Resources from the people I follow on Twitter, professional emails, and my own surfingShould Education use The Bar or Your Bar? by Douglas W. Green, EdD ©2012 Twitter: @DrDougGreen Email: DGreen@stny.rr.com Blog: HTTP://DrDougGreen.Com Today I offer an original piece that takes on the folly educators indulge in when they talk about The Bar. I hope you enjoy it. Please share. In education, we often hear talk about how […]
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May 27th, 2012Is School Hurting Your Kid?
May 16th, 2012Although I have been concerned about the impact of school sports programs on student health for some time, I became more concerned when I heard Sophie Altcheck (@sophiealt) at TEDNYEd. She is a senior at Horace Mann School in New York City. While aspiring to play college soccer she sustained four concussions. She now is […]
Read entire post...Is College Worth It Issue? Some Think Not.
May 15th, 2012Are we starting to see the impact of a college cost/debt bubble? It seems that students are thinking twice about taking on college debt as others wonder if a college education has any value. When you couple this with tons of free online courses we may be seeing the beginning of a seismic shift. Here […]
Read entire post...Cool Stuff Kids Do Issue
May 9th, 2012I’m a sucker for stories about how students do amazing things. Here we have one has become a go to expert in his field, one who takes on the look of perfect women in magazines, and another college dropout making a bundle. There are more and they are all amazing in their own way. Tweets […]
Read entire post...CohortTracker™ – Essential Software
April 28th, 2012CohortTracker™ is a web-based application that helps schools keep track of the students in each cohort as they proceed towards graduation with special attention for those at risk of not graduating in four years. This software should be part of any student management system, but it generally isn’t. NCLB requires high schools to reach four-year […]
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