Word: curriculum
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...Beach, Fla., which will run 264 days a year. For those who need extra help, Brown will offer tutoring sessions afternoons and Saturday mornings. But even this may not do the trick. Cautions Missouri's Cooper: "Just adding days and hours to the calendar without making changes to the curriculum will not result in noticeable gains in achievement...
...left. So in 1982 she started Beacon, which in 18 years has grown from seven students to 300 on two campuses, with a wait list. The 240-day elementary-school calendar is not as daunting as it seems. Families can take vacation time whenever they want (a carefully individualized curriculum makes this possible), so most Beacon kids end up with about 220 days of school a year. "We try to preserve family life," says Farley, "and homework disrupts families...
...quite as portable as the Palm, however; it's something for your book bag rather than your shirt pocket. SoftBook Press, which makes the software for the device, thinks the addition of color will help it break into the school market. You could download a whole e-curriculum for the price of a few textbooks...
...yang," says Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education. "The problem is [antievolutionists] will never tell you what they would accept as a transitional fossil." Scott, one of the school district's expert witnesses against LeVake, says, "If you look at the content of his curriculum guide, it's the same thing that five years ago they called creation science. He's just left out the C word." Indeed, creationists have become a lot more shrewd. For years they'd propose antievolution laws and lesson plans brimming with religious language, and for years their cases were...
...could to get them to buy in." That meant closing down five schools that were in the worst disrepair, renovating the rest and building two schools from scratch on the outskirts of town. The district installed parents on its strategic-planning committee. Then it increased the rigor of its curriculum, asking parents to vote on an academic focus for each of the schools. At one writing, communication and technology school, for example, students keep a daily journal starting in kindergarten; at a math and science school, students study botany in a state-of-the-art outdoor classroom. To reach...