Education TBC

Online education programs are conducted over radio, television and the very common is over the mail. The very popular Internet is today’s primary method of presenting and distributing educational materials. This mode of learning is the latest trend in education today. Many people benefit from this especially students who have limited money, time, who are living in remote areas and students with handicapped.

Online education is usually web-based with specific web site that is designated to the degree course. Students need supplemental materials such as computer software as a part of certain course. In order to take exams and know posted assignments, students must visit the website . Through email, chat rooms or forums, students and instructors can communicate with each other. Discussions and virtual lectures are part of online course work. Students can attend virtual classrooms to complete their course degree. There are some online schools that are having virtual graduation ceremonies for their graduate students who are located in remote areas.

Many accredited Universities and Colleges now are offering online classes to cater the needs of many people with hectic schedules. They offer online degrees with hundreds of course subjects for you to choose from. Students can learn new skills and gain new information at their own pace. They have the freedom of choosing a place and time to study. Some of them attend online classes during their free time. Many students enroll here from different part of the world just to further their education. Some of them participate in online education programs because colleges do not exist in remote areas.

You can also combine traditional classes to online courses that is also known as blended learning learning experiences. Learners who successfully finished a degree course online are usually the ones who possess qualities such as self motivated, well organized, independent learner, computer literate, good time management skills and excellent communication skills.

We could not deny the fact that online education environment will never completely replaced traditional way of earning a degree course. The dynamic nature and convenience that online education give to its student attracts more and more people to participate in such system of education. It is a very effective way to achieve higher education or to further your education for a better career opportunity in the future. With the continued support in online learning environments and classroom sessions there is an assurance that trainings are delivered conveniently and effectively for both instructors and students.

Landmark education is a lifestyle changing program. You will definitely think that there is nothing new in it. There are plenty of new things actually and before start reading the review you need to be open minded. Otherwise it is not possible to understand the whole thing. You may feel that landmark education is nothing but conversing for hours. Landmark education has developed landmark forum so that likeminded people can interact and share various experiences of their lives. You may know many things and when you are facing troubles you may find that your knowledge about life is not enough. That is why landmark education based on practical solutions and conversations mostly. This is not possible to describe all the details about landmark forum in such a small space but we will try to let you know about most of the parts of landmark forum for sure.

Many people think that landmark forum is nothing but telling stories about life. This is not true because these are not stories. In landmark forum you will get to know various new things about life and real life experiences from other people. They too will be enriched to know your life and its ups and downs. This way all the members will be able to share their experiences through conversation and they will also feel better from inside. They will find a new way to see life and that is the motto of landmark forum. You must feel rejuvenated from inside so that you can again start living your life fully. Stress will always be there and landmark education will just tell you about ways to handle stress properly. These stories are not philosophy. These are simple stories of people and their lives. Every problem has a solution but if you stop trying then you can never find the right solution for your problem.

There are many people who feel guilty about not been able to give time to their families. They realize the problem but they have no idea about how to solve it. Landmark forum is such a place where you can find different types of people with different types of problems. You may find some other people who too are suffering from the same problems. You can also find some people who are continuing both the life pretty successfully. You can learn from their experiences for sure. .many people start blaming themselves when they face failure in their lives. You must be steady and face failure face to face so that you can have the courage to proceed to turn failure to success in future.

To become successful you need to put your heart into your work and with landmark education you will learn to do things in such a way so that you can become successful. Personal integrity is very importance so that you can save yourself from any trouble and also you can solve various troubles easily without hurting anybody. This is not really possible to describe the full life changing program in such a small place. Once you get enrolled you will feel the different from within.

If you are a parent or a relative who is thinking of a great way to save college money for the children in your family, Education Savings Plans may be the right choice for you. There are many things to take into consideration if you’re thinking of participating in one of these. First, you have to choose which plan is right for your family based on your financial needs and goals. In addition, the age (under 18) of the beneficiary or of the student who will benefit from the plans is also critical. Because of these factors, the information presented here is mostly useful for parents or relatives of young children who are looking to save money for future college-related expenses.

The two Education-savings plans, Coverdell education savings account and 529 college savings plans, have some similarities. In both plans, the money that is contributed come from after-tax dollars. This means that the money that is contributed to these plans is subject to income tax before it gets to the account. However, the earnings and withdrawal from Education-savings plans are tax-free as long as the money is used in paying for college tuition, living, and other eligible expenses.

Because the two plans are different in many ways, here are a few things to consider:

Coverdell Education Savings Account

These are Education-savings plans that are sponsored by the federal government. There is an annual limit to the dollar amount contributed into these accounts. However, parents or relatives can set up several accounts at various financial institutions as long as their contribution does not go over the annual limit.

Coverdell savings accounts have its advantages in a sense that contributors/donors have the flexibility to choose which types of investments the money will go into. For example, you may invest in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, certificate of deposits etc. In this way, you can choose either an aggressive or conservative investment strategy which will depend on how much time you have to invest or how much risk you are willing to take.

529 College Savings Plans

These are Education-savings plans that are sponsored by the state government. Every American state currently offers 529 plans.

Like the Coverdell account, your contributions are not tax-deductible but your withdrawals and earnings are tax-free as long as you use the money for eligible educational expenses. There two types of 529 savings plans and they are savings/investment plans and prepaid tuition.

The savings/investment plan can be compared to a retirement account such as a 401K which is designed to pay for eligible college expenses. As with the Coverdell plan, parents can choose an investment strategy that fits their needs. Furthermore, parents usually don’t have to be a resident in a particular state to open these Education-savings plans. In this way, parents can search for better deals and will have several colleges to choose from.

Educational qualifications can be, and often are used to maintain the status quo – the existing social order. When I lived in the Netherlands, you had to have qualifications to be able to open a shop. Sounds fair enough, you might say, but the exams were only available in Dutch, which is not one of the most widely-spoken languages in the world.

If Mohamed Al-Fayed, the owner of Harrods, wanted to open a shop in the Netherlands, he would have to learn Dutch or circumvent the regulations by hiring local managers.

While I can see the need for people (shop keepers in this case) to provide evidence of an understanding of the law of the land, some countries take it too far. They make education a weapon of class warfare.

After all, it allows the ruling class to say that they are only trying to raise standards, while not providing the means for the poor to reach those standards. By not providing a universal education, they are in fact ensuring that the best jobs stay with the richest families.

There is a subtle way of modifying this scheme so as to make the gentry look innocent – they can put schools in every village and then stock them with low-grade teachers by making the wages and conditions awful, and simultaneously open the universities to all who have reached the requisite level of education.

This method also keeps the riff-raff out but allows the rich to maintain the illusion that a university education is open to all. This is the most common tactic in the Developing World.

In richer countries like Europe and America, the glass ceiling is put in place by making higher education expensive and offering ‘cheap loans’ to students who wish to continue their education.

In the UK, at the moment, the cap on university fees is about $14,000 per annum, so after a typical three tear course, a student comes away with a degree, which is no longer a guarantee of a job, and a $40,000 overdraft.

That is enough to deter the riff-raff too.

So what is the solution to this subtle form of the poverty, or at least, the social status trap?

Means-tested grants used to work just fine.

A student has to be able to embark on an educational course without having the distraction of worrying about money. Rich kids don’t have to worry about their finances at or after university, so why should poor kids? Let’s make it fair.

Britain as a whole had this enviable system for decades, but Scotland is the only country within the UK to maintain it. Welsh students have to pay something, I think, but not as much as English kids.

This will probably result in more Scottish and Welsh graduates per head of population than English ones in the near future. The Celts will love that, but it doesn’t seem fair on the English working class.

One of the reasons why Lek in ‘Behind The Smile’ did not stay at school was because the family thought the the cost seemed to be too high for the benefits that they could see it delivering. This is not the state’s direct fault, but it does result from a lack of ambition in people who have never known anyone in their family go to university.

Behind The Smile : ISBN: 978-1-475-21688-2 : Published by CreateSpace 19-4-2012 : Paperback and eBook.

Heres an educational statistic that might make you question the Christian education resources used for math in your childs school. According to a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) March 2008, CRS Report for Congress, the U.S. currently ranks 28th internationally in math literacy among 15-year-old students. Once considered a leader in education, America now faces the startling truth that a large majority of its secondary school students are failing to reach proficiency in mathematics.

With so many Christian education resources at our disposal, it seems mind boggling that Americas math students rank poorly compared to children living in Japan, China, or India. Obviously, in order to compete on a global scale, todays math curriculum requires students to learn algebra, geometry, measurements, and statistic problems even in the elementary grades. In fact, by the time a child is in eighth grade, he should have mastered the basics of algebra and geometry to be ready for advanced mathematics in high school. To instill a love for math, develop problem-solving skills, and prepare a child for future success in math, both educators and parents need to be involved in teaching children. So, what Christian education resources and activities can parents use to improve their elementary childs math skills and overall performance? Consider the following ideas:

At Home
Grab the apron and teach fractional concepts by asking your child to compare, estimate, and think about measurements when cooking. Ask thought provoking questions such as, How many whole cups will this container hold? How many cups or S cups? How many cups equal a cup? How many cups would equal cup or a whole cup? How much would we need to use if we doubled this recipe?

Discover relationships between money values as you pay your child for chores or give him an allowance. Instead of using math worksheets, have your child gather coins in his hand without showing you what they are. Start with small amounts, and ask your child to tell you the number of coins and their total value. Then, you have to guess how many and which coins your child has in his hand. Another variation would include having your child count the different ways he could use coins to make 10, 20, or 50.

Set up your own weather station or use the newspaper to graph and chart daily temperatures and rainfall amounts. After a few weeks, teach your child basic arithmetic by finding the average temperature (mean), the temperature that occurred most often (mode), and the temperature that was in the middle of all the amounts (median).

Clean out the kitchen junk drawer and use the treasures to teach your child how to sort and classify. Plus, you can practice using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to solve story problems. For example, If we share 13 screws among three friends, how many will each get? Will they all get equal amounts? If Dad has three broken doors that need to be fixed using four screws each, will we have enough screws?

At the Grocery Store
Make shopping for groceries another math learning experience. Use the sale advertisements sent in the mail as one of your Christian education resources, and have your child practice budgeting by preparing a shopping list that doesnt exceed your daily or weekly food budget.

Have your child learn estimation by comparison shopping. Ask him to mentally divide and multiply as he calculates the best buy by determining pricing per unit verses pricing per pound. You can also estimate the total value of the items in the cart before checking out and then compare the estimate to the actual price.

Encourage your child to count and weigh fruits and vegetables. You might even want to illustrate the difference between English and metric units. How does a kilogram of potatoes compare to a pound? How many grams does a banana weigh?

Teach your child how to sort and group similar objects. When bagging groceries, have your child sort items according to boxes, cans, or plastic bottles, and put them into different sacks.

In the Car
Teach your child how to read math. Instead of playing the regular state license plate game while traveling, have your child read only the numbers of the license plates. For example, if the license plate was 398M129, the number would be read three hundred ninety-eight thousand one hundred twenty-nine. You can also encourage mental math by having your child add the value of the digits in the license plate number. Talk about how numbers can be added more quickly by combining them into groups that equal ten, such as 1 + 9, 3 + 7, or 4 + 6.

Talk math by practicing the words and language of mathematics. Have your child make a chart on long trips for one of your Christian education resources and track the number words one through fifty that he sees on cars, signs, or buildings.

Illustrate time, rate, and distance story problems when traveling to Grandmas house. If you leave home at 7:00 a.m. and it takes eight hours to get there, what time will it be when you can give Grandma a big hug? If the speed limit is 55 mph instead of 75 mph, how far can you go in one hour or two hours?

Teach estimation and rounding by using the cost of gas. For instance, if we only have $100 to spend on gasoline and gas costs $1.78 per gallon, how many gallons can we purchase? A quick way to find the answer would be to round up to $2.00 per gallon and divide into $100.

Math is everywhere, and while there are countless opportunities to help children experience it, only the parents who are actively involved in their childs learning will change the alarming decline in Americas math abilities. Dont undermine your childs interest in math with statements like math is hard or I wasnt good at math either. Instead, reinforce your childs academic success with a positive attitude, high expectations, and a belief that your child can learn any challenging math lesson.