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posted by: Alix
| March 06, 2012, 12:00 am
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With social media and technology expanding daily, students and the general public are beginning to embrace shortened "text-speak" as part of an overall trend of using bad grammar, bad punctuation and bad spelling–all for the sake of convenience and speed. While social media lingo may send English teachers into a tailspin, experts have pondered whether proper English grammar may be on a road to extinction in the brave new world of emoticons, texts, tweets, and short Facebook posts.
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posted by: Alix
| March 05, 2012, 02:40 pm
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After nearly two years of controversy and union push back, a court order based on the Freedom of Information law, has forced thousands of the New Your City public school teachers evaluations public. The information, released at the end of February, is based on student test scores and other criteria between the 2008-2010 school years.
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posted by: Alix
| March 02, 2012, 10:58 am
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Jan Berenstain, who with her late husband Sam, made up one of the most successful husband-wife teams in children's literature died last week at the age of 88. After half a century of books, videos and TV shows about the everyday problems of a family of bears, the Berenstain Bears titles have become the standard for children's books in America.
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posted by: Alix
| March 01, 2012, 03:15 pm
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Teachers in the classroom today all remember being issued their textbooks in grade school year after year. Decades old charts and graphs accompanied by the occasional pencil drawing have been standard issue for generations. Currently the textbook business is a $4 billion-a-year industry; however, with dawn of new technologies and new insight into their true effectiveness, paper textbooks are on the fast track to possible extinction.
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posted by: Alix
| February 29, 2012, 05:31 pm
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Over a year ago, Sarah Walters* was a well‐liked virtual school teacher living in a small community in Colorado. Sarah had taught at a suburban school in her close knit community for more than five years, and then transferred to new virtual school for increased career flexibility where she received many awards. It was in this position that the rug was swiftly pulled from under her after she was fired for contact deemed "inappropriate" by school administrators.
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