An excerpt from my Oct. 4, Ed Week blog, Transforming Learning. There are many factors outside the school that affect a child's ability to learn. Our ability to succeed in the classroom can be enhanced by collaborating with community agencies that provide the services that ensure that our children come to school ready to learn. Here are 10 suggestions that might help agencies and schools com...

From Transforming Learning, an Ed Week blog from the Learning First Allicance Today, the American Association of School Administrators (AASA) released the latest in its reports examining the impact of the economic recession on schools. The news is not good. The study, "Weathering the Storm: How the Economic Recession Continues to Impact Schools," is the twelfth in a s...

By Charles Maranzano, Jr. Superintendent, Hopatcong, New Jersey 
 A report published by Education Week on March 7, 2012, concerns itself with the results of a national survey sponsored by MetLife on the American Teacher. According to the results of this annual survey American teacher job satisfaction is at an alarming low point. Only 44% of teachers nationwide indicate that they are very ...

More than 40 volunteers spent the first week in December as part of an effort to build a school in the small, mountainous farming community of Constanza, Dominican Republic. Sponsored by Lifetouch, an employee-owned photography company, the volunteers worked alongside Dominican nationals on a variety of projects, including block and concrete work and stucco and paint finishing for school classroom...

by William L. Bainbridge, Ph.D., FACFE The potential for sexual harassment and abuse is not a new phenomenon. The Grand Jury Findings of Fact into the alleged actions of former Penn State University football coach Gerald Sandusky and the alleged inactions of Penn State coaches and administrators has brought child sexual abuse back into national focus. The accepted standard of care for childre...