Educators form across the USA have come to Pikesville High School to learn about this program that gets students ready for college.

now have an interactive light wall in the physical education class they have. It will be used for play, to learn and to refine motor skills.

The Christian Science Monitor reports on what schools and colleges are doing to add in more civics education into a students life.

He is another teacher that has brought chess in the classroom. He is using it to teach math skills.  He says that state test scores are up in math.

has a new report up on the need for more middle school and high school writing instruction.

The report says that these 11 elements are effective to imporved writing skills.  The report does go over each one in detail.
1. Writing Strategies
2. Summarization
3. Collaborative Writing
4. Specific Product Goals
5. Word Processing
6. Sentence-Combining
7. Prewriting
8. Inquiry Activities
9. Process Writing Approach
10. Study of Models
11. Writing for Content Learning

The one problem with the report is that it is a limited review and does not go over stuff like spelling and vocabulary.

the College Board Annual Report on College Tuition & Financial Aid press conference  from October 14, 2006.  It runs around 1 hour and 10 minutes long.