Entries from February 2009

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Stimulus Package Funding

This is the breakdown of education funding in the stimulus package:
 
 

 

Final

Title I
$13 billion

Education Technology
$650 million

Statewide Data Systems
$250 million

Education for Homeless Children and Youth
$70 million

Teacher Incentive Fund
$200 million

Impact Aid
$100 million

State Stabilization
$53.6 billion

IDEA Part B
$12.2 billion

HeadStart
$1 billion

Early HeadStart
$1.1 billion

Childcare and Development Block Grant
$2 billion

Pell Grants
$15.6 billion

College Work Study
$200 million

Higher Education Tax Credit
$2500 maximum tax credit

National Science Foundation
$3 [...]

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Reading Dostoyevsky to an 8-month old

I ran across this article called Infants learn earlier than thought in the Seattle Times.  I usually prefer to get my research from research journals, because by the time the media is reporting the results of a study the complexity of the study has been watered down and the reader doesn’t have the chance to [...]