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Fareed Zakaria GPS Sunday Primetime Special: FIXING EDUCATION CNN (blog) Khan's famous podcasts have delivered more than 83 million free lessons in math, science and other topics, and he tells Zakaria that customizing education can improve learning through leveraging how students learn differently. ... The Problem With Paying Teachers Less TIME (blog) “Pay teachers badly, and you'll get a lot of bad teachers,” he writes. According to a 2003 study from the Education Policy Analysis Archives, only 4.7 percent of college juniors would consider teachingat the current starting salary (about $39000, ... Career Education shares plunge on CEO exit, 3Q BusinessWeek Shares of Career Education Corp. lost nearly half their value Wednesday after the for-profit college's CEO abruptly resigned, the company disclosed improper job-placement practices and said enrollments slid in the third quarter. ... GP's RWD Division Receives Prestigious Learning in Practice Award from Chief ... MarketWatch (press release) These prestigious awards were presented as part of the Chief Learning Officer Symposium held in California on October 12, 2011. Entrants were reviewed by a panel of judges, who selected the winners based on their proven ability to design and implement ... Wisconsin Senators Pass Controversial Bill Pushing Abstinence Over ... Fox News MILWAUKEE – Wisconsin school teachers would have to promote abstinence and marriage over contraception in sex education classes, under a controversial bill passed by the state Senate on Wednesday night. The Republican-backed legislation was passed ... 'Radical' plan to replace Junior Cert Irish Times He said it was important that information and computer technology (ICT) was strengthened across all subjects and short courses, and that reform in assessment was “essential” to provide real change in teaching and learning, and in the student experience ... Port teachers vote to do wages battle Port Macquarie News Teachers walked off the job for up to two-hours on Wednesday in their pay campaign. NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli said a 2.5 per cent offer had been made and teachers would be eligible to receive more than that through employee-related cost ... Strayer Education, Inc. Reports Third Quarter 2011 Revenues and Earnings; and ... MarketWatch (press release) Strayer's mission is to make higher education achievable for working adults in today's economy. Strayer University is a proprietary institution of higher learning that offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in business administration, ... Teachers Union Says Report on Educators' Pay Used Bad Math Boise Weekly According to a 2003 study from the Education Policy Analysis Archives, only 4.7 percent of college juniors would consider teaching at the current starting salary (about $39000, on average, nationwide), while 68 percent of those same students said they ... Zimbabwean government, donors launch $85 million education fund for secondary ... Washington Post HARARE, Zimbabwe — The Zimbabwean government, the United Nations and other Western donors have launched an $85 million education fund aimed at improving education in the country's secondary schools. Zimbabwe's educational system was once a model in ... Education empire strikes back Philadelphia Inquirer We saw an example of that last week, when the National Education Policy Center, an organization funded partly by teachers' unions and other groups opposed to school reform, released a policy brief titled "Online K-12 Schooling in the US: Uncertain ... Hard Decisions for Learning Disabled New York Times Families without access to good school-based counselors can consult the Independent Education Consultants Association, whose Web site offers a searchable database (you want a counselor who has a track record of success with applicants with learning... Shmoop Wins Tech & Learning Award of Excellence San Francisco Chronicle (press release) "Tech & Learning's readers aren't looking for bells and whistles," said Kevin Hogan, editorial director for NewBay Media's Tech & Learning Group. "Our readers are looking for rigorous edtech products that improve teaching and learning, inspire teachers ... Education-focused PAC with deep pockets backs N.J. candidates in both parties ... Philadelphia Inquirer B4K's political arm - Better Education for New Jersey Kids Inc., PAC - is supporting Democrats and Republicans this election on an issue that has supporters and detractors on both sides of the aisle. The state's largest teachers union said the group ... Career Education Corporation and Chicago Urban League Partner to Bring STEM ... MarketWatch (press release) CHICAGO, Nov 03, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Career Education Corporation has awarded a $50000 grant to the Chicago Urban League in support of the Urban League's efforts to increase African American participation in future careers based in science, ... More Bay Area News San Francisco Chronicle (11-02) 13:40 PDT OAKLAND -- At least 15 percent of Oakland teachers took today off to participate in the Occupy Oakland general strike, the school district said. A little more than 300 teachers missed work to join the strike, said Troy Flint, ... Online Learning Provider Advanced Academics Introduces New Student Interface ... MarketWatch (press release) Since 2000, Advanced Academics has offered comprehensive middle and high school courses, highly qualified and state-certified teachers, and a web-based learning management system that enhances student learning. ... U.S. Education Secretary: RI has “Chance to get Better Faster” GoLocalProv Duncan touted the President's American Jobs Act, saying it would create and maintain thousands of teaching jobs, but chastised Congress for being unwilling to spend money on education. He said he was proud of the Race to the Top program and the School ... Teachers, Board President Take Different Views on D181 Negotiations Patch.com By Joe O'Donnell File Photo: Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills Teachers' Association President Justin Horne spoke to the District 181 Board of Education Monday, Aug. 22, two days before the contract between the teachers' union and the district expired. ... California Teacher Corps Teachers Ranked Highly by Principals PR Newswire (press release) "Principals are reaffirming what we already know - that teachers placed from alternative certification programs are the best and most talented for the job. Our programs are once again proving to be an excellent pathway into teaching, placing teachers ... Turnitin Compares College and Secondary Education Students' Sources of ... Sacramento Bee "Solutions like Turnitin can reduce unoriginal content by 50 to 75 percent for secondary and highereducation schools while teaching students how to research, cite, and write correctly." The Turnitin study follows a recent report by the Pew Research ... Tennessee lawmakers hear teacher evaluation concerns Elizabethton Star Members of the House Education Committee heard testimony from school administrators and teachers about the evaluation, which is comprised of 35 percent of students' value-added test scores that track students' progress on standardized tests over time. ... Education board will hold meeting about online class requirements today KTVB A majority of the commenters said Idaho shouldn't require online learning, according to board staff. Second, the board is expected to discuss Boise State's potential invite to the Big East. We will have the results of the meeting on the Evening News at ... Education Cuts Could Swing the 2012 Election The Fiscal Times Teachers in some districts have already agreed to wage freezes; Cleveland eliminated spring sports; Dayton eliminated all-day kindergarten; and Medina has axed advanced placement science and math classes, French, German, art and music and instituted a... Education reform on agenda Dailyrecord.com That would consist of a residency program in the first year in which mentors would coach newteachers. Schnitzer said the union, the New Jersey Education Association, was open to discussing ways to get rid of poor performing teachers as well. ... At Least 15% of Oakland Teachers Participate in Violent #Occupy ... By Jim Hoft At least 15% of public school teachers participated in the violent protests yesterday in California. Several banks had their windows ... Teachers @ protest = just more union goons in the street (albeit with a slightly higher education than their knuckle-dragging brethren). #8 November 3, 2011 at 6:39 am ... If I was a parent in Oakland, I would not want these nasty, filthy people teaching my children or, indeed, being in the same vicinity with them. The old saying “you are judged by the ... The Gateway Pundit TIGA Launches Education Matching Service | GamePolitics By james_fudge UK video game industry trade group TIGA has launched what it calls an education matching service that will help colleges and universities with speakers from the games industry. TIGA educationmanager Lorna Evans will oversee the ... GamePolitics blogs Occupy Oakland: Hundreds of teachers fail to show up for work ... By Carlos Lozano “We do support some of the ideals of Occupy Oakland, particularly the concept that services have been dramatically underfunded,” Flint said. “We wanted to allow teachers who were fighting for public education and children to have their voice. ... L.A. NOW Sanyo and eInstruction offers interactive teaching solution | Ubergizmo By Edwin Kee Sanyo decided to team up with eInstruction so that their efforts will result in a software and projector bundle that will deliver an interactive teaching solution – or at least, that is the final goal. This tie in will ... Some of the software will comprise of Workspace, Workspace Content Gallery and a sampler Exam View Learning Series. I guess this ... I am quite sure that teachers of the past would certainly wonder how it will feel like instead of just relying on a chalk and the blackboard. The only ... Ubergizmo Wisconsin Senate Adopts Bill Promoting Abstinence Education ... By Ilya Gerner On Wednesday, lawmakers in Wisconsin scrambled to pass a series of bills as part of a special jobs session called by Governor Scott Walker. Apparently, Indecision Forever | Political... Where Was Career Education Corporation's Board? - 24/7 Wall St. By 247wallst Career Education Corporation (NASDAQ: CECO) posted poor earnings, fired its CEO, and its board announced that an investigation by law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf had “confirmed the existence of improper placement determination practices at ... 24/7 Wall St. The Daily Nightly - Shanghai kids show intense spirit for learning By The Daily Nightly By Rehema Ellis NBC News Chief Education Correspondent Before I arrived in Shanghai, I had this image of people obediently doing what they were told because that's what happens in Communist China, right? I thought that would explain how Shanghai's 15-year-olds managed to beat ... yet to invent their own Silicon Valley - some Chinese educators also wonder. Teachers told me the government is now encouraging schools and families to give kids more free time to be creative. ... The Daily Nightly Education advocates worry about budget hole after tax ends ... By Tarryn Mento Andrew Morrill, president of the Arizona Education Association, said the quality of teaching in the state will be at stake after the three-year tax of one cent per dollar expires. “Predictable, stable, sufficient funding would create a stability in our ... Cronkite News Seeing the Forest Instead of the Trees : Education Next By Jeffrey R. Henig Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America's Public Schools by Terry M. Moe Brookings Institution Press, 2011, $34.95; 513 pages. Reviewed by Jeffrey R. Henig. Some 10 years in the making, this book comes at such a propitious time ... Education Next Authority in the Education of a Human Being « Public Discourse By Anthony Esolen The poet Charles Peguy, says Beneton, felt a profound gratitude for the teachers of his youth, just because “they put themselves in the service of something greater than themselves.” Therefore they could naturally and justly invite their students ... Public Discourse Mary Cheney's Shadow Group Smears Teachers Unions in Ohio ... By Andy Kroll Mother Jones obtained copies of AAF's latest mailers, in which Cheney's group smears teachers' unions as greedy and out to protect incompetent and deviant workers. The mailers also hype up the tenuous connection between Obama and ... MoJo Blogs and Articles | Mother Jones Moonbattery » Moonbat Mob Commandeers NYC Education Meeting By Dave Blount Moonbat Mob Commandeers NYC Education Meeting. Here's what happens when officials attempt to hold an education  meeting in a city where moonbat anarchy prevails: The good news is that if the odious Michael Bloomberg continues to ... Moonbattery Taking Questions on Applying with a Learning Disability - NYTimes ... By By JACQUES STEINBERG In the next issue of The Times's Education Life supplement, which will be published in newspapers this weekend, I've tried to provide some advice to those with learning disabilities and other impairments who are applying to college. ... The Choice Teachers Tell Students To 'Act Less Gay' « Clutch Magazine By Risa Dixon Teachers from a British County are under fire for telling victims of bullying to “act less gay” and wear their hair differently, according to the London Evening Standard. They defended this horrid advice by saying the the students were making ... Clutch Magazine Visual learning and outlining in the classroom | inspiration.com Learn how visual learning techniques such as graphic organizers, concept ... tells us that visual learning is among the very best methods for teaching students of all ages how to think and how to learn. Visual thinking and learning in education ... www.inspiration.com/visual-learning Follow @eSummaCom