This educator skipped the traditional teacher route and headed straight into entrepreneurship
DAVENPORT, Fla. – Valeria Oquendo didn’t set out to be an entrepreneur. “Ms. V,” as her students call her, had wanted to be a teacher since she was a teenager. On her way to an elementary education degree, she interned at a public school and, initially, those dreams became even...LO ÚLTIMO
When Constantine and Aliona Shulikov left the former Soviet Union as children to escape religious persecution three decades ago, public education there was one-size-fits-all. Students attended assigned cookie-cutter government schools... READ MORE
SANFORD, Florida – Charisma Lowery loves fractions, which is not something you hear every day from a third grader, but she does. Mixed fractions, improper fractions – bring ’em on.... READ MORE
The television classic “King of the Hill” included a character known as Dale, who despite being a conspiracy theorist is entirely oblivious to the fact that that his wife is... READ MORE
David Brooks has a piece in the Atlantic called How the Ivy League Broke America: The meritocracy isn’t working We need something new that is generating a lot of... READ MORE
Two South Carolina parents are fighting to reclaim the power to direct their children’s education after a state Supreme Court ruling ripped it away only weeks into the new school... READ MORE
TAMPA, Fla. — With 16 dormer windows that peek out from all sides of the roof and a wrap-around porch, the building looks more like a place to relax than... READ MORE
During World War II the British kept a group of stately manors for high-ranking German military prisoners. The British treated them well in these gilded cages, giving them full access... READ MORE
Education is no longer about students sitting in rows of desks from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. And school choice, the term supporters used for years to describe the movement... READ MORE
For we who grew up tall and proud In the shadow of the mushroom cloud Convinced our voices can’t be heard We just want to scream it louder and louder... READ MORE
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Author! Author! Charisma loves school so much she wrote a book about it
SANFORD, Florida – Charisma Lowery loves fractions, which is not something you hear every day from a third grader, but she does. Mixed fractions, improper fractions – bring ’em on. Charisma, 7, loves fractions so much that one morning while in the second grade, she jumped out of her mom’s... LEER MÁS
TAMPA, Fla. — With 16 dormer windows that peek out from all sides of the roof and a wrap-around porch, the building looks more like a place to relax than... READ MORE
CLEARWATER, Fla. – The orphans in a tiny town in Tanzania left the biggest impression on Sarah Williams. They were so cute and kind and happy. And curious. The children... READ MORE
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Rising parent demand stretches Florida’s Personalized Education Program to its limit for 2024-25
Florida’s scholarship program for K-12 students who don’t attend school full-time has turned on the “no vacancy” sign. The Personalized Education Program operates as an education savings account that allocates an average of $8,000 per student for approved education-related expenses. It has reached its statutory capacity of 60,000 students for... LEER MÁS
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DADE CITY, Florida - LaTania Scott y Kameeka Shirley fueron maestras de escuelas públicas que querían algo diferente cuando abrieron su propia escuela en enero de 2023. Algo ... auténticamente Montessori ... accesible a las familias de todos los ámbitos de la vida ... incrustado con la autonomía que a menudo falta en... LEER MÁS
Education is no longer about students sitting in rows of desks from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. And school choice, the term supporters used for years to describe the movement... READ MORE
Education Next published a piece recently by Holly Korbey called The Tutoring Revolution, which reads in part: Recent research suggests that the number of students seeking help with academics is... READ MORE
TAMPA, Florida — The 22 high schoolers at Integrity Tabernacle Christian Academy donned their school T-shirts and left at dawn for the two-hour bus trip from near Orlando to ride... READ MORE
Some of the most valuable learning experiences happen outside the classroom. Public education is evolving to support more learning by doing. READ MORE
En los inicios de las cuentas de ahorro para la educación, varios de nuestros intrépidos miembros del Scooby-gang escribieron y hablaron sobre las opiniones de los usuarios como el futuro de la "rendición de cuentas". En un sistema de múltiples... LEER MÁS
A pesar de los llamamientos a la reforma y las oleadas de intentos de transformación, las características clave de las escuelas estadounidenses se han mantenido notablemente estables durante más de un siglo. Los alumnos pasan unas seis horas... LEER MÁS
Una forma segura de conseguir que asientan las cabezas en una conferencia sobre política educativa es pedir el desmantelamiento de la unidad Carnegie. La cuestión, y un temor legítimo, es si los esfuerzos... LEER MÁS
Un episodio de la extraordinaria serie de podcasts documentales de Paul MM Cooper "La caída de las civilizaciones" relata la historia de Cartago, que incluye detalles de las guerras libradas entre los cartagineses y Siracusa.... LEER MÁS
La educación pública estadounidense ha tenido tres épocas principales. La primera era reflejaba las necesidades de una sociedad agraria rural escasamente poblada. La mayoría de los niños eran educados en casa y la alfabetización se centraba principalmente en... LEER MÁS
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