Tag: education
Remember to educate yourself, and your friends, about farming
As producers, we have many opportunities to share and educate.
Education divide must be bridged
Editor Susan Crowell urges readers to see education as a public good. "Our future depends on how well we educate all of our children. As one education researcher put it, you 'can run from public education, but you can’t hide from its consequences.'"
Sweet corn fields provides growth opportunity for Akron students
22 students from the New Frontier Academy are getting lessons in marketing and hard work this summer.
What we need are teachers, not statistics
Editor:
(Response to Five Innovations that Will Change Our Lives, Jan. 9 edition.)
I respond specifically to the section: “The classroom will learn you.”
“In the next...
Elementary ag education program receives $12,000 Farm Credit grant
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- There was a time when just about everyone knew where their food came from and how it was produced, because it...
Ohio’s colleges and universities establish remediation-free standards
COLUMBUS -- Ohio's public colleges and universities recently issued uniform statewide standards for students to be considered remediation-free for college-level English, writing, math and...
Penn State collaborates to improve ag education in developing world
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences is part of a $6.2 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development...
Autistic youth gravitate toward certain college majors
ST. LOUIS -- It's a popularly held belief that individuals with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) gravitate toward STEM majors in college (science, technology,...
Teachers, you can tap into ag curriculum
WASHINGTON -- The American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture has released Feeding Minds -- Cultivating Growth, the latest educator resource to be developed by...
Florida school credits aquaculture curriculum with raising grades
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Add middle and high school students to the growing list of Floridians learning about aquaculture, a relatively new industry but one...
