California Pension reform's impact on teachers

Pension reform's impact on teachers | Thoughts on Public Education By John Fensterwald - Educated Guess Jerry Brown's plan to rein in pension costs, future teachers would work years longer before they could retire with smaller pensions. Current teachers and administrators would soon pay about 1 percent more out of their paychecks toward their ... Thoughts on Public Education Ohio Gym Teacher Jailed for Sex With Students ABC News "This is a noble profession that you have, and I've heard a lot of good things about you, but I know that you had the opportunity, as all teachers do, to affect the lives of our children," Warren County Common Pleas Judge Robert Peeler said. ... Bennington Teachers' Strike Enters Eighth Day Vermont Public Radio McClure says no new negotiations are currently scheduled but that she is talking with the president of the teachers association regarding her concern for students and families who are suffering from the strike. Meanwhile, Vermont Education Commissioner ... Education Reform: As Obama Pushes for Teacher Evaluations, Little Agreement on How International Business Times Another Concern: Can Evaluations Measure All Knowledge/Skills Teachers Impart? There are also aspects of teaching that researchers say cannot be captured by tests. Assessments mandated under No Child Left Behind are only in math and reading, ... Obama Using Education Issue as Political Sword Education Week News The failure of the $35 billion proposal to help secure the jobs of teachers, police, and firefighters sparked widespread criticism from national and local teachers' unions, which used the 50-50 vote, which was 10 votes shy of the 60 needed to break a ... State superintendents unveil education reform efforts Richmond Times Dispatch Superintendents designed the plan to challenge education traditions and propose to reconfigure the traditional school calendar and school day. Gloucester County Superintendent Howard B. "Ben" Kiser said the evolution of technology and virtual learning ... Some Ottawa teachers nixing students' Halloween costumes Vancouver Sun Some Ottawa schools aren't allowing students to wear Halloween costumes to class on Monday, but Ottawa's public and Catholic school boards say they have no policies on the matter and the decision is up to individual schools or teachers. ... Students lose in struggle for education funds Michigan Citizen David Hecker, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) in Michigan, says that after 16 years, support for charter school expansion continues despite poor achievement results. “Clearly, competition is not the way to improve schools,” ... Senators: Education shake-up needed, not just vouchers Standard Speaker By KENT JACKSON (Staff Writer) Local state senators believe that education in Pennsylvania needs a shake-up regardless of whether they supported a bill to provide vouchers for students to attend private schools. The bill passed the Republican-led ... Education.com Announces Appointment of Rich Yang as Vice President of Marketing San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Education.com, the fastest growing website for parents of school age children and host to more than five million unique visitors a month, announced today that Rich Yang has joined the company as Vice President of Marketing. "Education.com is delighted ... Focus on report cards drags parents into school dispute Vancouver Sun Few parents I know would agree that report cards are a trivial part of their child's education, or thatteachers are really doing them a favour by putting the time and energy they would have spent on filling them out into other aspects of teaching, ... Inquirer Editorial: Proposed fixes will cripple education law | Philadelphia ... Philadelphia Inquirer It has not led to teachers teaching to the test. It has led to administrators adjusting the curriculum so that teachers have no choice but to teach to the test. Observations in Philadelphia are based, in large part, on how well teachers are doing just ... It's a bad marriage and all the players are to blame Globe and Mail Mr. Kuehn started teaching in BC classrooms in 1968. “We had the best salaries in the country but the worst working conditions.” After all the strikes and all the solutions imposed through legislation, teachers have surprisingly little to show for it. ... Teachers abandon pupils during class hours Ghana News Agency Alhaji Umar emphasized that TVET education would be a mirage in the country if some basic facilities such as training materials and modern equipment were not provided to the TVET institutions, adding that, retraining of the teaching staff to meet... NY education commissioner to address school boards Wall Street Journal On Friday, state Education Commissioner John King is scheduled to discuss education reform initiatives with school board members. Later, King, association President Florence Johnson of Buffalo and some of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top education advisors will ... Gov. Dayton's higher education mystery Minnesota Public Radio Larry Pogemiller as the new director Minnesota Office of Higher Education came in a news release instead of a news conference. Otherwise, someone might've asked what the deal is with the old director? Sen. Larry Pogemiller got the job, ... Lewis, Pearce tackle education reform, ASU Poly split AZ Central.com Attracting and retaining great teachers is key to an excellent education system. Rewarding performance, alternative certification, the ability to dismiss non-performing teachers and prioritizing education funding are prerequisites for improving Arizona ... California science education gets failing grade The Salinas Californian And 81 percent said that the emphasis on English and math makes it difficult to get science into their lesson plans, according to the study, which was sponsored by the Center for the Future ofTeaching & Learning, an organization focused on teacher ... Mzinga's Mike Merriman to Present on Employee Experiences and Social Learning ... MarketWatch (press release) Merriman's session, "Still Wondering about Social Learning?", will share business benefits of adopting an employee experience strategy, as well as discuss elements of a comprehensive social learning solution to ensure success through the proper use of ... Collaboration helps teachers share ideas Morgan Hill Times However, when people simply bash teachers and schools, they devalue education in the eyes of children. Which is a travesty. Finally, a big thank you to the anonymous online reader for your clear interest in this issue, and your generous contribution ... AT&T, Southwest VA Area Health Education Center Collaborate to Improve Health ... PR Newswire (press release) MARION, Va., Oct. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- In an effort to help improve access to healthcare professionals in rural Southwest Virginia, representatives from AT&T* today joined the Southwest Virginia Area Health Education Center (SWAHEC) to announce a ... Chicago Board of Education ignores inspector general's call for revoking exec ... Chicago Tribune About 23 CPS staff members, 10 of them teachers, eventually lost their jobs. "We will have to evaluate whether we can continue to investigate residency allegations if doing so would cause there to be additional appeals, grievances, ... Anti-bullying measures left out of education bill Keen News Service In a blow to activists seeking to stop anti-gay bullying, two proposals to address bullying in schools were left out of an education reform bill approved by a US Senate committee October 20. And a proposal to explicitly prohibit anti-LGBT bullying was ... Zimbabwe government, Apple in joint education venture | TUAW ... By Steven Sande The announcement was made by Zimbabwean minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture David Coltart, who met with Apple employees in Paris yesterday. In his Facebook post, he noted that he had a "Great meeting with Apple today in ... TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog Reflections on Education - Albert Jay Nock - Mises Daily Education can regulate what intelligence one has, but it can not give one any more. ... By being inured to taking as true whatever he read in his schoolbooks and whatever his teachers told him, he is bred to a habit of unthinking acquiescence, rather than to an exercise of such intelligence as he may have. In later life he puts this habit at the unreasoning service of his prejudices. Having not the slightest sense of what constitutes a competent authority, he tends to take as authoritative ... Daily articles from The Mises... Open Education Sites Offer Free Content for All | MindShift By Tina Barseghian One of the most well-known, Curriki, encourages teachers to both publish and download materials — anything from a vocabulary quiz to a full biology textbook — and vets its content through member ratings and incentives such as the annual Summer of Content Awards, which offers grants for specific contributions. Open Educational Resources ... NITXY: NIXTY is building a learning management platform that supports open education resources. Rather than an LMS that closes off both ... MindShift TaxProf Blog: NLJ: Obama's Education Loan Reforms of Limited ... By Paul Caron Australasian Tax Teachers Ass'n • Upcoming .... "[W]hat I'm being told by the Department of Education is that there will be some added relief for people on income-based repayment," said Heather Jarvis, a student loan consultant. "It will be for ... TaxProf Blog New Mobile Game Turns Teachers Into Superheroes - Education ... By Liz Dwyer New Mobile Game Turns Teachers Into Superheroes. Liz Dwyer Education Editor. See Gallery. October 28, 2011 • 5:30 am PDT; + responses. teachers.of.nyc. Move over, Batman. Gotham City has a new set of superheroes in town: teachers ... GOOD New public education project for FlexFuel Vehicles debuts : Biofuels ... By Jim Lane In Washington, a new public education project to reach drivers of FlexFuel Vehicles (FFV) by working with state Motor Vehicle Administrations (MVA) was announced today that supporters say could dramatically increase sales of high-level ... Biofuels Digest Google Plus Comes to Google Apps for (Higher) Education | Hack ... By Audrey Watters When Google launched its new social network Google Plus this summer, the service was only available to a small number of users, but it seemed clear from the outset that the service had a lot of potential for education — more granular privacy ... Hack Education Best Education Sites Shows Colleges That Rule the Web ... The Internet has become a digital battlefield among colleges competing for students, and Best Ed Sites has compiled some interesting data on web design/utility. Education News

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