go on is reputation. In Georgia, we have a fuzzy system of ranking schools based on test ... [Continue Reading »]

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Dual Language Learners: What Early Educators Need to Know

by Admin 27. February 2010 12:56
Over the next several weeks, Early Ed Watch will zoom in on dual language learning in early childhood. We will be looking at how different strategies are employed by different organizations that serve young children and we'll scan the landscape for information about how policymakers and ... [Continue Reading »]

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Targeting Best and Brightest

by Admin 23. February 2010 13:26
One hears with dismay that, with regard to academic achievement, the United States is falling behind other countries, especially in Asia. This situation, if true, should not be surprising. Most of the world adopts education policies that channel resources toward high-ability learners. Scor... [Continue Reading »]

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Businesses and Universities to Take over More Failing Schools

by Admin 23. February 2010 13:02
The government sets out plans to rival the Tories' Swedish model for England's schools today with proposals to expand its academy scheme to allow ­universities and businesses to run some of the ­country's worst-performing primaries. The prime minister and his educat... [Continue Reading »]

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