Archive for the ‘ High School ’ Category

Handy Tool for Choosing Which College to Attend

For high school seniors, April means making the biggest decisions of their College Admissions Odyssey: Which college to pick among the colleges that have chosen said seniors[ READ MORE ]

Vocab Film Fest

Student filmmakers who can grok vocabulary words like nobody’s business should consider entering the Vocab Film Festival. Cash and scholarships are involved should you require fiercer motivation than the simple purity of knowledge acquisition[ READ MORE ]

Massive Guilt Expected From High School Drop-Outs

Thinking of being a high school drop-out when you grow up? Please won’t you first consider the role you’ll be playing in taking society down to its knees[ READ MORE ]

Free Resources for Teaching Earthquakes and Tsunamis

Educator Richard Byrne likes to point out Free Technology for Teachers. He has a timely list of three resources for teaching students about earthquakes and tsunamis. Sometimes understanding what the hell happened helps everyone feel a little better. Posted by Alexa Harrington[ READ MORE ]

Tightly Wound Parental Units

The parents who will be driving their offspring to insanity as soon as the kids can spell S-A-T start in on the psychotic haranguing early[ READ MORE ]

Creating Amazing Learning Experiences

It didn’t make me cry like a dumb wussy girl, but I did think grateful thoughts, yet again, that I’ve been lucky enough to have had some in my life. [ READ MORE ]

Some People Choose Anxiety

Researchers studying highly anxious people were intrigued to find that the more twitchy humans among us don’t necessarily want the sources of our anxiety to be dealt with; we like our high anxiety levels where they are, so back the hell off. It’s free, it’s legal, and it’s an awesome rush. [ READ MORE ]

For-Profit Success vs. Not-For-Profit Failure

I don’t want to agree with Michael Platt that for-profit schools succeed and not-for-profit schools are seemingly always in financial straits, but he makes a certain amount of sense[ READ MORE ]

Year One: A College Blog

The transition from being a kick-ass high school senior to a floundering, inept college freshman is no fun for anyone[ READ MORE ]

Teachers Should Be Person of the Year

I agree with the anonymous high school librarian who writes the Not So Distant Future blog; teachers should be Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. Posted by Alexa Harrington (teacher)[ READ MORE ]