Archive for November, 2007
Choosing the Right (Safest) College
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007Searching for the right college once meant visiting the campus to check out the facilities, their course offerings, academic reputation, quality of faculty, dormitories, and extra curricular activities. Now with so many reported incidents of violence, parents also want to know how safe their children will be on the campus. Determining if a campus is safe is not so [...]
Should We Grade Parents?
Monday, November 19th, 2007A recent post by Kathleen Manzo in edweek.org’s blog, Motivation Matters, posed the question “Are parents doing their part to ensure their children are successful in school?”
Her article tells of a Connecticut school board member, Steve Edwards, who proposes that his district issue report cards to parents. His intentions are to gauge how well children support [...]