Since Oct. 12, Arizonan Schools are rating by letter grades based on students' individual growth. However, the new system attracts more criticisms than support. Photo Credit: www.trekearth.com
Host "Coach" Dennis Snyder Presents: Vicky Murray research and helping develop California with the help of parents. Not as good as you think. Book written by Nicky Murray Tim Keller from the Institute for Justice for the last ten years in Arizona describes the struggles on a school choice program legally in Arizona and throughout the United States. Publicly funded with the education in Arizona for the leading to a law for the funding for public funding.
Bobby Diablo visits with TC Ottinger the Music Director of KRUA the college radio of the Last Frontier at the University of Alaska Anchorage discuss the business mechanics of running a college radio station. Note: Get your pen & pad. There might be a test later. More of the Great KASR V Pacific Rim Road Trip: Anchorage, Alaska! Home of Bobby Diablo. KASRV Point of Interest:University of Alaska Anchorage is the largest member of the University of Alaska System, with more than 17000 students, 14000 of whom attend classes at the main Anchorage campus. UAA comprises eight colleges and schools: The College of Education, College of Health and Social Welfare, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business and Public Policy, the Community and Technical College, School of Engineering, School of Nursing and School of Social Work. There are four community campuses: Matanuska-Susitna College, Kenai Peninsula College, Kodiak College, and Prince William Sound Community College. UAA offers Graduate degrees through the Graduate Division. The university's history began in 1954, when the Anchorage Community College opened, using the then-Anchorage High School building at night. Anchorage Senior College began providing upper-division classes in 1969, becoming the four-year University of Alaska Anchorage in 1976. UAA, ACC, and ACC's rural extension units merged in 1987 to form the present institution. UAA is the home of the NCATE-accredited UAA College of Education. for more info: www.uaa ...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report, from voaspecialenglish.com We received a question from a listener about how American schools use educational technology. There is not a simple answer. It depends on the subject and level of students, of course. But it also depends on the interest and training of the teachers, and the goals and budgets of the schools. Schools are almost all connected to the Internet. But some have more technology, and use it more, than others. For example, some schools use computers for activities like video conferencing, to bring the world into the classroom. And some classrooms are equipped with things like a Smart Board, a kind of interactive whiteboard. Interactive whiteboards are large displays for presentations. They connect to a computer and can operate by touch. They can be used for documents or writing or to project video. Some teachers are trying creative new ways to teach with devices like iPods and mobile phones. But educators say the most important thing, as always, is the content. Yet technology can have special importance in some cases. Cosmobot is a therapy robot. It stands about half a meter tall and has a blue body and a friendly face with big eyes. One child who works with it is six-year-old Kevin Fitzgerald. Kevin has developmental dyspraxia; he has difficulty moving his mouth and tongue. He works with Carole Semango-Sprouse as he uses a set of buttons attached to a computer. He can make the silent robot move forward ...