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Mathipedia.com is a site dedicated to making mathematics accessible to everyone in ways that are simple to understand and presented in different forms for different learning styles. Mathipedia has a goal of providing resources that can be used by students, parents, and teachers free of charge without strict copyright restrictions. Here is what you will find on this site:

Edheads is a non-profit organization, which creates unique, educational web experiences that are free to teachers, students and parents.

Perhaps a lesson that might be useful in the 6-8 classroom as so many of our students are starting to "facebook" and really have no idea what they are doing. 

Free text messaging service for teachers. Parents, students and teachers never see each other's cell numbers

How true!

I read that article as well. Interesting . I like the idea of making sure our kids have that face to face interaction without intruding parents! (:

Something to get you thinking...

Despite the provocative headline, did you get the feeling that they were telling you what you already know about quality schools? And unless I just read right past it, I don't think the researcher interviewed parents as part of what leads to academic success, which I thought was interesting since he seems to have researched just about every other group. Thanks for posting--I always enjoy reading stuff like this!

I agree with you Holly. Once again, it's hard to quantify exactly what happens in education. The major issue always has been that public never gets to the heart of the research and basis their opinions on fancy titles and pretty pictures/graphs.