The National Vocabulary Championship (NVC) is an initiative sponsored by GSN, The Network for Games that uses competition and wordplay to engage and reward high school students, educators and parents, teaching them the value of a strong vocabulary. Created with educational partner The Princeton Review, the NVC is open to eligible high school students across… Read More Vocabulary Competition: Boston; Detroit; NYC; Palm Beach County; Philadephia; Pittsburg; Sacramento and St. Louis

The International Reading Association’s blog just posted a link to a new report from the Thomas B. Fordam Foundation. The Fordham Report 2006: How Well Are States Educating Our Neediest Children?. The Foundation collected 15 years of data and sythnesized it into a report on how well each state has education its poor and minority… Read More Children Left Behind

Haven’t seen this one, haven’t read the book, but I bet we all know what will happen in Freedom Writers when it opens 12 January starring Hillary Swank. One teacher who doesn’t know what she is doing will ride to school on her white horse and save all the poor minority kiddies from themselves.  Everyone will… Read More Another teacher saves Urban kids

You could win a trip to the next Blockbuster film in the Narnia franchise from Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media, coming to theaters in Summer 2008! Click here to complete a quick Narnia Educator Questionnaire with registration and you will be entered into the “Narnia…Beyond the Wardrobe” Educator Sweepstakes for the chance to win… Read More Educator’s Sweepstakes