Our Kids provides the education, camp, and parenting headlines you should know.
- The New York Times tackles The Myth of Attention Spans and the “tyranny” of technology.
- Speaking of technology, the digitalization of textbooks could leave university bookstores extinct.
- Continuing the tech trend, here’s 8 ways technology is improving education.
- The CFL is trying to touchdown in Alberta’s classrooms with a DVD program called This Is Our League about the CFL’s history, featuring kids as reporters and anchors in a news-style format.
- As we reported last week, Toronto is mulling over the idea of paying students in needy neighbourhoods to make better grades and mentor others. Educators in Vancouver used this idea to boost achievement in First Nations students, and they say it worked.
- Fresh from the impact of the documentary Waiting for Superman, South Carolina is moving closer towards receiving government subsidization for private education.
- Calgary parents thought of summer as they braved the winter and lined up to register for summer camp at the Crowfoot YMCA.
- Canadian filmmaker Jacob Medjuck’s feature film based on his time at camp, Summerhood, played at the AMC Yonge and Dundas theatre in Toronto this week.
- Chicago police in the special computer-crimes unit showed high school students the repercussions of cyber-bullying, the most prevalent cyber-crime they’ve noticed today.
- The holidays are fast approaching, so here are a few cost-effective gifts for teachers.
- Toronto’s only Africentric school has experienced high enrolment and impressive test scores, but now its principal has taken a leave of absence while the board conducts an internal investigation into allegations against her.
- With the goal of lowering dropout rates in Manitoba, the province announced that starting next year high school students will no longer have the option of quitting school until they are 18 years old. Ontario and New Brunswick already have similar legislation.
- The Huffington Post asks “Which Special Needs Kids Are Getting Served at Private or Public Schools and at What Cost?“
- The New York Times suggests Flighting Bullying With Babies.
- The Washington Post got their hands on an eighth-grade-exam from 1931 West Virgina, and it’s hard.
- Britain goes back to basics in its announcement of plans for school reforms.
- Two chaotic student riots in London, both within two weeks of each other, leave police stumped to find the leaders. This is because most of the grassroots organizing is taking place on social media.
