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America’s public schools can be traced back to the year 1640. The Massachusetts Puritans established schools to:

• Teach basic reading, writing, and arithmetic skills, and
• Cultivate values that serve a democratic society (some history and civics implied).

The creators of these first schools assumed that families and churches bore the major responsibility for raising a child. The responsibility of the school was limited and focused for 260 years.

At the beginning of the 20th century, society began to assign additional responsibilities to the schools. Politicians, business leaders, and policy makers began to see the schools as a logical site for the assimilation of newly arrived immigrants and the social engineering of the first generation of the “Industrial Age”. The trend of increasing the responsibilities of the public schools began then and has accelerated ever since. Read the rest…

1   Create a clever title

2   Know what you want grant for

3   Show how students can meet standards

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You’ve probably been told that, as a student, what you major in isn’t as important as how you apply your knowledge to the real world. It’s important to understand that you’re allowed to be passionate about more than one thing in life, even when it comes to career choices. These 10 celebrities, for example, enjoyed successful careers as musicians, actors and writers, even as they worked as teachers and instructors early in their careers. Read the full article…CLICK HERE

Recent research has shown that the ability of young children to control their emotional and cognitive impulses is a remarkably strong indicator of both short-term and long-term academic success. Unfortunately, studies also show that many American kids don’t have basic self-regulation skills (what child psychologists call “executive function”) and that this deficit is revealing itself as early as preschool. The question is: can self-regulation be taught, and at what age?

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(AP) – 13 hours ago

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will appear in a back-to-school television special with singer Kelly Clarkson and basketball star LeBron James next month.

Obama is appearing in a 30-minute documentary that will air at 8 p.m. Sept. 8 on Read the rest…

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Scholarship scams are much to common on the internet. Many students applying for scholarships get ripped off every year by fake scholarships. Using these twenty-three tips, however, attentive scholars should be able to avoid losing money….. Check out this information: CLICK HERE

“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some wo face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.”

Douglas Everett

“Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Read the rest…

Pros offer their ideas for getting new teachers started on the right foot

What’s the single best piece of advice you would offer a brand-new teacher?

Pose that question at random to 25 teachers and you’re apt to get 25 different answers or, as we like to call them, 25 terrific tips for new teachers.

We picked the brains of classroom veterans across the state, including some master teachers at NYSUTs professional development arm, the Education & Learning Trust.

We also talked to veteran teachers like Jan Gubiotti and Beth Sugg. These two retirees from the Fairport Teachers Association in western New York have collected so many suggestions over the years they put them together in a book titled Terrific Tips for Teachers, one of the publications they offer through LEARN, their Literacy Education and Resource Network.

Although we have numbered these tips for the sake of convenience, we present them in no particular order of importance. Each one, we believe, is a keeper. Read the rest…

The Did You Know video runs for almost 5 minutes and it’s an eye-opener, filled with numbers about technology that will stop you in your tracks. When I watched (twice, actually), I thought about my 87-year old father who, when he was born, couldn’t have imagined the cell phone, never mind e-mail and text messaging.CLICK HERE