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Older Adults As Volunteers

May is Older Americans Month and the US Census tells us many good things about people over 65. For starters, they’re not too old to contribute.

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Computer Game Good For The Aging Brain

As we get older, brain function declines. But a recently funded government study found that playing a computer game can slow and even reverse those declines.

2013/05/20

Changes To The National Spelling Bee

If you know how to spell guetapens, last year’s winning word in the National Spelling Bee, that’s great. But, if you’re a contestant this year, you have to know what it means.

2013/05/15

Streamlining Remediation To Help Students Graduate

Research shows that those who start college with remedial courses are far more likely to drop out, so a change is in the works.

2013/05/14

A Lesson In People Watching

Carly Ackerman, a teacher at Boys’ Latin Charter School in Philadelphia is teaching her 10th grade composition students about ethnography…not by reading, but primarily by field work.

2013/05/13

Seeking Alternatives To The GED Exam

The GED exam will soon be offered online – but it will be more expensive than the paper test now available. Some states, including New Jersey, are seeking alternatives.

2013/05/08

Help With Vital Preschool Funding

Within the last two years Pennsylvania’s budget cuts resulted in the loss of 10% of pre-k capacity at the School District of Philadelphia. Kids will pay now. Our society will pay later.

2013/05/07

Appreciating Teachers

Who was your favorite teacher? Let the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News know during Teacher Appreciation Week.

2013/05/06

Schools Must Heal, Not Punish

Schools that undertake supportive, compassionate, and solution-oriented discipline methods have seen a 20 to 40 percent drop in suspensions in their first year.

2013/04/30

Dictionaries Can Now Read Us

Peter Sokolowski, editor for Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, monitors what visitors are looking up as they’re doing it.

2013/04/29

Khan Academy

My grandson told me he was learning advanced math and when I asked where, he told me it was at a free website program, Khan Academy. Millions of others are doing the same.

2013/04/24

New Science Standards Will Teach Climate Change

Next Generation Science Standards have been devised that will transform the way science will be taught in a million classrooms.

2013/04/23

Three May Be Too Late

We spend about 5.5 percent of the nation’s economic output on education – preschool through college – but we may be missing the most important part – infants and toddlers.

2013/04/22

According to Jobs for the Future, more than 75,000 high schoolers nationwide are participating in early college programs, most from underserved populations, taking courses along with their high school classes.

2013/04/17

Ability Grouping – Is It Back?

Data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, indicates a resurgence of ability grouping, from 28% in 1998 to 71% in 2009. This may be cheating the lower-grouped students.

2013/04/16