For the fifth year in a row, applications have increased for schools offering a nursing degree according to American Association of Colleges of Nursing. Unfortunately this continuing increase still can’t keep up with the demand as over 32,000 students were turned away. Last year, the U.S. Department of Labor reported Registered Nursing as the top […]
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Parents. School officials. Emergency responders. With thousands of people to notify in the event of an emergency, how would your children’s school district handle the situation? A school district in Klein, Texas, isn’t waiting for a crisis to occur to see how it fares. Thanks to funds through grants and private sponsorship, the 39,000 students […]
As a school psychologist, as well as the mother of a child with a chronic health condition, I understand all too well the intimidation that accompanies entering the “bargaining” sessions of IEP meetings. There are ways, however, to stack the proverbial cards in your favor. Read on… To begin with, be prepared for anything. Keep […]
Nashville Schools have made a lot of progress in the 2005-2006 school year. The Nashville Schools this school year has, in several key areas, had a higher percentage of students meet the required levels of proficiency as determined by the No Child Left Behind Act. This school eighty-six percent of kindergarten to eighth grade students […]
Examinations are a regular part of the school, college and university environment, which is considered to be a flexible form of learning and teaching process that aims at investigation of a student’s knowledge of a particular subject. However, nothing makes students gloomier than the prospect of exams. Even the word examination itself makes students shudder. […]
Have you ever seen an apple fall from a tree? One day a man with great imagination saw that commonplace thing. His imagination seized upon it, and he propounded Newton’s theory of law of gravitation. Another man sees his mother’s teakettle boiling. He observes that the lid is raised by the expanding steam. His great […]