Rabb discusses how the No Child Left Behind Act has been underfunded leaving the teachers
unqualified and underprepared to teach the necessary material for standardized testing. This is
one of the reasons students have still received poor results in standardized test scores. Also,
there has been such an emphasis on reading and mathematics that students are performing even
worse in other subjects.
The Current Population Survey (CPS) is a monthly survey of about 50,000 households conducted by the Bureau of the Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This shows many statistics of the latest census held on literacy.
Article from Kansas City Gazette. Describes a bill proposal to increase financial knowledge in the US. The problem specifically lies with young adults and college students. It provides statistics as well as some startling facts to the problems with credit card debt and financial literacy.
It is shocking to see the statistic that almost 2/3 of individuals over the age of 50, still in the working environment, have not thought about their retirement. This failure to plan has lead Americans to financial illiteracy. Almost half of people in the workforce are unaware of pension and retirement funds that they as employees qualify for. The author suggests requiring proper planning aid information upon new employee orientation, educational programs as well as a personal incentive for individuals to think and plan for the future.
The Virginia Department of Education has unveiled a tool that teachers and parents can use to select books that interest young readers and help them improve their skills.
Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Hours" and other works, was artist-in-residence recently at the University of Maryland at College Park. This is part of a conversation he had with reporter Valerie Strauss about young people and literature.
This article is about how the former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor thinks the civics program in the education system should be changed. She talks about creating a web-based program to help teach the kids civics lessons that they will be more interested in. She also talks a little on how the No child left behind act ruined the social studies education for children. This is helpful if you are researching the no child left behind act or anything on civics education.
Many different dialects found in England- not the whole of the British Isles, but only in England, including Cockney. Gives the differences in pronunciation and slang terms for some of the different dialects.
A public school in the Bronx is experimenting with teaching single sex classes. It details a New York City public school's experiment into single sex classes. It may be helpful because it lists some of the arguments for and against this method and gives examples of other places where the same thing is being tried out.
In a detailed look at nearly 30 years of research on how television, music, movies and other media affect the lives of children and adolescents, a new study released today found an array of negative health effects linked to greater use.
More than three-fourths of young women, those ages 18-29 and known as Generation Y, want incoming President Barack Obama to make civil rights and racial justice top priorities of his administration, a survey says.