Education Technology

The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), a set of K-12 science education curriculum benchmarks, were released earlier this month, according to Education News. Although adoption of the NGSS by states is voluntary, its creators hope that it will help decrease “widespread scientific ignorance” and inspire more students to study science and technology in college.

In 2011, the National Research…

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) recently released data that suggests 11 percent of students are currently being diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The New York Times reports that this diagnosis has increased dramatically over the last 10 years, and doctors are concerned that ADHD is being over-diagnosed, and that medication to treat the disorder is over-prescribed.

Of the 6.4 million students that have been diagnosed with ADHD at some po…

April is National Poetry Month! Established in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets, this month is devoted to the celebration of poets and the impact that poetry has on art and our lives.

By collaborating with art organizations, educational establishments, libraries, government agencies, publishers and other community organizations, the Academy of American Poets uses National Poetry Month to try to accomplish the following goals:

• Spotlight American poets, their achievements and their legacies;

• Introduce more readers to the pleasures of poetry;

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It isn’t unusual for teachers to spend their own money on classroom supplies. Teachers want what’s best for their students, so they will often purchase items such as crayons, tissues, construction paper and even books, when school budgetary concerns become an issue. They also sometimes purchase materials to advance their own pedagogy, buying texts and subscribing to services to assist with curriculum planning, classroom management and other facets of instruction. But what many teachers don’t realize is that the IRS offers a teacher tax credit to offset some of these costs.

HOW THE TEACHER TAX CREDIT WO…

It’s been an exciting few months here at Teach.com since we launched the Teach 100, the first tool of its kind to rank the best educational blogs according to vital metrics that assess a site’s performance. Because the Teach 100 updates daily, the rankings are always changing depending on how the blogs are doing. The result is a current, comprehensive assessment of the blogs in comparison to one another.

We’ve received overwhelmingly positive responses from all of you in the educational blogosphere. Each day we see new submissions from around the world, so our number of rankings continues to grow. We began with 127 blogs at our launch, and we now rank 280 blogs. Readers and bloggers alike are using the Teach 100 as a place to connect with some of the most vocal minds in education for mult…

This blog was originally published on Wonder of Children on September 17, 2012.

Lisa Wells has taught for 20 years in independent schools in MA, NY and MD. She currently writes a blog on child development, teaches yoga and tries to spend as much time with her two high schoolers as they will allow. Lisa’s committed to knowing each learner as an individual, creating a classroom community where the social curriculum is interwoven with the academic fabric and sharing her work with yoga and meditation with teachers and students. As a consulting teacher for the Northeast Found…