As a former school official, I read with interest today’s Supreme Court ruling on strip searches. But while many are heralding the decision as major, the facts say otherwise.
For years the standard for school officials has been to support reasonable suspicion for searches based on the need to protect students from harm. Strip searching a [...]
WASHINGTON – As the Obama administration pushes for more charter schools, a teachers’ union is pushing for a bigger role in them.
It’s a new development for the charter school movement, a small but growing — and controversial — effort to create new, more autonomous public schools, usually in cities where traditional schools have failed.
On Tuesday [...]
It seems that everywhere we turn these days, higher education statistics get a tad uglier. A recent article promoting online education had this sad introduction:
Alarming statistics have been put forward showing the increased rate of college dropouts. Back in the 1960s college dropout rates were as low as one (1) in every five (5) students, [...]
Current data indicates that one of every four high school students fails to graduate within the standard four-year secondary-school span.
Today there is great debate as to why the drop out rate is so significant. Many elementary folks insist that schools at the upper grade levels tend to put curriculum ahead of students. In contrast, folks [...]
Editor’s note: Rep. Jared Polis, a Democrat, represents Colorado’s 2nd Congressional District and is appearing in CNN.com’s "Freshman Year" series along with Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a Republican from Utah.
(CNN) — To be effective in Congress, you must focus. With so many issues and debates occurring at any given time, it is easy to [...]
Patch Adams to Deliver Conference Keynote Address
Albany – Dr. Patch Adams, world-renowned speaker on wellness, laughter, and humor as well as on health care and health care systems, will deliver the keynote address Thursday, June 25th at a conference hosted by Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO). The session, beginning at 6:30 p.m., is free and [...]
WASHINGTON – Cedric Napoleon suffered so much abuse in his young life that, at age 14, he was already experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder, an affliction often associated with soldiers at war.
By 2002, he was under the care of a foster family and attending middle school in Killeen, Texas, in a class with a special education [...]
Adolescents benefit from a later start to the day, claims Oxford professor after tests on memory
A pioneering headteacher is calling for all secondary schools to follow his lead and start classes at 11am, allowing teenagers two hours extra in bed.
Dr Paul Kelley, head of Monkseaton Community High School in North Tyneside, said it would mean [...]
When it comes to intelligence, there has always been one fundamental question:
Is it a function of nature? Is it simply encoded in a child’s genes?
Or is it a function of nurture? Is it more about the environment that a child grows up in?
Richard Nisbett, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, addresses the [...]
Here are explanations of words used in this year’s online education guide
Asynchronous: Learning in which interaction between instructors and students occurs intermittently with a time delay. Examples are self-paced courses taken via the Internet or CD-ROM, Q&A mentoring, online discussion groups, and E-mail.
CBT (computer-based training): An umbrella term for the use of computers in both [...]
A.L.O. is about alternative learning environments to traditional schooling.