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Real Estate Investment Schools of Thought Vary ? As Does Their Mileage
2012-02-02 14:25:00 Many years ago a guy in his early 40s called for an office appointment. He’d invested in his first small income property, and was troubled by the advice his 70 year old dad had offered. In fact, there was tension between them about what investment strategies the younger man should employ. Dad, we’ll call him ...This Article is Copyright © 2004-2011 BiggerPockets, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Real Estate Investment Schools of Thought Vary – As Does Their Mileage
Free Kinect Family Game Night Mini Kit for Schools
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Free Chemistry Activity Kit for schools
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Protests, Catholic schools, & Juan Rangel
2012-01-17 16:28:00 Welcome back! School closing protests and a Catholic school enrollment increase dominate today’s news (including some items from over the weekend).  There’s also a fascinating look at Juan Rangel’s political ascent. Protesters vow to âsaveâ school from take over by âpolitically connectedâ operator Sun Times:  More than 200 protestors used the tune of âWe shall overcome... Read more »
What's up with Rogers Park schools?
2012-01-11 14:34:00 The common perception is that the farther North you go, the better the school options are. So I was surprised to hear friends in Rogers Park talking about having to send their kids South to find suitable schools or creating new schools or even sneaking across the line to Evanston. Â Maybe it’s because Rogers Park... Read more »
Irvine addresses served by Tustin and Santa Ana schools
2012-01-07 11:22:00 Note by zovall: This post is written by an IHB regular, Cubic Zirconia. Her writing has been featured on IHB in the past. She has put together some information regarding what school districts (there are multiple!) serve the city of Irvine and some helpful links. We'd love to hear your comments on the schools as well as her post. Hello IHB readers, This is Cubic Zirconia. I was introduced to IHB in 2008 during my house hunting days. The market was going through a major correction, and nobody knew where the bottom was. MLS listings for short sales would generate interest with a teaser price that wouldn’t be approved by the bank and equity sales would list at an exorbitant price, still in denial that the market was under correction. That was not all, MLS listings would be full of misinformation, like an incorrect school district, the wrong amount of HOA dues, and very vague contact information if it was a short sale. Living outside Irvine and...
The New York Film Schools Problem
2012-01-06 14:35:00 Outside Los Angeles, you can find quite a few New York film schools in New York City since they are considered the largest center for filmmaking. Some of these schools are known to many yet some are waiting lists for … Continue reading →
An Alternative to New York Filmmaking Schools
2012-01-05 15:12:00 From all of the New York filmmaking schools to choose, there also exist many promising young filmmakers in this city who probably have trouble in getting their foot in the profession due to surplus population of students for limited slots … Continue reading →
Dec. 15, 1827: Boston Schools Require Vaccination
2011-12-15 14:45:00 From Wired Top Stories: Vaccination against smallpox was relatively new, but cities and states were already making it mandatory. Objections to mandatory immunization took nearly a century to reach the Supreme Court. Another century later, objections remain, with or without reason. R
Child abuse and bullying In Hong Kong schools
2011-12-13 13:49:00 We recently connected with a U.K.-based group called @SHOUTwithCAABS on twitter, an advanced and net-savvy organisation dedicated to ending bullying in schools and providing a service to abused children.CAABS - the Child Abuse - Anti Bullying System is - is a unique system that allows victims to report incidents of abuse or bullying with just three clicks of a computer mouse.From their website:CAABS Report is a very easy to use visualised 'Early Identification and Reporting System'. Designed for school computers, CAABS allows children from as young as 5 years old to be able to report child safety issues without any of the traditional barriers thatare currently associated with preventing many children from reporting.It got us wondering what the situation was like here in Hong Kong, and indeed if any systems like CAABS existed here. Our first enquiries among parents and some children's welfare groups have indicated that no, nothing like this is available in Hong Kong. But the respo...
Youtube For Schools Is The New Destination For Education
2011-12-13 10:49:00 After Youtube rethinking on its home page UI, now it makes its foray into education. Youtube plans to unveil a new tool for teachers as well as students. This will give impetus to the education process where content will highly curated ruling out anything that is harmful for students.Youtube for schools is a new idea to introduce collaborative education. The head of Youtube Angela Lin says, “This is a technical solution to allow schools that normally restrict access to YouTube to gain access to it“. Youtube’s official blog post also echoed that teachers have been looking up to leveraging the Youtube platform to access a huge database of knowledge in form of educational videos. But the bone in the throat was those other videos related to entertainment would distract students. This was the main reason behind schools restricting Youtube videos.However, the educational value of Youtube videos in visually interactive learning was much wider in horizon. Thus, Youtube in...
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YouTube for Schools: Restricted Educational content videos only
2011-12-12 20:36:00 Lately, Youtube has come up with solution so as to clear the way school authorities are concern about typical “YouTube” videos children or adolescents are fond of watching and so far schools somewhat restrict the access of YouTube. There fore now Google may try to solve this concern of school authorities via YouTube for School ...
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Lenovo Preps New ThinkPad X130e Ultraportable for Schools
2011-12-07 03:12:00 Lenovo is showing off a new 11.6? laptop aimed towards elementary and high school students. The ThinkPad X130e pairs a durable exterior design with power-efficient Intel or AMD processors in an attempt to appease the IT departments of schools everywhere.
Kentucky?s moonlight schools
2011-12-05 06:00:00 Some would consider her the founder of Adult Literacy Education in the United States. Cora Wilson Stewart (1875-1958) was an elementary school teacher and county school superintendent in eastern Kentucky’s Rowan County who, in the fall of 1911, decided to open the classrooms in her district to adult pupils. When the Moonlight Schools opened on ... You Might Also Like:Kentucky’s fotched-on women
Wikipedia Wants To Join Hands With Indian Schools, Universities & Museu
2011-11-21 11:40:00 Wikipedia has announced its intentions to partner with schools and come up with appropriate versions of Wikipedia aimed at children. Wikimedia Foundation, which owns & operates the multilingual reference website, intends to partner with museums, state and national libraries and national photo archives for knowledge and information sharing. Commenting on the initiative for India, foundation’s Chief Global Development Officer Barry Newstead said, âIn another initiative, we plan to partner with numerous universities throughout India and have student become regular contributors to Wikipedia than just being readers“. He further elaborated by mentioning that Museums and libraries are the biggest sources of information. “Although they follow a traditional approach, we believe tapping them as primary sources will help increase our local knowledge base to a greater extent. We are in primary talks with the Prince of Wales Museum (now renamed Chhratapati Shivaji Mahara...
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1. If you don?t agree with me about schools,
2011-11-11 12:57:00 …don’t delude yourself into thinking I care. For more information, see the Comment Policy. 2. I do not think that questioning the idea that public money is best spent by private interests, and pushed by those who’d benefit from being … Continue reading →
By: The G Bitch Spot
NOLA Public Schools & School Privatization: Coda
2011-10-24 13:51:00 See Parts 1, 1A, 2 and 3. Read. Link. Research. Comment at Education Talk NOLA and Charter School Scandals and the Nation and the New York Times Book Review and everywhere else. Go to BESE and OPSB and charter school board … Continue reading →
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Scarecrow Festival Raises $210K For Communities In Schools of Nevada
2011-10-23 02:09:00 Inaugural Scarecrow Festival attended by more than 500 children and adults benefiting the Communities In Schools of Nevada (CISN) last night. Raising more than $210,000 at the first-time family fare to support students. Scarecrow Festival The Sports Center of Las Vegas was transformed into a seasonal wonderland decorated with hand carved pumpkins, specialty scarecrows and spooky ...
Do Civil Rights Laws Apply To Parochial Schools? : NPR
2011-10-06 02:47:00 Via Scoop.it – Green Party A teacher at a Lutheran church school in Michigan was fired after invoking her rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act. On Wednesday, her case goes before the Supreme Court.Show original Tags: Supreme Court, civil rights laws, americans with disabilities act <BR/>
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Fixing Chicago Public Schools should be a priority
2011-09-27 16:32:00 My child is not yet three years old. Recently, my wife attempted to warm me up to the concept that we will have to pay application fees (potentially nonrefundable) to apply for a spot in a good preschool. So after taking time to research schools, tour the schools and send in applications on behalf of a three year... Read more »
Why is Chatham attractive to alternative schools?
2011-09-22 17:05:00 Back in 2008, I attended a community meeting hosted by the Chatham Avalon Park Community Council (CAPCC) and I expected it to be an uneventful meeting until the guest was introduced. The guest was a representative of Youth Connecions Charter Schools (Â http://www.yccs.us/). The representative informed the audience of several interesting facts. There was a growing... Read more »
Teaching failure at two schools
2011-09-16 18:07:00 Should both high-poverty and fancy private schools try and help kids develop skills like curiosity, zest, grit, and resilience? Â And what happens when they do? Â That’s the focus of this new Paul Tough article in this weekend’s NYÂ Times Magazine (What if the Secret to Success Is Failure?). Â The story uses a fancy New York City... Read more »
Grads sue law schools for fraud
2011-08-29 16:17:00 Two big law schools are being sued by former students for fraud, negligent misrepresentation and deceptive business practices. The dispute is about how the law schools advertised their studentsâ success rate after graduation. The lawsuits claim that the schools inflated the post-graduation employment statistics, including salaries of graduates, and basically tricked students into... Read more »
Emanuel won't send his kids to CPS schools, but we should?
2011-07-21 12:05:00 I tend not to write about politics because coming from a split family, I know it is a battle not worth fighting. But, the more I ponder about our new mayor, Rahm Emanuel, choosing to send his kids to a private school, University of Chicago’s Lab School in Hyde Park, I am mad. My son is...
Online Computer Repair Schools
2011-07-20 13:39:00 If you are gluttonous an apprenticeship in computer repair, but cannot cost accepted employment, maybe an Online Computer Repair School would be the appropriate course. Online schools action a acceptable admission for active individuals who appetite to added their apprenticeship after the altercation of active to and from bounded schools or colleges. Perfect for motivated ...
Joop Wolters: to teach at Music schools
2011-07-12 21:14:00 Joop Wolters is very happy to anounce that he will be starting a new job teaching guitar at two music schools in the Netherlands Muziekschool Roermond and Muziekschool Drieklank.
Schools: Clerks, Pay Periods, & Missed Swipes
2011-06-08 03:19:00 I've gotten a slew of emails recently about payroll problems, which one teacher describes as "rampant." At schools like these, I'm told, subs don't get paid, PD and extra hour pay for teachers comes months later, if at all, and monthly payroll errors are pretty common, too. Missed swipes, holidays, extra time are often entered by the clerks, who wield enormous power in these situations and can be impervious to grievances, complaints, and nasty looks. How common is this, and what -- if anything -- can be done to prevent or stop it? Complaints and success stories welcome. Any clerks read this blog and care to tell their side of the story? Yikes, it feels very strange to be talking about timecards....
Advantages Vocational Schools
2011-05-22 05:47:00 Fortunately, vocational degrees are offered in an online format as well as on traditional campuses, so students can improve their education without affecting their daily lives. Traditional college degrees focus on academic knowledge in fields like mathematics or literature. Vocational education is sometimes referred to as technical education, as the student spends a large portion ...
Feds getting ready to ban potatoes in schools
2011-05-18 17:10:00 Well, almost all of them anyway: any white potato. Reports the Wall Street Journal: The U.S. Department of Agriculture is proposing to eliminate the "white potato"--defined as any variety but the sweet potato--from federally subsidized school breakfasts and to limit them sharply at lunch Seems that some schools have been dipping the potatoes in things that make the vegetable more appealing, like (gag) chocolate. First junk food, now potatoes. What's next, broccoli?...
Two More Stories on Stupid Liberal Schools
2011-05-15 17:30:00 -By Warner Todd Huston PCism is for idiots. It really is just that simple. It's bad enough when you find it in the private sector with silliness such as sensitivity training. But at least there, adults can just ignore the stupidity and carry on. When it comes to PC indoctrination of our impressionable kids, well that is another matter and one not so easy to just laugh off. Unfortunately, the disease of liberal PCism is so pervasive in our schools that we could do a story every single day on the newest outrageous display of liberal lunacy masquerading as education. Today, I'll relate two of them. Story One: Old Glory Not so Glorious......
Schools: What's Going On At Reavis?
2011-05-09 18:44:00 I'm getting unconfirmed reports about midyear staff turnover -- four teachers this year, a slew more the year before, an estimated 33 percent a year (which seems high for a small elementary school when the principal's already been around for a while). Thing is, the teachers who leave aren't transferring to another school; they're just leaving. Of course, people leave for all sorts of reasons and not all of them are bad for kids. Needless to say, the atmosphere over there sounds pretty toxic. They had a big fight about open toed shoes last spring, if you want to get a sense of how chippy things have gotten. The CAO Judith Coates says she can't talk to me about personnel...
Schools: What's Going On At Field Elementary?
2011-05-04 17:00:00 I've gotten a couple of unconfirmed reports from readers and seen a mention in Substance (here) about a sudden staff shift at Field Elementary in Rogers Park (Area 2). Apparently the students and teachers returned from break to find their old administrators gone, replaced by new ones, along with some teachers. The old principal was Sunday Uwamarogie. The new interim is apparently the AP from Armstrong. Does anyone have specific information about whether this true, and if so do you know why or what happened? Also: how many other schools had sudden staff changes like this, if any?...
Growing Movement For And Against Charter Schools
2011-04-27 06:42:00 By Tom Siracuse: More than 1.6 million students attend 5,000 charters in the U.S.. Only 10 states have no charters. Los Angeles and Detroit have around 70,000 students each in charters and Washington D.C.’s charters account for 58% of its public ...
People: Schools CEO Announcement Today?
2011-04-18 17:15:00 Top CPS candidate expected to resign current job as Emanuel holds education event today Clout St: Posted by Joel Hood and Kristen Mack at 9:34 a.m. One of Rahm Emanuel's top candidates to lead Chicago Public Schools is expected to resign his job in upstate New York today as the mayor-elect prepares to hold an education... Signs pointing to Brizard as next CEO of Chicago Public Schools WBEZ: There is a press conference that took place in Rochester, New York, on Friday that Chicagoans might be interested in. The superintendent of schools there, Jean-Claude Brizard, is on the short list of candidates to lead Chicago's public schools... Schools CEO announcement expected this morning WBEZ: Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel is holding a press conference at Kelly High School...
Switching Schools
2011-04-09 16:51:00 How do you feel about your children switching schools?In my work as a Consultant for School Choice, I've noticed that here in Chicago we parents feel this tremendous pressure to map out our children's entire academic career at Kindergarten. It's easy to see why we feel that way. Your chances of finding your child a spot at a magnet or selective enrollment school is the greatest at the entry year -- for most schools this is Kindergarten but for a few of them it's Pre-K and for a few it's 1st Grade. If you don't get your child a spot at the entry year, you might not get another chance! School choice -- what a ride!Like a lot of things...
How should Chicago schools use the extra time (if teachers allow it)?
2011-04-06 17:10:00 Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel, like Richard M. Daley before, wants a longer school day, implying that Chicago public school kids and taxpayers aren't getting full value for the price. Zbigniew Bzdak, Chicago Tribune / November 4, 2010 ) Karen Lewis, President of the Chicago Teachers Union and community activists hold a press conference in front of Mayor's office asking for a national search to replace Chicago Public Schools CEO Ron Huberman. Jitu Brown of Kenwood-Oakland Community Organization is on the right.Well, sure, Chicago Teachers' Union president Karen Lewis allowed, a longer school day would be better, although she suggested that it doesn't much matter, at least in Houston, an "outlier" (as she called it), which sends it K-12 kids to school...
AM News: Which Schools To Consolidate?
2011-03-21 15:43:00 CPS brass considers school consolidation Sun Times: They include plans to consolidate Schneider Elementary into Jahn Elementary, Carpenter Elementary into Talcott Elementary, Andersen Community Academy into LaSalle Magnet and Avondale Elementary into Logandale Middle, she said... CPS reviews Catalyst-Howland school's contract Austin Talks: Catalyst operates two West Side charter schools, Howland in North Lawndale and Circle Rock in Austin. Catalyst-Howland serves 511 students - 37 from the Austin community - and Circle Rock has 493 students... A middle school for Lane Tech progresses to a CPS board vote Tribune: The program got positive feedback at a public hearing Thursday, said Lane Tech Principal Antoinette LoBosco. The middle school program for Lane Tech is expected to go before the full CPS board for a vote Wednesday... Chicago's...-
Teachers Union Thugs Comparing People to Hitler, Shutting Down Schools, Los
2011-02-17 22:30:00 -By Warner Todd Huston One cannot be a leftist without being a hypocrite. It really is just that simple. The last several days in Wisconsin has again born that truism out, too, as teachers union thugs in the Badger State have indulged every manner of behavior that they have constantly condemned the right for engaging in -- even as no one on the right has actually done the things the left charges them with doing. With the protests that swept down upon the State Capitol in Madison we are seeing the sort of behavior that is the antithesis of democracy. These teacher thugs are flooding into the capitol disrupting the state senate chambers, these teacher thugs are sporting signs with...
Wilmette schools seek tax hike
2011-02-09 17:55:00 Wilmette School District 39, which serves most of the Village of Wilmette, is proposing a property tax increase that would amount to about $58.80 per $1,000 of real estate taxes paid for homes in the district. The proposal will be on the ballot at the April 5 elections. The reasons for the proposed increase are outlined in the "February Scoop" from the District 39 Superintendent, which suggests sharp cutbacks in staff and programs if the referendum fails to gain voter approval. The District currently has a $5.5 million annual operating deficit....
Honor Roll: Schools Can Make A Difference
2011-02-02 17:36:00 I hate to break it to you but schools (teachers, administration, etc.) make a difference -- it's not just poverty or governance or special circumstances or which CAO you have. "Chicago's Jones College Prep has won more state "honor roll" awards than any public school in Illinois, an achievement State Schools Supt. Christopher Koch hailed Monday as "a pretty big deal.''... For the fifth year running, Chicago's Dett Elementary won a 2010 "Academic Improvement" award for substantially rising test scores. Cather, Harvard and Sherman, all Chicago elementary schools, won improvement awards for the fourth year in a row." (Chicago Sun-Times) I get that there are lots of hard and unfair things going on in CPS schools but the constant complaining and...
AM News: High Schools Prepare New Teachers
2011-01-26 16:49:00 Asst. principal accused of attacking student: The assistant principal of a Chicago high school is accused of attacking a female student. Jaime Jaramillo, 30, dragged and pushed the student in a school hallway at Steinmetz Academic Centre... Proviso Principals' Removal Protested: Monday night hundreds of people protested the removal of the principals at Proviso East and Proviso West High Schools... Urban Teachers Academy: CPS program gives students a taste of teaching Tribune: The program is among several college and career track programs launched this year at 11 Chicago public high schools... iPads changing the learning curve in Chicago schools Medill Reports: Whitney M. Young Magnet High School, where Solomon teaches, along with 22 other Chicago Public Schools, received sets of iPads for classroom use starting...
Moment of Silence Back in Place for IL Schools
2011-01-19 09:32:00 Is Illinois out of its mind? Prayer in school sure is.
High schools host basketball 'shootouts' on MLK Day. Really.
2011-01-18 07:08:00 Yesterday was Martin Luther King Day. Many students had the day off from school. Some of them participated in basketball tournaments...like the McDonald's Shootout at Willowbrook High School in Villa Park, Ill. Yeah, a shootout on MLK Day. Classy.
Schools + Creativity = ?
2011-01-17 19:00:00 Sir Ken Robinson: Do Schools Destroy Creativity? A fair question as we uproot, upend, redo, repaint, revamp schools in the name of “reform”—what- IS it that we are trying to achieve? Test scores are not enough because test scores do … Continue reading →
By: The G Bitch Spot
htciB G: #*@*%^#*@*%^!!: Schools, Money, Hunger
2011-01-17 19:00:00 originally posted Nov 28, 2009 @ 12:46 Read Education salaries grow $8 million under Paul Pastorek. [State Rep. Jim] Fannin [chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, D-Jonesboro] and [state Sen. Ben] Nevers [chairman of the Senate Education Committee, D-Bogalusa] said … Continue reading →
By: The G Bitch Spot
Safety: When Sex Offenders Work In Schools
2011-01-11 16:18:00 One of the examples in a recent report about sex offenders in schools (PDF) is from Illinois -- convicted in Wisconsin and eventually placed into a school (and caught when he hesitated to sign into the visitor log). Does this happen very rarely, or all the time? My guess is not that often, but I know that sometimes people can move to another part of the country and escape their pasts. ...
40% of Chicago Public School Teachers Send Own Kids to Private Schools
2010-12-20 15:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Liberals love to claim that the public school system is the shining success story of the American political system. And even when the schools break down in effectiveness, liberals double down on their support for them and insist that we spend ever larger chunks of the taxpayer's money to "fix" them. Of course, even as liberal politicians constantly extol the virtues of the public schools they are quietly sending their own kids to private schools. These hypocrites don't seem to mind sending the public's kids to subpar, failing schools but they'll be damned that they'll do so with their own kids....
Faith Schools ? Sathya Sai Baba ?Educare?
2010-12-16 15:43:00 Sathya Sai Baba schools – his so-called ‘Educare’ institutions figure among the many ‘faith schools’ which have increasingly been adopted in many Western democracies. These ideas have even been partly included in the British educational system, despite the guru being under the shadow of many accusations of crimes and deceptions. Several of his schools have ...
High Schools: Scary Times At Washington High
2010-12-14 00:56:00 I don't know whether these comments and emails about GWHS are coming from one or several different people, or whether their postings are accurate or not, but at the very least it seems clear that something very scary and sad almost happened there earlier this month when a former valedictorian tried to enter the school armed with a stolen revolver and carrying a list of district 004 police officers who are active in the area - and their pictures. According to an unverified nine-page document sent to me via fax (cover letter below) the teen was caught by volunteers CRS not CPD or security guards and and the faculty were told not to talk about the incident with parents. Plus no...
Why Are So Many Kids Leaving Neighborhood Schools?
2010-12-01 18:02:00 Much was made of Catalyst and WBEZ's reporting the news last week that charter school transfer rates were high in Chicago, but what caught my eye was the news that transfer rates for regular district schools are pretty high, too. Roughly a fifth of CPS kids transferred out of their regular school in 2009, according to an internal CPS memo the reporters dug up, in addition to over 500 kids who were formally expelled. Are neighborhood schools doing some of the same things that charter schools are accused of doing -- counseling kids out, offering parents transfer papers as an alternative to expulsion, sending kids to alternative programs or other schools? ... |
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