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The VillageSpace: Category Archive for Schools and Education

“To Discourage Overeating, Junk-Food Consumption, and Sedentary Lifestyles”

Uninterested School-Aged Youth Need a Helping Hand

“The Education Crisis is a National Security Crisis”

Teacher Performance Assessments: A Private and Professional Matter

Students Misbehaving Badly

Our Schools are a Reflection of Our Communities

We’re Nothing If We Can’t Protect the Children

Web 2.0 Has Shifted the Learning Paradigm

It’s More Than Academics for Some Young People

And the Teachers Shall Lead Us

“We Said We Were Doing It On Behalf Of Children, But We Meant On Behalf Of Adults”

Not On My Watch

“The Unions Can’t Beat the Parents”

“Overwhelmed, Underappreciated, and Underpaid”

Effective Public Schooling: It’s Never Been About the Money

A Line in the Sand: True School Reform vs. Tradition and Old Alliances

Part II: APS Cheating Scandal

APS Cheating Scandal: Erasure Parties? Seriously?

School Leaders Gone Wild

Bridging the Gap between the School Year and Summer Break

School Reform Setbacks? I Don’t Think So!

Schools are Anchors for the Students and the Communities

Teaching is a Collaborative Art

What is Really Going On?

We Can’t Forget About Our Most Vulnerable Students

Reviving a Culture Where Education is Fundamental

The Teaching Profession: Some are Called, Some are Sent, Some Just Went

“No Child Left Behind”: An Opened Door

By Any Means Necessary

Do You Want Me To Pass Your Child Anyway?

School Boards Lack Leadership and Commitment

Parents are the First Teachers

Talking Loud and Doing Nothing

Elitism Has No Place in Public Education

Collaboration and School Reform: A Match Made in Heaven

Politics Will Not Stop School Reform: The Train Has Left the Station

Does It Really Take Billions of Dollars to Transform America’s Schools?

How Shall They Learn?

Academic Achievement, Not Academic Competition

Unintended Consequences of Standardized Testing

Youth Sports and Athletics are Critical to Youth Development

Parents Making the Right School Choices

The Effects of a Distressed Economy on K-12 Education

Schools are Incubators of Life

Hands-on School District Management and Leadership

Athletes are Students Too

The Misapplication of Special Needs Learning and Medications

Vocational and Technical Schools Expand Career Choices

Teacher Salaries: Victimized By Circumstance and Public Policy

School Nutrition: Ready to Serve

Classroom and School Structure: A Pathway To Freedom and Responsibility

Student Remediation: Whose Problem is it?

Making the Case for Longer School Days & Extended School Years

Teacher Compensation as a Carrot for Reviving the Profession

Teacher Recruitment and Retention Opportunities

Serving America's Homeless Students

Our Education Quagmire at the High School Level

The Evolution of Classroom Pedagogy

Ready, Able and Willing to Learn

From The Public Sector Outward...........

Teaching Professionals

Sectoral Changes

The Village Mandate

The Language and Politics of School Vouchers

Healthy and Productive School Environments

The Impact of a Struggling Economy on Our Youth

Public School Graduates: The Next Generation of Teaching Professionals

Public Education: A Right and a Privilege

Responsibility and Discretion in the Classroom

Common Sense Approaches to School Partnerships

Finding Great Teachers and Measuring Their Success

Evolving Classroom and School Design

K-12 Schooling That Matches “New Century” Vocational Choices

Sound Educational Strategies

Accountability Through School System Performance Reports

Replicating Public School Success

The Off-Season: Maintaining Our School Priorities

The Global Shift and Public Education

Public School Hardware

Summer Reading is FUNdamental

Charter School Appeal

Curricular and Extracurricular Activities: The Right Combination

Student Testing Season

Distracted Students?

Gifted and Talented............

Financial Incentives for Public School Students

School Board Failure

Holding Ourselves Accountable

The Implementation of Cross-sectoral Collaboration in Public Education

The Path Forward

A Call to the Village.......

The Shifting Paradigm