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My day job: Promoting math and science programs for middle school kids. Big event Monday in Houston
16 hours ago ago from DaddyClaxton
For my day job, I work to promote math and science programs for middle school students around the country. Sunday, I travel to Houston to work with Dr. Bernard Harris, Jr. , the first African American to walk in space nearly 15 years ago aboard Space Shuttle Missions STS-63. Bernard and his partner, ExxonMobil , have worked to host an event at the Toyota Center targeting almost 10,000 middle school students from 6 area school districts. ...
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18 hours ago ago from Joanne Jacobs
Many schools have abolished the remedial track to provide more challenge for low achievers. Some have no advanced track either. Tracking and Detracking: High Achievers in Massachusetts Middle Schools , a Fordham report by Brookings scholar Tom Loveless, finds tracked schools did better, but there aren’t many of them left . From Education Gadfly: Loveless finds that most middle schools have done away entirely with tracking in English ...
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22 hours ago ago from District 100 Watchdog
Thursday, Dec. 3, a teacher at Rockford’s West Middle School sustained injuries that required immediate medical attention after breaking up a fight between two students. Witnesses reported a smaller student was involved in an altercation with a larger student when the teacher intervened. Click on the following for more details: Teacher struck by student at West Middle School | The Rock River Times
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12 hours ago ago from Sustainability Digest
Image credit: Jose Kevo /Flickr Educators in Louisiana have found that students who participate in special environmentally-themed lessons perform better on tests. In a recent study, middle school students had eight hands-on lessons in horticulture, administered by the Coastal Roots program. After the lessons, students were given tests on their typical science curriculum as well as a test to measure environmental awareness. Read the ...
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18 hours ago ago from Ramblings
When college students were tested on different levels of literacy and mathematics in a fairly recent study, the results were startling. Over 50% of students attending a four year program and over 75% attending two year programs were not able to complete complex literacy tasks, such as summarizing the results of surveys on parental involvement in schools, as well as being unable to compare credit cards that had different interest rates and ...
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Kiss Surprise Students, Present Instruments to School in Need
14 hours ago ago from Noisecreep
Some middle school students in Tulsa, Okla. just had the thrill of a lifetime. All the members of Kiss -- in full stage regalia, no less -- showed up to present instruments to the school's music program . It all went down Dec. 9 at Tulsa's Wilson Middle School. The rockers appeared at the school as part of a segment for the ABC show 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.' The show's carpenters -- along with a bevy of volunteers -- are rebuilding ...
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Steven Fraser, a professor of American studies at Columbia University , has taught the cultural history of Wall Street for years, usually bringing his students up to the 1990s. But this fall, with the financial crisis providing an irresistible new coda to the course, he extended the timeline to include the drama, intrigue and pain of the past two years. Related Times Topics: Credit Crisis The Essentials The class is struck ...
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