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Should we have Bilingual Education?
The question of whether schools ought to have bilingual education is a complex and sometimes thorny issue. It touches on how the world is changing and hits at the heart of long-standing cultural beliefs. As a result, there’s probably not a definitive answer to the topic of bilingual education that...
How Important is Parent Involvement in Schools?
Education in this country has been around since its founding. Children were taught in the home and learned as much as the family was able to teach them with the limited resources they had. As the country grew and evolved, so did the concept and methods of educating the youth....
The Advantages of a Private School
One of the most important decisions a teacher will make is whether to teach in a public or private school. Each of these has its advantages and disadvantages, and like parents, teachers must navigate the choices, carefully examining what type of education will yield the best long-term results for their...
The Impact of Classroom Management on Student Behaviors
Marzano and Marzano cited a comprehensive review of literature on student achievement and found the top factor in student achievement was classroom management. Students are limited on how much they can learn in a classroom that is disrupted, unsafe, and/or chaotic. There are entire books written on the topic of classroom management....
The Effectiveness of Character Education Programs
Character education has been an integral part of in K-12 curriculum. However, many educators may be in doubt of its effectiveness or whether it should still be integrated into lesson plans. When creating lessons plans, it has been commonplace for teachers to think of fitting character education goals but one...
Time to Play Games: Using Games to Encourage Learning in the Classroom
Imagine this: a student who's usually on his best behavior is caught playing a game on his cell phone during a lesson. Annoyed by the rule infraction, the fact that it came during a lesson, and the distraction it created amongst other students, the educator politely and firmly tells the...
Peculiarities of Kindergarten Classrooms
In 1986, minister and author Robert Fulghum published a collection of essays under the umbrella title, All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten. Now, decades later, those truths explored in the book still resonate today. Kindergarten can provide the learning building blocks for a child that can last them...
Classroom Management: Ways to Reduce Student Stress
There have been various studies showing the effects of a classroom’s learning process on student stress. Those who are anxious about their abilities inside the classroom will typically have high levels of what is known as the hormone associated with stress, cortisol. Eric Digest presented an in-depth report on the relationship...
Top 6 Education Assessment Tools
Teachers need to determine student readiness before beginning lessons. As Tomlinson stated, when students do not have the requisite readiness, teachers need to provide adequate supports and scaffolding that allow students to progress up to learning the state standards. This does not mean “dumbing-down” the curriculum. It means providing scaffolding that supports...
The Commercialization of Education
The average cost of tuition for the 2017 – 2018 school years at any private college in the United States is $34,740. Expect that number to rise 2.4% every year. The charge for out-of-state students at public universities is an eye-watering $25,630. Taking into account graduation rates, they vary wildly by the...
How Politics Impacts Education
Education has been a political issue for ages, but it has been impacted by politics because most people who argue over education as policy are not education experts. People have been brought in to run the department of education even though they have no substantive experience, and there are people...
Should State Education Standards Be Unified?
Over 50% of the United States population thinks that the United States education system and what children learn in school should be standardized across the entire board, that is to a certain extent. They also believe that people should still have the right to homeschool their child or children if...