Monday, September 1, 2008

Tough Start for Many

Sam Dillon tells in Hard Times Hitting Students and Schools about the effects of the current recession on students and families as the new school year begins.

NASA Image of the Day

The NASA Image of the Day for today is a rather stark sunrise above the Martian arctic circle. The image was taken on August 25, 2008, "the last day of the Phoenix nominal mission."

How Parents Can Fix Education

Daniel Akst has an interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal that might warm teachers' hearts: Raising the Bar: How Parents Can Fix Education. Akst suggests that parents need to "start insisting that your children fully apply themselves to their studies -- and commit yourself to doing your part."

A Case Where Inclusion May Not Be Best

An article in the Fitchburg, Massachusetts Sentinel & Enterprise by Dan Magazu, Deciding what's best for special-education students, gives a good look from the parent perspective of what it's like to be in an inclusionary setting that may not be working.

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