Posts Tagged ‘Children’s’

Family involvement in children’s education: Successful local approaches : an idea book

February 15th, 2010

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library’s large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the us… More >>

Family involvement in children’s education: Successful local approaches : an idea book

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The Child and the Machine: How Computers Put Our Children’s Education at Risk

February 1st, 2010

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The United States spends $6.5 billion on educational technology (1998 – 99), yet children’s educational performance remains stagnant. The Child and the Machine shows how our rush to use computers has led to the most expensive and least helpful revolution in the history of education.Amazon.com Review
The number of computers in schools more than doubled during the 1990s, while government and corporate initiatives to wire schools for Net access has been agg… More >>

The Child and the Machine: How Computers Put Our Children’s Education at Risk

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Seeds of Tomorrow: Solutions for Improving Our Children’s Education

January 29th, 2010

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This inspiring author moves beyond criticism of public education uniting readers toward a vision of educating children that is holistic, intelligent, and empowering. Seeds of Tomorrow: Solutions for Improving Our Children’s Education offers reasonable alternatives to high-stakes testing. Engel promotes educational philosophies in support of differentiation and personalization rather than uniformity and conformity. She introduces school collaborative accountability m… More >>

Seeds of Tomorrow: Solutions for Improving Our Children’s Education

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