U.S. Department of Education

  Not widely known in the United States, but there is an accredited University located in one of it’s territories in the Western Pacific. The University of Guam (UOG) started out in 1952 as a two territorial educational college and over the years grew into the educational institution that exists today with over 3,000 students from all over Guam, Micronesia, Asia and other international locales.   The Water and Environmental Research Institute of the Western Pacific (WERI) at UOG, one of 55 such institutes in the nation created by the Land Grant legislation established by Congress is ranked 6 th in the nation. The ... Read Full Story

Looking back, the yellow school bus provided pages and pages of childhood memories. I remember waiting in the freezing cold Colorado mornings for the bus to turn the corner so I could board and get the feeling back in my toes. I remember the windows that never quite went up or down all the way. And of course, the smell. Why is it that school buses always had that distinct smell!?! The smell buses are better know for now are their emissions! But the EPA hopes to scrub the air clean of that. The National Idle-Reduction Campaign hopes to spread school to school and ... Read Full Story

Forget jetpacks , Martian colonies and floating cities . We may have found the most astonishing claim made by anyone of the paleo-future. According to the 1981 book School, Work and Play (World of Tomorrow) , in the future, homework will be fun! Upon hearing the news every child of the early 1980s choked on their bologna sandwich. Learning by computer in the future will be fun. This computer is displaying a chemistry experiment for the older child and arithmetic problems for the younger one. The computer controls include light pens to draw on the screens. The chemistry student has done something wrong and ... Read Full Story

  Tomorrow's Hope is an organization with the primary goal of educating, enriching, and providing guidance to children Kindergarten through grade eight.    Our elementary and middle school programs are an amalgam of several computer learning strategies and one-on-one and team teaching.  Each child works on their own level, and has access to therapies and an exciting, individualized, self- paced curriculum geared toward that specific child.  We are not afraid to use our intuition and instinct along with our education and experience in order to understand the needs of our students.  We begin each child's experience at our school by restoring the self esteem that ... Read Full Story

One reads a great deal concerning education reform nowadays. It might almost seem as if this were some new trend in education. Indeed, it is not. I have been an educator for over thirty years. My field of expertise is reading. After teaching in a regular elementary classroom for a couple of years, I completed a master's degree in reading and learning disabilities. Except for a five year break to attend seminary and serve as a full time minister, I have been a teacher of elementary reading. In 1995, I completed a doctorate in reading/educational psychology. At that point, I began teaching reading methods ... Read Full Story