Is this thing on?

February 3, 2012

Did you miss us? After a long hiatus, we’re back to blogging. The goal of the blog posts is to give you a look inside Project Learn’s classrooms so you can see what it’s like to be a part of our family.  This isn’t your typical “company blog.” We’ll have shared stories from students and teachers […]

Somewhere far in a distant land…

February 11, 2010

In my GED – Generation Y class, I urge the students to use their imagination to create great essays, poems and stories. Here’s an assignment I found on the Newspapers in Education site. I liked it because it related the assignment to a movie seen by the majority of the class, while allowing them to be […]

Conquering Change

January 29, 2010

Change can either challenge or threaten us. If you’re dedicated to reaching your goals, you’ll allow change to be a challenge that you can overcome. In July, Project Learn became the only comprehensive adult GED and ESOL provider in the county. This was hard for us because we had to serve a huge number of […]

The Effect Dropouts Have On the Cleveland Economy

November 24, 2009

Last week, I read an interesting report released by the Alliance for Excellent Education (The Alliance) that showed the Cleveland economy would grow significantly if the number of high school dropouts was cut in half. More than 8,000 students dropped out of the high school class of 2008 in Cleveland and the surrounding areas, according […]

Treat 'Em or Jail 'Em? A Student’s Opinion

November 11, 2009

On Monday, the Akron Beacon Journal published a thought-provoking article about treating drug addicts rather than sending them to jail. Here’s a few interesting statistics presented in the article to support the case: According to federal data, 7.6 million Americans needed treatment for illicit drug use in 2008, and only 1.2 million — or 16 […]

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