Relating mathematics to students' everyday lives will be a goal for me as a teacher. With the research that I have read and through my own struggle with math, I feel that children need to make connections between the real world and mathematical concepts, so that mathematics becomes relevant to them...

Reading Recovery is a reading program specifically designed for first graders. It utilizes one-on-one tutoring on a short-term basis for low-achieving students. Dr. Marie M. Clay, an educator from New Zealand, developed the program. Dr. Clay observed several students in the mid-1960s that gave her...

The article "Substance Abuse in Families" written by Rivka Greenburg, focuses on the importance of the behavioral learning abilities at home, and the educational success at school in the early developmental stage for young children. This article is organized by the use of bold subs...

This article is from a book, "Children in Crisis" which highlights various issues of adolescence, which affect their learning at school, and one of such issues is "anger." The evidence of anger has been around for as long as I have been in teaching profession, but I am noticing i...

Education had an emphasis on many different aspects during the time prior to the Civil War. There was a certain irony that set the mode of this time making things that were said irrelevant to the actions that were taken. The paradoxes of education in Pre civil war America, are evidenced in subject...

Are the California schools and teachers making the grade in regard to illiteracy' Illiteracy is a problem of hidden proportions. For example, the San Diego Business Journal recently quoted the San Diego's Council on Literacy and pointed out that 20% of the United States population is funct...

Have you ever wondered what life at school would be like without "freedom?" In myopinion I think it would be horrid. Think about it. If we had no freedom we wouldn't be able to do the things we love most, or choose what friends we hang out with. The freedoms we have now we...

A few weekends ago I was talking to a relative of mine who happens to teach music at the local elementary school in my hometown. We were discussing her students and how the year was going for her so far. She had nothing but positive things to say about the children, however I could tell that some...