Classroom Toolkit Newsletter

Research Shows what we have Known All Along: Public Schools are as Good as Private Schools!

In fact, many public schools are better than many private schools.

Money is not the necessary or sufficient condition that produces highly positive student outcomes.

Nine Ways to Recognize a "Learning Classroom"

Test scores are not the only way to tell if a your classroom offers a rich learning environment for your students.

Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: A High-Stakes-Test-Objectives-Driven Classroom

Teachers who teach a High-Stakes-Test-Objectives-Driven curriculum, driven by fearing-for-their-jobs principals and an aggressive and odious benchmark testing program; do not realize that they are gambling with their students' future.

Develop or Upgrade your Classroom Library

Make a classroom library a focal point in your classroom, and partition the area in some way from the rest of the room.

"We've Lost that Lovin' Feelin'"

Tender, loving care seems to be in retreat in our school districts, and even in some of our classrooms.

National Atlas.Gov: Maps your Way

The National Atlas is another site where your tax dollars really are working

Since the site is taxpayer supported, and teachers pay what seems like an extraordinary amount of their pay as taxes, it makes sense for teachers in all classes to use this site whenever they can.

Doomed to Fail:

Subtitle:The Built-In Defects of American Education

Author: Zoch, Paul A.
ISBN: 1-56663-567-5
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004
Publisher: Chicago: Ivan R. Dee
Pages: 237 pages
Cost: $26.95 (List)
Available: Amazon at as low as $6.05 (new) - $12.58 at eBay(TM)

Site Strategy and Progress

Our flagship Web site, Classroom Toolkit.Com averaged 96 visitors a day during the month of August, 2006. This was almost double last month's daily average.

Learning Management Systems: Course Development Software for Free!

Some school districts pay a lot of money for commercial Learning Management Systems (LMSs), although most school districts don't use them. However, some Open Source advocates suggest that school districts turn to free LMS alternatives and offer online courses for their students. Here is Classroom Toolkit's stance on this topic.