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Gifted Students in Orlando

Tue, 9 Apr 2008 13:15:43 GMT

posted by tohope

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 has been battered by traditional classroom environments

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Wed, 24 Aug 2006 19:25:19 GMT

posted by The_Zimbio_Team
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Homework in the Future (1981)

Fri, 28 Apr 2007 03:04:14 GMT

posted by paleofuture

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 has caused an explosion!

See also:
Connections: AT&T;'s Vision of the Future (Part 7, 1993)
The Road Ahead: Future Classroom (1995)

International School in Portugal breaks educational barriers and offers bilingual education

Tue, 28 May 2008 16:10:00 GMT

posted by grafique
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 focusing much of her study on the fundamentals of effective bilingual education.

About VVIS

Vale Verde International School is the premier private school in the Algarve offering private education from reception class (primary school) to AS and A levels (University Entry). The school has built up a reputation for its consistent 100% pass rate for all IGCSE Cambridge syllabus exams undertaken since 2002.

The school is a member of the European Council of International Schools (ECIS) and is licensed by the Ministry of Education. It is also an accredited Cambridge University Examinations Centre.

Contact Carla Paralta admissions@vvis.org
www.vvis.org

VVIS International School Algarve , Portugal

Schools Need to Archive Too!

Sat, 19 Aug 2007 23:30:45 GMT

posted by simplicato

Schools need to abide by recent amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) and the Freedom of Information Act. This means that the school may need to make quickly accessible all employee emails and other electronic communication during litigation or if requested the school must make available certain information to the public, which may be contained in email transmission.

Organizations need to archive their email. That is why we designed Backaway the way we have. We felt we needed to live up to our name by creating an interface that was simple to use, yet also one that had the features that would allow school districts and companies in other business sectors to comply.

Our Backaway provides a seamless and non-intrusive way of completely archiving all incoming and outgoing email. Our cataloging and indexing produces timely and precise search results. Additionally, the compliance monitoring and keyword filtering features allow messages that meet certain conditions to be either flagged and notification sent to the appropriate authority or send the actual message to that authority. Therefore, organizations can insure that Acceptable Use Policies, or Security Process and Procedures are being complied with by user of the email system.

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