Hi All,School and schooling is important - for kids - obviously. Heck, without schools kids wouldn't be growing up with the skills they need to become productive, vital adults and human beings. Imagine a world where there were no schools or colleges? Yup - it would pretty much be chaos and not a good world to live in!
Anyway, I just found a website where users can find and share information about schools - the site is called Great!Schools.org and is easy to navigate and search.
Upon visiting the site, users can 'Find a School', 'Review Your School', and 'Discover'. A bit further down on the page is a link to Great!Kids Milestones - which has lots of videos about the various milestones that kids should be reaching at various ages'. Note that users can select milestones by grade - which go up to 5th grade.
Users can enter a city name, zip code, address or school name when visiting the sites homepage. Upon entering the information users come to a new page which explains what grades the school covers, whether or not the school is public or private, the location of the school, contact information and the number of students that are enrolled in the school.
Further down on the page are links for an Overview of the school, Reviews of the school, Quality of the school and Details of the school.
Users of Great!Schools.org can also sign in using Facebook or create an account with Great!Schools if they so choose. Finally, users can get Great!Schools best articles, worksheet, and more delivered weekly to your inbox by clicking on this link!
In a future blog post, I am going to introduce another school-education related website: the New York State Report Cards section of the New York State Department of Education website! Its a very timely, information and well organized website run by the NYS Department of Education!
Enjoy Great!Schools.org and stay tuned for the next blog post about the NYS Report Cards!
Regards,
Stu
