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Our poles are more than 20% melted. Oceans are rising. Leading scientists expect southern FL to be covered by water in 2050. CO2 output from 80% of our energy systems is accumulating from fossil fuels such as coal oil and gas. Only 20% of our energy is clean energy (geothermal, […]

There has been a slow and turbulent start to the Detroit Schools ‘ new school year. In a battle over contracts, some 7,000 teachers and 2,000 staff members refused to start school in September. These contract disagreements lead finally to a court battle. The contract disagreement began on August 28 […]

Home schooling has always been popular, and yet for a brief period in our history we didn’t hear a lot about it, today, all that has changed, as home schooling is definitely back in vogue. The No Child Left Behind Act instituted under the Bush Administration with the help of […]

Some years ago a grandson came to live with me who have problems at school. He had bad attention span and was noisy in class. That, however, was only part of the problem. He was also bowel incontinent and at the ages of 6-8 years that was hard for teachers […]

If you are considering teaching online, or if you are a homeschooling parent and would like to have your kids learn online while at home then maybe you need to do a little bit of research. Maybe you need to consider what’s out there, and the various hybrid courses and […]

How many times, during a home schooling day, have you found yourself still trying to plug along to get every subject done, that you feel “has” to be done before you can end your school day? Before you know it, it is 3:30…4:00…5:00… And suddenly you realize that not only […]

Plenty of people in all stages of their lives are fascinated by video games. The games practice can be long, difficult, and challenging, yet the players consider it fun and inspiring. It is hard not to admit that playing games has social and cultural significance in our society. According to […]

K-12 education is an innovative education system. This area of education has a dominance over the conventional educational systems as it puts more weight on thinking and reaching own self-explanatory conclusions. The way of teaching here is completely different and phenomenal. Teachers generally follow the tactic of asking students to […]

I have been blessed on my travels through this world to meet people who have taught much that enabled me to re-evaluate time worn wisdom. My personal experiences of working with the elderly over a two year period and observing and listening to their perspectives I came to believe more […]