Iflove Education Reviews List: Educational Resources This Week
Teachers need time to teach
07 April 2008 4:11pm | PPTA
Parents have an unrealistic idea of what schools and teachers are funded for and are able to do, PPTA president Robin Duff says. This comes after it was revealed police had been called in by parents to investigate whether [...]
US College Tuition Rising: Admissions season makes colleges sweat
Another year of record-breaking competition for slots at elite colleges is over. Now it’s time for the colleges to sweat.
Continuing a long-term trend, the acceptance rate at many of the country’s most selective colleges inched down this year to ever-more agonizing levels for parents and students. Harvard [...]
Tuitions Investigation: More colleges make consumer-oriented data available to public
More colleges make consumer information public – As tuitions climb and calls for accountability in higher education grow louder, more colleges are making more consumer-oriented data available to the public.
In the past few months, 75 more schools have agreed to share data with USA TODAY as [...]
Investigation Result: American Students better at basic writing skills
More and more middle- and high-school students have the basics of writing down, but there’s been no increase in the ranks of top-performing teenage writers.
The federal government released the scores Thursday of writing tests given to eighth- and 12th-graders nationwide last year. As in the past, girls [...]
Difference between feeling and reality: distinction in Wired between feeling secure and actually being secure
Security technologist Bruce Schneier offers a useful distinction in Wired between feeling secure and actually being secure. His focus is on how the gulf between the two approaches has distorted our national security policy, and our own life choices. But his [...]
Experienced developmental pediatrician with austism spectrum experience: cases and treatment of autistic symptoms and anxiety
My son is almost 10 and I’ve always known he was never quite the same as other kids. He’s exceptionally intelligent; he’s in the school district’s gifted program, but his social skills seem to have stopped developing at about age 7. [...]
All Issues on and symptoms of Asperger syndrome and autism spectrum disorder
I have been acutely aware most of my 70 years that I was not ‘normal’ – whatever that is. Only recently thru a program on NPR, and the resulting info on this & other web-sites did I discover that I have Asperger’s Syndrome from
all [...]
Asperger Syndrome symptoms: What is Asperger syndrome and how to cure it?
What is Asperger syndrome?
Asperger syndrome is an autism spectrum disorder, a group of conditions that include autism and other disorders with similar symptoms, such as problems with language and communication, and repetitive or restrictive patterns of thoughts and behavior.
People with Asperger syndrome have autism-like [...]
10 Signs of a Good Kindergarten Classroom – 10 Guides to Choose a Better Kindergarten
Great write up on the 10 signs of a good kindergarten classroom. I’m sure it will be helpful for families who are searching for a kindergarten program. I am a kindergarten teacher with the Memphis City School system in TN. I [...]
Toy Hazard Safety Recalls and Family Education. Looking for information on the latest toy hazard safety recalls that directly affects your family? Well, you have come to the right place! Read on for a summary of ALL toy hazard recalls by U.S. Consumer Safety Product Safety Commission since 1973.
(Listed by date of issue with most [...]