Did you know… Top three supply purchases for Back to School? In Capital One’s 11th annual back-to-school shopping survey, both teens and parents surveyed ranked traditional supplies such as notebooks and pencils, clothes and backpacks/totes as their top three purchases. in fact it is said that in August 2010, families spent $7.4 billion at family […]
Did you know: 14.2 million Number of computers available for classroom use in the nation’s 114,700 elementary and secondary schools; that comes down to 1 computer for every 4 students. Currently 100 Percent of public schools have Internet access. In 1995, the proportion was 50 percent. Most schools are now implementing the use of digital […]
The tradition of giving apples to teachers dates back to the 16th century in Denmark, where parents would pay their educators with food (namely, apples since they were expensive and hard to harvest), since teachers couldn’t live off their small salaries.