The Blue Blog

This article from the Boston.com Education News covers a story that is local in its content but national in the implications and topic that has been causing debate for some time- affirmative action.  The reason the article was written was to point out that the amount of minority students at Boston Latin, an elite public [...]

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My second attempt to use iTunes was moderately more successful than the first.  Navigating this extensive program finally became possible when I searched for all podcasts listed under education, then selected one that sounded relevant.  It turned out to be a podcast about Internet security, which was wasn’t what I thought I had selected based [...]

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After a three-day quest to download iTunes without paying, I have finally achieved the goal of installing this multimedia extravaganza on my computer.  It took a call to Myrtle Beach where my sister is vacationing to get everything right, but the mission was accomplished.  My skepticism of such a program quickly turned to elation as [...]

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Listen up, teachers of every level!  I found this article at the Boston.com news site, and after reading it I think it’s about time to write about sex on this blog.  The article describes the actions of Rhode Island education officials who have banned a certain abstinence-only program from being used in public schools because [...]

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As future educators, we all know that it is important to encourage understanding and acceptance of all people in our classrooms.  We also know, as students who all went through school, that not everyone around us was as accepting of their fellow students as our teachers probably hoped.  This CNN.com article caught my eye because [...]

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The original article can be found at:
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4754412.stm
This BBC News article describes an educational movement in Britain, where some people think that higher-functioning students should be singled out early so that they can begin to receive specialized attention.  Others say that this practice will inhibit the ability of schools to appropriately administer enrichment to those students [...]

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The original article by Stacey A. Teicher can be found at:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0222/p14s01-legn.html 
After two and a half years at Michigan State University, I have seen a lot of different factors make an impact on the success of students during their time here at MSU.  Physical and mental health, family problems, alcohol or drug use, and all manner [...]

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The original article was written by Tracy Jan and can be found at:
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2006/02/12/she_
aims_at_getting_girls_hooked_on_science/?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+News+%2F+
Education
The last time I watched television for a few minutes to pass the time, there was an ad aired in which a small girl asked her dad why the sky is blue.  He had a cute response for the 6- or 7-year-old girl, [...]

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The original article was written by Stacy A. Teicher and can be found at:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0208/p15s01-legn.html
The article I read this week discusses the growing amount of students who are taking and passing (a score of 3 or above) Advanced Placement classes in the United States each year. Of course, part of me is overjoyed to [...]

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The article can be found at: http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/02/02/education.reform.reut/
index.html?section=cnn_education
 
After the No Child Left Behind Act was passed, MEAP testing continued as normal at the elementary school where I attended third through fifth grades and where my mother has worked since I was born.  However, after the last round of testing, the school day could not [...]

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