Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) and the New Haven Public Schools co-sponsored an event to honor two of our nation’s most influential outstanding scholars and education reformers, Dr. James P. Comer and Dr. Edmund Gordon, for their lifetime achievement towards closing the achievement gap.
The event, “A Conversation with Dr. James P. Comer and Dr. [...]
Continue Reading →The House Education Committee approved legislation that would gut the No Child Left Behind Act’s (NCLB) accountability system and highly qualified teacher definition and in its place give states free rein to establish their own methods to measure school quality and impose turnaround fixes. The bills (HR 3989 [PDF] and Continue Reading →
Earlier this week (February 7, 2012) President Obama hosted the second White House Science Fair. This event celebrated student winners of a broad range of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) competitions from across the country. As you are well aware if you have spent any [...]
Continue Reading →With countless digital and print books published each year, is finding reading material to engage students a daunting task? For nearly 40 years, NSTA and the Children’s Book Council have collaborated to select the best published each year for their list of Outstanding [...]
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Here on our Why Science blog we recently wrote about an event we were very honored to be attending, A New Year, A New Direction for CT!. This education workshop which took place on January 5, 2012 was sponsored by CT Gov. Dannel Malloy was titled [...]
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The House Education Committee’s final two bills to rewrite the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) would dramatically reduce the federal footprint in holding schools accountable for performance and transform the nation’s approach to improving teacher effectiveness.
The bills’ key provisions would
Maintain current requirements to test students in reading [...]
Continue Reading →Weighing the importance of education in concert with economics is always a challenge. 2012 is no exception. In fact, with so many of our states facing severe budget issues in addition federal as well as many local economic hardships the need to for a smart, and very focused educational policy is critical.
Continue Reading →Thanksgiving is one of those really nice holidays for a variety of reasons. Of course one of those reasons that we enjoy Thanksgiving so much is because as the name implies “Thanks” + “Giving”; this holiday in particular is very much about being thankful and also when possible, taking the opportunity to give.
We recently came across a very interesting article in The Economist called Flipping the Classroom featuring The Khan Academy.
The economist article was very interesting and it is an article we strongly encourage you to read. The underlying premise in the article is that by enabling the students to [...]
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