What Is Best Buddies International and How Can My School Get Involved?
Best Buddies International is a nonprofit organization devoted to creating friendship opportunities between people with intellectual and developmental …
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The Flipped Classroom in Action: Discover the Success of Clintondale High School
One Detroit-area high school ranking as one of the state’s lowest scoring schools found a way to increase grades and graduation rates while …
Continue ReadingThe History of the Khan Academy and How It Is Using eLearning to Transform the Future of Education
Learn how one man finding a way to help tutor his cousin from a remote location became a revolutionary approach to education.
Continue ReadingHelp for Homeless Teens and Kids: How Youth On Their Own Makes a Difference
Youth On Their Own (YOTO) is a Tucson, Arizona based nonprofit organization working to help students who lack the basic tools to succeed. Since 1986, …
Continue ReadingHistory of the Inverted Classroom: Founders, Inspiration and Other Origins of Flipped Learning
Just as the name implies, flipped learning turns traditional education upside down. Read on to learn how this concept came to be and what the future …
Continue ReadingLooking at Both Sides of the Charter Schools Debate
This year 6,000 charter schools are operating in the United States. Approximately 2 million students are enrolled in charter schools with nearly 1 …
Continue ReadingThe Gamification of Education: Will This Become a Standard Teaching Method of the Future?
If you gave students a choice between doing schoolwork or homework and playing various types of games, they obviously would choose the latter. …
Continue ReadingWhat is AltSchool? A Return to the One-Room Schoolhouse & What we Can Learn From It
Max Ventilla believes education has changed very little since 1900. You wouldn’t want a car built back then. Why will you accept an education …
Continue ReadingLewisville's 1:X Initiative - A Fresh Approach to Using Tech in the Classroom
Education is changing. Rather than banning smartphones from the classroom and adhering to century-old methods, modern teachers are embracing new …
Continue ReadingAre You Thinking About Majoring in Education? A Few Things You May Want to Consider
On one side, people keep talking about all the teacher shortages across the country but on the other, education majors are lamenting that there …
Continue ReadingPay Teachers More: One Solution to Increasing the Quality of Education
What’s one easy way to improve the quality of education? That’s easy: pay teacher’s more. Higher salaries will attract more quality …
Continue ReadingBenefits of Flex Learning Programs for Students: What is Flex School & Why is it Advantageous?
There are a lot of new initiatives taking place in the world of education, both nationally and internationally. One of the newest concepts gaining …
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