SACRAMENTO – Last year’s class of California kindergartners had a record high percentage of parents who used a personal belief exemption to avoid immunization requirements, a development that concerns state health officials. More than 11,000 kindergartners missed at least one vaccine in 2010 because their parents decided to forgo inoculation. At nearly 2.5 percent of [...]
Lexy Green, director of forensics at the College Preparatory School, has opened registration for the tenth annual installment of her schools tournament. We like hosting an all Lincoln Douglas tournament, a tournament at which Lincoln Douglas debate is treated with respect, rather than as an afterthought, notes Green. We are a TOC bid tournament at [...]
Gamers and users of “check-in” apps like foursquare and GetGlue, may already be familiar with the concept of earning digital badges for their online activities. Now, the Department of Education is partnering with Mozilla and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to develop a system for recognizing learning with digital badges. Secretary of [...]
In the wake of an alleged cheating episode, a charter school that is overseen by the Lennox school district has tightened some of its internal rules on testing, officials say. Animo Leadership Charter School, which is in Inglewood but will soon move to a new facility in Lennox, was disqualified from receiving an Academic Performance [...]
The Monticello Forensic Society cordially invites you and your team to participate in the twenty-fourth Annual Dr. Robert J. Kaiser Debate Invitational, which will be held on Friday, September 30 and Saturday, October 1, 2011. The invitation is available for download here; registration is now open on Tabroom.com.
Welcome to the 2011-2012 school year to our new and returning K12 families. As we start the new school year, we are seeing more national media coverage about the benefits of online education and how online schooling offers families an educational choice, including recent coverage of two K12 schools, Ohio Virtual Academy and Tennessee Virtual Academy shared below. Local family [...]