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Nancy Salvato Columnist EducationNews.org

Nancy Salvato is the President of The Basics Project, (www.Basicsproject.org) a non-profit, non-partisan 501 (C) (3) research and educational project whose mission is to promote the education of the American public on the basic elements of relevant political, legal and social issues important to our country. She is also a Staff Writer, for the New Media Alliance, Inc., a non-profit (501c3) coalition of writers and grass-roots media outlets, where she contributes on matters of education policy.

Content Posted by Nancy Salvato Columnist EducationNews.org

M-O-N-E-Y & Influence

Money may not really buy love or make the world go round, but it certainly does help society to function efficiently. Money, which is assigned a value, is the item of exchange we use if we want to purchase something.

Two Americas or One Nation with Liberty & Justice for All

Nancy Salvato - 8-05-09
Columnist Education News.org
Fundamental law is the key to maintaining the rights and freedoms of every citizen in the United States of America.

Setting New Standards with Online Education

Setting New Standards with Online Education

Nancy Salvato July 6, 2009
Columnist EducationNews.org

“The full-time residential model of higher education is getting too expensive for a larger share of the American population.” (The College of 2020: Students) Is it any wonder “more and more students are looking for lower-cost alternatives to attending college?”

Necessity is the Mother of Invention

Nancy Salvato - June 11, 2009
Columnist EducationNews.org
General Motors recently filed for bankruptcy. Mark Steyn writes in National Review, “GM has about 95,000 workers but provides health benefits to a million people:

Circumnavigating the Rule of Law

Nancy Salvato - May 31, 2009 - “Based on the principles of international law, respect for the sovereign equality of States and in full respect of the principle of the right of freedom of navigation consistent with the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention,”

Effective Tools in Education

Nancy Salvato
Columnist EducationNews.org
I found his comment more than slightly disturbing because one would hope that a person would enter the teaching profession based on a desire to teach, not for the pension. As a matter of face, novice teachers who participated in a study about why educators leave the profession expressed reasons for entering the field of teaching

Houston, We Have a Problem

Nancy Salvato
Columnist EducationNews.org
“64 percent of all students engage in one of three of the most serious cheating behaviors — copying from another student's work, using cheat notes or helping someone else cheat.” I wonder how many people find the above statistic the least bit surprising. More importantly, I'm curious as to how it has come to this? Why do students cheat in such large numbers?

Letting the Evidence Speak for Itself

By Nancy Salvato
Columnist EducationNews.org
In a letter recently submitted to Education Week CITATION Ste09 \l 1033 (Stephen Krashen, 2009) Stephen Krashen, Professor Emeritus, Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California, draws attention to the Reading First final impact study which showed that children following an intensive decoding-based curriculum do well on tests of decoding but not on measures of reading comprehension when compared with regular students.

The Constitution, Two Candidates & An Election

By Nancy Salvato
Columnist EducationNews.org
We are presently witnessing an historic event during this 2008 presidential election. On the one hand, we could see the first female vice president resulting from the vote. On the other hand, we may find that we have elected our first black president. Either way, a glass ceiling will have been broken, heralding in a new era in our history.

Don

By Nancy Salvato
Columnist EducationNews.org
My mother used to say that it’s better to go from being poor to being rich than from having been rich and become poor because you don’t yearn for what you’ve lost. However, my experience has been that if you’ve always been free from want, you might not ever gain an appreciation for what was taken for granted.

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