The changing landscape of our world that forces new thinking

The Department of Education reports that between 1994 and 2004, the number of English language learners (ELLs) increased in the United States by 65 percent. With the U.S. Census projecting the country’s population to swell to over 415 million by 2050, the number of ELLs will rise.

Young son of Birmingham Radio Host Rick Burgess Drowns

Young Son Of Birmingham Radio Host Drowns In Swimming Pool

Sunday, Jan 20, 2008 – 07:32 PM 

By Associated Press

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – The 2-year-old son of a popular Birmingham radio personality has drowned in a residential swimming pool in Shelby County.In a statement, Sheriff Chris Curry says the child, William Bronner Burgess, the youngest son of [...]

Young son of Birmingham Radio Host Rick Burgess Drowns

Young Son Of Birmingham Radio Host Drowns In Swimming Pool

Sunday, Jan 20, 2008 – 07:32 PM 

By Associated Press

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – The 2-year-old son of a popular Birmingham radio personality has drowned in a residential swimming pool in Shelby County.
In a statement, Sheriff Chris Curry says the child, William Bronner Burgess, the youngest son of [...]

Do we prepare kids for college or for life?

January 16, 2008

The College Question

Is our K-12 education system too focused on preparing all kids for college, at the expense of preparing them for life?  This basic question has been setting the edusphere ablaze recently.At A Place at the Table, Susan Graham’s blog at Teacher Magazine, Graham asks “Have we all been part of a [...]

To change or not to change?

If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.”
–Gen. Eric Shinseki,
former Army Chief of Staff
 

Malnutrition and Children…what can we do?

 

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Malnutrition Responsible for a Third of Child Deaths Worldwide

By Amanda Gardner
HealthDay ReporterThu Jan 17, 5:02 PM ET

THURSDAY, Jan. 17 (HealthDay News) — A international epidemic of maternal and childhood malnutrition accounts for more than one-third of childhood deaths and 11 percent of the world’s disease burden, [...]

Poverty is seen and heard in the classroom

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Poverty is seen and heard in the classroom

Posted: Jan. 16, 2008

Eugene Kane

 

Little stomachs grumbling.
That’s what a Milwaukee schoolteacher once told me was the hardest part of working in a school system with so many poor children.
Some mornings, she could hear the little stomachs grumbling. “It’s enough to break [...]

A way that you can make a difference…

It's been almost a year since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast and destroyed huge sections of the city of New Orleans. Among those who experienced terrible damage were students and faculty at New Orleans Baptist Seminary. Among the extensive damage to homes and other facilities, many students and professors had their entire libraries destroyed [...]

Not all father’s are deadbeats…

Anybody in Education, Psychology, Sociology, Social Work or other professional careers that deal with children and families know the hazard of so many fathers that have decided to not take part in the lives of their children. It has devastating effects on the lives of the children as they are growing up. Here I am talking [...]

Our world is changing every day, are we preparing students for that type of world?

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