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Study Abroad in England … for Vacation
by Amanda Arnold | November 14, 2011
So what if you’re not in college anymore? You can still study abroad in England at Oxford and Cambridge. Here’s the scoop:
Oxford offers a program called the Oxford Experience. For about $1,818 (1,335 pounds), you’ll take a one-week course in something like …
Education is one of society’s most important long-term investments. Like so many other important issues, schooling can be an incredibly controversial topic. Pretty much everyone agrees that some sort of education is vital, but after that the consensus breaks down: What should we be teaching children, exactly? And how should we teach them? In the presentation [...]
There are some obvious things you can do to help get a good score on your next test. For example, if possible you should get a good night’s sleep before the test. And the best way to improve your score is to study for the test so that you know the answers cold. But sometimes [...]
And all of a sudden, it has changed from Summer to Fall
by Marshall Brain | August 25, 2010
Yesterday I went to go for a walk in the evening. I do this just about every day, either by myself or as a “family walk”. Before going out the door I check the thermometer. The evening readings over the past couple of months have been things like “97″, “92″, “98″, “95″. Always in the [...]
For more than a decade we have been told that kids need to have computers to improve education, that computer literacy is essential, that every child should have their own laptop (see for example, One Laptop Per Child) and so on. But it may not be true at all. Instead, it looks like computers create a gigantic source of distraction that actually gets in the way of education…
Both genders can be bullies, but their methods tend to be different. Learn more about female bullying, from the schoolyard to the workplace, in this episode of Stuff Mom Never Told You.
There’s an interesting article from yesterday’s New York Times about a school in the Bronx that’s experimenting with splitting up the girls and boys in its fifth grade class. The goal is basically to see what happens in relation to behavioral improvements, testing, etc. It turns out that there’s even a national movement going on to split up boys and girls in public schools. There are more than 400 such classes around the country, thanks to a federal regulation passed in 2004 that gave schools the right to do so.
There isn’t enough test data yet to suggest that the move has academic benefits, but teachers and students alike have good things to say so far. Both male and female teachers feel that it’s bonding them to their students more and that the students are bonding to each other.
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