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Education

  • Dear Teacher - Mar 20, 2016

    By Marge Eberts
    and Peggy Gisler

    Question: My daughter has an IEP that is supposed to improve her attention problems at school. It isn’t working. What am I to do? — Panicking

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  • Interim associate social work dean, Highlands student earn top honors

    By Margaret McKinney
    Highlands University

    Highlands School of Social Work interim Associate Dean Cristina Durán earned the distinction in February along with Highlands social work student Shakir Farid Abdullah, whom the organization named Student Social Worker of the Year.

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  • Dear Teacher - Mar 13, 2016

    By Marge Eberts and Peggy Gisler

    Question: My second-grader loves reading e-books far more than print books because they have so many fun, interactive features. Are there any downsides to her love of e-books? —Book Lover

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  • New microscope opens up research opportunities for NMHU students

    By Margaret McKinney
    Highlands University

    A new state-of-the-art microscope at Highlands University will open up new research and employment opportunities for geology students.

    A National Science Foundation grant funded the $43,642 high-magnification microscope that makes it possible to identify and analyze very thin sections of minerals at the 30-micron level.

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  • Dear Teacher - Mar 6, 2016

    By Marge Eberts
    and Peggy Gisler

    Question: Both my third-grader and my ninth-grader will take the ACT Aspire assessment test this spring. I can’t understand how both can take ACT tests. I thought that the ACT was a college admission test. Please explain exactly what this test is. How will the scores be used? — Bewildered

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  • Students create multisensory interactive exhibit for a poem

    By Margaret McKinney
    Highlands University

    All people including ones with disabilities can more fully experience the power of a poem, thanks to a multisensory interactive exhibit Highlands University media arts students are creating.

    The students’ exhibit engages the senses through elements like braille beads, an audio recording, orange peels and junipers, sign language, a film and heart-shaped ocean rocks.

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  • School gives high-focus time to kids

    By Kim Kilbride
    South Bend Tribune

    SOUTH BEND, Ind.  — Using a projector and whiteboard, Jackie Williams writes — while verbally ticking off — the morning’s agenda for her students.

    “Let’s go over our priority list. If you have not yet finished that math online pretest, get that done first. After that, go into ‘Spelling City.’ If you have the option to do a vocabulary practice test, you should do that, too.”

    Questions before you work?” she asks her third- and fourth-graders.

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  • Students of the month - Mar 2, 2016
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  • Stellar performances
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  • Dear Teacher - Feb. 28, 2015

    By Marge Eberts
    and Peggy Gisler

    Question: I’ll admit to handing my iPhone over to my 4-year-old when we are waiting in a doctor’s office or an older child is playing soccer. He won’t read a book or color for that amount of time, but he will stay completely entranced with an app game. What are some of the criteria that I should follow to find an app that is safe for him to use and might even have some educational merit? — App Lover

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