Education Needs a Facelift Standardized tests are intended to give a general measure of students' performance. Standardized testing means administrating the same test in the same way to two or more pupils. Since large numbers of students throughout the country take the same test, they give ed...

Immersion or Bilingual Education: Is One Superior? The Problem Nationwide, about 3.5 million public school students do not know English well enough to succeed in a regular classroom. In the early twentieth century, such children would have been expected to learn English without much spe...

Bilingual Education For decades, immigrant children have been taught in their native languages in schools across the country while slowly and simultaneously receiving English as a second language. But like anything, bilingual education is not without its flaws. In fact, it's plagued with them. ...

Bilingual Education I am sure that if I was improperly placed in a bilingual program, others have also. How does this happen? What "characteristics" show school officials that a student needs the classes to begin with? These officials seem to think that standardized tests and parent q...

In New York, a sixteen-year-old boy broke into a cellar. When the police caught him and asked why he was wearing gloves, he replied that he had learned from watching television, if you wear gloves you won't leave any fingerprints. In Alabama, a nine-year-old boy received a bad report card fro...

Bringing Education to After-School Programs John Suazo Quality school age care programs are much more than just baby-sitting services. The need for quality after-school programs has steadily increased over the past few yea...

Bilingual Education = Unilingual Education Bilingual education in America is a sound idea, but it is not truly bilingual education, it is only bilingual for those who do not already speak English. America is a country with more and more cultures mixing together with different areas of America spe...