On Assignment -:
By Theresa Harrington
Monday, November 19th, 2012 at 6:55 pm in
Education
DonorsChoose.org is a cool website that allows members of the community to support projects in local schools that are posted by teachers who can’t afford to buy all the supplies necessary to implement them.
But time is running out for teachers to post their projects. The deadline is Nov. 30.
Here is more information about how the website began, from founder Charles Best:
“Fueling Your School Fuels the Economy
During my career as a teacher, I saw first-hand that all schools are not created equal.
My colleagues and I spent a lot of our own money on copy paper and pencils, but we often couldn’t afford the resources that would get our students excited about learning. We’d talk about books our students should read, a field trip we wanted to take, or a microscope that would bring science to life.
I figured there were people out there who want to help our students, if they could see where their money was going. So, using a pencil and paper, I drew a website
