Passion For Learning

Passion For Learning

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  • Yun Mi Park - Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 12:58pm
    Below is part two of Angelique Fowler's three-part blog series around her experiences with gifted education in the South. Few Americans realize that no strong federal mandate exists for the expected...
  • Rosemary Jean-Louis - Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 12:39pm
    Right on the heels of Apple’s announcement of the new iPad mini, Scholastic is making it known that it has a new digital library just for classroom teachers available for tablets. It’s called Storia...
  • Heather Neal - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - 12:34pm
    President Carter answers a student question in a town hall series through the end of October. As part of its 30th anniversary celebration, The Carter Center is hosting a Q&A that former...
  • Rosemary Jean-Louis - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - 8:41am
    As you know, one of the amendments featured on the Georgia ballot has to do with charter schools. I identified what the issues are on a post titled “What You Need to Know About the Charter School...
  • Heather Neal - Monday, October 22, 2012 - 10:18am
    In a Gizmodo article last week, Amazon was declared the winner against Apple. That is to say, Amazon has so far done a better job of making its Kindle accessible for classrooms than Apple has done...
  • Heather Neal - Monday, October 22, 2012 - 8:29am
    Last week, we interviewed the folks at CEISMC K.I.D.S. (Kids Interested in Discovering Science) Club at Georgia Tech, a program operating for over 10 years, to learn more about the program, how it’s...
  • Heather Neal - Friday, October 19, 2012 - 2:16pm
    Today’s students are media-savvy digital natives. They enjoy engaging with technology and seek it out in their “time off” outside of school. It makes good sense then, to utilize something we know...
  • Heather Neal - Friday, October 19, 2012 - 1:59pm
    The video explores the South Asian countries of Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh, plus the island nations of Sri Lanka and the Maldives whose cultures and histories are...
  • Yun Mi Park - Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 4:36pm
    Southern Education Desk blogger, Robert Ryshke, explores the concept of class participation as a factor in a student's achievement grade. Robert Ryshke is the Executive Director of the Center for...

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