Whether your child needs extra math practice, help improving his or her organizational skills, or SAT/ACT test prep, there’s an app for it. The following ten FREE education apps for Apple and Android devices just might be the tools needed to strengthen your child’s education by increasing productivity and inspiring a love of learning.
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The details: Schnell is entering her freshman season as one of the most highly regarded recruits to join Arizona’s diving program in program history. Schnell — who started her prep career at Tucson High before switching to Arizona Connection Academy, an online school — is originally from Michigan and initially had planned to attend college in the Midwest, also considering Purdue before deciding that Arizona was the right fit because of the proximity to her family, the program’s history and the presence of her chosen major, psychology. Perhaps even more than all of that, though, Schnell will get to compete for UA coach Omar Ojeda, who has trained Schnell for the last three years.
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As access to the internet becomes more widespread and the needs of students changes, more parents than ever are taking advantage virtual schooling programs.
Enrollment at Indiana Connections Academy (INCA), just one online public school option for Hoosiers, increased by nearly 1,000 from 2013 to 2016 according to the Indiana Department of Education. A total of 3,705 students across the state enrolled last year.
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The 3-million member National Education Association is taking a new tack when it comes to charter schools, adopting a policy statement Tuesday aimed at limiting charter school growth and increasing accountability on the sector.
NEA officials hailed the decision as a “fundamental shift” in the union’s stance on charter schools.
“Charter schools were started by educators who dreamed of schools in which they would be free to innovate, unfettered by bureaucratic obstacles,” NEA President Lily Eskelsen Garcia said Tuesday in a statement.
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PHOENIX, Arizona – President Donald Trump wants to budget an extra $20 million for school choice but the big question is—does it work? CBN News decided to visit a state where, after years of trial and error, school choice has begun to make a real difference in the lives of students and their families.
"Grow, achieve, lead! Grow, achieve, lead!"
At 8 o'clock every morning, the K-8 students at Paideia Academies, a public charter school in south Phoenix, recite their mission statement and sing about their education "I'm going to use my synergy. I'm going to be in charge of me. You're going to love me when I lead!"
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On the last day of the 105th legislative session's first year, I celebrated the advancement of LB295, the Opportunity Scholarship bill, as a former K-12 private- and public-school parent in Nebraska and a co-founder for School Choice Lincoln.
My son attended Catholic schools in Omaha and Lincoln through the fifth grade. When he entered sixth grade, I decided it would be better for him to attend Lincoln Public Schools for their accelerated curriculum options. To my surprise, when we registered, I was told he could not be in their accelerated program.
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City Academy High School in St. Paul, Minnesota, will celebrate a milestone in September: twenty-five years as the nation's first charter school. During that quarter century, charter school growth has been remarkable. Today, forty-four states and Washington, D.C. contain some seven thousand of these independently operated public schools, serving nearly 3 million students. Remarkably, charters account for the entire growth in U.S. K–12 public school enrollments since 2006.
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Far too often, those who claim to fight for the interests of low-income students are actually doing the opposite. Donald Trump’s first budget proposal would allocate $1.4 billion for school-choice programs over the coming fiscal year, and many supposed education-reform advocates are not happy about it. In a Los Angeles Times op-ed last week, two prominent leaders in the field — Jonah Edelman, the president of the pro-charter school group Stand for Children, and Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers — claimed that Trump’s school-choice plan would “siphon billions of dollars from public schools to fund private and religious school vouchers.” In fact, the president’s budget would invest $1.15 billion in public school-choice programs and a mere $250 million in private school-choice scholarships. Edelman and Weingarten argue that this allocation of funds would “deal a terrible blow to public schools and to the 90% of America’s children who attend them, while doing almost nothing to benefit children who receive vouchers.” They go on to claim that “facts” and “research” have shown that vouchers harm student learning and achievement. This assertion is, to be blunt, completely unsubstantiated by the evidence. Of the 15 empirical studies of private school-choice programs, ten found improved test scores, while just two found declining academic performance. Meanwhile, 21 studies assessed the academic outcomes associated with public school choice, and 20 of them found that it had improved student performance.
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BENTONVILLE (KFSM) -- A Bentonville teen traded his traditional high school for an online school. This allowed him to spend more time playing an instrument that landed him a college scholarship.
McKay Clark has been playing the upright bass since he was in the sixth grade. He chose to do his senior year of high school at the Arkansas Virtual Academy. He said high school was hard and wanted to focus on his music rather than school work.
“That didn't work on a normal school schedule. So, when I found something that would allow me to do school work when I wanted to and to go to practices. It just really felt like the perfect opportunity,” Clark said.
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For most graduating high school students, prom is the “last hoorah.”It signifies the end of four (or more) years surrounded by the same people. Whether you love or hate the people that make up your graduating class, they have been your closest community for a considerable amount of time. Prom is usually a time to celebrate the familiar before diving into uncharted territory. The word itself connotes images of limos, promposals, and all night after parties.
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