Friday, May 24, 2013

Early Childhood Education Budget Cuts – The Chicago School Reviews | The Chicago School Reviews (beta)

Early Childhood Education Budget Cuts – The Chicago School Reviews | The Chicago School Reviews (beta): "
Early Childhood Education Budget Cuts
Author Sam Carter of TheChicagoSchoolReviews.com & ChicagoSchoolReviews.com
When President Obama came into office, prospects for education looked promising. The President spoke of a vested interest in public education and, according to a recent NPR interview, particularly in early childhood education.
However, the past two years have seen enormous drops in funding for pre-kindergarten education. As sequestration on early childhood education began to take hold, Americans saw funding for Head Start and similar programs for young children drop by more than half a billion dollars. According to a Head Start educator in Arkansas, the budget cuts are already having very real and tangible impacts on these programs."

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Arts Integrated Learning – The Chicago School Reviews | The Chicago School Reviews (beta)

Arts Integrated Learning – The Chicago School Reviews | The Chicago School Reviews (beta): "Arts Integrated Learning

    Arts integrated learning is defined as an approach to education that     employs the use of the fine arts, both visual and performing, as a     primary path to education in main subjects, such as science,     English, and mathematics – and, in turn, uses these subjects to     enhance learning of the arts. Not all forms of arts in the classroom     can necessarily be referred to as art integration. Arts education,     in the traditional sense, is art class. Students gather together     with an art, music, or dance teacher whose primary purpose in the     school is to teach lessons focused on the arts, separate from the     aforementioned major subjects. In this case, art is the curriculum     and it is viewed as supplementary to the core subjects."


Straight Out of College and Into the Classroom: How Inexperienced Teachers Are Affecting Education | The Chicago School Reviews (beta)

Straight Out of College and Into the Classroom: How Inexperienced Teachers Are Affecting Education | The Chicago School Reviews (beta): "Straight Out of College and Into the Classroom: How Inexperienced     Teachers Are Affecting Education

    Education reform is sweeping the nation and with it comes Teach For     America and similar teaching corps and fellowships, such as Chicago     Teaching Fellows, NYC Teaching Fellows, and Teach NOLA. The purpose     of these programs is to train recent college graduates and other     young professionals, after they go through a rigorous application     process, to become classroom teachers"


Budget Cuts for Children With Special Needs | The Chicago School Reviews (beta)

Budget Cuts for Children With Special Needs | The Chicago School Reviews (beta): "Budget Cuts for Children With Special Needs

    The education sequester has put the needs of children with     disabilities, especially those from low-income families, on the     chopping block in recent months. The simple fact for special needs     students is this: these kids have a great need for resources and     support in their educational trajectories, even greater than the     needs of most children in school"


A History of Charter Schools | The Chicago School Reviews (beta)

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