by Sarah Green | Feb 7, 2014 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
How do students learn best? A survey by Harris Interactive for Everest College revealed that 52% of participants said that “Active participation through hands-on training” was the learning method that worked best for them. The next highest ranked category was “Visual...
by Jana Hoff | Sep 23, 2013 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
If you have any children over the age of three and under the age of 20, chances are you have heard of Minecraft. If not, it’s a simple video game in which players build structures. There’s almost no violence, and the graphics look very blocky since it’s built in...
by Jana Hoff | Sep 16, 2013 | Parent Issues, Teacher Issues
How do we define intelligence? Is it something reflected on a test score, or is it something more? Albert Einstein couldn’t remember his own telephone number. Based on that, we would probably label him learning impaired. Yet, obviously, he was a genius....
by Jana Hoff | Jul 12, 2013 | Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Debbie Sterling Lewis is a gal in a man’s world. She is one of only 11 percent of female engineers. She recognizes that this is wrong and needs changing. While 89 percent of male engineers probably haven’t considered how lopsided the numbers are, they definitely...
by Supporting Education | Jun 5, 2013 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
In the corporate world, salaries are often linked to job performance. How should teachers be evaluated? Should teacher salaries be linked to test scores? There are several factors to consider in the debate over merit pay. On the surface, it sounds like a great...