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A New Challenge for Teachers

Sunday, October 30th, 2011 | Education |

One key challenge educators face is the importance of encouraging girls to excel in math, science and computer science studies. As technology continues to drive the world of business, those challenged or generally disinterested in science and math will be left behind. In fact, that's exactly what's happening. Although women make up approximately 50% of the general work force in the U.S., they only represent 9% of workers in the science and engineering community. With such a low percentage ...
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Fast Track Learning Results

Thursday, October 27th, 2011 | Education |

Fast track your results, develop positive learning behaviour, establish purpose and design goals that motivate, with "study skills"! What is the most important skill? I'll give you a clue - you're doing it right now. It's not reading, although reading is an extremely important pathway of learning. It's "thinking". The most important skill involves learning how to use our internal software and hardware. The hardware being the brain and the software being thinking patterns or "thoughts". This ...
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Attention Deficit Disorder

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011 | Education |

/p> It is estimated that there are over 2.5 million people who are diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder. The majority of these are boys. As a mother of a boy and a teacher, I have seen first hand the evidence of this, and I have to ask why we, as a nation, are content to medicate these beautiful, brilliant children instead of questioning the methods of teaching and choosing alternative educational settings for them. Wouldn't it be easier to reform our educational system than to come up ...
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Is there such a thing as a popular quiz?

Saturday, October 22nd, 2011 | Education |

Q. My students have asked me for a popular quiz. Can you recommend one? A. The answer to that question depends upon what your students mean when they say "popular". Do they mean a quiz that can tell them if they are "popular", or do they mean a quiz that is popular because everyone likes taking it? Hmm, maybe I can craft one answer that covers both options. You see, a popular quiz, also know as a popularity quiz, it very popular in itself. Starting at about third grade the concept of being ...
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School ERP verses stand alone applications

Thursday, October 20th, 2011 | Education |

Stand Alone Verses ERP solution for schools. (This report is based on the survey with Schools EDP officers handling school ERP and Other software in school ) Defination of School ERP : A single software managing all aspects of schooling without redundancy and proper inter module data exchange. The data is managed centrally. The moment we think about school automation we think of multiple software, one for fee, another software for library and so on. Carefully looking at the school we ...
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How to Get Reluctant Kids to Write

Wednesday, October 19th, 2011 | Education |

Being a gifted/learning-disabled child has afforded me the unexpected privilege of discovering new regions of my brain that few have ever explored. Because of this, I've come to look at things upside down and backwards. This tendency comes in handy while teaching Language Arts at the Brideun School for Exceptional children. Brideun kids are unique learners who have blockages in their input or output capabilities. Our job as teachers at Brideun is to find alternative pathways in order to get to ...
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Violence

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011 | Education |

Flashes of memory stream into my consciousness. They take me back thirty years plus. I was a boy then, a newcomer to a poor and tough neighborhood. My parents, of moderate means and daring to a fault, had decided to move there after my father had accepted an editing job in the federal government. They had taken a lease on a low-rent brick house, which was also run-down, covered in filth, and littered with trash. I do not mince my words: Previous tenants had been pigs that got along with bugs ...
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Child rights in Pakistan

Monday, October 17th, 2011 | Education |

Access to free and compulsory education is a fundamental right of children. In Pakistan education is neither free, nor compulsory, nor easily accessible to all children. Pakistan has about 184,000 primary schools, including about 121,000 government schools, an estimated 25,000 mosque schools and 38,000 private and non-formal community based schools. Approximately 75% of enrolled children attend government schools. The government intends to introduce core subjects at the primary, middle and ...
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Learning Spanish Grammar and the verb "Gustar"

Sunday, October 16th, 2011 | Education |

Learning Spanish Grammar and the Verb "Gustar" by Patrick Jackson © Patrick Jackson - All Rights Reserved 2004 =================================== Learning Spanish Grammar and the Verb "Gustar" If there's one verb that gave me a lot of trouble when I first started learning Spanish grammar that verb was "gustar." Many of the Spanish lessons and Spanish classes that I took in order to learn Spanish only confused me even more about the use of "gustar." "Gustar" means "to be pleasing to" or "to ...
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Never Be Lied To Again

Saturday, October 15th, 2011 | Education |

Never be lied to again! The techniques you are about to acquire are based on hypnotic understanding of the human sub-conscious. You will be amazed at how accurate this information is. It takes most people some thought and practice to get really good at detecting lying, but if you try it you will discover that you now have an invaluable asset in knowing the truth every time. Here's how it works Say a woman suspects that her husband was not out with the boys at the bowling alley. Here's what ...
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