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This past summer, Debby Edmonds, a teacher at J.E. Robins Elementary School in West Virginia, spent thirty-nine days in New Zealand and Mongolia. However, this was no vacation. Edmonds was granted the opportunity to experience first-hand the rich cultures and unique customs found in these countries through the Fulbright-Hays Program, which offers international trips for educators and students. Since having returned to her classroom in West Virginia, Edmonds' goal has ...
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One Wichita school district is set to become the first in the nation to offer state-of the-art engineering classes at the elementary-school level. The Derby School District has adopted Project Lead the Way, a national program that establishes an engineering curriculum in elementary schools. School administrators say that the program, which emphasizes hands-on and computer-based activities, is designed to spark students' interest in math and science from an earlier age. ...
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The White House recently announced a new campaign by which various companies and nonprofit groups will join forces to encourage students to pursue further study in science, technology, engineering and math. President Obama reiterated that the success we seek as a nation depends on the dedication and commitment of not just government, but also students, parents, private citizens, organizations, and companies. The new campaign called Educate to innovate focuses on ...
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San Diego State University professor Alan McCormack uses magic to stimulate students' interest in science. McCormack, a 22-year veteran of SDSU's faculty, began his career in education as a middle school teacher in Poughkeepsie, New York. Today, he devotes much time to helping aspiring teachers learn how to make the most of their classroom time. For the past several decades, McCormack has been refining his skills as a "magician" and ...
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Physics teacher Casey O'Hara never stops questioning. As an educator, he also aims to instill a sense of curiosity in all his students so that their thirst for knowledge will never be satisfied. In keeping with his philosophy and his teaching style, O'Hara is preparing to travel to the South Pole, where he will spend one month helping with research and conducting experiments that his students and colleagues have suggested. ...
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For decades, teacher certification in New York has been performed exclusively by education schools. However, the State Board of Regents will now consider letting alternative teacher training programs certify teachers. The proposal is one of many that could potentially improve teacher quality and recruitment, particularly in high-needs schools. State Education Commissioner David Steiner believes that if the State Board of Regents approves these new proposals, New York's application for federal ...
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On November, 16th, NASA's space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to lift off to the International Space Station. Thousands of students are expected to tune in to the launch as the shuttle will carry two species of butterflies into space. Painted lady and monarch butterfly larvae will be launched into orbit aboard the shuttle so that scientists can study how well butterflies go through metamorphosis in a zero-gravity environment. Researchers say ...
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Daniel Dreyfuss, a science teacher at Rohr Middle School in Miami-Dade, Florida, has found a new way to hold his students' attention and ensure that they never forget the properties of the periodic table of elements. For the sake of learning, Dreyfuss provided his students with acrylic latex paint and encouraged them to paint blue, green, yellow, orange and red squares from the periodic table all over his 1999 Plymouth ...
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Cushing Academy, an elite boarding school in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, recently spent hundreds of thousands of dollars bringing its library into the 21st century. More important than aesthetic updates was the school's decision to get rid of physical books in favor of going digital. Considering that this drastic change redefines in many ways our expectations for what a library is and is not, it comes as no surprise that librarians and ...
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Dozens of elementary school students recently became published authors when their school, J.L. Everhart Magnet Academy of Cultural Studies, published its first elementary-aged student-written book. The book, which is titled Who Cares? I Do!, was a project started by J.L. Everhart Magnet Academy as part of its International Baccalaureate (IB) curriculum. The IB curriculum emphasizes that there are ten characteristics of good learners; good learners are inquirers, knowledgeable, thinkers, communicators, ...
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