Articles in the Budgets and Funding Category
Budgets and Funding, Featured, Politics »
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Budgets and Funding, Featured, Gifted Education »
With a focus on raising the test scores of the lowest performing students, schools sometimes do not reach the gifted students. While common sense might argue that gifted students will manage regardless of their educational environment, gifted students can easily fall through the cracks.
When we speak of “gifted students” we are not just, or even necessarily, talking about high performing students. We are talking about students whose educational needs are different enough from the general population that they require a special plan to appropriately address those needs…
Arts Education, Budgets and Funding, Featured »
My recent copy of Ed., the magazine of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has a fascinating article about how the recession is affecting arts in education.
The arts are incredibly important because creative expression gives students a way of processing their experiences and emotions, provides a way of engaging students who traditionally feel left out of the educational process, and makes children active participants in culture.