Abacus Mental Math in Asia and the West by Shilpa Rao
... Millions and millions of children in the eastern world are now enjoying the benefits of abacus mental math education. 56748 + 632 and you scramble around looking for a calculator, but the very same problem can be solved without any aide of modern day electronic devices such as calculator. Such problems are solved in 5 seconds or even less, by a 6 year old studying abacus mental math for a bit over a year. Such is the power of abacus mental math education.

Parents Demand Dumbed-down Tests:An Unintended Bad Consequence of the No Child Left Behind Act by Joel Turtel
... The No Child Left Behind Act is now forcing many parents to condone schools that dumb-down their tests and standards, instead of blaming these schools for their children’s failure to learn. This is a typical unintended consequence of more government laws that try to fix problems that a government-controlled school system created in the first place. State lawmakers in New York, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, and other states have yielded to parent pressure.

Parents' Complaints --- Arrogant Public Schools Turn a Deaf Ear by Joel Turtel
... If you couldn't be fired, would you care about parent's complaints? That's why they don't, and that's why public-school teachers or principals can be arrogant or indifferent to parent's legitimate complaints. Parents, the solution is to stop hitting your head against the brick wall of arrogant public-school employees. Just walk around the wall and don't look back. That is, consider taking your children out of public school and find real education choice and control in the education free-market.

Ensure Your Child's Success in Math - 10 Great Ways! by Susan Jarema
... Time spent exploring math with your child will help your child excel in other areas such as science, geography, music, art and problem solving. Our children can grow up to enjoy mathematics and we parents can learn along the way. Find an hour each week to share the wonders of mathematics with your child. Take some MATHemACTION in your own home. Remember, if not for math, we might still think that the earth was flat like a pancake!

Do Your Kids a Favor - Take Away the Calculator by Joe Pagano
... The calculator is a great tool, and knowing how to use one is important in the mathematical education of any child. However, the ubiquity of this compact tool has made our children incapable of doing simple arithmetic. After all, human nature dictates that it is easier to use this tool than to bother thinking of how to do arithmetic calculations. Newton’s Law of Inertia cries out, “A mind at rest, tends to stay at rest.” Even good students today are poor at doing mental arithmetic.

Children With Learning Disabilities by Aaron Schwartz
... In order to prepare such children for later vocational education, for work and life in general, they should have handwork lessons, practical activities in experimental situations, take part in excursions. Such children should be taught elementary systematic knowledge and skills: their native language, natural sciences, mathematics, geography and one or the other vocational subject. The instruction of children with defects should be directed not only at providing the necessary skills but ...

GED Programs and the GED: A Value Beyond Basic Skills Proficiency by Michael Ormsby
... An estimated 60 percent of GED recipients continue their education through workplace training, technical programs, adult continuing education or higher education programs at community colleges and universities. Those with a GED have more full-time work and experience employment consistency for longer time periods than their non-credentialed peers. Those with a GED report more job satisfaction, better self-esteem and confidence in their job and abilities.

History of the Computer - Computers and Technology by Michael Cooper
... Children are being taught basic computer skills in the classroom in order to prepare them for the future evolution of the computer age. The history of computers started out about 2000 years ago, at the birth of the abacus, a wooden rack holding two horizontal wires with beads strung on them. When these beads are moved around, according to programming rules memorized by the user, all regular arithmetic problems can be done. Another important invention around the same time was the Astrolabe, ...