| The Education Gap: Lessons from Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and Steve Jobs Huffington Post (blog) One of the issues that has been blatantly absent from the debate around education reform and the needs of our children is the conversation related to teaching young people the necessity of character and integrity in order to avoid the greed and ... | ||
| TCEA and Learning.com Launch the Texas Instructional Materials Exchange for ... MarketWatch (press release) "Over the last seven years, Texas teachers have taught us a lot about how they would like to find, choose, obtain, create and use all types of digital resources," says Bill Kelly, Learning.com CEO. "We've listened. And we've translated this learning ... | ||
| The Global Search for Education: Knowledge Huffington Post The national exam system is costly and has lost public support in terms of academic quality (eg teachers teaching to the test). At 14, students can drop critical subjects such as the single sciences and foreign languages, and the study of these ... | ||
| Lakeshore Learning Store Grand Opening in the Cleveland Area MarketWatch (press release) We've worked for many, many years to make teachers' lives easier, and now we're doing the same thing for parents." Plus, the materials are all designed to make learning fun -- so children love them just as much as their parents do. ... | ||
| Research on Teaching Resources Points to Best Practices for Educators MarketWatch (press release) By utilizing teaching strategies from Mentoring Minds that are backed by research and years of experience in education, teachers have greater chances for success with managing their classroom and teaching to their students. ... | ||
| Scholarship incentives added to IU School of Education's Direct Admit Program Indiana University The IU School of Education is one of the world's premier programs for preparing tomorrow'steachers, counselors, school psychologists, educational leaders, curriculum designers and educational scholars. Its mission is to improve teaching, learning and ... | ||
| NCLB bill: The problem with 'continuous improvement' Washington Post (blog) “It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.” -- Einstein Learn what's really happening in the world of education with veteran education writer Valerie Strauss and her guests. By Valerie Strauss This was written by Richard Rothstein, ... | ||
| Corbett's education proposals elicit mixed reactions Yorkdispatch.com Corbett did not include in his plan allowing districts to furlough teachers for economic reasons, an idea he had previously pushed. He said the plan he ended up with represents "common ground" that he thinks will help get it pushed through the ... | ||
| National education standards touted for NB Times and Transcript by shawn berry A former co-chair of a provincial education commission says New Brunswick would benefit if Canada adopted a national standards for learning. Aldéa Landry, a former provincial cabinet minister who is a member of the board of the Canadian ... | ||
| Leader in Personalized Learning Solutions Joins CompassLearning's Executive Team MarketWatch (press release) "I've observed first hand that CompassLearning's approach to personalized learning empowersteachers and engages students in ways that dramatically transform teaching and learning in the classroom," said VanderVeen. "Schools and teachers are under ... | ||
| Luna talks education's future to Gem Lions Club Messenger Index Technology can be used to make course instruction available to both students and teachers. Technology can also be used to purchase electronic textbooks. Most textbooks are written in areas with a much larger population and not all chapters of the books ... | ||
| Education Roundup: Students jump jacks to break world record Tahoe Daily Tribune Led by physical education teacher Seth Martin, 431 Tahoe Valley Elementary students joined in Michelle Obama's nationwide campaign to break the world record for most people doing jumping jacks in a 24-hour period. Around noon Tuesday, students gathered ... | ||
| Wharton Executive Education Forms New Advisory Board MarketWatch (press release) PHILADELPHIA, Oct 12, 2011 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- The Aresty Institute of Executive Education at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has announced the formation of the Wharton Executive Education Advisory Board. ... | ||
| Prominent Los Angeles Community & Education Leaders to Serve as Sun Life ... MarketWatch (press release) The review board is comprised of some of Los Angeles' foremost education and community leaders, philanthropists, financial advisors, city officials and local activists. The Sun Life Rising Star Awards program aims to address low high school graduation ... | ||
| UCA Receives $2.3 Million Grant to Prepare Math, Science Teachers UCA Today The College of Education is fortunate to receive this grant that builds on the strength of its existing Master of Arts in Teaching program, said Dr. Williams. “These funds will support our efforts to recruit talented mathematics and science teachers to ... | ||
| Teachers, Lawmakers Grapple with Social Media Law Restricting Student Contact Patch.com The Missouri State Teachers Association had brought the original lawsuit. Gov. Jay Nixon added a review of the law to the special legislative session that began on Sept. 6. He said social media are important to teaching and learning. But as of Monday, ... | ||
| Fattah Applauds Move Towards Fiscal Fairness in Education Law Rewrite PR Newswire (press release) The draft bill, which will be considered by the Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee next week, includes language similar to that in HR 1294, Congressman Fattah's proposal to fix the "comparability" provision in Title I and ensure ... | ||
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| New National Standards for Online Learning Released MarketWatch (press release) "By offering up a set of guidelines to promote quality online courses, it is our hope that all students engaged in online and blended learning programs will be given the opportunity to access a world-class education," said Susan Patrick, contributor to ... | ||
| Toyota Provides Environmental Learning Experience in Costa Rica for 26 U.S. ... MarketWatch (press release) The Toyota International Teacher Program provides unique opportunities for educators to strengthen the education they provide to their students. The program allows students to travel and interact with other cultures through their teachers' experiences, ... | ||
| Global Access to Higher Education on the Rise Harvard Crimson By Zidong Liu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER The director of the Center for International HigherEducation at Boston College charted trends in university systems across the globe during a talk Tuesday at Harvard. In particular, Director Philip G. Altbach said ... | ||
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| Pew Convenes Education Leaders to Chart Course for Pre-K-12 Future PR Newswire (press release) Pre-K Now was designed as a 10-year catalytic effort, grounded in research, to spark the earlylearning movement by bringing together different voices and supporting strategic advocacy efforts to advance high-quality voluntary pre-k for three- and ... | ||
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| SuccessFactors Appoints Dr. Karie Willyerd as Chief Learning Officer MarketWatch (press release) A seasoned industry leader, Willyerd will oversee the company's Learning Services group, which provides formal and informal learning solutions for customers, partners and employees. "SuccessFactors has always been about talent. ... | ||
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| Primrose Schools Enters Five New US Markets, Prepares for West Coast Franchise ... MarketWatch (press release) Primrose School's Balanced Learning® Curriculum blends teacher-directed and child-initiated activities and is consistently delivered in all Primrose Schools nationwide. This exclusive curriculum is standards-based and enables teachers to help children ... | ||
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| Teachers slam district's reserves Bakersfield Californian BY jorge barrientos Californian staff writer Standard School District teachers came out in full force Tuesday night during a board meeting to protest the way administrators are spending cash -- or not spending it. Teachers argued that the Oildale-area ... | ||
| SkillSoft Helps Companies Make the Right Call with Mobile Learning MarketWatch (press release) This whitepaper serves as a good tool for those looking to further explore the world of mobilelearning." SkillSoft is a leading SaaS provider of on-demand e-learning and performance support solutions for global enterprises, government, education and ... | ||
| Contract mediation to continue Wednesday with Rockford teachers Rockford Register Star By Cathy Bayer ROCKFORD — The Rockford Education Association event Tuesday, initially billed as a “rally for a fair contract,” wasn'ta rally at all. Instead, dozens of teachers arrived early for the Rockford School Board meeting wearing hot pink “SOS” ... | ||
| New Deep Breathing App Helps Teachers Create A Calmer Classroom In Just Two ... MarketWatch (press release) "Teachers can easily display the app on an interactive whiteboard or screen and use the related lesson plans and student activities to further the learning related to the positive health beneits of deep breathing." The interactive app is an expansion ... | ||
| University of California teachers' union aims to block online classes ... By Tina Korbe “We believe that if courses are moved online, they will most likely be the classes currently taught by lecturers,” reads a brief declaration against online education on the website of UC-AFT, the University of California chapter of the American Federation of Teachers, “and so we will use our collective bargaining ... Now the California lecturers, who make up nearly half of the system's undergraduateteaching teachers, believe they have used that bargaining power to score a rare coup. ... | ||
| PrawfsBlawg: Teaching "Duty" By GiovannaShay A few weeks ago, David Brooks wrote a piece in the New York Times that got me thinking about the work that we do in law teaching, and, for me, specifically in Professional Responsibility. The op-ed, entitled The Limits of Empathy, discussed a ... PrawfsBlawg | ||
| Teaching Calculus with Chocolate By John Farrier Teaching Calculus with Chocolate. By John Farrier in Science & Tech on Oct 11, 2011 at 5:42 pm. Tim Chartier, a math professor at Davidson College, found a way to express a principle of calculus using the best of all possible source ... Neatorama | ||
| Mobile Learning Platform Stickery Raises $325K From Google ... By Alexia Tsotsis Mobile Learning Platform Stickery Raises $325K From Google Ventures, 500 Startups And Others ...The problem: most apps don't help parents to prepare kids for school because they are either too fun (games) or boring (education apps). ... TechCrunch | ||
| Earning her education by degree | Harvard Gazette Richard Light, the Walter H. Gale Professor of Education, and Sally Schwager, former faculty member of the Teaching Education Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), both strongly encouraged me to pursue a master's degree.” ... Harvard Gazette | ||
| Feds Find L.A. Provides Inferior Education To Black Students | News ... By Associated Press The district has the highest number of English-learning students in the nation. English-learners will receive grade-level courses, teachers will be trained to handle multiple English-proficiency levels and special-education teachers will receive ... News One | ||
| Wikipedia and YouTube content become teachers in BenchPrep's ... By Meghan Kelly Digital education company BenchPrep is taking advantage of free informational content with its newest feature OpenPrep. If you stepped into a classroom of ... BenchPrep sees its original product in addition to this new feature as a way for tutors to connect and expand their teaching materials. But free content is a gamble. You may ... It is available on the Web, iPhone, iPad and Android, and syncs activity across all devices for grab-and-go learning. Previous Story: Not again: Sony's ... VentureBeat | ||
| Brown's veto of education bill consistent with earlier views ... By Louis Freedberg As he related to the State Board of Education shortly after taking office in January, when he was a student at St. Ignatius High in San Francisco, one of his teachers gave him an assignment to write an essay on his impressions of a green leaf. “I have been thinking about my impressions of a green leaf since ... “You are funding teaching interventions or changes to the learning environment that promise to make public education better.” Tests, he told Duncan, “rely too much on closed and ... EdSource Extra! | ||
| Senate ESEA Draft Bill Would Scrap Adequate Yearly Progress ... By Alyson Klein Michele McNeil covered education and state government in Indiana for a decade before joiningEducation Week as a state policy reporter in June 2006. Alyson Klein, who reports on ... Harkin said the strength of the bill was that it "focuses on teaching and learning, not testing and sanctioning." The legislation comes less ... For instance, under the strategy known as "turnaround" schools could keep 65 percent of their teachers on the job (right now, it's 50 percent). And under the "restart " ... Politics K-12 - Education Week | ||
| Teaching English in Rio de Janeiro | The Rio Times | Brazil News By Dorien Boxhoorn Dan Markham, who has worked in Rio for the last two years, shares: “I loved teaching English in Rio. The [Brittania] school, the other teachers and staff and the students were fantastic. The relaxed and fun Carioca attitude made coming to work ... The Rio Times | ||
| Online education site raises $3 mil in a round led by Groupon ... By Jennifer Saba Groupon co-founders Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell have invested in online educational site (with one complicate name) Udemy through their venture capital fund Lightbank. Udemy just announced a $3 million Series A round of financing ... MediaFile | ||
| Instapundit » Blog Archive » HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE ... By Glenn Reynolds HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Nothing says “we're secure in the value we add” like efforts to outlaw competition! University of California teachers' union aims to block online classes. “Frankly, it's astonishing to me that a knee-jerk ... Instapundit | ||
| Rapid Learning: advantages and drawbacks | E-learning solution ... By ILT At a time of everything straightaway, rapid learning tools have carved out their place in the last few years in the distance training world. A direct. E-learning solution, distance... | ||
| Global access to higher education on the rise | UWIRE By admin In particular, Director Philip G. Altbach said poor people around the world continue to see growing access to higher education. He used the United States as an example: “From the 1960s up to today, we see a tendency of higher education in ... UWIRE | ||
| HECB Washington's Blog: Higher education representatives discuss ... By HECB Washington Unless Washington finds a way to adequately fund public higher education, it will risk falling even farther behind in its effort to broadly raise educational attainment, representatives from the state's public and private colleges and universities ... HECB Washington's Blog | ||
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