kids' learning
Parents Accessing Children’s Grades Online–Good or Bad?
Monday, October 6th, 2008An article in Stars and Stripes recently reported that the Department of Defense Dependents Schools-Europe implemented a new software program , GradeSpeed. The program gives parents via Internet access to their children’s progress with attendance, assignments and grades.
Instead of hearing about grades at report periods only, GradeSpeed allows parents to keep up as teachers enter grades throughout [...]
Online Learning Draws Converts and Controversy
Friday, February 8th, 2008Half a million American children take classes online, reports an article in the New York Times. And they don’t mean just college students. Many of these are elementary aged, and some get all of their schooling from virtual learning.
There are two basic models of online learning. One is where students take courses to supplement their [...]
How Many Parents Feel About School
Monday, February 4th, 2008This poem by Adele Carrall expresses in strong terms how many parents feel about what children experience in school.
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Reality
I dreamed I stood at the gate to hell,
And watched the sculptors there,
The clay they used was children’s souls,
And they shaped it without care.
All were teachers, the tools they used,
Were shouting and verbal abuse,
And all of those teachers subjected [...]
Resolved: “The Great Debaters” Reminds and Inspires
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008On Christmas morning, before I opened presents or poured the champagne, I went to see Denzel Washington’s second directorial project, ”The Great Debaters.” Reviewers are taking potshots at it for taking liberties with the true story upon which it was based and other flaws, but I found it to be fantastic on two levels.
I must [...]
How Can We Restore Kids’ Joy of Learning?
Monday, October 15th, 2007Kids are born curious and eager to learn.
My 7 year old granddaughter excitedly woke us all up at dawn once to examine a bowl of ice cubes she left out overnight that had now become water. This discovery sent her into high-pitched shrills of joy, reminiscent of the scene from The Miracle Worker when Helen Keller finally [...]