The Need For Digital Literacy…

Behind the Headline: Take the Test to Get Into China’s Top Universities By Education Next…

Passing the HP HPE0-J79—great advantages for the IT professionals

Understanding the nature of HPE0-J79 Architecting Multi-Site HPE Storage Solutions

The HP Architecting Multi-Site HPE Storage Solutions is a well-known HP certification exam, which is associated with  numerous promising job roles. The HP HPE0-J79 questions has designed the core areas of HP Architecting Multi-Site HPE Storage Solutions in a technical way and in the wake of…

Feeling badly about an evaluation or an interaction is not necessarily a bad thing.  If one takes the time to reflect on the "bad feeling", it can be a motivator. Feeling bad is a part of life that all of us need to learn how to manage. We have a choice as to whether to allow it to turn into stress or to turn into an informant. Often it is the springboard from which we learn and change. Feeling bad about something can provoke our reflection on how to change "it" the next time. Let's…

Passing the HP HPE0-J78—great advantages for the IT professionals

Understanding the nature of HPE0-J78 Delta - Designing HPE Enterprise Storage and Backup Solutions

The HP Delta - Designing HPE Enterprise Storage and Backup Solutions is a well-known HP certification exam, which is associated with  numerous promising job roles. The HP HPE0-J78 questions has designed the core areas of HP Delta - Designing HPE Enterprise Storage and Backup…

High Performing Minority Districts: An Anomaly?…

This article is titled "The War against Black Children." But it's really about the war against defenseless children,  no matter what color they are or what group they belong to.

 Truth is, there are lots of dysfunctional and destructive methods used in our public schools. If parents run screaming to the school, the education commissars will back off.

But if there's nobody to defend those kids, the bad methods will be…

Many schools have worked hard to establish communication and maintain transparency with parents. Many are turning to technology for help with this goal.  Schools' missions, visions, codes of conduct, curriculum, requirements, contact information, emergency communications, and budget information have become standard information shared on websites and social media. Using social media to communicate about athletic events, emergencies, school closings, good news, homework and meetings have…

A recent experience in my school district once again reminded me about what’s worth fighting for in the current education reform debate.  We hear, read, and see accusations of school failure.  I see quite the opposite.  One example of this stems from how a 2002 graduate of Southold Schools came back this year to give back—in a big way.

Arriving at school as an 8 year old non-English speaking immigrant from Nicaragua, Pete Castillo now owns a masonry design company.  The 31…

Truly, social investment 

Two decades ago, Harris Rosen, who grew up poor on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and became wealthy in the Florida hotel business, decided to shepherd part of his fortune into the troubled Orlando community of Tangelo Park, reports Lizette Alvarez for The New York Times. Twenty-one years later, with an infusion of $11 million of Mr. Rosen's money so far, Tangelo Park is a striking success story. Nearly all its seniors graduate from…

Who authorizes the authorizers?

A blog post by Arianna Prothero in Education Week looks at the continuing debate, and differing schools of thought, around charter authorization. Authorizers and how they make decisions have gotten more attention lately, especially in Ohio and Michigan, where state- and press-led investigations have turned up academic and financial failures at charters. Some have subsequently argued that weak authorizing practices lead to weak…

Want to retain teachers?

The combination of poor student performance and limited teacher experience makes it especially difficult for majority low-income schools across the country to fulfill strict guidelines under NCLB, writes educator Paul Barnwell in The Atlantic. Barnwell himself was a novice teacher in 2004 in the Teach Kentucky program, which put him in a classroom with minimal training. He quit his assignment by Christmas. Although some educators hit…

What we expect, what we believe, makes a difference. Our mindset matters. We do not have the right to pigeonhole children by not believing in their ability to learn better tomorrow than today. We do not have the right to stop trying to figure out how to engage more students and help them be more successful.  We do not have the right to determine, as Buchanan is willing to do, that "there were trade jobs and blue collar jobs and construction jobs" out there and…

Option 3: Actually USE the smartphones…

Asking students to work in complete isolation…

Don’t Argue For Your Limitations…