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New
Room by Room Summer Learning
No, this isn't a real estate ad. Your
house may be big or small. It doesn't
matter what it looks like. Use these
activities in any room you pick. The
idea is to do them, enjoy and learn
from them at home. |
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Early
Childhood MegaSkills
Preview, Low Cost Introduction To
The MegaSkills® Road to Reading
Early Childhood Curriculum Kit $110
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Home:
The Summer Learning Place
In an effort to raise test scores and
build student academic skills in many
schools across the nation, what are
considered frills or waste of time on
non-essential subjects are being cut.
This includerecess. And what a bad idea
this is. |
24K PDF |
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Learning
more than soccer: The case for widening
(not narrowing) the curriculum
In an effort to raise test scores and
build student academic skills in many
schools across the nation, what are
considered frills or waste of time on
non-essential subjects are being cut.
This includerecess. And what a bad idea
this is. |
28K PDF |
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MegaSkills
for Early Childhood Road to Reading
Today, preschools and day care centers
can get their own headstart by providing
MegaSkills activities for their young
children and their parents. |
16K PDF |
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NEA:National
Education Association
Great Public Schools for Every
Child
As a veteran classroom teacher, I learned
some hard-earned lessons. But none was
more important than this: The better
I got to know a student's parents, the
better a teacher I became. |
36K PDF |
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Paying
Kids to Go to School?
Showing up in certain classes can be
very rewarding for students. And it's
not because of what is being taught.
Parents of children in schools identified
as "failing" under the No
Child Left Behind Act can sign up for
free "supplemental services,"
tutoring after school. |
36K PDF |
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Those Who CAN...Teach
The T Shirt at the Teachers’
Meeting says it all: “The Flogging
Will Continue Until Morale Improves.”
The truth is this: Many people just don’t
like teachers.
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12K PDF |
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Closing the Testing Time-Gap
The much discussed achievement gap
in school is not the only gap to worry
about. At this time in the school year,
the testing time-gap is the one to look
for and it's almost never discussed.
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36K PDF |
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Giving
Our Kids Gift of Time
Home is where we do the activities
that I write about. What I encourage
others to do, I do myself. So every
week, the little boys and I teach and
learn…in the kitchen, in the yard,
in the car, wherever we happen to be,
using whatever we have with us. |
75K PDF |
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Wanting the Very
Best for Our Children
When I ask adults about the BEST we
want for children, answers from across
the country
sound just like this: Self-confidence,
responsibility, dependability, curiosity,
eagerness to learn, independence, self-discipline,
sensitivity to others, kindness, consideration,
hard working.
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76K PDF
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Education's
Gains and Losses
So much seems so different for our
children's education these days. To
get a grip on what's happening, it helps
to remember where we
have been. It gives us perspective,
a better sense of what we had as kids
and what we want for our own children. |
36K PDF |
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The Pleasures of
Learning: Linking Parent and Child with
MegaSkills®
Since the 1950s, Dorothy Rich, a former
teacher, felt that there was not enough
focus on every child's first place of
learning--the home. She held evening
sessions for parents in the 1960s called
"Success for Children Begins at Home,"
in which she led discussions and activities
for parents. |
92K PDF |
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High test scores are nice … but there's more
I like high student test scores, but
what I don't like is what many school
districts across the country are doing
to try to get them. Cuts are being made
in arts and music and guidance - in
any area that somehow is considered
non-essential for school achievement.
The problem is that they are essential. |
36K PDF |
