Anjali Datta is a bright girl: too bright for the Texas education system who can' twork out that doing the required high school syllabus in 3 years rather than 4 and still having the highest grade point average should be good enough to become valedictorian. But the rules say should have taken 4 years, and despite being told t

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The classroom has always been the main medium where the exchange of education takes place between a curriculum and students. Teachers and instructors often presented the information in a format that lead students to an educational goal by the end of a specific time period. These days, this format has changed greatly; especially

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Catholic Schools Week is now celebrated by the Catholic Schools in Jersey City. This year’s theme is Catholic Schools Light The Way.

During this week, schools make their own fun and educational activities. St. Joseph for instance will be having Sports Day. Meanwhile, in Union

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Earlier this week, a high school in the US state of Georgia launched another unique initiative to boost the math and science grades of students.

Creekside High School near Atlanta offered students money to attend remedial classes in the two subjects for 15 weeks and a monetary bonus for maintaining a “B” gr

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The only privately owned copy of the Magna Carta was sold at auction today for 21.32 million dollars. Dating back to the year 1297 and bearing the wax seal of King Edward I, this is the only original copy of the Magna Carta located in the United States. Fortunately the new owner, David Rubenstein, plans to loan the document to the National A

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Sometimes it helps out a particular educational institution to boost it's overall public awareness by publishing some positive information about it. That way anyone considering choosing their college will be better able to make an unbiased and informed decision.

Pierce College is one of those high academically rated colleges that deserve

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This post gives you 15 different mega successful people that didn't need college to become multi millionaires. To cover its liability, the post states at the bottom that many people obviously can't do it without a college degree.

The list is in

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Aside from a couple of Fluffs, my brain was able to wrap itself around some pretty interesting and enlightening tomes last year.

I’ve placed the books into six categories, and then made a few comments on each. If the word sayonara appears after the author it means 1) I don’t recommend it and 2) it went straight to the Goodwill pile. I on

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Helps you to learn things the first time around. One of the most unproductive things ever is not learning and being forced to try to learn again. One thing that I really enjoyed about this post was how it teaches to to identify problems areas that might be harder for you to remember.

Once you have identified the problem areas, the lesson c

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NC sez: I see the Islamists are dong a very fine PR job around the world with their “Hate Jews” campaign. Whenever one reads that “the Jooooossss rule the world” you know it comes straight out of the Nazi racist play book , and history bears out th

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My daughter is having some math issues. This gives me great grief as I am pretty proficient mathematically. I’m very visual and it was driving me nuts every time she would add 5 + 1 by starting with 1,2,3,4,5…….. 6! The number one reason for this is

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Zotero is a fantastic plug-in for Firefox makes research a breeze. It is a free tool designed to manage bibliographies, citations, and just collections of notes. Combined with integration for Microsoft Word or Open Office, makes this tool an essenti

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In the current society, where people struggle for the rights to have dogs and live in the middle of other people, I think it is time to make some adjustments to old ideas.

There are several solutions that provide a simple, clean way to have dogs and don’t offend neighbors or even to have problems in taking the dog out. Begin

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Thinking about going back to school? Well, you don’t really have to leave your PC chair anymore to educate yourself. The Internet has made it possible for virtually anyone with access to get a broad range of free education online and there’s hardly anything you won’t find on the world wide web. A lot of schools, colleges and universities offe

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This is a post from a mom struggling to come to grips with the need to introduce the dreaded topic of sex education to her 10 year old. Despite many signs that the child is ready, this mom has just not been able to approach the topic of sex in a clear, coherent way. This mom does not want to repeat the sex education that she got from her mo

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This article looks at why one family is choosing to homeschool. In the past, most homeschoolers made this choice for religious reasons. Now, parents are choosing homeschool for educational reasons. Increasingly, parents are choosing to homeschool

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Hooked on Phonics is my favorite learn to read system. As a parent of four children I have tried so many different approaches to reading. My third child was not interested in reading at all. While he is still not any avid reader, the Hooked on Phonics system at least helped him to learn how to read. I am now using the Hooked on

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