Early childhood education in US is trailing behind other countriesNews from The Tennessean: Reset your password Enter your email and we will send you a link to reset your password. Email Reset my password Cancel OK Resend Email You must have browser cookies enabled to view our site. It’s possible that your browser cookies are [...]
Helping to educate our military studentsNews from Daily Press: September 26, 2012|By Sen. John Miller | By Sen. John Miller The start of the new school year in Virginia was accompanied by the welcome news that for the first time in more than a decade, there are no units of the Virginia Army or Air [...]
Overweight Children Plagued By Physical, Social Difficulties At SchoolNews from Huffington Post: Besides the obvious health problems associated with obesity — such as [...]
Educare shows promise in preparing kids for schoolNews from NBCNews.com: OMAHA, Neb. — Just shy of his third birthday, Dominic Chiarello had a vocabulary that was just “yes,” “no” and “potty.” After a year in preschool in the Educare Center of Omaha, the 4-year-old Nebraska boy wants to be an astronaut and blast off into [...]
Child Education Project underway in Palomas, Mex.News from Deming Headlight: Click photo to enlarge Esperanza Lozoya is second from left, with Palomas volunteers. PALOMAS, Chih. Mexico – Esperanza Hope Lozoya registered over 100 children for school at five Palomas schools, with the support of Dos Manos, a newly formed Taos-based nonprofit. Lozoya and Palomas volunteers [...]
New Rye Business Brings Sophistication and Elegance to Child EducationNews from Patch.com: Harrison resident Abbey Lombardo-Kumar aims help families in southern Westchester transform their child’s play spaces into elegant and sophisticated learning centers with her new business Little Learners Childhood Enrichment Studio on Purchase Street in Rye. “We are trying to create an experience for [...]
Former Prep School Doctor in Child Pornography Case to Remain in JailNews from New York Times: BOSTON — In a court appearance on Friday, Dr. Richard Keller, the former medical director at a prestigious Massachusetts prep school and a part-time pediatrician at Boston Children’s Hospital, agreed to remain in jail pending a trial on a [...]
Education FirstNews from Huffington Post: Education has shaped my life and the history of my country. I grew up in a society ravaged by war and mired in poverty. Schools had been destroyed. My classes were held in the open under a tree. We had no desks, chairs or other basic necessities. The Republic of [...]
School Reform and the Lives of GirlsNews from Huffington Post: “Education is the civil rights issue of our time.” Who can quarrel with such a statement, often proclaimed by school reform advocates from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to Presidential Nominee Mitt Romney to Michelle Rhee and Al Sharpton. But where would the school reformers [...]
Funds match for kids’ educational extrasNews from San Francisco Chronicle: A San Francisco nonprofit named Earn is offering low-income families in the Bay Area and Los Angeles a 3-to-1 match worth up to $ 1,500 per child on their education savings. For every $ 1 an eligible family puts in up to $ 500 per [...]
