ClassWish

07/08/2017

http://www.businessinsider.com/failing-bus-systems-segregation-in-schools-2017-7

Across the US, public school districts are struggling to keep their bus systems running smoothly. The rise of private transportation may only make things...

06/24/2017

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/french-entrepreneur-changes-childrens-lives-%E2%80%94-one-cheap-book-at-a-time/ar-BBD6rIr

It’s Sunday on a long spring weekend in Paris, and the mini Parisians of the 18th arrondissement are all jostling for a spot in the Jacqueline de Romilly library.

05/28/2017

Funding for classrooms has been shrinking for years in this deep-red state as lawmakers have cut taxes, slicing away hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue. Class sizes have ballooned, art and foreign-language programs have shrunk or disappeared, and teacher salaries remain low. Another significant consequence: A shorter school week.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/with-state-budget-in-crisis-many-oklahoma-schools-hold-classes-four-days-a-week/2017/05/27/24f73288-3cb8-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html

Ninety-six districts have shortened the school week, nearly triple as many as in 2015.

03/15/2017

The garbage collector takes discarded books from wealthy neighborhoods and adds them to a makeshift library in his home. The collection of over 20,000 books is open to the kids in the low-income neighborhood where he lives on the weekends.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/garbage-collector-rescues-books-from-the-trash-for-low-income-kids_us_58b71ad4e4b023018c6c6405

Proving that one person's trash can certainly be a child's treasure.

03/02/2017

A good article from Ritu Banga, co-founder of , a college to career initiative.
https://medium.com//skills-volatility-the-unfortunate-reality-of-our-times-7c63a8ffd1dd #.s09hcbh9v

How do we, as the most advanced economy in the world, support workers whose skills are no longer valued or have been rendered irrelevant?

02/13/2017

Teachers shouldn't have to spend their own money on school resources. Here is a solution: www.ClassWish.org

12/06/2016

America’s Math Scores Are Getting Worse
New international test results show that American scores have either stagnated or slipped. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pisa-scores_us_5845e67de4b028b32338e824

New international test results show that American scores have either stagnated or slipped.

11/29/2016

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/11/when-finnish-teachers-work-in-americas-public-schools/508685/

There are more restrictions to professional freedom in the United States, and the teachers find the school day overly rigid.

10/15/2016

Al kinds of great tools for schools.

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Image Tools
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Organising Tools
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Quiz and Poll Tools
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Widgets
File Storage & Web Pages
http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/

10/07/2016

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10/07/2016

Countries That Haven't Adopted the Metric System

08/31/2016

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