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81: Three Boston Schools To Extend School Day For 2006-2007 School Year
In the fall of 2005, the Boston schools began exploring the education reform strategy of extending the school day for its middle schools. The extended school day gives students more time for learning at a crucial time in their education. The middle school years provide the much-needed preparation for students to enter high school, college and the workforce. Last year, the Boston schools applied for and was awarded a $40,000 planning grant for three schools.
The Boston scho...
82: California Schools
Superintendent of Instruction for the California schools, Jack O?Connell, initiated an audit more than a year ago into the fiscal concerns of the Options for Youth and Opportunities for Learning (OYO) schools. The OYO is a chain of independent study charter schools within the California schools system, which are privately run but funded by the state.
The OYO California schools serve students who have dropped out of the traditional high schools. They currently have about 15...
83: Candidate Ford Proposes New School Site For Chicago Schools
The old Brach?s plant is located at 401 N. Cicero, just north of Lake Street, in a community that has seen many of its Chicago schools closed and others placed on academic probation. The 30-plus-acre property has been vacant for three years.
LaShawn Ford is the owner of Ford Desired Real Estate and candidate for state representative of the 8th district. The democrat has an ambitious plan to use the Brach property for a new school.
In June of 2006, Ford convinced Chicago...
84: The History Of Reading
In terms of evolution reading is a relatively new skill, something that is not innate, but has to be learned. As writing can differ between cultures, so then is how we actually read. Compare for example, our alphabetic scripts against the logographic picture style of the Chinese. Written scripts have undergone many changes over the centuries, and written text has evolved into today?s format progressing through several different alphabets, but still only taking a mere 500 year...
85: Demand For Speech Therapists Versus Availability Causing Crisis For The Florida Schools
With the passing of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, schools across the nation are now required to offer services that were before considered a luxury for students with disabilities. One such service is for speech and language therapy.
In a memorandum to all Florida schools? special education directors, Chief of Exceptional Education Bambi Lockman wrote that federal officials found that the Florida schools had ?failed to provide speech and language-related ...
86: Mayor
Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper has introduced the ?Preschool Matters? program that will greatly impact future Denver schools students, if passed by voters in the November election. The early childhood education program is endorsed by the mayor and other Denver officials.
City Council President Michael Hancock believes the measure to be extremely important to the city and the Denver schools. Denver schools Superintendent Michael Bennett agrees, stating that Denver schools e...
87: Phoenix Schools Providing Healthier Food Choices For 2006-2007 School Year
Much attention has been paid over the last few years to the weight (or maybe I should say overweight) condition of Americans. There have and continue to be many articles in the media, televisions shows devoted to the subject, and now even a reality show. The attention has not just been on adult Americans. Much attention is being paid to our overweight children and the health risks posed for them by the time they are adults.
The federal government already had set limits on ...
88: Los Angeles Schools Strongly Opposed To Takeover By Mayor Villaraigosa
There is currently legislation AB 1381 in the state legislature that, if passed, will give the okay to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to take over a subset of the Los Angeles schools. Recently, the mayor?s school reform team announced its latest round of changes to the bill in order to sidestep some possible problems to it passing.
Last month, according to the Los Angeles Times? August 8, 2006 article, Los Angeles Chief Legislative Analyst Gerry F. Miller made certain speculat...
89: Music Comes To The San Diego Schools
Over the last decade, schools across the nation have experienced the loss of music. The San Diego schools also had to replace music in many of its schools with other curriculum dictated by the state or federal law. The San Diego schools? budget only stretches so far and, unfortunately, the arts have felt the biggest hit.
Frank Glasson and the Presidio Brass are changing all of that for the San Diego schools. A trumpet player by profession, Frank is also president of Local ...
90: Psychology Of College Interview
Preparing for an interview is as stressful and as difficult as it gets, for some reason we always want to impress the people who are examining us and we always want to get the job, even people who go to multiple interview admit they want all their interviews to go well and that they would like to get accepted to all of the jobs they are interviewing for. This is rarely the case, as we know that for each spot there is a lot of competition and its not getting easier as time pas...
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