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E-books: Textbook Take-over?

Issue: November 2010 by .

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“There is at least this much agreement among intelligent persons of both schools of educational thought. The educational system must move one way or another, either backward to the intellectual and moral standards of a pre-scientific age or forward to ever-greater utilization of scientific method in the development of the possibilities of growing, expanding experience.” [...]

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Reading is Power Gets Students to Open More Books

Issue: October 2010 by .

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‘Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is [...]

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Camp Kum-Ba-Yah: A Place for All Children

Issue: September 2010 by .

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“I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. It has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has [...]

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Preparing for School: How to Get Your Kids Ready to Go Back

Issue: August 2010 by .

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“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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Smart Beginnings Coalition, Part II: The Importance of Early Education

Smart Beginnings Coalition, Part II: The Importance of Early Education

Issue: June 2010 by .

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“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 .

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“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 .

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“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 .

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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 .

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“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 [...]

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