K 12 Education Issues

Traveling the Distance with Rural Schools

September 1, 2010

In decades past, there have been several attempts to address rural education issues and the efforts to improve the learning process and performance of students in rural schools. There has been a constant nagging need for the infrastructure of most of the rural elementary, secondary and higher institutions systems to be strengthened. The Facts States [...]

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12 Benefits of International Baccalaureate Diploma Program

August 24, 2010

What is International Baccalaureate Diploma Program? International Baccalaureate Diploma Program was established in 1968 by the International Baccalaureate Organization in Geneva, Switzerland with the goal of delivering international academic standards in most of the local schools. Its academic philosophy is summed up in the following words of its mission statement: “Through comprehensive and balanced curriculum, [...]

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How Much Would You Pay for Lesson Plans?

August 16, 2010

Lesson Plans for Sale The Internet’s resources are vast. Almost anything can be found and purchased on the World Wide Web. The internet is the largest marketplace in the world with websites like eBay and Craigslist which are two of the leading marketplaces on the net today. Millions of dollars are spent purchasing items on [...]

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Say Goodbye to Tenure in US

August 9, 2010

Tenure in US schools is also known and referred to as life tenure or continuing contracts, defers to a senior academics’ right by law to retain their occupation and avoid termination without bare sagen. Bare sagen is another word for ‘just cause’ ultimately protecting them from unfair and arbitrary termination. Tenure has been adopted within [...]

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Confronting Issues in Bilingual Education

August 2, 2010

The bilingual education agenda along with issues in bilingual education is a topic that antagonizes many people, almost everywhere within the United States. A group of people think that the English language should be the “official” language of the United States and that bilingual education should be limited, paying more attention to the education in [...]

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Trying to Understand Teenage Boys in School

July 27, 2010

Nowadays in school it is more common to hear how hard it is to understand teenage boys. As it happens in every situation, there are two sides to every question, and in this case it should be interesting to analyze if the teenage years are a critical stage in life, or is it a wonderful [...]

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Analyzing the Single Gender Classroom

July 13, 2010

Statistically, the single gender classroom tends to show better academic results over those where students are mixed. This happens not only in the US, but is a fact that is also shown in statistical results in countries like France, England and Australia and other similar countries where this issue has triggered a lot of research [...]

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Global Learning Solutions for 21st Century Students

July 5, 2010

Contrary to the picture even a few years back, the burning need for bringing students under the common canopy of shared awareness has led to the inception of global learning solutions. Earlier it was possible and perhaps feasible to stay indifferent on isolated islands with respect to global issues, for there was hardly any interaction [...]

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How Reading and Writing Online Increase Understanding

June 28, 2010

The fundamentals of reading and writing have been revolutionized by technology. Electronic text is easy to get from the Internet while sitting in the comfort of your home and comprehending the meaning of the text. Reading and writing online have many pros, since you can save time and finish the work at your own pace [...]

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Does Having Gay Parents Influence School Curriculum?

June 21, 2010

Lesson plans should be the same for students of different types of families. In schools, there is great discrimination against students having gay parents. They are subjected to humiliation and embarrassment by their fellow students in classrooms or by the education authority. The basic need for any school-going child is to receive love from his/her [...]

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Reinventing Evaluation with an Assessment Program Online

June 14, 2010

Assessment program online or Internet-based testing is the result of the technological revolution in the education system. Today’s learning curriculum has been greatly influenced by the advancements in technology through the introduction of web-based study resources like digital textbooks and mobile-learning. Complementing our modern Internet-oriented education system, an assessment program online would be the most [...]

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Identifying Children with Special Needs

June 7, 2010

Common special needs include difficulties in learning communication challenges, emotional and behavioral disabilities, physical disorders as well as developmental inabilities. Children with such needs are called children with special needs. The Special Education system has been for children with special needs in a way that it addresses every student’s individual differences and difficulties. Ideally, this [...]

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