Review from the Midwest Book Review

Parents have a critically important role to play in the education of their children. "How To Get The Best Education For Your Child - Kindergarten--6th Grade: A Parent's Handbook" is a compendium of practical information, applicable advice, and useable strategies/techniques for seeking that children receive the most competent instruction, appropriate educational resources, and inductive learning climate possible. A combination instruction manual and workbook, " "How To Get The Best Education For Your Child - Kindergarten--6th Grade: A Parent's Handbook" begins with a section on how parents can get started with their involvement and engagement with schools from classroom teachers, to administration, to school boards. Then chapters are organized around grade levels from kindergarten through the sixth grade, including grade appropriate things a child should be learning and gaining competence in, literature, and 'contractual agreements'. Enhanced with the inclusion of 'Suggested Literature', a Glossary, References, and a section for personal notations, " "How To Get The Best Education For Your Child - Kindergarten--6th Grade: A Parent's Handbook" is especially recommended for parents who wish to take an active role in insuring that their child receives the very best that any classroom and/or school district has to offer.

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We are competing in a global economy

We must prepare our students to be competitive in a new flattening world. Watch this excellent video on the subject and chime in with your thoughts...

Putting Together Your Child's School Closing Emergency Care Plan

Last week in Huntsville, Alabama, the H1N1 virus shut down three large school systems without warning for 2-7 days. With this unexpected event it made me realize the importance of having an emergency plan for your children in times like these.


Every parent must have a support system or plan when school unexpectedly closes for weather, illness, or any other emergency. Some parents have jobs that allow them to leave or work from home during time of emergency that affects their families, but many parents can not just walk off their job or stay home because the kids are out of school.

No matter what category you fit in, you should have a previous thought out plan to keep every thing moving smoothly with unsettled moments of avoidable chaos. Your plan should be detailed with the names and contact information of dependable people who are willing and able to help out in such an emergency.

Ideas

1. Speak with your employer and make arrangements for how this possibility will be handled. If a mutually agreed plan is in place beforehand, chances are things will proceed much more smoothly than had this step not be taken.

2. If you have dependable relatives or friends in the area have them on standby as back ups for picking up the kids or keeping the children.

3. Develop support groups at school, church or with neighbors.

4. If you are friends with the parents of one of your child's classmates or schoolmates develop cooperative arrangements and take turns where possible.

5. Make sure the school is notified according to their set school policy, (usually in writing), off all responsible adults who are allowed to remove your child from school on your behalf.

Author and Educator Debra E. West answers President Obama's call to action, shares Citizen's Education Idea Initiative

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Best Education Possible is now available on facebook, LinkedIn & Plaxo

To make it easier for everyone to participate in our Best Education Possible Citizen's Initiative, we have established groups on facebook, LinkedIn and Plaxo. If you are a participant on any of these social networks, please join our Initiative there too.

Best Education Possible on facebook
facebook group URL: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=43176187590&ref=ts


Best Education Possible on LinkIn
LinkedIn group URL:http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1781681


Best Education Possible on Plaxo
Plaxo group URL: http://besteducationpossible.plaxogroups.com

Discovered on facebook - "One Million Students for Quality Public Education"

Below is a description and link to a wonderful group I discovered on facebook earlier today. The group and their associated online petition targets participation among those ages 13-24. At the time of this posting their web page quotes their petition at 23,838 signatures. It is a tremendous example of our youth's interest in the future and the hope that resides in all age groups regarding the collectives ability to improve of country's educational system.

Group Name: One Million Students for Quality Public Education

Web Address: http://www.oured.org
Email: info@oured.org
facebook Group URL: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2211826343

Group Description: This group is for people who believe that education is one of the most important issues facing America today and that we must make dramatic improvements in our nation's schools.

Why do we need to improve our public education system?

- More than a million American youth drop out of high school every year…

- In 2003, US 10th graders finished 24th out of 29 developed countries in math and problem solving, and two-thirds of our fourth graders failed to read at grade level proficiency...

- The impacts of poor quality education are felt most strongly by low-income children, children of color, and children who happen to be born in the wrong city or state:

* Children in poor families are 7 times less likely to have the chance to go to college than children in rich families; and

* By the age of 17, African-American and Latino youth on average are already four years behind their white and Asian peers in reading and math.

NEED ANY MORE REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN THIS GROUP AND SIGN THE PETITION? CHECK OUT its sister group at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2211361454 and read some of the amazing stories that students are posting about their troubled public schools on the wall!

BestEducationPossible.net prepares to send a comprehensive report to President Obama, et. al.

In response to the President's call for ordinary citizens to band together and make suggestions and offer ideas, we have decided to launch the Best Education Possible Citizen's Initiative.

Initiative Parameters: During the first quarter of 2009, ending March 31, 2009, BestEducationPossible.net will seek to harness the collective genius of parents and educators who serve in the trenches of our nation's educational system. The Initiative follows the lead of the President's transition team and their "Citizen's Briefing Book" launched on their Change.gov website, but closed to public contribution prior to the Inauguration.

Like the Citizen's Briefing Book, the Best Education Possible Citizen's Initiative will develop a white paper compiling ideas and thoughts in a Web 2.0 environment. The goal is to have mass citizen and global participation in the generation of ideas for improving our youth's education with the ultimate work product being delivered to President Obama, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, as well as, all fifty Governor's mansions.

This online tool and others are opening up the process by which the public obtains access to a presidential administration. They are also changing the dynamics of how a presidential administration interacts with the public.

Are you a proactive parent, teacher or concerned thinker? Pass the word, join a Best Education Possible Forum on this site and begin to contribute. It is that simple. This a people driven grass roots initiative for educational change. It is a meme. Best Education Possible Citizen's Initiative Team will be making regular updates as the Initiative moves forward.