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Article Title: Online Success For K-12 Schools?
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In Minneapolis and all over the United States online classes are becoming extremely popular. The fact that it makes it much easier for teen moms to finish high school, delinquents get back on their educational path and bullied kids go from homeschool to being able to switch to online classes. There are many benefits to online learning. Students can learn to be independent and are in control of their learning. Fast or slow, they make the decision on what makes learning easier for them. There are now statistics coming up that are saying that online learning is not always better learning.
Online learning and virtual schools have obvious benefits, but what about the disadvantages? Statistics are saying that test results from students attending virtual schools or taking online classes are showing that eighty five percent of students aren't up to statewide standards for math proficiency because the online classes aren't rigorous enough. Since these statistics are starting to become apparent, why doesn't the education system overhaul the online class requirements? Since the work is done at home, should there be more work? Or should the teachers utilize video conferencing for its students? As there is some blame for the students not studying hard enough, the teachers and curriculum are the issue.
It may be easier to blame the students for their lack of focus and them not spending enough time on their online work or studying, but it seems the education system is quick to blame someone else for their issues. It's not the student's fault that some online courses are not challenging enough or are not teaching them in the way that they should be. A student merely sigs up for a class, hopes to pass by doing their work and passing tests, they don't create the curriculum. Online classes are a great option and not all online classes are inefficient. Online classes with other subjects seem to be fine, but because math is a subject that s student ether gets or doesn't get, more teacher interaction is needed to assist individual needs and learning styles.
In a classroom setting, students can raise their hand, ask the teacher for help on a particular problem and the teacher will help you work through the problem, step by step, until you get the concept ad the formula down. They help you to see the meaning of the formula and teach you shortcuts and easier ways to do the problems. By being in a classroom environment for learning math, it is greatly beneficial for the students that aren't the best at math. The problem is, the people that don't do good at math don't want to sit in a classroom learning it for hours, they would rather do online courses and get it over faster.
As students work much faster online, which can be good for most subjects, online courses for math just aren't configured properly to assist all learning styles. Is the education system wants to see a boost in test scores in the subject of math in online classes, there needs to be a reform off the online math curriculum.
About The Author: Patricia Hawke is a staff writer for Schools K-12, providing free, in-depth reports on all US public and private K-12 schools. Patricia has a nose for research and writes stimulating news and views on school issues. For more information please visit http://www.schoolsk-12.com/
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Article Title: New Orleans Education 3.0
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After the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans school districts were in shambles. Eighty-five school districts were hurt by the natural disaster. A district called Jefferson Parish was granted twenty million dollars from Cisco to turn sixteen of its schools into models of the new education 3.0. Education 3.0 is a new model for schools that have full wireless connectivity, all new network upgrades, advanced classroom technology and upgraded date centers, plus a lot more. The education 3.0 is a total overhaul from the traditional school ways. Not only does education 2.0 incorporate technology into its classrooms, the classrooms revolve around it.
By having all classrooms and educational buildings begin to change to the new education 3.0 it will greatly impact learning on the 21st century student. Educators and officials need to realize that the 21st century kids learn different than back in the day and schools need to change their curriculums according to the new technological standards of this century. How are schools going to prevent dropouts and prevent failure if they don't catch the student's attention? As much as we think that school is school and a student shouldn't have to be entertained at school, its important for school officials to realize that maybe bringing in more interesting lesson plans will help the students to get better grades. Not only do better grades help the student but also it boosts schools ratings by having a majority of successful students.
With education 3.0 not only do the students reap the benefits from this, the schools do also. The more technology a school has to offer and the more technology it utilizes the smoother a school operates. In turn a smoother operating school produces better jobs, better students and happier teachers and staff. Teachers are beginning to have fun while teaching and instead of the old, watch a lecture and take notes; every lesson now revolves around technology. Weather it be talking to a class while presenting a 3-d lesson plan, utilizing computers or the internet, using handheld technological devices to help assist with class work or something as small as a new projector to project information fro the internet, all of these assist education 3.0 in making the schools fully technological.
Education 10 was the basic lecturing in front of a chalkboard. The old education 2.0 was a program designed to incorporate 21st century technology into the classrooms. As this began to be a success, Cisco realized they needed to go above and beyond to make a real difference in student's grades and demeanor while in school. While education 2.0 replaced chalkboards with projectors and educational software, education 3.0 replaced traditional projectors with 3-d projectors and glasses for all the students to be able to dissect a 3-d image.
Its so important for schools to change their traditional ways and fully make the classrooms based o0n technology, this world revolves around technology now and if students don't have the correct skills technology wise, jobs will be hard to find.
About The Author: Patricia Hawke is a staff writer for Schools K-12, providing free, in-depth reports on all US public and private K-12 schools. Patricia has a nose for research and writes stimulating news and views on school issues. For more information please visit http://www.schoolsk-12.com/
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Article Title: Strengthening Home-School
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In St. Louis, their public schools are starting a program that connects home-schooled students with the district and their teachers. By creating this program called Schoolwires, students will have access to an online community to be able to interact with other educators and be involved in the community. Home schooling is beginning to be much different from the past. Instead of getting packets from the school district that need to be completed and having textbooks to read over, it is turning into an online wonderland of endless content. They are now able to log on to an online community that the home schooled student can see content from multiple educators.
By having access to this online community of educators and district officials, the home-schooled student is able to get many different perspectives on lesson plans and homework. Instead of having to rely on a text book, the home schooled student can now email educators and get instant help with any question that arise during a normal school day for them. They are able to have access to content uploaded by school officials that could help them understand their subjects better. By having this online educational network, it makes it much easier for the home-schooled student to stay connected.
It's very important for students to have social life, as well as an education. By creating social skills, the students will take this with them throughout their life. Weather it is in a job environment or social interaction, social skills are extremely helpful in life. Home-schooled student are not constantly around peers or able to debate or communicate with others on a day-to-day basis, so they need a way to get involved with other students. By creating this website, it is constantly updated by school educators and district officials to provide the home schooled student with vital information that is missed by them not attending a physical school. They update the website with certain after school programs they could attend, community events such as picnics, or holiday parties and other educational tools that could help the student throughout their time home schooling.
Not only does Schoolwires give the student a chance to be a part of their community, but it also helps their grades as well. By giving them access to multiple teacher's lesson plans and online educational tools, the home-schooled student can potentially learn more and get better grades. This student achievement helps the students to feel proud of themselves and what they were able to achieve. It also helps the districts ratings to go up because of the achievements their home schooling program is acquiring.
By using Schoolwires, home-schooled students, for the first time, will be able to feel a more sense of belonging. They are able to be more involved in the district and feel lie they are a part of the community. For a home schooled student where home is all they know, Schoolwires gives home schooled students the chance to break the monotony of home school and get them out into the community.
About The Author: Patricia Hawke is a staff writer for Schools K-12, providing free, in-depth reports on all US public and private K-12 schools. Patricia has a nose for research and writes stimulating news and views on school issues. For more information please visit http://www.schoolsk-12.com/
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Article Title: Teens Missing Too Much Sleep
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At a time where sleep is needed more than ever, teenagers aren't getting enough of it. The Kansas City Star reported that new research has found that by using technological devices it has distracted the teens enough to bother there sleep. Weather the device is a cell phone, a television, a video game console, The Internet or mp3 players; they are taking away from things such as exercise and sleep. All of this lack of sleep is affecting the students in school. They are more tired in the morning and can't focus during school. This results in lower test scores and not so good grades.
Teenagers need a good nights sleep for their body's to rejuvenate and be ready for the next school day. If they are laying in bed texting all of there friends, talking to their friends, going on mobile Facebook or downloading useless applications from popular application stores on mobile phones they will not go to sleep. Not only will they literally fall asleep with their phone in their hand, they maybe get three to four hours of sleep, when a teenager needs at least eight to function properly in school. This distraction is even more of a threat to their goodnights sleep because most students can't get a full deep sleep in because they are hearing their text message ringtone go off while they are sleeping, or their phone ringing, or their phone vibrating because of missed Facebook messages or games that they play on their phone. They sleep light to be able to see these red LED lights blinking on their phones or see the screen light up because of a text message. A student's best bet is to turn of their device before they go to sleep to ensure they get a good night sleep with no distractions. Just a hint, if your phone has your school alarm on it, your phone will turn itself on to wake you up in the morning, but just to be safe, go buy an old school five dollar alarm clock at your local electronics store.
Not only cell phones are to blame for students not getting enough sleep to function properly during the school day. Television, video games and the Internet are common distractions after nine PM that are contributing to student's loss of sleep on school nights. With the creation of Facebook, students are addicted to updates their statuses and checking to see what others are doing, this activity could go on for hours and students do lose a lot of sleep from browsing Facebook. Digital Video Recorders haven't made life easier for the sleep-deprived teen either. They can record all their favorite shows while they are at school or other events outside of the home and after doing homework and having dinner, they can get captivated at the television for hour watching their recorded shows.
Technology is great and has made life so much easier in so many ways for students, with the creation of online classes, eReaders and access to pretty much anything from the web to assist with school needs. This technology is becoming so distracting that its interfering with students sleep and effecting their school focus the next day, there needs to come a time when everything gets powered down.
About The Author: Patricia Hawke is a staff writer for Schools K-12, providing free, in-depth reports on all US public and private K-12 schools. Patricia has a nose for research and writes stimulating news and views on school issues. For more information please visit http://www.schoolsk-12.com/
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Article Title: School Teacher Ratings Publicized
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In the Houston Independent School District and many other districts nationwide, teachers are beginning to be rated on how their student's score on the tests they provide. It seems rational to test teacher's way of teaching by testing their students on how well and how much they have learned in their class. The Los Angeles Times published an online database compiling more than 6000 elementary school students together in a comparative way to see how well their students did on tests on subjects that they had taught them. This is basically a statistical method that people are using to compare the effectiveness of one teacher to another.
Effective teachers are hard to find now a day. Students have so many subjects to learn on a daily basis and it's important for the student's sake, for ineffective teachers not to waste their time. A student in elementary, middle and high school has a brain that is ready to mold and absorb so much information, why would we want anything less than effective teachers for our youth? We know that the union protects the ineffective teachers from being fired and this is a huge flaw. The unions are protecting these parasites in the education system and prevent schools from doing what's best for the next generation. We need the bad teachers out and the best effective teacher in to teach our students. Isn't the next generation the generation that will soon be running our country? We need a change and we need a change now.
With school ratings, it goes off of the schools subjects all around test scores. Teachers haven't been rated this way before. It seems practical to go to the source and find out exactly why students aren't learning like the should, but does comparing some teachers students test scores going to really determine if the teacher is an effective teacher? Maybe. In a way by running statistics on teachers students test scores, the district will know if the student is having the desire to get good grades. Half of the battle for a teacher is getting its students excited about learning and actually wanting to learn. The other half is the actual teaching. A student can absorb everything the teacher is teaching and learn a lot from the teacher, but if that student doesn't care about his or her grades, then what Is the benefit of having statistics that run off of students tests scores really saying about the teacher? Its either saying they can't teach, or they can't get the student to want to do good in school.
By having a newspaper compile these 6000 teachers ratings based off their students test scores online, the teachers might get a well-needed wake up call. Weather the wake up call is to teacher better, learn a more effective way of teaching, or just simply to get the kids excited about getting good grades and getting them excited about planning a life with extended education, then this way of rating the teachers is working. Regardless, it's getting the teachers to step up their game and begin to make changes for the better.
About The Author: Patricia Hawke is a staff writer for Schools K-12, providing free, in-depth reports on all US public and private K-12 schools. Patricia has a nose for research and writes stimulating news and views on school issues. For more information please visit http://www.schoolsk-12.com/
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Article Title: Science Teachers Go Hands On
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A special hands on Science and Technology workshop is coming to San Antonio, Texas. This workshop is for science teachers and designed for them to learn more about the new technologies that have came out that make science more hands on. Currently, Science programs have labs once and a while, but mostly consist of bookwork. By introducing science teachers to these new technologies, they are able to create more fun and interactive science lessons.
Science is supposed to be a hands on subject. The fact that schools are creating lesson plans ore around bookwork doesn't help students fully understand the capabilities that science careers have to offer. When the teachers go to this Science and Technology workshop, this will give them more information to pass onto their students about the exciting things science careers have to offer. When teachers offer more labs and more hands on science training, it helps the students to learn better. Anything hands on is always better than bookwork. Of course, bookwork combined with labs is best. By adding technology to the labs, students are able to track data more efficiently and analyze it better.
When the teachers integrate the technology into the labs, students are amazing at how much more they can learn and track by having access to the science technology. The technology is said to enhance learning in chemistry, biology, physics, math, middle school science, physical science and earth science. It is so important for teachers to attend outside of school triaging and this Science and Technology Workshop is a great way to start.
Effective teachers are teachers that are constantly going out of their way to go above and beyond for their students. They are constantly attending trainings and seeking outside education to enhance their careers and give them tools to better their students and help learning be easier for them. No teacher likes to fail a student. They want their students to pay attention to what they are teaching, learn from them and score well on tests. Happy students in class create a healthy and thriving learning environment. Schools now a day lack the presence of effective teachers and it is so important for schools to hire great teachers. The union currently protects all the teachers who once were effective but have gotten lazy and are not anymore. How is this fair for the students?
A teacher that seeks outside education to better him or herself so they can be a better educator is great. Sadly it's rare for the United States schools to have a majority of effective teachers. By creating free workshops such as these, it give the teachers access to great tools that can better their teaching and create thriving learning environments for their students. Technology has come a long way and even since the teachers have graduated from college technology is ever changing! Its so important for these workshops to be readily available and also for schools to create workshops showing off the new technologies that have been invented to better their schools rating and their students test scores.
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In the Austin Independent School District, the summer school programs are a little different than most other summer schools. We all know that students that have to go to summer school are a little less than pleased. Summer is designed for kids to take a break from their monotonous school life and be able to develop socially with friends and take a much-needed break. Kids that have to go to summer school either have to because they didn't get good enough grades in a particular course and do not want to make it up during the next school year or its for kids looking to get ahead and take extra classes. Whatever the reason is, students never look at summer school as something that is fun.
Things are changing in Austin, Texas with the perception of summer school. Kids are hearing what changes they are making to the summer school curriculum and they are curious. Video games? How can video games be educational? They developed a program that enriches their summer math program and makes it fun for the students either required to take the class or want to get extra credits towards the next school year. These game-based learning tools reinforce math concepts and help kids to get a better understanding of the math lessons by playing instructional video games. As math is one of the more "get it or you don't get it" type of subject, this instructional learning tool based in a video game format, will help kids who do not like the subject actually want to learn.
What's great is because of the number of summer school "failed" classes; it was much needed to make a change in the summer school math curriculum to better the children's chances of passing the classes. We all know summer is not the best time to learn; the high heat (depending on your region), the abundance of fun activities that your friends are all doing, the ability to relax and be a kid and not have to worry about anything makes it extremely hard to focus in summer school. This was apparent and teachers needed for a change to be made in their lesson plans.
To keep the students minds from wandering, its important for schools to develop learning programs designed for children of the 21st Century. With the constant stream of Internet, social media, TV and cell phones, students now a day require more technology during school to keep their attention. We know that students shouldn't run the class, but we have to be mindful that the student's brains are developing different than they used to.
By incorporating video games into summer schools lesson plans, this is creating a whole new world for the teachers that teach during the summer. They are realizing kids are paying much more attention and are excited to be involved in the classwork. They are showing much improvement in their grades as well since the video games are helping them understand much better. Bottom line is, kids are learning different than they use to and its important for teachers and schools to recognize this and design lesson plans around technology to help their students to better on tests. In turn, the schools will get better school ratings and the school, the parents and the students all will be happier.
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In Spokane, Washington, a school decided to install a cell phone jammer into the schools area to prevent students from texting or calling during class. The school has the cell phone jammer running for about a week until the FCC declared the jammer illegal because of the jammers possible interference if a student needed to use their personal cellular device for an emergency. What were schools thinking when they decided that blocking cell phone use out of school was okay without looking into FCC regulations?
Cell phones are becoming more and more commonly found in small children's book bags now a day. Parents feel safe knowing that their children can get a hold of them at any time of day and be in constant contact with their little ones. Whether the contact be through text messaging, calling or social networking, parents like the fact that their children can get a hold of them through the use of cellular devices. The times have changed drastically, we went from not having much contact with people that are not physically around you, to having constant contact with everyone; everyone on your Facebook friends list, MySpace friends list, cell phone contact etcetera. Before it was a mere, "See you when I get home." Or, "See you after school." Now parents can call their kids at lunch, arrange meeting places, talk to the schools, their kids friends parents to arrange carpooling and so much more.
How did the school not realize that the FCC would not allow the cell phone jammer to be placed inside the school? The school had to have thought that in case of an emergency, how would student not inside a classroom call for help? The invention of the call phone has saved many lives because of emergency situations and people having their cellular device handy to call 911. What is more important preventing children from texting during class or preventing them from emergency situations because they have their cellphone?
It seems the schools and teachers are being lazy and want to rely on technology, the cell phone jammers, to do the job for them to prevent their students from texting during class. Should the teachers be responsible for making sure the students aren't texting during class, calling, talking to the person next to them, doodling, day dreaming or in general being a distraction or not paying attention? Maybe the teachers need to step up their lesson plans and make leaning fun and interesting and also keep the kids interest by adding MORE technology into the classroom.
Today's kids rely heavily on technology, use it on a daily basis and enjoy using it. If teachers integrated more technology into the classroom like laptops, online lessons, projects that included a lot of use of technology, the kids would be ore interested and be swayed from being distracted to their everyday cell phone because of the new technology they are being shown by their teachers. Bottom line is schools and teachers need to add more technology into the classrooms to keep up with the times and keep the children interested and challenged on a daily basis.
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Article Title: Age Assigned Versus Ability Assigned Classrooms
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In Denver, Colorado, the Denver-area district is trying a new way of placing students in grades. The old way of spending time in classrooms doing the same work as the other students and moving up a grade, as the kids get older is changing. They are now trying a new way of moving up grade levels by the student's ability. This seems way more practical. By catering to the student's abilities rather than the overall assumptions of what students at that age can handle, it will help the student's progress easier in school. Students that are not being challenged enough will get bored and since they aren't being challenged properly it hinders their learning abilities. Students that learn more slowly would benefit from being in a grade that is suited more towards their learning abilities so they too can progress in a better way and learn more and at a faster pace.
By students being able to learn at their own pace and move up levels depending on their abilities they will get the most out of school. They can progress more quickly and with a better understanding of the material. Instead of students "getting by" in their classes and not fully understanding it they can be placed in the grades that they should be in and learn at a pace suited more towards their learning abilities. By schools doing this, the students will be better prepared for college and get the most out of their educational experience since they are able to fully understand each subject at their own pace.
The only thing that may not be beneficial with this new way schools are starting to assign grades is social interruptions. The ability assigned grades are definitely beneficial to the student's education wide, but socially it might not be the best idea. What will happen if a student's best and only friend falls behind and they progress two levels above them? Not only will this create hardship for the student left behind, making them feel "stupid" or unworthy of leveling up like their best friend has, but then they will be forced to be in classrooms with different aged students and depending on the ages of the students around them, they might feel too old, or too young around them. No matter what the educational abilities are, maturity is another thing altogether.
If a student is fourteen and in a senior classroom with all eighteen year olds because of they way they placed in subject tests, their maturity level is entirely different and wont mesh well with the older kids. They may feel left out of their peer's invitations to birthdays or events because they are too young and feel discouraged because of this. Also kids that are eighteen and stuck in classrooms with fourteen year olds because of their abilities, they will feel not worthy and "stupid" as well.
It would be hard to find a balanced of goof education and social benefits but for a while now we have been doing it by age assigned classrooms with occasional students being able to skip grades based on teacher recommendations, and this seems the more socially and educational balanced option.
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At Paradise Valley Unified School District in Phoenix, Arizona they are beginning to branch into mobile learning. Called twenty-first century learning, using mobile technology in the classroom has created concerns for the teachers, as they fear the students will be distracted with other mobile applications on their device. Regardless of these teachers' fears, times are changing; students need to be challenged technologically to keep their attention. The old ways or preaching in front of the classroom while the students take notes is old fashioned. Students aren't like they used to be. They are getting laptops, iPhones, BlackBerrys, iPads and other devices and are using them on an everyday basis.
Students love technology. They are on it all the time. Their mobile phones are practically glues to their hands and they are constantly texting, picture messaging, going on social media sites such as Facebook, MySpace and twitter. This everyday use of technology makes them tech savvy and even the kids are beginning to teach their parents how to use their technological devices. That's why its s important for the teachers to expand on the student's technological knowledge and challenge them with new applications and educational tools that a mobile device can offer.
By adding educational tools and educational lessons through mobile devices, students are more likely to pay attention. Since they are already addicted to technology, student's love being able to work in school with mobile learning devices. There are many benefits to being able to use mobile technology in the classroom. Students will be able to take notes on their device, very well organized notes that they can refer back to later and record lectures using voice memo recording or video recording, so they can review the lesson plan when they want to study or refresh their memory's before a test. Of course the devices would be great for researching information on the Internet for projects or classwork.
Distractions can happen anywhere at anytime. The fear teacher have that their student wont be paying attention is relevant and a right thing to fear. Students In school are constantly using Facebook and other social media sites and this would be a distraction in the classroom. Think about it, if they are already sneaking using their phones in a regular classroom setting then it will be no different if they choose to use it during a mobile learning environment. It will just be in plain site.
The teachers should start incorporating Facebook into their lesson plans! It seems logical since the students are already constantly on their social media sites. A teacher can create a Facebook page and add test dates, homework due dates and projects due dates into the calendars so that the students are constantly reminded. The teachers also could utilize social media to be able to interact with students and answer any questions they might have easily without having to set up and appointment to go on school campus.
The use of technology in the classroom will open so many doors for students. They will be able to learn in a way that the twenty-first century has taught them and they will be able to utilize the technological devices to make their educational pathway easier and more reliable.
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Skyline School in Portland, Oregon, has placed cameras in the schools to monitor and protect its students. Last June, a seven year old, disappeared from their school and thanks to a great donation, the school was able to install these cameras to protect other students. Many high schools are starting to install video surveillance camera on their campuses because they want a method to deter crime and deter students from doing things that they shouldn't be doing. This method works wonders, if a student is thinking of ditching class or thinking of bullying another student and they see the cameras, most likely they will not do it because they don't want to get in trouble.
Some people may ask, is this giving the schools too much knowledge into our personal life's? What if this video surveillance catches on and the government starts installing them everywhere? We already have video surveillance in parking lots, stores (to prevent theft), also government buildings and now at stoplights to catch red light violator's when a police officer isn't around. Is our world going to turn entirely monitored by these cameras and prevent us from ever having real privacy and freedom as our constitution gives us?
It would be easy to get an approval for the use of cameras on campus by outlining the safety benefits, which there are great benefits to having the cameras on campus. To prevent crime and potentially identify people committing crimes to be able to prosecute them later is an amazing advantage of having these cameras installed in schools. The benefits of having these cameras installed on school campuses clearly outweigh the cons. If having these cameras installed can prevent just one more student disappearance, it would be worth it.
Student safety is always a number one priority but by installing these cameras, is this giving the schools less reason to have campus security on the grounds monitoring the students? One fear about the installation of these cameras is schools might feel that because of this great video surveillance on the campus they might need less security officers on campus to monitor the students, since it only takes one or two to monitor the cameras. If students see a decrease in security on foot, the might be able to beat these technological devices and either break the cameras or block the view and then going ahead to commit the crime they were going to do in the first place.
By schools having these cameras they need to make sure that they are not decreasing their actual security officers and make sure to not rely on the cameras as their only source of Intel about crimes being committed in the schools. It would be easy to become lazy and rely on the new technology to monitor the schools and then cut costs by having less security officers, but in the end, if the schools cut their real, human officers, what will the schools do in the event of a power outage or emergency situation? Technology is great and has so many advantages as long as it is used correctly and not relied on 100%.
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The Seattle Post in Washington reports that science and math teachers are paid less than teachers of other subjects. Nineteen out of thirty Washington school districts pay math and science teachers less than high school instructors of other subjects. When we are taught throughout elementary and high school that math is a subject we must take seriously as it is used in every job that you get in life, why are its teachers paid less? Especially with the subject of science, this subject its extensive as it involves labs, dissecting and a lot of hands on lessons, it seems odd that science teachers also get paid less than other teachers.
Schools that discriminate against its teachers are wrong. Since teachers are unionized why isn't the union protecting the math and science teachers as equal teachers like the history and English instructors? They say that because Math and Science teachers leave schools before they receive promotions since they are recruited out of their jobs to higher tech companies that pay higher than teaching jobs. How are schools going to be able to hire and keep effective math and science teachers if they are easily swayed to other companies because of the low pay they are receiving from the schools?
Its important for schools to keep and maintain good relationships with its math and science teachers as these subjects are important for students to do well in college. The better-prepared students get with their math and science classes in high school, the easier the transition will be when going from high school to college. Since math is such a fundamental subject why aren't schools paying the math teachers more to keep them at the schools and help the students do better in the math subjects.
If math teachers are constantly being recruited out of schools to higher paying tech jobs, then schools are also constantly hiring new math and science teachers to fill their places. This results in inexperienced math and science teachers coming into the schools and teaching students a subject that is so fundamental for a student's success in their educational career. Students deserve to have well educated and well-experienced teachers teaching them these subjects as they are subjects that you either get or don't get. Teachers need to have experience in teaching a diverse group of students with different learning abilities and learning speeds. Some students learn different than others and students need that individualized attention that only comes from teachers that have had years of experience in actual classrooms working with a group of students with different learning abilities.
Its so important for students to learn from effective and experienced teachers. If such important subjects in schools are being taught year by year by new teachers since the pay is son low that they are getting recruited faster than the school can promote them or give them raises, it seems that the schools should start the pay higher. In turn this will get students getter grades, better test score and in turn, better school ratings.
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Article Title: Computer Science to Become a Requirement in Pennsylvania Schools
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In Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia School Board asked last year to make Computer Science classes a requirement, and they did. The problem In the United States is that lees than sixty five percent of K-12 schools offer a Computer Science class in the introductory level. The Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, (STEM,) Education Coalition is a program that is designed to create education programs for teachers and students. So far Computer Science hadn't been a part of STEM, which in turn has resulted in schools not offering it as a class that went towards credits. The classes didn't have the right curriculum and lesson plans to effectively challenge the students in the class.
Fewer and fewer students were taking the Computer Science class in their schools because they were not a requirement and because they didn't go towards their graduation credits. When less ad less students take a course that a school offers, the school therefore has less teachers n staff to teach those courses. In result, more and more schools and nixing the program entirely because of the demand for the class is not high enough. The classes are merely being offered as an elective. When you are a student in the K-12 schools would you choose Computer Science as an elective over classes such as yearbook, art or dance? That's why Computer Science should be a requirement and go towards the graduation credits. Computer Science is just as important now a day as classes such as Math and History, Computer Science is a very useful subject to learn because of the fact it is used in everyday life.
The better you are with computers, the easier life will be in the job market. Companies look for people to hire that have experience with computers since the companies heavily rely on computers and technology to make their everyday business smoother and rely on computer programs designed for their companies to organize data. Since Computer Science is used on an everyday basis in the '"Real World," why isn't it a requirement at most schools in the United States? So far only ten schools actually require the Computer Science course in the United States.
The lack of requirement for this course in then United States has a direct impact on the need for teaching jobs for Computer Science. The less schools offer this course, the less teachers are needed, Google and Microsoft said over 1.5 million technology bases jobs will be created in the next ten years and we will be needing much more computer science teachers to be teaching this course. At the moment, the demand is down for these curse based solely on the fact that most schools are not making this course a requirement like it should be.
Once the schools make Computer Science a requirement and have it go towards graduation credits, the demand for Computer Science teachers will go up. In turn this will greatly help our future job seekers and better prepare the students for real life.
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Article Title: Ohio Schools Competing For a Share in $3.4 Billion
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The United States Department of Education has announced a $3.4 Billion dollar incentive for schools across the nation. The state of Ohio is one of the finalist competing for this grant. The schools need to come up with ways to reform their school and create new programs designed to better enrich the student's lives and learning abilities. The schools that create the most creative programs and intuitive learning courses will receive some of the share. This education stimulus is designed to give schools an incentive to reform their school and make it a top rated school. If a school has excellent programs and students are learning effectively, the schools ratings will soar.
The sad part of this is, schools need incentives to start to think about reforming their schools. They should already be hiring effective teachers and implementing fun programs and course programs to better enrich the student's lives. It doesn't cost any more to hire good teachers. Unfortunately, the union protects teachers that have been there for a long time, despite their teaching abilities, but when hiring new teachers, there needs to be a better process. Along with hiring new teachers, not only should schools look past the applying teachers college resume, but actually test them to see how they teach in a classroom setting. This will help eliminate hiring bad teachers and help schools to begin to get better ratings based on their effective teachers.
Part of this education stimulus will find programs that involve a lot of technology, as this is one of the most important revolutions in this day. Implementing technology into everyday school is a great way to keep students engaged and have the desire to go to school and learn more with technology devices. By learning about technology early in their school careers, it will follow them throughout their life.
Technology is expensive, and that's why a lot of the schools competing for this stimulus money are creating programs that integrate a lot of technology into the everyday classroom setting. To keep up with the times schools need to add this into the curriculums because the kids these days are becoming more and more involved with technology on an everyday basis, and schools need to adjust to having technology readily available for all students. Why would a kid from this day an age have the desire to learn and attend a school that is behind the times and not challenging them enough mentally?
Kids now are more technologically inclined than their parents and therefore their teachers also. Teachers need to use some of these stimulus funds that they are awarded to fund courses designed for the teachers to give them a better understanding of technology and how to effectively implement it into the classroom. The more the teachers know about technology, the better they can challenge the students and actually teach them something they don't know about it already.
The states that are finalists in the Race to the Top school grant competition are Arizona, South Carolina, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland, Louisiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Hawaii, Georgia, Florida, Colorado and California.
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Article Title: Virginia Schools Look at Results When Separating Boys and Girls in the Classroom
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Having separation between boys and girls in the past has always been a way many private schools run their classrooms. Motivation for this might be for religious or moral reasons, or just because they don't want boys and girls being distracted by the opposite sex in the same classroom. Recently, public schools have been separating the boys and girls, and for entirely different reasons. The public schools are separating the sexes due to different learning needs depending on the gender. Apparently girls and boys learn differently. The public schools are not going as far as to completely separate the sexes by putting them on different campuses, but they are all intermixed on one campus but separated in the classrooms.
Some give the reason for separation in part to the fact that boys and girls distract each other when in the classroom setting and they may not pay much attention to the lesson plan when the opposite sex is in the room. They say by separating the genders, they are removing the distraction and helping test scores go up because students can focus more on the schoolwork and lessons.
Girls have the reputation that Math, Science and Technology is not the best subject for them. The schools are hoping that by separating the boys and girls, they can adjust the lesson plans for the girls to be geared towards the female brain and how to teach the girls effectively. In result the girls will do better on their tests and have better understanding of the subjects.
They are calling this separation of the genders in classrooms, Dual Academy. One school that has adopted this new Dual Academy way of teaching is Imagine Southeast Public Charter School, in Virginia. This single sex education really is showing improvement in the schools that have taken on this dual academy teaching style. Teachers that were critical of this new way were astounded on how much more focused the students were. They said the students were not only focused but they participated more, because of lack of shyness since the opposite gender was not present. Also, the teacher noticed that students took more pride in their work, they were proud of getting good grades and loved that they didn't have to feel embarrassed in front of the opposite gender when presenting in class or asking questions.
When we think of separating boys and girls we normally think of three things; private schools, religious reasons or old fashioned morals. Now that we are seeing a trend in public schools starting to separate boys and girls we wonder if that is good for our children's character to only be around one sex. In real life us adults aren't segregated anymore. We have to work on a daily basis with the opposite sex and by going to school with the opposite sex, we learn to resist distractions in the classrooms and learn to work with the opposite sex on projects or present projects in front of them. By us segregating genders to boost test scores, is this really helping our youth become diverse and help them feel confident around the opposite genders one day?
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Article Title: Video Evaluation in Minnesota Schools
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Minnesota is going to be the first state to bring forth a new way of evaluating teachers. This is going to be through video monitoring. The current way schools evaluate teachers is through written tests and passing their class work. How was this current method of evaluating teachers even acceptable in the past? This would not be an effective method of evaluating how teachers interact with students.
The main objective a teacher has is to teach as much information to a student as possible in the years time they have them as a student and for that student to retain the information and be able to use it. For us to think it's acceptable to evaluate our children's teachers by a test score and a curriculum plan is ridiculous. How do we know if they are effectively teaching the students based solely on teachers intentions? Teachers are protected by a union, which makes it difficult to get rid of bad teachers. If we had a better way of evaluating their affect on students we might be able to get rid of the teachers that are wasting our kids time in their classrooms.
The union rejected the evaluation of teachers based on the students test scores, saying that didn't relate to the teachers teaching, but this new way of evaluating directly is related to teaching styles and how effective their teaching methods are. This video evaluation records clips of teacher lesson plans and how they interact with the students, hoe they deliver their lesson plan, how they individualize the lesson plan to each students different learning speeds and abilities and if it is affective. This is a much better way of seeing how effective a teacher is teaching our children.
This is much smarter for schools to evaluate teachers this way because this will help eliminate the "bad seeds" in the faculty for the schools that adopt this evaluation method. The school will be able to see which teachers are going above and beyond to deliver excellent lesson plans, teach their students effectively and challenge the students. The less bad teachers a school has, the higher the ratings will be for that school. Its very important to have great school ratings so that more parents will trust that their kids are learning as much as they can and retaining the information because of the quality of teachers that school has.
The school will hire "teacher evaluators" to come in and evaluate the teachers one by one to determine if they are good teachers and if they are effectively teaching the students. This will make it less biased when determining their strong and weak points since there is no emotional connection or direct relationship between the teacher and the hired "teacher evaluators."
This program will launch in 2012 and Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington and Ohio will be taking on this new evaluation method as well. We will soon begin to see a change across the nations schools as the bad teachers are weeded out and schools ratings go up!
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Article Title: Libraries Vanishing in Michigan Schools
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More and more schools have had to make the hard decision to either keep or cut out the schools library. The sad thing is, that's the schools first thing they think of when making budget cuts. Michigan has been one of the hardest hit with the budget cuts forcing schools to cut down on library costs. With technology becoming more and more prevalent, libraries are becoming old-fashioned an out of date. With the creation of the Nook and eReaders, paper books are becoming old school. With the connotation that paper books are becoming less and less popular, libraries itself are becoming something that can be sacrificed when making school budget cuts.
The sad part of this is, not all students have access to the Internet or technological devices such as the nook or eReader and they rely on having a reliable librarian and a well-stocked library for their research for school projects and assignments. Not everyone has access to the Internet and by schools making this assumption and cutting out the schools resources, it is negatively affecting the underprivileged students. Libraries that normally have two or three people on staff are now down to just one librarian, which makes finding one on one time with the librarian hard to come by. Not only are they letting go to most of the libraries staff, but they are hiring uncertified "librarians" that don't know how to affectively help students within a library or help them with school work. They are just there to help check out books.
Librarians have always been there to help students and assist them in finding what they need to do there school assignment research. Now since so many students are going home and doing there research online, it is becoming less important for schools to have on staff, well-educated librarians. They now can hire more much cheaper, people who can be trained to check out books. In the past, the school library was the most important part of the school. It was the one-place schools were always upgrading and making better since it was so utilized by the students and teachers.
Schools upgraded libraries by adding computers, new software to help find books easier and integrated more and more technology into the library, but students are uninterested. The majority of students own computers at home and don't feel the need to use the library because of that. Until the libraries becoming entirely technology based, featuring new devices that students don't own, this generation of students will not be interested in going to libraries.
Until all the books in the world get scanned into computers to be able to be read on devices such as eReaders and Nooks, libraries will still be standing. Unfortunately, technology is not always as good as the hard copy. Technology can have glitches and mistakenly erase important books, skip pages, Internet connection could be cut off and important information can be lost forever. People can fight the past and old ways as much as they want , but in the end, the most reliable option is keeping libraries open and running and keeping the books on the shelves.
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Article Title: Online K-12 Courses Offered by Wisconsin Schools
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In Wisconsin, online teachers must complete thirty hours of professional development designed to prepare a teacher for online teaching. K-12 schools more and more are starting to incorporate online classes into their class options. It is now offered in 48 states and is growing rapidly. Some people believe that online learning is not as substantial as learning in a classroom.
The great part about online classes is that is teaches students to be independent. Students working on classwork and participation in virtual lessons can "go to school" on their own time and learn to manage their time effectively and get assignments done by a certain time. They are able to relax in their own environment, be able to have lunch while doing schoolwork, wear a warm blanket and listen to music if that helps them concentrate. They are able to tailor their learning environment to something that exactly suits them. This will lead to more success in school and the want to learn more.
Some kids might miss school because they are sick or because they just don't want to go because they are shy of presenting a report in front of the class and because of this they miss out on important classwork. When students miss just one day of class they get behind and don't understand fully what the lesson is about because of the key information they missed while they were out "sick."
The benefit of online courses is that students are more apt to want to do they're school work if its on their own time. They are able to sleep in and learn at their own pace. There isn't a time crunch where they have to get schoolwork done within the hour. They have much longer to complete assignments which makes it much more helpful for those that need the extra time. Another great advantage on taking online courses is that there are no excuses to miss class or not do homework and classwork. If you are sick at home, you can easily complete your work from your online class since that is work you do from home. So by taking online courses, students are more likely to finish the class and pass them with good grades because of the extra time they are allotted to do school and home work and because all excuses of not going to school are eliminated!
Students that are shy and reserved in school benefit greatly from taking online courses. In a traditional classroom students may be too shy to raise their hands and ask questions if they don't understand and they don't engage in the group classwork or effectively ask questions to stretch their learning capacity. Because they are shy and reserved it hinders their learning potential. By taking the online courses they are able to communicate through email, discussion boards and virtual chats without fearing embarrassment or peer pressure. Since they can directly talk with the teacher and express their concerns, questions and comments freely without feeling judged by peers, these shy students can heighten their learning potential and get better grades.
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There should be an easier way to get rid of bad teachers in our children's schools. The union protects teachers in a huge way, letting go of new teachers first, opposed to letting go of teacher based on their teaching and how students are affected by them. When it comes to budget cuts, the first to go all the recently hired teachers. These new teachers, right out of college have an abundance of information and new teaching styles that could directly benefit anybody they teach. The older teachers, the ones that have been teaching for a long period of time get to stay teaching, despite the fact that they should have retired years before.
Some teachers stay in the teaching profession after they are supposed to retire and this doesn't benefit the students. Students need fresh, new perspectives that lean more towards this new age. Bad teachers that do not benefit the students or teach them much of anything are being kept in schools based on seniority. The longer the teachers have taught at that school, despite what the students have learned from their classes, they get passed over when schools need to fire teachers because of budget cuts. Unfortunately the union protects the teachers that have been there longest. Is it better to protect the teachers that have been there the longest teaching the students no useful information or a new teacher with new and fresh ideas challenging the student's everyday?
The schools have been trying to create an effective method of firing teacher because of the budget cuts. Schools don't want to lose their good teacher and be forced to keep their bad one, They want their schools to do good on test scores and have good ratings among the schools districts. The schools tried implementing something where they would give the students a standardized test and based on their results the teachers would be graded on what the students learned. The student that had learned the least from that teacher, that teacher would be on the list for being let go when budget cuts would arise. Unfortunately the union did not approve this stating that standardized tests are not enough to tell whether or not the teacher is actually a good teacher. If that isn't, then what is?
Fifty present of people think that a teacher's salary should be based on how much the students are learning in their class. Almost like an education commission. We all know how hard commissioned salespeople work, why not apply this to things that are so important in our children's life? If a teacher knew their salary would be based on how much their students were learning, don't you think they would add extra lesson plans, take extra schooling to better prepare themselves to teach students effectively and add in technology in their classroom to keeps the kids focused?
It's sad to think that all teachers in the United States have a bad reputation. This is not because all teachers are flawed, but because the school system fires good teachers due to budget cuts and keeps the bad ones that are protected by the union.
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The Fresno Unified School District in California recently purchased ten thousand mini notebook computers to supply each child with their own notebook computer to work with while in school. Regular laptops are heavier and take up a lot of room on a desk, so schools are opting for the smaller option so the students will still have room for books. These mini notebooks are allowing children to all have an equal access to technology to get them better prepared for their future.
Not all children have access to computers or technological devices at home, that's why this is such a great opportunity for them. To be able to work everyday in school with a computer they are gaining invaluable knowledge about using technology that will help them throughout their life. This will give them the best start possible at a successful life since technology is so important today. Technology is everywhere and it's amazing to be able to give underprivileged students access to computers on an everyday basis. Of course all schools have computers in their library's, but by being able to each have their own computer in a classroom, that is the best way to get familiar with technology and get the most out of it. By using the mini notebooks everyday the students can get familiar with the programs that are essential to life outside of school as well as inside.
Because the district is buying mini notebooks, they are able to purchase a lot more to benefit more classes. The low cost of a mini notebooks compared to a laptop is significant. In the high schools each student will have their own laptop. It is very beneficial for the students to each have their own to use so they can get the most out of it. The middle schools and elementary schools share the mini notebooks computers with one other person. Because the work on the computer is not as great as in high school, the elementary and middle school students benefit from sharing. It helps by teaching them teamwork and how to collaborate with others.
Schools that integrate technology into their curriculum greatly helps the students prepare for college. College is very computer and technology based, especially with all of the online classes becoming more and more popular. The need for a good understanding of computers and technology is very important and very useful in creating a very smooth transition from high school to college.
The mini notebook computers will be running Windows XP, Microsoft Office, OneNote, SharePoint 2007 and more. All of these programs will have individual logins so the students can track their work from class to class as they are not able to carry the laptops between classes. They stay in each class for the students to use while they are in school, but the schools also offer a discount on purchasing their own if they wish. The teachers also can check them out and use them while not at school.
The district's goal is to improve student's technology literacy, communication and their general achievement in school. With the students being able to digitally organize their schoolwork and files they definitely will see an improvement in their grades and parents can be assured their children are getting the best out of their education!
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The future of textbooks seems dim. More and more people are making the switch into buying, Nook and Kindles for their everyday readings. Instead of having to go to the book store, search for their next read, wait in line to purchase it and then drive home they can simply tap the screen on their Kindle or Nook, search for what they want in the comfort of their own home and download it. This digital innovation was very popular to students hoping they would start selling textbooks through them and they did just that.
California based CourseSmart started offering electronic textbooks in 2007. According to them they have sold to many students in over 5,900 schools. Not only do the students not have to lug around thick, heavy textbooks, they have the opportunity to take their textbooks anywhere and get instant access to all of their textbooks in one device. This is changing the way we read. The eReaders are now designed to have a special screen that "looks" like paper, so that you don't get that feeling of staring at a bright computer screen all day.
Arnold Swarzenegger, the governor of California said that they would be replacing some of the high school science and math texts with online versions. These would be accessible from eReaders and Online. He is hoping by making the switch they could save hundreds of millions of dollars per year because of the low cost of digital textbooks compared to printed textbooks. William Habermehl, the superintendent of the 500,000 total students Orange County School District, believe that in five years time, most students will make the switch to using digital textbooks.
Some people may argue that the opportunity to use digital textbooks are going to be limited to rich people, as the poor may not have the resources to purchase a Kindle or Nook and may not have online access at home to be able to view the digital textbooks from home to complete schoolwork. This will be the savior of printed textbooks because of the inaccessibility of the digital ones from students home who do not have Internet access at their home. Students could go to the library and use their computers to access their online digital textbooks but schools can't require students to use online textbooks and force students to use online versions. They need to offer both and see where that takes them.
Public schools from kindergarten throughout high school are required to offer free textbooks. By going digital, states can cut out a lot of cost from having to purchase printed textbooks and put their saved money into better programs for schools to help students further their education. They want to start implementing online classes for students who wish to get ahead and take an extra course from home, or for those who need the extra class credits in order to graduate. Either way students will benefit from having these online classes and online textbooks, making it all easier and lighter on their backpack.
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Back in the day, the school bull would lock you in your locker or pick on you on your walk home from school. Now a day, bullying is a lot less physical. Unfortunately, with the creation of the Internet, bullies are starting to mentally bully kids through online threats and constant negative communication through programs such as MySpace, Facebook, Formspring, text messaging, e-mail and Internet chats. The Missouri school boards association added Cyber Bullying to its school policy and has since seen a decrease in cyber bullying.
The schools are working on being able to punish kids who cyber bully others, even from their home. This has concerned a lot of people that say the school has no right to monitor kids at home. That is a pretty big power for the schools to take on. As the majority of cyber-bullying does happen after school hours, when the kids get home from school and start to surf the web. They go on their MySpace, instant messaging and Facebook and get threatened by the cyber bullies. This makes the kids scared to go to school and mentally worried and stressed everyday. This is a huge strain on the students and sometimes in extreme cases, leads to suicide.
The schools are trying to crack down on this because they don't want their students affected by cyber bullies. In a way, the at home bullying is directly related to school in that both of the students attend that same school and the student being bullied is fearful of attending school. Since this is so related to the school, why shouldn't the school have rights to monitor this outside of school? If this new law was started to protect our students and keep the safe from cyber bullying at school and at home, how does the school having more power really affect us negatively?
People are more concerned with the fact that they think the school has no right to monitor what the kids do outside of school hours. This would be a normal statement for anyone to make, but by punishing students for bullying others outside of school would only do good. The only thing that this use of more power might do is give the schools a feeling that they can start to control more of what the kids do outside of school. That would become a freedom issue and negatively affect the students by making them feel like they are always at school and constantly monitored, hindering their independence. Monitoring cyber bulling outside of school is not an abuse of power but a program designed to protect our children and bring cyber bullying to a reality. It does happen and sometimes it is fatal.
By adding anti cyber bullying into the schools policy it bring cyber bullying to peoples attention making parents, teachers and students more aware of it. At the very least, adding it into the policy might help a parent monitor their kid's online activities better and prevent cyber bullying from happening to their children.
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Alice Waters, a renown celebrity chef, made a visit to Sacramento's Schools in California to push the schools to go green and serve locally grown food in their schools. This would stimulate Sacramento's economy by having the schools district's purchase food and supplies from Sacramento's farmers markets. They are also in the talks of implementing edible gardens into each school.
The nations elementary schools are known to serve the lowest health food out of all schools. High schools have a better selection of food, but still a huge majority of what schools are offering is junk food. Schools are cheap! They care more about the sports teams, look of the school and events then the way the students are eating. How does this help a student succeed in class and prepare for their life? This only starts bad eating habits at a young age and is the recipe for health issues later in life.
By serving locally grown food and organic food in the school system not only will it give the local economy a boost but it will help students. Students need good nutrition to do well in school. How are they going to be able to focus if they are loaded up on sugar or ate something with so much fat that they are lethargic? A student's brain needs "brain food" something healthy that will keep them going all day and keep them feeling good.
Edible Gardens are a new system that many schools are starting to have. They are creating programs designed to teach kids how to grow different foods and then using some of the information they gather in their science classes. They are growing food at schools and using it in the cafeteria for the kids to eat. Fresh fruit and vegetables are giving kids a better taste palate and teaching them better eating habits. If all schools started to have "Edible Gardens" and buying locally produced organic foods, the children will gain important health benefits as well as create life long healthy eating habits.
This slow food instead of fast food movement is becoming very important. Today's lifestyle demands things fast; fast information, fast transportation and fast food. People are now catching on to the fact that fast food isn't "good food." So many health problems are a result of our eating habits. To be able to start kids out with the knowledge of these health problems and the resources to be able to change them, they will have a healthy life and succeed in school because of their energy and motivation coming from the healthy lifestyle they are living.
If all schools were to buy local foods, grow edible gardens, and serve healthy food in the cafeterias the students will prosper. The schools will see an improvement in test scores, less tardiness, less absences and more motivation from the students. Health is so important that it affects every aspect of your life. By teaching our children and students how to live healthy, we are giving them the best chance at having a successful educational experience and life.
Patricia Hawke is a staff writer for Schools K-12, providing free, in-depth reports on all US public and private K-12 schools. For more information please visit Sacramento School Ratings and Sacramento School Rankings
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San Francisco's Unified School District has received a million dollar technology grant from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (AARA) Title II, Part D, Enhancing Education Through Technology Competitive Grant Program. The state of California won this federal grant and the winning districts included Alameda, Los Angeles, Elk Grove, Fresno, Long Beach and San Diego. This grant is designed to help the schools to improve their technical devices and give students the best materials to better their education.
Technology is so prevalent in todays working world that it makes sense to have a very strong technological influence in schools. Elementary, Middle and High schools nationwide are gearing programs toward technology and using technical metrical in everyday classrooms to keep up with society's lean towards technology and new devices. By preparing students with the right equipment, they will have a better chance at succeeding in todays work environment.
Everything is using technology in the work environment these days. Most companies have to go online, or they will go out of business. The new generations are starting to only buy online and do research online. People would rather than be face-face with others. With the use of twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etcetera, companies can reach a larger number of potential clients than ever before. Technology is changing the way we do business. By having a head start in learning hands on with technological materials and devices, our students will have a much easier time starting their career.
The San Francisco Unified School District is using their one million dollar federal grant they won to make improvements of the ninth grade "Plan Ahead" college and career course. This prepares students to get ready for their life as a college student and in the workforce. Most unsuccessful college experiences come from not planning ahead while in high school and not being well enough prepared for what the expectations of the "real world" and college have.
The "Plan Ahead" program is an eighteen-week course that is becoming available in all high schools coming this fall. This program will be serving 4500 students per year. This program is geared for students to find out what their strengths and interests are, ask questions of themselves and start to decide what they want their careers to be. By starting early in the search to find themselves, students can have goals and start preparing for what they want their life to be.
The technology grant is going to fund the "Plan Ahead's" online curriculums digital online platform, which will create student based digital portfolios and web reports. It will also fund Interactive boards, several laptops, document cameras, student response systems and projectors. These all will help better prepare students for the "real world" in getting them familiar with these devices that we now use on an everyday basis.
Another great program that this technology grant is funding is the data-based Dropout Prevention Early Warning System. This system will automatically inform the teachers if a student is making the signals to be a dropout. This will be a great program to help students stay in school. All of this technology is created to help better our children's chances at having a successful education and career and this grant is going to help incredibly.
About The Author: Patricia Hawke is a staff writer for Schools K-12, providing free, in-depth reports on all US public and private K-12 schools. For more information please visit http://www.schoolsk-12.com/
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In California, we have a right to a free public education. How have so many schools gotten away with charging their students for things that should be free? Some public schools in San Diego have been charging students for textbooks, required courses, Advanced placement tests, gym clothes and forcing them to buy them from the school, not allowing students to buy gym clothes from an outside source. Schools prices for sports have also gone up considerably. How are these pricing increases making it easier for a family to educate their children?
By giving children a good education, in turn they go to college, get good jobs and stimulate our economy. Struggling families wanting a better life for their children benefit greatly from this "free public education." Now families will have to struggle even more to keep up with the increasing demands for money for required materials that should be free in the first place.
Charging for textbooks? This is supposed to be just a college requirement. Now elementary, middle and high schools across the nation are charging for textbooks for classes that are supposed to be free. What if a family couldn't afford a textbook? This is why over thirty-five schools in California are being sued for not providing a "free" education as out law states we have the right to.
When students choose to take an advanced placement class in high school to better their education and give them better opportunities to get into certain colleges, it should not cost them. Throughout many schools in the nation they are charging students to take the advanced placement tests. This test is part of their final grade at the end of the semester/year and the school charges for it? This is unreasonable, how is charging for a required test going to help our students and their education?
Some schools are now requiring gym clothes to be bought directly from the school and are not allowing students to purchase any Physical Education attire from outside vendors. The schools gym clothes are priced much higher than if you were to go to a discount store. This is very inconvenient and again comes back to the fact that the schools are not supposed to be forcing materials to be bought from the school. This is leaving parents with no options and creating a bad relationship between the school and the parents.
Sports have always been a great way to get a student involved and help them socialize and learn to work as a team. Now because schools are charging so much for sport fees and uniforms, students have to quit the sports they loved because of the rising costs of them. At one San Diego High School the cheerleading program is $1,833, $400 for wrestling and $180 for water polo.
How do these school charges get past our law system? Public education is supposed to be free. If a parent has the means to put their child through private school that is their right, but what about the families struggling to make ends meet? It seems that the schools are willing to let families struggle to make them money. This does not benefit the child and doesn't get them any better of an education by making them buy gym clothes directly from the school or purchasing textbooks that were meant to be free.
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