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Gaining Financial
Smarts*NEW*
Whether it’s the stock market or the real estate game, investing isn’t
for novices. That’s why financial planners exist and why retirement accounts
force us to store away money until we’re, presumably, wise enough to know
what to do with it.
by Faye
Mallett, August 15, 2007
E-Learning: Education
Without Borders
In the past, a typical educational institution would pilot
a few online courses for a limited number of students. Now,
through distance education, students have increased opportunities
to earn graduate level degrees and diplomas from most major
institutions worldwide.
by Faye
Mallett, November 23, 2006
The Brain Game
Albert Einstein, the great German physicist, believed he
used only a small percentage of his potential. If Einstein
was convinced of this, can you imagine how the rest of us
fare? Take a moment from your busy day and ask yourself:
How much of your brain do you use?
by Faye
Mallett, August 16, 2006
English in a Multi-Lingual
World
Two languages reached approximately one billion speakers
by the end of the 20th century: Mandarin, the official language
of China, and English, now the most widely used and studied
language of the world.
by Faye
Mallett,
May 31, 2006 Adult Education
Today, the education of adults has spread through many facets of society, including
industry, commerce, health, citizenship, and the arts and humanities. The gradual
extension of formal education to more and more people throughout the duration
of their lives has been a major preoccupation in what can effectively be called
the “educational” millennium.
by Faye
Mallett, January 18, 2006
Brain Science
If ways of understanding reality are similar to all
human beings, it is because all of us have the same biological design
for interpreting experience: the human brain.
by Faye Mallett,
January 18, 2006
The Year
Round Debate
The traditional school calendar was developed primarily to serve the needs of
farmers who needed the help of their children during the summer. Now however,
the conventional school year is being challenged with the possibility of year
round schooling, which, although implemented in some districts, has been at the
core of a heated and lengthy debate.
by Matthew Davis,
December 14, 2005
Teacher Exchange
Industry
In a global economy everything can be a traded- even teachers!
Many countries are becoming a part of a global educational movement known as
the teacher exchange industry- an international professional development program
in which participants exchange teaching assignments but remain in the service
of their regular employers, thereby maintaining salary and benefit status.
by Melissa Montgomery,
October 19, 2005
Affirmative
Action: More Fuel to the Fire
Affirmative Action attempts to ensure that women, people from lower socioeconomic
backgrounds, and people of colour are included to a greater extent in the decision-making
facets of our society, including higher education and higher-paying jobs. Most
people have an opinion on it, and a strong one. This debate has been sustained
for two decades.
By Michael Alleyne, September 21, 2005
Life's
Education
According to recent educational theories in the North American
school system, a student must have high self-esteem before
they can hope to achieve success.
By the Editor, August 17, 2005
Theatre
Prospero
Working with Shakespeare’s incorporates many aspects of the
school curricula: Language Arts, Literature, Social Studies, History,
and Art.
By Melissa
Montgomery, June 15, 2005
Geometry
and Poetry: Learning through the arts
If you are a parent, have you ever thought that your child
could successfully learn geometry through poetry ? History
through role-playing? Grammar through photography?
By Melissa
Montgomery, May 18,
2005
Education
Gives Small Business a Boost
Entrepreneurs typically don’t go to university to get a degree
in small business, but given the high failure rate, a little education
might not be a
bad idea.
By Glen Korstrom, April 20, 2005
Teaching
Ethics
Ethics (Greek ethika, from ethos, "character,"
"custom"), principles or standards of human conduct, sometimes
called morals (Latin mores, "customs")
By Michael Alleyne, March 16, 2005
Student
Start-ups
In an effort to branch out from the usual classroom case study and guest
speaker scenario, a handful of American business schools are creating
programs where students receive a true venture capital and entrepreneurial
experience by running their own private equity fund. The goal is to take
aspiring venture capitalists and entrepreneurs off of the monopoly board
and into the bank for a challenging lesson in Investment 101.
By Faye Mallett, January 19, 2005
New
Literacy
Much more than the mechanics of comprehension in reading and writing, literacy
is about the making and communicating of meaning. With a changing world compelling
us to rethink what we mean by literacy, our views on how to define it are being
forced to change.
By Faye Mallett, November 23, 2004 Fundraising for Education
State lawmakers passed a school-funding bill that’s $45 million less than
what they’re working with right now and $79 million short of what was requested
by the Department of Education
By Melissa Montgomery, October 19, 2004
Doing The Right Thing: Corporate Sponsorship In Education
Corporate Sponsorship is the new ‘frontier’ for funding in education.
Corporate dollars support many areas in the educational sector, from after school
care to computer labs.
By Melissa Montgomery, September 8, 2004
Embracing the 21st Century
Classroom: Answering the Bell
For decades, mainstream education followed a predictable formula:
teachers stood in front of a class and lectured to students,
who dutifully took notes and pored over their textbooks. At some point,
students would take an exam to measure what they had learned.
Meanwhile, many working adults attended professional development classes so
that they could brush up on their skills or gain additional
knowledge.
By Sam Greengard, July 6, 2004
Embracing the 21st Century Classroom
Wander into a classroom at Carl Sandburg High School in Orland
Park, Illinois and you're likely to glimpse the future of education.
Although
students sit at desks and listen to teachers discuss the finer
points of history or geometry, it’s certainly not learning
as usual.
By Sam Greengard, June 16, 2004
Technical Difficulty:
Examining a Child’s Age in the Computer Age
The wonders of technology have never ceased to amaze us and we have
always encouraged constant technological progress as a positive direction
of our lives. But perhaps
even more fascinating than what has advanced to today’s computer technology,
is the point we have evolved to in human sociology.
By Jana Ritter, May 19, 2004
This is Your Life
Changing careers requires a conscious choice- acting on what we want rather than
acting on what others say, value, or expect. Some are fortunate in that they
recognize this early on and model their schooling and career path accordingly.
It takes others a little while longer, but remember it is never too late.
By Melissa Montgomery, April 21, 2004
Reid
reads...
In the classroom there are those children who are termed “at risk”,
that is to say they are at a potential disadvantage in terms of academic success.
At-risk children are children who, by age 5, have not been exposed to reading
in the home or who have been exposed to reading but are showing signs of difficulty
with the written word.
By Melissa Montgomery, March 17, 2004
Jolly
hard work! Mature Students Part 3 of 4
Part three of this series chronicles three people in different stages of re-careering.
Paula is a 45-year-old mother of five currently completing a degree, Sharon is
in her first year of running her own Montessori Academy, and Joe is a retired
accountant enjoying the good life. They all have one thing in common: they are
positive they made the right choice.
By Melissa Montgomery, February 11, 2004
See
Dick run…
Research shows that at present there is a considerable gap in male versus female
literacy. Studies by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD) have found that by age 12, girls have a 30 per cent higher rate of literacy
than boys.
By Melissa Montgomery, January 13, 2004
Chutzpah
101: Mature Students Part 2 of 4
The Journey back to school is one that many people in their late twenties
or early thirties are undertaking. The economy is currently in a market-driven
phase
having just survived the dramatic effects of downsizing, restructuring, and reengineering.
In this market- driven phase, many individuals are discovering they need to “re-career” in
order to find stability in the new economy. As well, people are choosing to re-career
because they are finding that their passion lays elsewhere.
By Melissa Montgomery, December 16, 2003
Old School Tradition vs. New
Age Technology: A virtually higher education
As on-line learning is directly related to secondary and post secondary level
objectives, we can certainly recognize its value in education. How it measures
up to the quality of traditional education and the standards of our workforce;
is what remains unclear.
By Jana Ritter, November 18, 2003
Old School Tradition vs. New Age Technology: Re-learning the role of education
A historical role in shaping a society to function by its traditional value system,
school has been the collective learning and life experience to generations of
students. But it is also the education essential to our progress and our progress
is integral to our survival. However, our tradition of constant change has also
adapted our learning environment from a one-room schoolhouse to a global virtual
classroom.
By Jana Ritter, October 28, 2003
Learning in Reverse:
Part 2
While it’s tempting to think of reverse mentoring as a niche
application, Linda Phillips-Jones, principal consultant at The Mentoring
Group, says
that it can provide benefits in many areas and industries. Instead
of viewing it strictly as a way for younger workers to keep their
older
counterparts informed on technology and trends, she believes that reverse
mentoring is a tool for opening the channels of communication and knowledge
sharing within an enterprise.
By Samuel Greengard, October 1, 2003
Learning in Reverse:
Part 1
For the CEO of a multi-million dollar company, being “cool” typically
ranks dead last on a list of priorities. But for Sander A. Flaum, who heads Euro
RSCG Life, a 1,000-person marketing and healthcare advertising firm headquartered
in New York City, it’s essential to connect to the whims, passions and
predilections of young consumers. Without understanding the nuances of the marketplace,
Flaum could stumble and the business could tumble
By Samuel Greengard, September 22, 2003
Matters of Choice: The advent of parent driven education
Whether it is a difficult student or the school lacking the resources to effectively
deal with a difficult situation, one standard educational system is not designed
to meet the needs of every child in every community.
By Jana Ritter, August 26, 2003
Education Contemplation: Which
MBA program Is best for you?
In today’s economy, businesses have a growing demand for a specific knowledge
blend of both business and technical expertise. It has also become increasingly
apparent that career options correspond to your educational choices and, these
two factors combined, it’s not surprising that an MBA is one degree that
is gaining further recognition.
By Jana Ritter, July 15, 2003
Re-evaluation of Education:
What’s a bachelor’s degree worth today?
When word got out that a university education is essential to career
success,
it’s not surprising that undergraduate degrees have become as common as
high school diplomas. Much can be said about the economic forces that have inspired
a generation of higher education, but in today’s increasingly competitive
workforce, is it time we establish a new system for measuring value?
By Jana Ritter, June 17, 2003 The Gift
of Giving: A Digital Donation Boosts Education
Advancing technology has given birth to computers that are revolutionizing
our world, yet the speed of their innovation has also reduced their life
span. While unwanted computers are piling up into hazardous waste, there
is a worldwide population of children whose lives are changed by them.
By Jana Ritter, March 18, 2003 Creative controversy:
Examining the role of arts in education
It doesn't take a genius to explain why arts classes are commonly the
first pick among children, but it is difficult to comprehend how it has
become a subject that education systems are struggling with.
By Jana Ritter, January 7, 2003 e-Mentoring
e-Mentoring differs
from traditional mentoring in that the mentor and the mentee
communicate through the use of the Internet rather than relying
solely on face-to-face interaction.
By Esme Friesen, October 23, 2002
Privatization of Education:
Applying our Problem Solving Skills
The defunding of public education has resulted in the broad and contested
trend of privatization. To advocates, a privatized school system offers
the efficiency of a free market rid of bureaucratic bog. To those in opposition,
the commercialization of education means inequality and a worsening social
plight. As the dispute continues so does the suffering of our public schools.
To find a solution, we must first do our homework.
September 03, 2002 Continuing Education
Forty years ago, it was said that the store of human knowledge would double
within our lifetime. In fact, it is now doubling every two years. This
is a daunting fact—no one can know it all—and many of us cannot
access much of it. It is almost all potentially accessible; one must educate
oneself on the basics, and determine how, what, where and why they want
access.
July 16th, 2002
Working with your Education
It seemed so simple in secondary school - graduate, get some training
and find a job - but, how much and what kind of training is necessary?
Ideally, today's young adults will pursue a college or university designation
that will prepare a solid base for learning, and mounting research is
showing the value of doing so.
Mature students
- part one of four
If you were to ask any mature student how they manage to juggle their
studies, jobs and home life, you could expect a huge variety of responses.
Many mature students lead double lives: they are pursuing careers, raising
children and providing extraordinary service as volunteers in their communities
while they go to school.
Black Studies
had their dark ages
A famous quote doing the rounds in 1964 went something like this: "The
two things that we black folk need most is a lot of patience and a sense
of irony." It was said by Juenbug Jabbo Jones in a Pool Hall address,
and turned out to be rather prophetic. Irony might not be everyone's way
of dealing with matters, but patience has certainly paid off for black
culture, and black academia in particular.
A cheat's paradise
Around the world universities -- and even in some cases, high schools
-- are getting increasingly apprehensive about the capacity for cheating
from the Internet. Once, in the days when computers took up a mere floor
in the science building, cheating students often looked for illicit help
from old tests or older students.
Child care, not welfare
Politicians, Principals and institutions all extol the virtues of life-long
learning, expressing their desire for people of all ages, races and social
backgrounds to be able to enter education at any point in their lives.
Fathom poised to redefine
scope of online learning
Six of the world's most renowned educational and cultural institutions
-- including libraries, museums and universities -- have joined together
with a for-profit online venture, Fathom, billed as "the premier site
for knowledge and education on the Internet."
Online in a Hewlett-Packard
Classroom
Called E-Learning-on-Tap, Hewlett-Packard, recently launched a consulting
service offering online workshops for corporate employees and students
who could be anywhere in the world.
Online educational bargains
It's a college education at a discount. Just name your price. Do I hear
$5,000? $5,000 once, $5,000 twice. Sold! Sounds bizarre, but parents and
students across the country, and around the world, are starting to dabble
in the bidding war for their offspring's education. If your bid is accepted
you could get a degree at bargain basement prices.
Virtual Classrooms
Booming
As a working mother of a teenage son, Lynn Greco has dabbled in some of
the most cutting-edge changes in the way higher education is delivered
to students.
Inequality between university
pay
The salary gap between full professors at the best private universities
in America and its best public universities has grown from $1,300 in 1980
to $21,700 in 1998, according to a study by F. King Alexander, an assistant
professor of Educational Organization & Leadership at the University of
Illinois Urbana Champaign.
Optical
Networking Changes Landscape For Cyber Students
In the early 1980s, a revolution in telecommunications networks began
that was spawned by the use of a relatively unassuming technology, fiber-optic
cable.
More than the comforts
of home
When university trustees sit round and decide upon their plans for
the next few years, the condition and capabilities of their facilities
are always on the agenda. The reasons for these type of discussions, however,
are changing. Campus facilities must always strive to address the needs
of current and future students, and it is the emphasis on attracting the
latter which is on the increase.
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