Sticky kids and words

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 [...]

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 [...]

This post is kind of exciting for me because I am hoping to involve some of the super smart people in my class in this project.
I got an email from my first principal the other day.  He was a wonderful principal.  He challenged me and supported me and answered any question I ever asked with [...]

I just read this article in the Boston Globe about penmenship.  The article discussed both sides of the issue that basically goes like this:  nobody writes anymore because everyone types, so teaching penmenship is an archaic use of our educational time vs. penmenship is an ancient art and people need to be able to write [...]