http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Patricia+Hawke Education Patricia Hawke Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=745815&ca=Education In Massachusetts, almost ninety-nine percent of their schools districts have filed bullying-prevention policies with the state. Schools were supposed to comply with writing out a plan to stop bullying and prevents it and what consequences the school will make to those who break the rule. A student P... Education Patricia Hawke Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=745817&ca=Education In Maryland Public Schools administrators are contemplating integrating student bodies based on income integration. Currently schools in an area have either mostly poor or mostly rich kids, depending on the area and if the schools is located in the district that is “ghetto” or one of a nice communit... Education Patricia Hawke Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=745821&ca=Education A new study is being practiced in districts across the United States. Teacher evaluation is a very important part of their jobs and its important for teachers to be challenged to keep things fresh. There are many types of evaluations. There can be someone hired to “grade” how effective they are as a... Education Patricia Hawke Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=745825&ca=Education The 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress has said that fewer than half of the nation is proficient in science and technology and even fewer are planning a future career of it. A director of the New York Hall of Science, who is also a board member that oversees the test, knows that if som... Education Patricia Hawke Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=745829&ca=Education North Carolina is the first of the U.S. states to offer Microsoft certification and training courses in every high school. The certifications that the students have the opportunity of achieving are a Microsoft Office Specialist or a Microsoft Certified Professional. These certifications can only be... Education Patricia Hawke Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=745839&ca=Education In Bucks County Philadelphia, they had at one time completely banned the issue of cell phones during school hours on campus. Cell phones were starting to interrupt the classrooms and teachers were tired of seeing them out in class, the more popular cell phones got, the more parents realized the safe... Education Patricia Hawke Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=745842&ca=Education An annual School Networking Conference goes on every year in Arlington, Virginia where people can be recognized for their educational technology inventions and how the technology has benefitted schools. Every year newer technology arises and schools are trying as hard as they can to keep up with the... Education Patricia Hawke Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=745849&ca=Education In the Atlanta Independent School District they are changing their old ways and introducing a lot of educational technology into their classrooms. They not only are introducing new technology but they are really researching how to successfully incorporate this into the classrooms. They don’t want to... Education Patricia Hawke Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=745850&ca=Education In Charlotte, North Carolina, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District has made drastic changes to their math curriculum. When their test scores were not improving my much more than three percent, the school district decided to implement Texas Instruments’’ MathForward program to help students with... Education Patricia Hawke Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=745852&ca=Education It is important for all teachers to be continuously learning. A lot of teachers go through college and then get hired by a school and do the same things and same routines year after year. This become redundant and as new technologies and new studies come out teacher need to be knowledgeable on new t...