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BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog


Extra classes means extra fun

With NCLB focusing on math and language arts classes, districts across the country have changed around their school-day schedules to add in extra help courses so that students can higher achieve in...

Started in BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: curriculum, school boards, students, teachers
Three cheers for summer reading

Education leaders have always recognized the importance of summer reading and encouraged students to put their noses into books in between trips to the playground and pool. Now, we know that homework...

Started in BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: students
Olympic science

BoardBuzz has been enjoying the Games of 29th Olympiad, but it got us thinking. How do our world's athletes continue to improve and break records every four years? Moreover, what's the science behind...

Started in BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: miscellany
U.S. schools going for the gold

Now that the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing are underway, the Fordham Institute as well as the Alliance for Excellent Education have seized on this moment to focus on how U.S. students compete with...

Started in BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: advocacy & legislation
Recognizing urban districts' excellence

School governance teams are a delicate balance of many complex issues. Creating policies(and sticking to them), working through tough financial times, having forethought to see what lies ahead for...

Started in BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: announcements, miscellany, school boards
Is recess disappearing?

When BoardBuzz was just a mere grub, the best part of the school day was always recess. Those fond memories of unstructured play wtih other little buzzers come rushing back whenever BB encounters yet...

Started in BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: health & wellness, school boards
Food for free?

That's not quite how school cafeterias aim to operate. BoardBuzz has covered before the struggle many schools are facing as the cost of food grows higher and higher, making it more difficult to...

Started in BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: health & wellness, school boards, students
The demise of teachers?

It sounds like a page out of 2001: A Space Odyssey or some other wacky concept movie from the 80s (does anyone else remember Short Circuit?), but this story that came to us by way of CNN.com really...

Started in BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: education technology, miscellany, teachers
More districts allowed to flip tutoring & choice

The U.S. Department of Education has allowed more school districts in some states to offer supplemental educational services or tutoring in schools entering the first year of improvement under NCLB,...

Started in BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: advocacy & legislation
Summer days drifting away...

BoardBuzz is certainly still enjoying the summer. And, it has been a good summer for us! While some of you have been enjoying lazy days at the beach, cook-outs, and summer vacations, BoardBuzz...

Started in BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: advocacy & legislation, announcements, school boards