We’ve heard before about schools across the country picking up on the trend to pay students to do well on tests and maintain good grades. But Education Brain Trust, a program created by an Iowa woman, takes the trend a little bit further to let parents in on the action. Education Brain Trust hosts seminars [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Pay for Grades
Posted in Teaching Methods, tagged parents, pay students on September 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Driving Store Traffic this Holiday Season
Posted in Holiday Sales, tagged Holiday Sales on September 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Mark Mallardi and Kent Brings
Educational Insights – NSSEA Member Supplier
With the Holiday Season almost upon us, a key issue confronting Educational Supply dealers is finding effective methods of driving store traffic during this critical selling period. Following are a series of tactics, some time-tested and proven, others more novel and experimental, that you might [...]
Homeless Students
Posted in economy, tagged homeless, Schools, students on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Schools in Charlotte, NC have been experiencing elevated numbers of homeless students—a 35 percent increase from just a couple of years ago, which officials attributed to the struggling economy and housing crisis. As homeowners continue to lose their houses at a startling rate, more schools will deal with the problem of homeless children.
From Education [...]
Don’t Give Homeschoolers the Short End of the Stick
Posted in Teaching Methods, tagged Education, homeschooling on September 22, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I respect the many parents who make the decision to forfeit their time and energy to homeschool their children each year—a decision greatly rewarded, since homeschooled children generally outperform their peers who attend public schools, according to a 1997 study “Strengths of Their Own: Home Schoolers Across America.” The performance gap is unsurprising, given that [...]
Fall – Our Time to Sell
Posted in School Equipment, Tradeshows on September 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By Jeff Pett
Fleetwood Group, Inc., Holland, MI
We’ve been talking about the extreme seasonality of this “education business.” It should really come as no surprise since schools in the U.S. have always pretty much followed the calendar: summers off; fall kick off; Christmas/winter break; second semester kick off; spring break; graduation; summer off. It makes sense [...]
The Importance of Language Immersion
Posted in Teaching Standards, tagged language, school on September 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As our country continues to diversify, along with an expanding international presence, it is crucial to arm our younger generations with the skills to successfully compete with other countries. Our federal government needs to pick up the slack and invest more heavily in education, specifically mandating bilingual education programs. In a global economy, fluency in [...]
How’d Back to School Go?
Posted in Back to School, tagged school, school supplies, stores on September 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Rebecca Haden
A Plus Educational, Harrison, Arkansas
The children and the teachers are back in the classrooms, and the school supply retailers are restocking the shelves and crunching up the Back to School numbers.
Nielsen predicted relatively strong back-to-school spending for 2008, and we found that the predications were accurate for our store in Harrison, Arkansas. Our percentage [...]
No Girls Allowed
Posted in Teaching Methods, tagged city, Education, school on September 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Boys’ Latin of Philadelphia, a charter school in Philadelphia, has begun its second year (after strong opposition early on), and stands out as one of four single-sex schools in Philly. The school was designed to promote learning among young black males in a city where boys graduate high school at a rate far behind girls. [...]
The Benefits of Attending Conferences and Tradeshows
Posted in Tradeshows on September 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
By Emily Gorovsky
Maupin House, NSSEA Member Supplier
As we prepare to head to the Florida Reading Association’s Annual Conference in Orlando (September 4-7), I started to think about all of the valuable benefits that conferences and tradeshows present outside of actual sales.
· Meeting customers face to face. Nothing beats personal contact and conversations. Talking to [...]
Parents’ Pockets Aren’t That Deep
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged economy, School spending, school supplies on September 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just sending a child to school these days is becoming a test in economic endurance, according to a New York Times article on the increasing financial presence of parents in schools. Parents are shelling out more money for school supplies that schools no longer provide for students. Schools with strapped budgets in this ailing economic [...]
