Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Jun 27th, 2006 1 Comment »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Charles Armstrong School © 2006 Sanford Shapiro I first heard about the Charles Armstrong School back in 1983. I had just gotten hired as the first teacher of an about-to-be-opened school for dyslexic learners in Monterey, California. Our founding director was a former faculty member of the Charles Armstrong School. [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Jun 27th, 2006 No Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Parkmeadow School © 2006 Sanford Shapiro The Parkmeadow School, an extension of the Brighton School, about which I recently wrote, serves as the junior and senior high schools (grades 7-12). Under the leadership of executive director Gary Kenshen this school, also in Baton Rouge, has the look and feel of [...]
Posted in LD Support Professionals on Jun 24th, 2006 No Comments »
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Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Jun 20th, 2006 17 Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Brighton School, Baton Rouge © 2006 Sanford Shapiro The Brighton School, Partridge Campus is located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. This is a school that works with children in grades Kindergarten through seventh who have language-based learning disabilities. The admissions profile of the student learning differences is pretty standard. It’s similar [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Jun 20th, 2006 15 Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Monarch School © 2006 Sanford Shapiro The Monarch School, a unique K-12 day school, divided into two campuses within a half a mile of each other, and resides in a quieter Houston suburb. I call this a unique school because of the population it serves. In operation as a school [...]
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jun 20th, 2006 3 Comments »
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Posted in Education Issues and Ideas on Jun 17th, 2006 1 Comment »
Alex Halavais offers some advice for students looking to cheat on school papers: “Alex Halavais offers some advice for students looking to cheat on school papers. ‘How do you think I check suspicious work? [...] I am pretty good with that Google thingy.’” (Via kottke.org remaindered links.)
Posted in Education Issues and Ideas on Jun 17th, 2006 No Comments »
More at Risk of Repeating Fifth Grade: “More than 8,900 New York City students are in danger of being held back because of failing scores on reading and math tests, officials said.” (Via NYT > Home Page.)
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Jun 13th, 2006 15 Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Briarwood School © 2006 Sanford Shapiro After driving through a bizarre Texas ice storm that closed down schools in Austin, I made it to Houston, albeit a bit frazzled by the combination of road construction, and MapQuest inaccuracies. The first school I visited here was the Briarwood School, which now [...]
Posted in LD Support Professionals on Jun 11th, 2006 No Comments »
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Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Jun 9th, 2006 No Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at Dallas Academy © 2006 Sanford Shapiro Dallas Academy is a relatively small K-12 school located in a fairly quiet suburban neighborhood of Dallas. In 2005 the Academy joined with the Lattner Lower (Elementary) School. Prior to this merger the Academy had a forty year history of working with students with learning [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Jun 9th, 2006 No Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at Winston School, Dallas © 2006 Sanford Shapiro The Winston School is a K-12 school located in Dallas Texas. Founded in 1975 as an elementary school for bright kids with specific learning disabilities, it added 7th though 9th grades in 1978 and expanded through high school in 1983. Originally located on the [...]