If Parents Want Graduates, Raise Resilient Kids
Posted by Julia Steiny in Uncategorized on May 31, 2012
Published by EducationNews.org — If we want to see graduation rates improve, parents are going to have to introduce their kids to adulthood before sending them to college. Congratulations high school grads! In the Fall, many of you will go off to college, with all its adult freedom and delights. But do you have the [...]
Let’s Pull Down Walls Between School Districts
Posted by Julia Steiny in Uncategorized on May 24, 2012
Published by EducationNews.org — An initiative to fill its remaining seats, in Barrington, Rhode Island, raises questions about the role of economic desegregation in school success. The highly-regarded school system in Barrington has empty seats they’d like to fill. So, they’re inviting non-resident families to pay $12,800 in tuition for up to 10 kids, spread through the grades. Student [...]
A Focus on Brain Development, Relationships Pays Off
Posted by Julia Steiny in Uncategorized on May 17, 2012
Published by EducationNews.org – By paying attention to brain development, neurological health and parent relationships at the earliest ages, we can radically improve outcomes for more kids. Here’s a jaw-dropping stat: A kid’s brain develops 50,000 synapses EVERY MINUTE. Synapses are the connections made by the brain’s information-carrying cells, neurons, that “wire” our experience into knowledge, [...]
Nat’l Congress Of Mothers Talked Honestly About Motherhood
Posted by Julia Steiny in Uncategorized on May 10, 2012
Published by EducationNews.org — Originally known as the National Congress of Mothers, the national Parent Teachers Association changed their role over time, inadvertently shifting the focus away from mothering. “Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable.” – Fred Rogers, aka, Mr. Rogers “Use your words, Mom.” – My grown [...]
Grand Rounds Support Teacher Learning, Quality
Posted by Julia Steiny in Uncategorized on May 3, 2012
Published by EducationNews.org — Part 3 — At University Park Campus School, Dr. Thomas Del Prete’s uses rounds to improve and develop teaching. One day last fall Meghan Rosa was having an ordinary class with her 12th-grade English students at University Park Campus School (UPCS). They’d just finished digging into the second act of Hamlet, taking notes in the [...]
Questions, Not Answers, Help University Park Kids Think Deeply
Posted by Julia Steiny in Uncategorized on April 26, 2012
Published by EducationNews.org — Part 2 — University Park Campus School fosters — and teaches — a desire to learn in its students, 95% of whom go to college. This is the second in a series on the University Park Campus School, following Part 1: University Park School Models Urban Education. Small groups of students are standing [...]
University Park Campus Models Urban Education
Posted by Julia Steiny in Uncategorized on April 20, 2012
Published by EducationNews.org – Worcester, MA’s University Park Campus School has partnered with Clark University to create a successful model for effective urban education. An old elementary-school building, in a desperately poor neighborhood in Worcester, houses the best urban high school in Massachusetts. And Massachusetts has the best public schools in the nation, according to the NAEP, [...]
Parents Must Fight for Kids’ Right To Recess
Posted by Julia Steiny in Uncategorized on April 12, 2012
Published by EducationNews.org – When one parent realized an all-day kindergarten meted out recess like a precious commodity, she took action — and realized she wasn’t alone. A year ago summer, Megan Rosker was about to put the oldest of her three kids into kindergarten in a public school near Tampa, Florida. Her family had moved [...]
Charter Educates All Kids, Incl. Special Needs
Posted by Julia Steiny in Uncategorized on April 5, 2012
Published by EducationNews.org – Blackstone Valley Prep Mayoral Academy in Rhode Island has excelled at using Response to Intervention (RTI) to serve students who need the most help. Someone, not sure who, filled out an application to win Anna a kindergarten seat at theBlackstone Valley Prep Mayoral Academy (BVP), a charter school in Cumberland, Rhode Island. Survival [...]
Woonsocket Schools Slashes Budget Drastically
Posted by Julia Steiny in Uncategorized on March 29, 2012
Pulbished by EducationNews.org – As fiscal soap operas — and tragedies — play out nationwide, schools are dealing with unavoidable budget realities to stay in operation. Within the next few weeks, the Woonsocket School Department will run out of cash entirely. They have no clue how they’ll make payroll. They’re frantically working to save themselves. [...]
