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Have big-time sports distorted higher education? Chicago Tribune By Ron Grossman New to teaching, I was proudly gazing at a sign on my office door proclaiming "Assistant Professor Grossman," when the department secretary knocked. "Would you like seasons tickets for the faculty cheering section in the football ...

Golden Apples honor teaching's best Raleigh-Frayser The Memphis City Schools Foundation united with the Teacher Effectiveness Initiative and the Memphis Education Association to honor more than a hundred teachers. Each educator was nominated by their students. Here are the 2011 winners! ...

Student Teachers Kept Out Of Some Williamson County Classrooms NewsChannel5.com He said studies show that student teachers can actually improve test scores if they work with the teacher instead of on their own. "We've been fortunate that our partners in Metro and Sumner county understand the movement towards this co teaching model ...

Education forum reviews ''hard issues' Muscatine Journal With that goal in mind, Courtney, a Burlington Democrat, hosted the first of two education forums in the area Wednesday at the West Liberty Public Library. The forums come on the heels of the “World-Class Schools for Iowa” proposal unveiled on Oct. 3 ...

China Distance Education Holdings Limited Declares Special Cash Dividend to ... Sacramento Bee China Distance Education Holdings Limited is a leading provider of online education in China focusing on professional education. The courses offered by the Company through its websites are designed to help professionals and other course participants ...

First Reading: Teachers say working conditions getting worse Austin American-Statesman (blog) Most of the teachers are exhausted and have been forced to cut back on the number of assignments they grade.” Just as a reminder, legislators put $4 billion less into public-education formulas than the system was owed under the law, plus they made more ...

McGraw-Hill Education Launches First-Ever Online Language Arts Program at ... Sacramento Bee ... teaching and learning of English language arts. The theme for this year's convention is "Reading the Past, Writing the Future," and will be attended by more than 5000 K-16 English language artsteachers from across the country and around the world, ...

Rick Perry's record on education (Fact Checker biography) Washington Post (blog) Texas ranked 36th in 2010 for per-student education spending, below California (34th) and New Mexico (18th), according to the National Education Association, a labor union that represents teachers. For what it's worth, Texas ranked 41st in 2009, ...

New round of education cuts look likely: Pajaro Valley, Santa Cruz say they ... San Jose Mercury News If teachers go along - and McFadden expressed confidence that they would despite faculty preference for reducing class sizes - the cost would grow $2 million. "Our kids need the added instruction days," McFadden said. If teachers don't agree, ...

Shakira Supports Indian Education Drive - Starpulse.com Shakira visited a group of adolescent females in a residential education program in Udaipur, Rajasthan, where the literacy level is around five per cent for women, and the singer hopes her trip will highlight the need for improved learning. ... Starpulse Entertainment News

Occupy Wall Street: Protestors In California Arrested After Arguing ... By AP ... shouted slogans as they tried to set up camp in the lobby. The arrests came after more than 100 demonstrators rushed into a Bank of America branch, chanting "money for schools and education, not for banks and corporations." ... Teachers · Standardized Testing · Talk Nerdy To Me · School Bullying · Game Changers 2011 More. Log in. |; Sign Out. November .... How Has Steve Jobs Inspired You In Your Own Learning Or Teaching? Student Experiments Aboard The Space Shuttle ... College on HuffingtonPost.com

Outing Lemon Teachers at LAUSD - Page 1 - News - Los Angeles ... "It's a useless process that doesn't do anyone any good," says former LAUSD Board of Educationmember Yolie Flores, president of Communities for Teaching Excellence, one of many who says the Stull isn't an evaluation at all. ... The Stull Act says that school districts must evaluate "certificated employees" (not just teachers but administrators, principals and nurses) using four specific criteria: pupil progress, instructional techniques, adherence to curriculum objectives and the learning ... LA Weekly | Complete Issue

Brian D. Cohen: Teaching Creativity: The Answers Aren't in the Back ... By Brian D. Cohen Teachers imply there are definite answers and that they possess them, a kind of game in which they encourage students to guess the answer in the teacher's head. It might be better played the other way around. The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed

How Online Learning Companies Bought America's Schools By The Huffington Post News Editors This article was reported in partnership with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. If the national movement to "reform" public education through vouchers, charters and privatization has a laboratory, it is Florida. It was one of the first states to undertake a program of "virtual schools"--charters operated online, with teachers instructing students over the Internet--as well as one of the first to use vouchers to channel taxpayer money to charter schools run by for-profits. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com

Education protests… are they justified? « Voice of A Citizen By esainsbury Conveniently forgetting to acknowledge that there is a benefit to society in having students learning a range of different disciplines, skills and degree courses; Education develops transferable skills and education should not be purely ... Voice of A Citizen

Schools kill creativity: A liberal education should prioritise it ... By Matthew Gibson Creativity should be at the heart of the education system for it is this which produces fulfilled adults and a thriving economy. Put creativity at the heart of a Lib Dem education policy and let teachersteach. Distinctive, different and would make a ... Solution Focused Politics

'Weightless' teachers eye giant science leap | The Raw Story By Agence France-Presse “Excited,” “nervous,” “terrified” — just three emotions described by a group of US teachers about to take a dizzying “weightless” flight all for the cause of science, naturally. The 30 classroom professionals donned blue “astronaut” jumpsuits to defy gravity in the ... Young people learn through the eyes of their teachers,” she added. For Chappelear, the teaching of science is a national problem, and the US educational system is not properly designed for the challenge. “In the US, we are ... The Raw Story

Times Higher Education - The week in higher education 17 November 2011. • The "sea of rage" promised by anarchists before last week's student protest turned into something of a damp squib, with police matching or outnumbering demonstrators. The press treated the event more like a war than a ... News from THE

Teachers' unions support democracy, except when they don't | The ... By Bob Bowdon Some opponents of education reform claim that they're on the side of democracy. ... He argues that with respect to teachers' unions, we shouldn't be afraid to take them on directly while we also contemplate more structural reforms. In other ... The Daily Caller Lewis stands her ground Chicago Tribune By Joel Hood, Chicago Tribune reporter Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis was back at the lectern Wednesday to clarify some incendiary remarks and stamp out a firestorm of her own creation. This time, the brash union leader was apologizing ... Hannibal Board of Education explores, approves professional development options Quincy Herald Whig Mark Twain Elementary School is working with Kagan Cooperative Learning, which focuses on classroom teamwork. The Hannibal Career and Technical Center is working with ProfessionalLearning Communities for teachers. Mundle highlighted Eugene Field ... Christie makes education reform bills a priority for December Press of Atlantic City Chris Christie will come up against resistance from Democrats and the state's teachers union, which is preparing its own proposals for education reform. Getting education reform bills he supports through the state Legislature during the lame duck ... Calif. Occupy protests focus on cuts to education The Associated Press The arrests came after about 100 demonstrators rushed into a Bank of America branch, chanting "money for schools and education, not for banks and corporations." Police officers in riot gear cuffed the activists one-by-one as hundreds more demonstrators ... Caution on teachers' bonus pay The Age The commission suggested teachers be offered higher pay as an incentive to work in hard-to-staff schools, or to teach subjects for which there was a shortage of qualifiedteachers, such as science and maths. The commission said the teaching workforce... The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) Supports Passage of the ... Sacramento Bee Entrepreneurship education is a great way to prepare today's student for the realities of tomorrow's economy." Too many young people today drop out of school and struggle to break the cycle of poverty. Since 1987, the Network for Teaching ... Discovery Education's Digital Textbook Launching in Classrooms Across Texas ... Sacramento Bee Unlike traditional textbooks, Discovery Education Science Techbook uses an inquiry-based approach to learning, bringing key science concepts to life for both English and Spanish-speaking students. Other interactive elements available only from ... Creative Learning Corporation Announces Additional Franchise Territories in ... MarketWatch (press release) "Creative Learning has given us all of the tools that we need to operate a very successful business, and we're happy to be a part of the Company's expansion." "Creative Learning is dedicated to developing the most unique children's education programs ... Sex education for 6-year-olds? I blame the Victorian attitudes of parents Daily Mail Come on, how difficult is it to decide what is and isn't appropriate to teach our children on the subject of sex education within the confines of a school environment? And therein, for me, lies the problem. I don't believe that teachers are the right ... Teaching shops mydigitalfc.com A good faculty costs money; so does providing infrastructure, teaching materials, laboratories and other facilities. Spending more on these can, at least theoretically, lead to better quality education. This may not be possible with one fixed fee in ... During school visit, Obama talks hoops, education, Bieber Washington Post (blog) We're focusing a lot on math and science education, where I think we've fallen behind.” Prompted by Gillard to speak about the “Aussie influence” in US education, Obama recalled that EducationSecretary Arne Duncan played professional basketball in ... Demand for French education surges in Louisiana The Associated Press "He's not just learning a new language. He is learning that there's another part of the world out there, one that's not only English-speaking or only Spanish-speaking." Perez said she chose French for her son partly because of the language's place in ... 6 months of education protests gain widespread support, but do nothing to ... Washington Post SANTIAGO, Chile — More than six months after they launched nationwide protests to reform education in Chile, student activists have won widespread public support, inspired similar actions in other parts of South America and politically damaged ... How Online Learning Companies Bought America's Schools The Nation. If the national movement to “reform” public education through vouchers, charters and privatization has a laboratory, it is Florida. It was one of the first states to undertake a program of “virtual schools”—charters operated online, with teachers ... Teachers and test scores Los Angeles Times According to education experts, the tests are useful only for measuring the top 10% and bottom 10% of teachers, and tell little about the vast majority in between. Still, they could be used as a starting point, to provide training for the most ... City Year -- An Education Solution at Work in Detroit Huffington Post (blog) I've come to the realization that our failing education system is in fact the root of almost all the other issues that I cared most deeply about; and that City Year allowed me to have the greatest and most direct impact on the lives of those young ... Follow @eSummaCom