Southeast Education Network Issues

Wayne Hartill | 04/01/2012

The Virginia Tech massacre, Columbine High School shooting, and Red Lake Senior High School massacre all remind us of the potential for violence and mass casualties in schools. These heartbreaking calamities snuffed innocent lives and marred surviving students, teachers and the community for life. The one common thread in those tragedies was the inability to warn students and teachers in order to guide them away from the danger. In the case of Columbine, conflicting witness reports as to the roaming gunmen locations on campus further hampered police. Read More...

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Lorraine Greenfield | 04/01/2012

Lorraine Greenfield, a former middle school teacher, principal and superintendent of schools, knows firsthand that a teacher’s classroom and school can bring challenges their college education did not predict or fully prepare them for. Influxes of students learning English while coping with moving from another country, special needs students, and broad disparities in math and science literacy — all on the backdrop of unwavering demands of standardized test scores — can leave even experienced teachers in need of new tools to assess and teach effectively. Read More...

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M. Graeme Armstrong | 04/01/2012

As part of my transition into higher education during the late 90s after my careers managing at the operational level in both the military and the retail sector, I learned very quickly that as employment rates decrease, enrollments at college and universities rise. In this particular down cycle, we are in the midst of what many are describing as unprecedented surges in college enrollment. Jason Claffey, writing about national trends in the Fosters Daily Democrat in 2010, described this phenomenon and noted that at community colleges in particular enrollment has skyrocketed. In fact it has risen as unemployment reached its highest point in a ... Read More...

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Timothy L. Arcaro | 04/01/2012

The field of education law encompasses the intersection of two otherwise distinct disciplines: education and law. This expanding intersection includes concepts such as: student rights and obligations, teacher rights and obligations, primary education, higher education, state laws, federal laws, and the administrative law process. The education industry is highly regulated due to the complex nature of competing interests at play from the school yard to the university campus. Educators today have a greater need to understand the interplay of law and education given their individual responsibilities as system stakeholders and the seemingly cont... Read More...

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Kevin N. Ladd | 04/01/2012

To say it is important that students find sufficient information to make intelligent decisions regarding their postsecondary education would be an understatement, to say the least. In particular, this is true for those students for whom college is not such an “automatic,” or not part of their culture or upbringing. To those whose parents didn’t attend college or for those who aren’t exposed to the multitude of options available to them upon graduating high school, it can seem overwhelming and information and guidance is the only chance these students have at finding their place in academia. Colleges have more options and superior technology ... Read More...

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Mary Amelia Taylor | 04/01/2012

Today when much emphasis in higher education is placed on “relevance,” it may be surprising to some that women’s colleges still exist. According to the Women’s College Coalition, there are only 48 left in the United States. Many high school students seem to find the prospect of all-female education an old-fashioned idea they have to overcome if they even consider attending women’s colleges. In fact, only about three percent of high school girls add women’s colleges to their lists of college choices. Read More...

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Anne Yu | 04/01/2012

In 1909, the Wellesley College yearbook published a tongue-in-cheek drawing that depicted the varying ways a Wellesley woman is viewed by different people, including herself. In the image, the young woman is viewed by her mother as a quiet girl who reads and knits, by the world as an idyllic scholar, and by herself as a hardworking student who, if you look closely, doesn’t even have time to do her dishes. Ask a student today what people say when she tells them she goes to an all women’s school, and you’ll hear responses ranging from “aren’t all of the students radical feminists?” to “so you just study, like, poetry, right?” to “do you ever s... Read More...

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Dr. Anne Teeter Ellison | 04/01/2012

Needs to work harder, needs to sit still, needs to pay attention, needs to get organized, needs to listen and follow directions, needs to turn in assignments on time, needs to control frustration and anger, needs to get along better — have you used these phrases to describe students you encounter in your classroom? In addition to the core symptoms of distractibility, impulsivity, and hyperactivity, problems with self regulation and self control form the basis of ADHD. Read More...

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Deb Browne | 04/01/2012

Some folks live in a high-contrast world; they perceive and react to life in a black and white way: good/bad, happy/sad, enemy/friend, kid/adult. This type of thinking can pose real problems for the individual who thinks in absolutes. Let’s call them Black and White Thinkers (B&WTs). Who are they? They are found among folks with learning disabilities — such as language and executive functioning disorders — those on the autism spectrum, and others including children from families with addiction issues. Read More...

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Amanda E. Guld | 04/01/2012

Over the past 10 years, we have seen a significant increase in the incidence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in the United States. In 2002, one in 150 children was diagnosed with autism; in 2006, one in 110 children was diagnosed with this complex condition. Experts note that the incidence continues to rise today, while medical, educational and clinical professionals work to identify the causes for autism. Read More...

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Maclean Gander | 04/01/2012

As the fifth revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) since 1968 nears completion, we will likely see news stories about changes in how we diagnose psychological disorders in the United States. Educators should pay attention to this. I work with college students with learning differences, and in the past decade, the DSM has come to play a central role in many of their lives. Educators should realize that psychiatry plays an increasingly prominent role in addressing the challenges that children and adolescents face. And there has been a change in how learning disabilities are recognized and diagnosed in public education. More pu... Read More...

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Matt Frankenbery | 04/01/2012

Science. Technology. Engineering. Mathematics. Just hearing these words individually causes concern in many students. Bring the subjects together under the STEM umbrella, and students’ ears begin to perk in curiosity. Implement an integrated, hands-on, relevant STEM program centered on career exploration, and hardly any student fails to hear the resounding message: “This is your future.” Read More...

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Maxine Bleich | 04/01/2012

Today there is a widening and deepening national awareness of the significance of high school, college, and graduate-level preparation in STEM to the United States’ primacy in innovation and in the global marketplace. Paradoxically, the nation’s K-12 preparation for STEM-based careers appears to be at an all-time low. Read More...

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Bart A. Aslin | 04/01/2012

New manufacturing thrives on and drives innovation, and in the US we have a gold mine of future innovators. Right now, they are two years old and their parents are reading bedtime stories while holding an iPad or a Kindle. By 2031, these children will be candidates for advanced manufacturing positions. Their ability to innovate will be predicated on their parents and teachers encouraging their creativity and imagination with a Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education; and their introduction to these technologies at an early age is raising the bar on how they learn. Read More...

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DEBBIE BALDWIN PEARSON | 04/01/2012

The Baby Boomer principal isn’t ready to retire, but he’s starting to think about it. The new teacher down the hall, a recent college grad, has some pretty cool ideas when it comes to technology in the classroom. Other teachers at midpoints in their careers must continually think about the best ways to communicate with parents, or how best to reconcile traditional teaching methods with online resources. Read More...

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