Archive for 'Education'
Preparing for School: How to Get Your Kids Ready to Go Back
Issue: August 2010 by Daniel T. Richardson.
“Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken.” ~Bill Dodds The summer sun hangs high in the sky from early morning to the muggy fall of night. Cicadas chirp and fireflies flash secret [...]
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CAER and Lynchburg City Schools Team Up for the Future of Technology
Issue: July 2010 by Johanna Calfee.
“One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one’s own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.” -Albert Einstein One of [...]
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Smart Beginnings Coalition, Part II: The Importance of Early Education
Issue: June 2010 by Daniel T. Richardson.
“All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to become.” -Maria Montessori When we look at education, we ask ourselves what is important. We start to look at the many disparate elements that make a child’s education successful. The first stage in [...]
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Early Childhood Education: Why and How
Issue: May 2010 by Daniel T. Richardson.
“I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform. All reforms which rest simply upon the law, or the threatening of certain penalties, or upon changes in mechanical or outward arrangements, are transitory and futile…. But through education society can formulate its own purposes, can organize its own means and resources, [...]
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Budgeting for Reductions: How Will Local Schools Cope with Cuts?
Issue: April 2010 by Daniel T. Richardson.
“I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.” – Thomas Jefferson, letter to William C. [...]
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How the State Funds Virginia Schools
Issue: March 2010 by Daniel T. Richardson.
With rampant announcements of budget cuts, along with rumors of lay-offs and closings of some local public schools, it is beneficial to understand the process by which Virginia’s public schools are funded. As it turns out, the history of this money trail can be traced all the way back to our country’s founding documents. The [...]
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Going Green in Education
Issue: February 2010 by Daniel T. Richardson.
“Going Green” seems to be a major buzzword nowadays. You hear it on the news, in commercials and in advertising. But what does it really mean and can “Going Green” be an integral part of today’s educational environment? When it comes to schools across Virginia, it appears the answer is “yes.” Among the many definitions [...]