Opinions and recommended stories about the U.S. educational policies and funding. The Department of Education is the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to...
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Opinions and recommended stories about the U.S. educational policies and funding. The Department of Education is the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students).
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... 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... Read Full Story
This is our group blog, which is unique because any Zimbio member can post an entry to it. Some members blog about recent news and trends related to the portal topic, others recount relevant personal stories. You can also comment on and rate existing blog entries, to voice your opinion and to help the community identify which members and entries on the portal are must-reads. Got an interesting idea or story to share with other members of this portal? Well, then put on your journalist's cap... 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... Read Full Story
VVIS International School - The International School in Western Algarve, Portugal is implementing a bilingual primary school that is based on offering a curriculum in more than one language and placing an emphasis on humanity subjects being delivered by bilingual staff in English and some of the other subjects being delivered in Portuguese. The pilot study has been the brainchild of VVIS Director Louise De Beer who has spent the last three years completing a MA in International Education... Read Full Story
