Topic: High School Education

Brightstorm profits off of high school SAT preparation videos

BY Robert Scoble
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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 MORE›

John Foley: Class Act

BY Keith H. Hammonds
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This Jesuit priest is changing kids' lives by sending them to Chicago offices.READ MORE›

Tom Vecchione - Fast 50 2002

BY Fast Company Staff
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49. Build a Brighter FutureREAD MORE›

Why Your High School Yearbook Needs an Entourage

BY yearbook publisher
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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 MORE›

Carpool Creativity

BY Shel Horowitz
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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 MORE›

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

BY Alice Korngold
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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 MORE›

The Gates Effect

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

Crescent Prep Virtual High School

BY Dana Williams
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About Crescent Prep Virtual High School The mission of Crescent Prep Virtual High School - Home School is to provide students with a rigorous and flexible education that will prepare them for post-secondary opportunities. Crescent Prep Virtual High School offers a full range of programs from technical to academic. Our Crescent Prep Virtual High School Online High School - Home School offers web-based courses that bridge the barriers of time and distance and create opportunities for students to achieve access, excellence, and equity in education. Crescent Prep Virtual High School strives to provide the highest quality education which builds a strong foundation for lifelong learning, values the individual, fosters community, and respects tradition while responding to the changing needs of society.READ MORE›

Get With the Program: Smart Strategies for Online Teaching

BY Anni Layne Rodgers
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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 MORE›

Crescent Prep Virtual School for High School and Middle School

BY Dana Williams
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Crescent Prep school offers Online Homeschool programs for children 6th -12 Grades. We understand the decision to homeschool as a parent and want to provide curriculum that will exceed your expectations. Our online curriculum offers a homeschool program designed to assist you with the everyday tasks of giving your child engaging, interactive and creative assignments. All of our online courses are instructed and administered by individual certified teachers within their disciplines. These teachers provide individual 1:1 live call support and chat. In addition live administrative support is also provided Mon - Fri 9 am - 9 pm and Saturday 10 am-4 pm. READ MORE›

Education: Dazed and Confused Over Metrics

BY April Joyner
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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 MORE›

Crescent Prep High School Dana Williams Director Charles Delane Principal

BY Dana Williams
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Crescent Prep High School offers Honors and AP courses for all students. Crescent Prep High School encourage students to strive for greatness and to excel. Crescent Prep High School Students interested in enrolling in our Honors and AP courses should expect the highest quality online learning available on the Internet. Crescent Prep schools offers Online Homeschool programs for children 6th -12 Grades. We understand the decision to homeschool as a parent and want to provide curriculum that will exceed your expectations. Crescent Prep High School online curriculum offers a homeschool program designed to assist you with the everyday tasks of giving your child engaging, interactive and creative assignments. All of Crescent Prep High School online courses are instructed and administered by individual certified teachers within their disciplines. Crescent Prep High School teachers provide individual 1:1 live call support and chat. In addition live administrative support is also provided Mon - Fri 9 am - 9 pm and Saturday 10 am-4 pm. READ MORE›

Elementary School Yearbooks Promote Team Work Among Students

BY yearbook publisher
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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 MORE›

1984? No, Animal Farm

BY Fast Company Staff
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I just can't get unstuck on my latest rant about respect, doublespeak and corporate honesty. This article really took the cake: Tyson Creates Office of Animal Well-being. What's missing for me is that unlike the PTSA I belonged to ...READ MORE›

Rising Star: Green Dot Public Schools

BY Fast Company staff
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Steve Barr, CEO Los Angeles, California greendot.org Green Dot Public Schools is leading the charge to transform public education in Los Angeles so that all children receive the education they need to succeed in college, ...READ MORE›

Wilson vs. Woods

BY Jim Gilmore
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If you haven't yet read the Sept. FC "Open Debate" between Steven F. Wilson and George Wood regarding private sector involvement in (or in lieu of) public education, I'd encourage you to do so. I only wish to chime in with a comment ...READ MORE›

Gaining College Credit for YouTube: The Latest eLearning Trend

BY Jeanne Meister
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Back in November I first wrote about the emerging potential of iTunes University as a vehicle for learning, when Yale University Dean Joel Podolny joined the Apple team to serve as Dean of their own learning system. This past February ...READ MORE›

Paradise Valley Real Estate Offers Excellent Schools

BY Russ Lyonrealty
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There are a number of reasons that Paradise Valley homes are so highly sought after by families. Here’s one: excellent schools. Chances are, if you’re looking to buy a home, land or other residential real estate in Paradise ...READ MORE›

The Barrio Making a Difference Challenge: A Grassroots Movement

BY Robert Renteria
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About the Challenge Princeton University professors, ghetto and barrio middle and high school teachers, congressmen, and mayors alike are standing behind the message in “From the Barrio to the Board Room.” But there aren’t ...READ MORE›

Exploring the Wide World of Work

BY Fast Company Staff
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I'm an intern here at Fast Company this summer, doing anything I can to help out around the office while learning the ropes of magazine journalism. This is my first REAL office job -- other summers in high school and college I ...READ MORE›

Scottsdale Schools Home to Excellent Programs

BY Russ Lyon
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There are a number of reasons that Scottsdale homes are so highly sought after by families interested in quality public education for their children. If you’re considering purchasing a home, land, condo or other residential real ...READ MORE›

Superintendent of Pennsylvania School Accused of Spying on Students via Webcam Responds to Allegations

BY Dan Nosowitz
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Dr. Christopher McGinley, superintendent of the Lower Merion, Pennslvania school district that is currently embroiled in a national scandal over alleged spying via webcams in school-provided laptops, replied to the allegations in an ...READ MORE›

Academics Say Make Math Cool to Promote U.S. Competitiveness

BY Robert Atkinson
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(Guest blogged by Daniel Castro) A new study published last Friday in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society titled “Cross-Cultural Analysis of Students with Exceptional Talent in Mathematical Problem Solving” is ...READ MORE›

Don't Take It Personally

BY Alicia Morga
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For years whenever a boss of mine called me into his office, my throat would drop to my stomach. Any bit of feedback or statement teetering on criticism, constructive or not, would send me into a state of dejection. We seem ripe to take whatever they say not back to our desks, but straight to our hearts.READ MORE›

''It's Cool to Be Smart''

BY Chuck Salter
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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 MORE›