Everyone agrees: Education is essential for the future of the new economy. Everyone agrees: The public education system needs reform. No one agrees on how to do it. Here are four models for the future.READ»
Schools That Think
By Sara Terry
Loren Brinton graduates this June from the Rocky Mountain School of Expeditionary Learning in Denver, Colorado. When he looks back on the events that shaped his four years of high school, he won't ...READ»
Want a window into a preferred way of life(style) at work?
When a hot start-up in San Francisco seeks talented workers who have many choices about where to work - what does it offer? Call it the google effect. Grockit can’t ...READ»
The GMAT or Graduate Management Admission Test is a basic deciding factor for admission acceptance to all Business Schools and schools of management. Designed to try the various skill sets like principal Mathematics, use of English ...READ»
The GMAT is an extensive exam that challenges student abilities in subjects of Mathematics, English sentence structure, understanding and reasoning. It would not be reckless to believe the English grammar section of the test to be ...READ»
A common trend to get ahead in the race to accomplish a superior GMAT score has seen GMAT aspirants spend thousands of dollars on books and resorting to expensive test prep sources like Kaplan and Princeton. But why expend on books ...READ»
'Time is money' ... and not just for Gates and Buffets and Obamas of the
planet; but even for someone who, lets say, is entering and preparing
for GMAT.By leaps and bounds, technology has outdone hopes.
It is now possible to ...READ»
Meant as a reality check on test-driven measures like No Child Left Behind, a new report examines how forward-looking states are when it comes to education. The result: We're all mostly, C and D students.READ»
I was tempted to call today's post "When Business and Education Collide -- The Sequel":
If you want students to learn more math, send them to a school run by a for-profit company. That's the conclusion drawn by a Harvard study of ...READ»
On a gut level, you might say that kids today just don't read and write like we used to...or most adults just don't read books.
However, when you dig into it a little what's really evident is that reading and writing have ...READ»
Michelle Rhee's overhaul of the D.C. school system is the latest entry in a long history of attempts to improve public education in the U.S. Some highlights:READ»
With my last post about Brooklyn's controversial Khalil Gibran International Academy in mind, I couldn't help but notice recent headlines on a Hebrew charter school in Florida and Catholic schools in Washington, D.C. As I discussed ...READ»
Brightstorm is a service that helps high school students prepare for SAT tests with fun videos done by high school teachers who show you how to do better on the test and help you prepare. Here you learn more about how Brightstorm's ...READ»
Freeman Hrabowski is nurturing a new generation of African-American scientists and mathematicians. His lesson plan: high standards, hand-on help, and some killer chess.READ»
No one is attacking Washington, D.C.'s stagnant culture more boldly than Michelle Rhee, head of the city's failing schools. Is there a lesson here for our nation's leaders?READ»
What determines a good school? Usually the quantitative data -- most frequently standardized test scores and graduation rates -- carry the most weight in answering that question. On the qualitative side, there's student and parent ...READ»
The most compelling opportunities for social entrepreneurs are the public schools. Gene Wade has been dreaming about fixing the public schools since he was a kid. Now he's doing it.READ»
Under-capitalization promotes creativity due to necessity being the mother of invention..
My Elders taught me, "any dummy can spend money; it takes real talent to make money stretch "and" grow your business".
I come from an ...READ»
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Reach Out and Read
Martha Gershun, executive director
Boston, Massachusetts
reachoutandread.org
Reach Out and Read (ROR) is a national organization developed by ...READ»
Research consistently finds that there is a large gap between what employees want and what schools teach. As a result, the U.S. Department of Labor ended up commissioning one of the great government education reports of the '90s, ...READ»
Studies show that top-notch teaching talent is the biggest factor in a student's academic success, and Senator Michael Bennet, the former head of Denver Public Schools, thinks it's high time we start reflecting that in teachers' ...READ»
Brainpower is more important than ever, but education seems more backward than ever. John Taylor Gatto, an award-winning teacher, now aims to overthrow the public-school establishment for which he worked for 30 years.READ»
