Topic: Elementary and High School Education

Elementary School Yearbooks Promote Team Work Among Students

The importance of elementary school yearbooks extend far beyond fond memories. Students learn coordination and cooperation when helping create their elementary school yearbook. The process brings together students and teachers for a memorable and educational experience.READ»

Schools That Think

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»

The Reeducation of Silicon Valley

There's much going wrong in the land of silicon and software. But there's one important thing going right.READ»

Extreme Perks

Need ideas on how to keep your employees happy? Check out these employee benefits.READ»

Fast Talk: Rising Up

Community Reinvestment Fund, USA aids community-development lenders nationwide by purchasing their loans and offering training and development.READ»

Lessons for Life

At Garehime Elementary School, in Las Vegas, students have their own currency, postal service, and court system. This "microsociety" teaches more than reading and writing: It teaches life and leadership.READ»

Schools That Think

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»

Kindergarten Registration - Newtown, CT 2009/2010 School Year

Newtown, CT Public Schools will begin registering children for kindergarten during the month of April 2009.  If your child will turn five years old by December 31, 2009, he or she is eligible to register for school.  ...READ»

About leslyeabrutyn1970

Dr. Leslye Abrutyn is a highly regarded professional in the primary, secondary, post-secondary, and graduate-level community of schools, both in Philadelphia and nationwide. Dr. Leslye Abrutyn’s Educational Credentials and ...READ»

Drama

Delphi's Upper School Drama Department produces two major annual productions (one for Thanksgiving and one for Parents Weekend), as well as several other performances produced throughout the school year. Student involvement goes well beyond acting. Student participation includes set design, choreography, music composition, assistant directing, and even playwriting.READ»

The ROI of Early Reading Skills Delivered

  What if 100% of the children started kindergarten ready to read, count and understand positive direction. READ»

If They Don't Care, Don't Waste Your Time

Try to change people who don't care, and you end up wasting everyone's time.READ»

John Foley: Class Act

This Jesuit priest is changing kids' lives by sending them to Chicago offices.READ»

Why Your High School Yearbook Needs an Entourage

High Schools across the country choose Entourage Yearbooks. The yearbook publishing company is known for their excellence in customer support and extensive selection of templates, tools and yearbook printing software that makes planning and printing any high school yearbook a cinch.READ»

From Kindergarten to the Boardroom

A Kick in the Career: Has the over achievement of some adults resulted in achievement obsession for their kids? In this week's column, humorist and careers expert Tom Stern ponders whether we're preparing our kids to take over the world far too early in their lives. READ»

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Carpool Creativity

We live in the country and rarely have neighbors going to the same places we're going. nonetheless, we've been able to go outside the box a bit and still create carpools that save gas and time for everyone. Several years ago, ...READ»

Michelle Rhee: Partnering With City Year DC to Tackle Dropout "Catastrophe"

Washington, D.C.'s public school system has 45,000 students and an abysmal dropout rate of about 50%, typical of large cities. With a goal to remedy this dropout "catastrophe" (Gen. Colin Powell's term), while being constrained by a ...READ»

The Gates Effect

The world's biggest private foundation wants to fix American high schools. Is it laying its enormous bets in the right places?READ»

Get With the Program: Smart Strategies for Online Teaching

A startup with real vision, class.com is reinventing teaching for the 21st century. Corporate trainers would do well to watch how high-school kids learn online.READ»

Filling the Void

Introducing the Fast Company/Monitor Group Social Capitalist Award winners--25 entrepreneurs solving the world's toughest problems with creativity, ingenuity, and passion. Because they can't stand a vacuum.READ»

Kinko's for Kids

Insight from Rob Hood, publications and technology consultant to Kinko's for Kids.READ»

Minister of Comedy

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Don't Treat Me Like A Pre-Schooler -- OK, Do

In a recent report from Fox News and WebMD, research on preschool-aged children comes to an interesting conclusion: A new study shows that children whose mothers supported their autonomy by giving them responsibilities and offering ...READ»

Retrograde: Scanners at School

Fingerprint scanners: They've been sprouting up everywhere from computers to time clocks, even purses. So I guess I shouldn't be surprised at the news that this fall a middle school in Florida will be rolling them out in classrooms ...READ»

It's Creative (Destruction) Genius

As the world and the US slogs through the current economic turmoil, the task of economic development professionals is shifting.  What use to be a local struggle to attract businesses and jobs, competing against other states or ...READ»