Sentences with phrase «bright kids learning»

After glimpses of three bright kids learning online in creative ways, Vander Ark writes, «These portraits represent how millions of students could be learning with tools that are currently available to schools,» as if the cases of three prove millions more.

Not exact matches

Shy, but charismatic, «[Buterin] is a very bright young kid who is passionate about learning difficult subjects,» says Lombrozo, though he notes the coding prodigy has a tendency to try to reinvent things rather than build on existing work.

«Very bright, doing a great job, handling the learning curve, a fast study and a really competitive kid,» Giants offensive coordinator Mike Sullivan said of Shepard.

The National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families recommends reading to kids to help them learn new skills and explore bright new places and experiences.

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Checker and Brandon visit the Ed Next Book Club podcast to talk about the book, what they've learned from countries overseas, and whether there's reason for hope that America might finally get serious about better serving our brightest kids.

These posters are so bright, cute and attractive that I am sure that your kids will enjoy learning from them.

Looking beyond U.S. borders, most of Failing Our Brightest Kids reports what we learned about how 11 other nations educate gifted students, based on conventional research, site visits, on - the - ground correspondents, pummeling the data, and taking advantage of expert pummeling by others (especially Eric Hanushek, Paul Peterson, and Ludger Woessman).

Principal of the Year Personalizes, Individualizes Student Learning After watching her bright brother drop out of high school, Dr. Jeryl (Jill) Martin wanted to find ways to keep kids in schools.

There's nothing better and it's so hard to replicate the enthusiasm and energy that comes from being around bright kids who love learning.»

Too many bright kids coast through school and then crash when they get to college, because they've never learned to study or work hard.

I learned this reading the best book on gifted education I have ever encountered, «Failing Our Brightest Kids: The Global Challenge of Educating High - Ability Students,» by Chester E. Finn Jr. and Brandon L. Wright.

The Louisiana Scholarship Program gives parents the opportunity to choose their child's school, to send their kids to a school in a safe learning environment, giving them a chance at a better education and a brighter future.

Center for Bright Kids and the Western Academic Talent Search Duke University (Gifted Digest) Davidson Institute Colorado Department of Education - Gifted and Talented Ed Kahn Academy Project Gutenberg Online Video Learning Specialists (fee) Wikibooks Byrdseed

She has authored many books including How to Parent So Children Will Learn and Why Bright Kids Get Poor Grades, both 2008 National Best Books award winners from USA Book News.

In a nationwide BMe powered search for the best and brightest, kids between the ages of 8 and 12 are encouraged to read a financial literacy book of their choosing, and either write a 250 - word essay or create an art project to show how they would apply what they learned from the book to their daily lives.

He was an optical engineer who repaired aircraft instruments in Alaska in WWII, a mountain man who could turn a canoe into a sailboat with a folding machete, bed sheets and a few sticks, who taught me diffraction, color theory and relativity on paper when other kids were learning multiplication tables, who designed a potentiometer that went to the Moon by pointing the world's fastest camera at the world's fastest oscilloscope, who designed those traffic lights which only appear bright when you are in the appropriate lane, who didn't have to help me at all when I built my own Heathkit dual - channel scope in grade school, nor had to help me program my Apple II in machine language, who quit Honeywell to work for 3M when the Space Program turned into the nuclear missile program, who studied mining geology in college after growing up in a mining town in Utah, it was he who taught me, early on: make sure your contraption works!

Ultimately, kids earn a score based on how well they manage energy, the environment, and human needs... Helping them to learn that developing wisely in the face of limited resources is a bright idea.

In these bright, cheerful, happily chaotic classrooms you'd never know — kids were too busy learning and growing, not to mention showing me the ropes.

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