No one knows learning better than a teacher. But what if youve got your teaching degree and even a job teaching? Is that enough? Like their counterparts in almost any field, teachers know that the higher the levels of education, the better are the opportunities for advancement, job security and a higher salary. But when are you supposed to do all that? Specialized online masters degree programs in education can really give your career a boost, without forcing you to drive back to the old college campus for two more years.

The biggest question may be just which area of education do you wish to specialize in. There are a wealth of booming careers in education for which demand will continue to grow over the next 10 to 20 years and the best of them definitely require a masters degree.
Special Education Teachers: Its true; there are positions out there that will let you work without a masters, but the better positions command salaries of up to $75,000 annually, that with a masters. Check the listings from Walden, Capella and Grand Canyon Universities that will let you get your masters degree online while still working at your current job.

Education Administration: A masters in educational administration, management or even a Ph.D. in Administrator Leadership for Teaching and Learning is a terrific way to advance what you already love doing. Administrative positions can command up to $95,000 per year and you can study online. The programs weve looked at most closely are those from Capella, Walden, Keiser, and Strayer Universities. Each of them allows you to work toward your goals online while still maintaining your current career.

Primary or secondary school principals: Nearly all of the degrees above can qualify you to work as a school principal where youll be earning somewhere between $70,000 and $100,000 annually. A Masters in Educational Leadership could be exactly the right move if thats where your studies lead you.

Instructional and Curriculum Coordinators: Advancing education and lesson achievement has never been more important to todays schools and its all in the hands of the coordinators who lay out the vision. Coordinators can earn anywhere from $60,000 to $90,000 annually and there are a number of very good online only programs offered by Capella, Walden, Keiser, and Grand Canyon Universities
A Masters in Education can mean a $9,000 to $15,000 difference in your starting salary and many states require continuing education to qualify for salary increases. Of course, this can vary a lot from state to state. But educators with a masters degree also enjoy a considerably higher level of job security to go along with the higher salary. Studying online for your masters in education can make all the difference to your career and you can do it while youre still working and without giving up your current schedule.

The logic of it makes perfect sense: teens don’t function at high levels early in the morning. So the results of a study from the Eastern Virginia Medical school aren’t too shocking: when high schools start too early, teens are more likely to crash their cars on the way there.

The study compared teen accident rates between Virginia Beach and Chesapeake counties, two adjacent Virginia counties with differing school start times.

Robert Vorona, a sleep doctor at the school, compiled data on drivers between 16 and 18 in the two counties. In Virginia Beach, the high schools start at 7:20 a.m., and in Chesapeake, 8:40 a.m.

While the time difference was seemingly minimal, the crash data was drastically different.

Among students who started school very early in Virginia Beach, there were 65.4 car crashes for every 1,000 teen drivers. In Chesapeake County, there were just 46.2 crashes per 1,000 teen drivers.

That is a 40% crash rate increase for schools starting a little over an hour earlier.

While this particular study didn’t account for the time of day of the crashes, this is not the first time school start times have been linked to the crash rate.

A 2008 study in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine showed a 16% decrease in accidents when a Kentucky school pushed start times back.

Falling asleep at the wheel is obviously dangerous, but for a new driver, merely being tired can have just as poor an effect on their driving.

To anyone who has ever lived with a teenager, this need for sleep isnt news. The average teen needs 9.25 hours of sleep and typically cant fall asleep until 11, so its no wonder that later start times help.

Several lobbyist groups are already pressuring schools to adopt earlier start times. If you don’t have time to get involved, there are a few things you can do to ensure that your teens are getting enough sleep.

Try turning off cell phones, computers, etc an hour or two before your teen needs to go to sleep so they can start winding down.

Avoid too many caffeinated beveragesand avoid caffeine entirely after 4 p.m.

Consider going over your teens daily schedule with them. When alarms start to go off at 6 a.m., and extracurricular activities last until 6 or 7 p.m., it can be hard to find time to juggle homework and a social life. Learning time management strategies from a young age ensures they can make time for sleep well into their adult life as well.

If your teen still didnt get the necessary amount of sleep, dont let them bike or drive to school. They may hate you for it, but at least they wont be a hazard to themselves or others on the road.

Copyright (c) 2010 James Parrish

Right to education is one of the basic rights that are given to all the citizens of the country. After independence, many efforts have been made by the Government of the country to educate the people. At the time of independence, the literacy rate of the country was very low of around five to ten percent. The government has taken many steps and recommended many reforms. For spreading education and making it easily accessible to the masses, the Government opened many schools across the country for spreading education. Free education was provided at these schools.

The main aim was to ensure that the people should come to this school and get educated. At that time, the Indian government had asked many big industrial firms and rich people to open schools in order to help them educate people. Many schools were opened by these people to educate the common mass. After the combined efforts by the Government and the nonprofit organizations, the literacy rate in India has increased.

At the end of British rule in 1947, the literacy rate in India was 12% and the present literacy rate in India is 74.04%. India has achieved a lot of success as far as increasing the literacy rate is concerned. But the country has to go a long way as far as achieving the literacy rate is concerned. In various states in India, there is a lot of disparity in the literacy rate. The Government has to take many steps to remove the disparity in terms of education in between various states of the country. Making education is one of few steps that will help in increasing the literacy rate in the country.

One step the Government is taking is that it is opening nursery schools across the country to provide elementary education to the small children. The public schools earlier provided free of cost education to the students. But later a nominal amount was charged. The disparity in literacy rates in various states has to be looked into. The government should also provide the people with public directory India where they look for schools where their children can study. All the facilities and contact information for the schools must be mentioned in the directory. This directory must be available for both offline and online so that the students can access the same from anywhere and anytime.

The writer of this article is a school adviser in OnlineSchoolAdmissions.com and providing free of cost consultancy to parents and schools for fast and easy online school admissions in the pre-schools of India as per their choice. Parents can look for Schools Directory list on the site from where they can get information about Best Schools in Kolkata, CBSE Schools in Faridabad and ICSE schools in Ghaziabad.