The Council of the Great City Schools (CGCS) has recognized Floridas Orange County Schools for significant improvement in raising student test scores in math and reading. The CGCS is the only national organization dedicated to the advancement of large, urban public schools. It comprises 66...
What does it take to catch a teacher? Nashville Schools and surrounding districts are trying to answer that question. Incentives including pay increases, job fairs, full time recruiters and on-site child care have been implemented as recruiters and administrators try to lure good teachers to...
Starting school year 2007-2008 all students of Nashville Schools will have to wear standard attire. As one can imagine, the move was not made without protest, but the school board is determined that this will be the directive for all metropolitan Nashville Schools for the foreseeable...
The Nashville Schools are bracing for a budget cut. While costs are rising at about 3.4% due to inflation and other needed costs, the increase in the overall budget is only 1.1%. Despite the Nashville Schools best efforts to insure this deficit is not felt by students-there will certainly be...
Nashville Schools Begin New Projects To Help Teachers And Parents
Nashville Schools Telephone Information Program
The Nashville Schools has started a new telephone information service that offers valuable information to parents. The Nashville Schools new telephone message service...
Have you ever been on a roller coaster? The thing with roller coasters is the multitude of emotional experiences they provide and how very quickly you can move from one emotion into another. This is perhaps one of the analogies I could use to describe the experiences I had as a result of...
Music education makes you smart. Smart people educate themselves with music. Both are true to an extent. What is it about music that increases you brains efficiency? From a teachers standpoint, the answers are quite obvious. Because music education is such a broad topic, lets condense it to the...
Over the last decade, schools across the nation have experienced the loss of music. The San Diego schools also had to replace music in many of its schools with other curriculum dictated by the state or federal law. The San Diego schools budget only stretches so far and, unfortunately, the arts...
I love Mr. Mafioso on AskMen. Look, college boy, he writes, there are certain lessons that all the books in the world couldnt teach you.
Strikes a chord with me. I came out of college quite the college girl. It was a college in rural Minnesota, very academic, very intellectual. How...
Our society is made up of near-constant comparisons. We want to know whos doing better in the polls. We want to know which car gets the best gas mileage. We want to know what team is superior in football, basketball, soccer, baseball and so on. We want to know which town is the most...
Learning how to speak in Spanish with confidence is such an achievement when completely done later on. But similar to other challenges in life, there has got to be first hand difficulties one will experience. The only way to battle this through is to handle Spanish lessons one step at a...
Learning how to speak in German with confidence is such an achievement when completely done later on. But similar to other challenges in life, there has got to be first hand difficulties one will experience. The only way to battle this through is to handle German lessons one step at a...