Mark Montgomery on May 18, 2007 02:24PM

Carnival #119

Well, the Education Wonks have done it again. The latest edition of the Carnival of Education is now up and running here. Check it out. Copyright © 2007 Textbook Evaluator. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking [...]

Mark Montgomery on May 02, 2007 08:57AM

Attention Language Teachers: Your Jobs Will Be Outsourced

While I don’t see technology as a panacea for every problem, I do recognize its power in teaching world languages. I have been a fan of Speak Shop for a long time.  Speak Shop provides Spanish tutors from Guatemala using video conferencing.  Now I learn that schools are taking advantage of video conferencing [...]

Mark Montgomery on May 01, 2007 09:43AM

Geography Left Behind?Perhaps For Good Reason

A recent story in the Orlando Sentinel sounded the alert that geography education has been neglected in American schools and, surprisingly, in higher education. The discipline that Alexander Graham Bell (an early director of the National Geographic Society) defined as “the world and everything in it” has been flung by the wayside, especially as [...]

Mark Montgomery on May 01, 2007 09:25AM

Glencoe McGraw-Hill and National Geographic?A Disappointing Partnership

This post continues a periodic explanation of our work at EdVantage Consulting. We help districts evaluate textbooks and other instructional materials as they move through the selection process and make critical investments to support their curriculum. Past posts have introduced the process, differentiated between the two basic approaches to teaching world geography at the high school [...]

Mark Montgomery on Apr 30, 2007 09:26AM

Pearson / Prentice-Hall: Review of Introduction to Human Geography

This post continues a periodic explanation of our work at EdVantage Consulting. We help districts evaluate textbooks and other instructional materials as they move through the selection process and make critical investments to support their curriculum. Past posts have introduced the process, differentiated between the two basic approaches to teaching world geography at the high school [...]