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BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog


It's good to be a teen!

BoardBuzz came across this interesting article in USA Today about whether kids are better off today than their parents were at their age. The article is based on a report released this week by the...

Started in BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog • 16 hours ago • 0 responses
Tags: advocacy & legislation, health & wellness, students
Drumroll please

BoardBuzz would like to give a round of applause to those who realize how important music and the arts are to our nation's students. Thanks to The New York Times, we were happy to learn about a...

Started in BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog • 15 hours ago • 0 responses
Tags: miscellany, students
Heads up for when the phone rings

Do you ever wonder what triggers that first complaining phone call? Sometimes “social networks” and other websites that promote grassroots actions get the ball rolling and you won’t ever know what...

Started in BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog • 1 day ago • 0 responses
Tags: health & wellness
Gettin' students sweatin' to the oldies

BoardBuzz has talked about student fitness many times before. And now one of our old friends is taking student fitness to Washington, D.C. And that's great news, especially in light of recent...

Started in BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog • 1 day ago • 0 responses
Tags: advocacy & legislation, curriculum, health & wellness, students
The summer of discontent

BoardBuzz really isn't trying to dwell on the rising price of...everything. We know we've covered this high-fuel-prices, high-food-prices, tight-budgets, budget-cutting-strategies-story a few times...

Started in BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog • 1 day ago • 0 responses
Tags: school boards, school finance
Technology, education and assessment in a global society

No child left behind -- easier said than done, right? In a culture so focused on improving our education system, how do teachers, administrators, educators, and board members cater to the growing...

Started in BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog • 1 day ago • 0 responses
Tags: conferences, education technology, school boards, teachers
What Works?

A commentary by Leonard Pitts, Jr. caught our eye recently. In case you're not familiar with him, he created a column called What Works in the Miami Herald that examines many facets of America and,...

Started in BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog • 3 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: students, teachers
Hurray for comprehensive tobacco-free schools!

This just in: Nearly half of all Americans are exposed to secondhand smoke, which, like other tobacco smoke, is harmful at any level. That’s one reason BoardBuzz was so pleased to learn that the...

Started in BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog • 3 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: health & wellness
Library introduces kids to game design

BoardBuzz was intrigued this morning by an interesting story from Ars Technica: It's hard to ignore just how large the business of video games is becoming. As a result, more and more groups are...

Started in BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog • 3 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: education technology, students
As children grow, activity levels decrease…

That is the unfortunate news Board Buzz saw in a New York Times article article last week. The article depicts a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) study that shows that, as children grow,...

Started in BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog • 4 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: health & wellness