http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Patricia+Hawke Education Patricia Hawke Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=711298&ca=Education In Massachusetts, a Boston Based Virtual Public School is trying to fight against limits that the state panel is trying to set on them. Online schools are so beneficial to a lot of people, for parents who cannot find transportation for their children, for home schooled children who would benefit fro... Education Patricia Hawke Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=711300&ca=Education Chicago Public schools are offering a new credit recovery summer school program that gives the high school students a chance to retake their course that they failed without having to retake the whole year again. The education system is realizing that students shouldn’t have to waste their time and r... Education Patricia Hawke Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=711305&ca=Education Idaho public schools created a plan to introduce more educational technology into their school system. The growing need for more and more technology in the classroom is apparent and it costs money. Technology in the classroom is greatly beneficial and helps prepare students for the future and helps... Education Patricia Hawke Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=711308&ca=Education In Minneapolis and all over the United States online classes are becoming extremely popular. The fact that it makes it much easier for teen moms to finish high school, delinquents get back on their educational path and bullied kids go from homeschool to being able to switch to online classes. There... Education Patricia Hawke Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=711310&ca=Education After the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans school districts were in shambles. Eighty-five school districts were hurt by the natural disaster. A district called Jefferson Parish was granted twenty million dollars from Cisco to turn sixteen of its schools into models of the new education... Education Patricia Hawke Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=711315&ca=Education In St. Louis, their public schools are starting a program that connects home-schooled students with the district and their teachers. By creating this program called Schoolwires, students will have access to an online community to be able to interact with other educators and be involved in the commun... Education Patricia Hawke Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=711318&ca=Education At a time where sleep is needed more than ever, teenagers aren’t getting enough of it. The Kansas City Star reported that new research has found that by using technological devices it has distracted the teens enough to bother there sleep. Weather the device is a cell phone, a television, a video gam... Education Patricia Hawke Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=711327&ca=Education In the Houston Independent School District and many other districts nationwide, teachers are beginning to be rated on how their student’s score on the tests they provide. It seems rational to test teacher’s way of teaching by testing their students on how well and how much they have learned in their... Education Patricia Hawke Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=711330&ca=Education A special hands on Science and Technology workshop is coming to San Antonio, Texas. This workshop is for science teachers and designed for them to learn more about the new technologies that have came out that make science more hands on. Currently, Science programs have labs once and a while, but mos... Education Patricia Hawke Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=711331&ca=Education In the Austin Independent School District, the summer school programs are a little different than most other summer schools. We all know that students that have to go to summer school are a little less than pleased. Summer is designed for kids to take a break from their monotonous school life and be...