Education: Happy Sunday!

Posted on December 16th, 2007 by Brennan

Have a glorious and restful weekend!

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Education & Bipolar Disorder Revisited

Posted on December 13th, 2007 by Brennan

We are seeing massive increases in the diagnoses of psychiatric disorders in America’s children.
In 1994, there were twenty thousand documented cases of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Today, there are 800 thousand cases. That’s forty times as many diagnoses! But ADHD is just one diagnosis.
What about the massive increase in Bipolar [...]

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Education - Graduation vs. Crime

Posted on December 13th, 2007 by Brennan

Commonsense is alive and well! At least, there is some good common sense information in the San Bernardino County Sun newspaper.
Yesterday, they published the results of a report, entitled “School or the Streets: Crime and California’s Dropout Crisis”. This report is the result of a months-long study done by a group called Fight Crime: [...]

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Education - Weighing Family Life

Posted on December 12th, 2007 by Brennan

Again I have a story from the New York Times. This was written by Michael Winerip and reports the results of a new study by the Educational Testing Service (E.T.S.), which develops and administers over 50 million standardized tests annually, including the SAT. The study, entitled “The Family: America’s Smallest School” concludes that a lot [...]

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Education - Dumbing Down of America?

Posted on December 10th, 2007 by Brennan

Wow! This morning I read an article by Tom DeWeese, President of the American Policy Center and Editor of The DeWeese Report.
I say “Wow!”, because this is quite an article.
Mr. DeWeese makes a solid argument that there is a a deliberate conspiracy on the part of the Department of Education and the National Education Association [...]

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Happy Sunday!

Posted on December 9th, 2007 by Brennan

Have a glorious and restful weekend!

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Education - Keep Teen Minds Sharp During Winter Break

Posted on December 8th, 2007 by Brennan

Yesterday I shared some ideas to keep children’s minds sharp and academically-oriented while they are away from school for two weeks during Christmas Break. The ideas come from McNeil Pediatrics, manufacturers of Centris, a drug for children with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
Today I’d like to share their list for suggested teen/preteen activities.

SMART ACTIVITIES FOR TEENS TO [...]

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Education - Keep Children’s Minds Sharp During Winter Break

Posted on December 7th, 2007 by Brennan

Youngsters look forward to Christmas vacation longingly. Two weeks with no text books or tests, sleeping in late every morning. But you can help your child stay sharp during this time so that going back to school in January is not such a jolt to their brains.
McNeil Pediatrics, a division of McNeil-PPC,Inc is the manufacturer [...]

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Education - Fixing Schools Isn’t Working!

Posted on December 6th, 2007 by Brennan

The Baltimore Sun had an interesting article this morning about the failure of Maryland to turn around it’s worst schools after more than a decade of trying different techniques. The article deals with a report released by the Center on Education Policy, a Washington-based nonprofit education research group.
According to Jack Jennings, President of CEP:
“Even [...]

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Education - U.S. Students Fall Short in Math & Science

Posted on December 5th, 2007 by Brennan

According to a report in EducationWeek.org:
“New results from the 2006 Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, released today, show U.S. students ranking lower, on average, than their peers in 16 other countries in science, out of 30 developed nations taking part in the exam.”
So what’s new here? Well, these scores put our students somewhere [...]

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