Archive for March, 2009
Providing a daycare for young teens
My name is Abby. I’m a high school teenage mother who goes to school leaving my daughter in the mornings with mother. I want to suggest to provide daycare centers for all high schools and college. This would prevent mothers running late for her mornings classes that start early. This would be a great because my daugher seeing me at my free breaks would make her feel that I’m there for her at all times and not just abonding her at home without knowing at what time I’m going to get home. Prividing daycare would give the opportunity to young mothers to feel comfortable and safe leaving their kids [Read more...]
Stop the War in Iraq!!
I personally think that Our President Barack Obama should stop the war. I believe that we could use that money that the Government uses for the War for others uses for example school, medicare and our safety.
This post was submitted by Pamela Valerio.
Leverage a social networking based platform to teach teens technology
The platform is FreshBrain.
FreshBrain is where teens’ social networking and technology skills go to work for them.
FreshBrain (http://www.freshbrain.org) is the best place online for teens to explore technology—here is where teens can put the online skills that might seem like a waste of time to parents and teachers to work for them. If you know a teen that’s great at social networking, FreshBrain is the place for him or her to form a team of friends to collaborate on a project together. We give teens who are great at programming, graphics, or video a place to show off their work and develop new skills in the process. [Read more...]
Advice from Obama’s Inner Circle
Now that President Obama is in office what is he going to do about school funding, NCLB, special education and teacher training (to name a few)?
We look back before the election at some of the education advice given by folks who are now part of Obama’s inner circle, Arne Duncan, the US Secretary of Education, Linda Darling Hammond, Head of the Obama Education Policy Working Group and Jon Schnur, Co-chair of the Obama Presidential campaign’s Education Policy Committee.
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Advice from Vanguard High School
We visited Vanguard High school in New York City, which is home to 413 students. Vanguard opened in 1993 as part of the coalition of essential schools, which focuses on creating smaller more intimate learning environments. Vanguard is currently housed in the Julia Richmond Education Complex and shares the building with five other high schools. Unlike many of the public schools in New York City, Vanguard does performance-based assessments instead of standardized tests to measure what students have learned.
We interviewed Vanguard High School students Degora Anderson, Julissa Lopez, TJ Singletary, Katilin Nazario, Naquan Dodd and Declan Ryan and asked what education Advice they had for president Obama.
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Advice from Validus Prep Academy
Validus Preparatory Academy is a new small public high school in the Bronx, New York dedicated to academics, health, and fitness. Validus opened in September 2005 with 108 freshmen. Today the school has 440 students in grades 9-12 and will graduate its first class this spring.
We visit Validus Preparatory Academy to ask students Katye Gonzalez, Eric Caldwell, Milina Bryant and Ahmed Hunt for their Advice for President Obama to fix our education system.
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Advice on NCLB
Since it’s inception No Child Left Behind (NCLB) has been a hot button issue for educators and policy makers. Now that President Obama is in office should we get rid of NCLB or keep the system in place?
We look back before the election at some of the education advice that Randall Collins the president of the American Association of School Administrators, Jack Dale, the Superintendent of Fairfax County Public Schools, Sandy Kress, former education advisor to George W. Bush, and Eric Scroggins the Executive Director of Teach for America in the San Francisco Bay Area offered to the next President regarding NCLB.
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Teachers Offer Advice for Obama
We look back before the election at some of the advice that teachers offered. We hear from Esther Wojcicki, a journalism and English teacher at Palo Alto High School in Palo Alto, California, Marlon Esguerra, Special Education teacher at New Design High School in New York City, Dave Stovall, an Associate Professor University of Illinois at Chicago and Glen Westbroek, a middle school science teacher and science department chair at Orem Junior High in Orem, Utah.
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