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English teachers--this app is for you--well, at least for you to share with your students. Each volume (currently there are two) measures knowledge of 250 words. Not just any words, but words that appear most frequently on the SAT according to The Princeton Review, who provided the app content which Modality Inc makes available on their website or through iTunes for $4.99. Search for: SAT Vocab Challenge
Posted by Courtney Harritt, Program Curator
This month Thesys announces a school partnership with Fairmont Preparatory Academy in Anaheim, California to offer a hybrid classroom/online summer school program. The program includes 16 UC-approved classes and runs in two, three-week long semesters beginning June 2010. Courses being offered: Algebra I, Algebra II/Trigonometry CP, Biology CP, Biology Honors, Chemistry CP, Chemistry Honors, Economics, English I, English II, English III, Geometry CP, Health, Non-Western World History CP, Pre-Calculus CP, US Government and Politics, and US History. For more information visit Fairmont Prep Online.
Fairmont Prep is a WASC-accredited, private high school that attracts students from Southern California and the world.
I’m always interested in seeing the landscape and future of education through the eyes of other people. Working in education, interacting with colleagues and students every day, I sometimes think I have it all figured out—but then someone or something comes across my path that humbles me, and again puts me in awe of the greater possibilities and opportunities that lie in the near future of education. Most recently this involved attending the annual Leadership Summit with USC's Rossier School of Education last week. I sat in a seminar about differentiating curriculum for advanced/gifted learners, and in another about online education and how technology is now advanced enough that face-to-face instruction is a scalable, viable option for interested programs.
