The 89th Carnival of Education

Welcome to the 89th Carnival of Education! I thought I would include some local Rhode Island flavor in this edition. To your left is a clearly gated and overgrown entrance of an amusement park in Warwick, RI where I grew up.
To your right is a picture of the Carousel at the Rocky Point Amusement park. This Park no longer exists but it brings back good memories.


Now for the Carnival of Education! In this edition I would like to focus on the reason for the name of my blog: Poor, Starving, College Student. My intention with this title is to constantly remind myself and everyone that reads who we are really fighting for in the end. The students are the ones that ulitmately we are all in education for and I'd like to remind each of us with the Carnival posts. In order to focus more on this point, I will simply post the submissions in the order they were submitted and then try to make the connection between the post and the bottom line for the students we all care so much about.

Next week's Carnival of Education returns to a well known host, Andrew Pass's Current Events In Education. Submissions should be sent to ap@pass-ed.com or use this handy submission form. Submissions should be received by 5 PM EST on Tuesday, October 24th. Please include the title of your post and its URL, if possible. Barring unforeseen circumstances, the midway should open Wednesday morning, October 25th.

If you are interested in hosting the Carnival please write to edwonk@educationwonks.org. Feel free to visit the Carnival's archives!

Passion, People and Principles submits Creating Better Educational Institutions - focusing on the lack of practical education for college students in business schools

Skillet Blogging submits Immersion learning? - focusing on the effects on PreK, elementary school, and "beginners" of immersion learning

Teaching in the Twenty-First Century submits Who Are We Trying to Stop? - focusing on the personal stories of students while we as a country are creating immigration battles

Let's Talk Babies submits It's About More Than A Great School District - focusing on what a school district should really offer students

The Median Sib submits The Difference Between First Graders and Fifth Graders - focusing on the pure innocence and excitement of a first grader :)

Sequence Inc. submits Milwaukee Public Schools - Failing its students - focusing on the 17 year old 9th grader.

Ask Uncle Bill submits Sad But True - focusing on the effects of personal finance books on recent college grads

Adam Kalsey submits Wiki letdown - focusing on what happens when a student edits his own source

Beautiful Biology: Ramblings of a Science Teacher submits Overlooking the Obvious - focusing on the fact the kids are still kids, and they'll remind you in case you forget!

Dr. Homeslice submits Dr. Homeslice schools a Former School Board Member - focusing on the fact that in a right-to-work state teachers have to option to not be a part a the union.

Atheist Revolution submits Domestic Violence and the Bible Revisited - focusing on giving her student a little more credit next time around.

Learning by Screencast submits Screencast: Word 2007 User Interface Overview - focusing on Microsoft Office 2007 features

NYC Educator submits Yippee!! - focusing on whether students really benefit or not from homework and how do you know?

Education Matters US submits Edusphere Bloggers - focusing on launching a new site for bloggers in the Edusphere

Anxiety, Addiction and Depression Treatments submits AAP Recommends More Playtime for Kids - focusing on the importance of unstructured play in a child's cognitive, social and emotional development

3σ → Left submits Five questions - focusing on the variety of questions posed by a variety of students

Trusted Advisor Associates submits Harvard Business School 30 Years Later: Bring Back Joe - focusing on less emphasis on commerce, more emphasis on competition

The Education Wonks (home of the Carnival of Education) submits Restricting Kindergarten: Treating Equals Unequally? - focusing on the inequality of pay vs. free, half day vs. full day Kindergarten

Joe. My. God. submits Sentences: Redux - focusing on a story of redemption for a 3rd grader

Don Surber: Proud member of the Mainstream Media! submits School madness - focusing on the real life effects of a school lockdown

What It's Like on the Inside submits Picking Up the Tab - focusing on what students do when good grades aren't good enough anymore

Thespis Journal submits Very Funny - focusing on "The liberals try to re-write history" & This is the new Teacher Preparation

California LiveWire: Teaching in the Golden State submits The price of a pound of cure - focusing on the effects of internal school violence on students and teachers

Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher submits How I Spent My Friday Evening - focusing on why elementary school student have homework in the first place and then how to make it a family event

Math Playground submits How To Do (Almost) Anything in Math - focusing on how new technology can really help students

BUCKHORN ROAD submits My mom says there is a lot of black people in Africa - focusing on whether a student truly feels out of place with the "black" vs "African American" phrases

District 299 Chicago Public Schools Blog submits "Turnaround" Specialist Washes Out In Virginia - focusing on how much turning around did this specialist do? & Six Week Open Thread: How's It Going?

School Me! submits District's Runaround Pushes Teacher to Limit - focusing on the issue of letting students have good, willing teachers!

The Current Events In Education (next week's host) submits Will Handwriting Disappear? Who Cares? (A Think) - focusing on how students can keep handwriting in the classroom in some non-traditional ways

Dan tdaxp submits Learning Evolved, Introduction: The Revolution Against the Standard Social Sciences Model - focusing on his series Classroom Democracy

Get on the Bus submits Mark Cuban's Message - focusing on lessons for parents and educators from an internet millionaire

NCLB Let's Get It Right submits Hand Sanitizer is for Wimps - focusing on the student benefits of hand shaking

Ask Patty submits Interview with Stephanie Esterline - Teen Author of "This Girl's First Car" - focusing on the value of knowing a few car maintence tips

Going to the Mat submits Professionalization of Teachers, Part IV focusing on a previous post of Jenny D.'s reagarding Teaching as a profession

A Shrewdness of Apes submits Keeping Our Children SafeShould Not Be Just A Political Slogan - focusing on a personal story of a family who lost a child

This Week In Education submits NYT Column Makes Mountain Of An HQT Molehill - focusing on how NCLB is alienating teachers which in turn hurts students

Evolving Education submits Why do we do what we do? - focusing on the mystery that prompts students to ask all kinds of questions

D-Ed Reckoning submits This Is Your Brain - focusing on why minimal guidance during instruction does not work

edspresso submits The outsiders - focusing on how will the selection of school leaders who have no education experience effect students?


That's All Folks!