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Learning About The U.S. Mint

Learning About The U.S. Mint.

Free lesson plans by the U.S Navy to help bolster science, technology, engineering, and math in classrooms.

I first heard about this at the Title I conference this year in Maimi and have become interested in knowing more and why. - - "the boy crisis" -- the decline over the past decade or so in academic achievement and college attendance among U.S. males -- is one of the most serious issues facing U.S. society today.

Web Hunt on the 1930s

One of my favorite sites is DisccoveryEducation.com that I use daily in the classroom. Discovery Education provides a wealth of classroom resources for all grade levels on various subject areas. I use this website daily in high school when teaching Reading, Science, and U.S. History classes.

I love all the free, quality resources on the Discovery Education site. Whenever I have time, I browse this site for newly added resources.

Data from the U.S. Census Bureau from 2013 has been compiled and reveals how much each state and its districts spend on education per pupil compared to the national average of $10,700 per pupil. At the extreme of both ends of the spectrum, New York spends the most with $19,818 spent per pupil and Utah the least with $6,555.

In the last 100 years, the number of foreign-born U.S. residents has grown to about 30 million people -- resulting in a corresponding growth in demand for schools to provide effective ESL and EFL programs at all levels of instruction.

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The narrowing of some curriculums and the rigid school assessment formulas under the federal No Child Left Behind Act drew comments from researchers and educators at forums on different sides of the U.S.