One of the most important need is to educate childrens here in USA, and childrens world wide. No child left behind scheme is a debatable and controversial educational program of the current US governments policy. My interest is not go and delve into this program, to see if the program realy helps the left out children's in education, nor I wanted to get into the controversy sorrounds it.
But, the very mention of "no child left behind" brings one's attention that there is a desperate lack of sufficient basic education to all childrens. Meaning, there are substantial number of children's are left behind at all levels of school education. Not knowing that their path to the future laid down without the benefit of knowledge, which is a resource of Power for better life. The lack of it does not only make the future generation powerless, but will make them vulnerable to get into life's activities that are less powerful and destructive to their upbringing and their future.
WHAPT HAPPENED TO THE TEACHERS, WHERE DID ALL THE TEACHERS GO!!??.
In the coming weeks and months, this topic of my blog is going to expand BIGGER AND BROADER to address the issues in the school system such as teaching, mentoring, curriculum and desperate lack of enough teachers especially in science and maths in USA, and all over the globe, that is why I have choosen the topic educating the childrens of the world. If you look at the concern and shortcomings in teaching in US, Canada, Belgium, Australia, UK and allmost all other nations, it is alarmingly scary that we do not have enough teachers to teach in schools.
Here in US,
The nation will need 240,000 new math and science teachers over the next decade, according to a recent NSB report.
America's precollege science and math education is mediocre enough to threaten the nation's continued scientific supremacy in today's "changed world" of globalized science, warns Science and Engineering Indicators 2006, NSB's latest biennial report on the state of the nation's research enterprise, which was released in February. NSB members feel such strong "continued and growing concern" about the situation that they also issued a shorter companion document, America's Pressing Challenge—Building a Stronger Foundation, as an urgent call to action.
here is the latest science magazine article:
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development/previous_issues/
articles/2006_04_07/two_problems_in_need_of_one_solution/
The following resources and links are related to children's education that you will find interesting.
Salient Hookups: [For school childrens and for all]
Origin of Life:
http://www.voyagesthroughtime.org/origin/index.html
http://www.voyagesthroughtime.org/curriculum/index.html
US Govt
www.ed.gov
Environment:
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/science-education/home.htm
Science for Kids USDA site
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/kids/
Kids science from EPA
http://www.epa.gov/ost/KidsStuff/
Aerospace & NASA
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/index.html
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/home/index.html
Speak up for Education
http://www.netday.org/speakup_2005.htm
http://tomorrow.org/index2.html
http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/
Cool Science fo Curious Kids from HHMI
http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/
Kids Science
http://scorescience.humboldt.k12.ca.us/fast/kids.htm
Earth Science for Kids
http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/
Science News for Kids
http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/
Science Made Simple
http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/
Cool site for kids, science learning by games
http://northvalley.net/kids/science.shtml
http://scienceclub.org/kidlink1.html
NEUROSCIENCE for Kids-Very interesting site to Learn about Brain for kids
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html
Brain Pops & Kids Learning
http://www.brainpop.com/
http://www.brainpop.com/science/weatherandclimate/hurricanes/
Eureka for Kids is a great site, there are lots of fun stuff for kids as well as simple and informative video or movies of science lessons. Kids will love it and they will learn Biology and other science better through visual mediated teaching, if so, this is one of the place you can take the kids to learn. Click on the following sites and don't forget to go the links and click on one of the videos, for example, slect from cell to DNA and enjoy.
Eureka Kids News:
http://www.eurekalert.org/kidsnews/
http://www.eurekalert.org/kidsnews/stories.php
http://www.eurekalert.org/kidsnews/page.php?page=kidslinks
PhD's CAN BE AN ASSET AS SCHOOL TEACHERS
****Here is a nice little story about: GERALD STANCIL, PhD
http://newton.nap.edu/readingroom/books/grad/view.cgi?box22&chapter2&b2
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Teachers.net is a fun site, lots of information about school teachers, tutors and other stuff.
http://teachers.net/
