Is student loan, education bubble next?

Analysis: Is student loan, education bubble next? Boston.com By Justin Pope AP Education Writer / November 6, 2011 First the dot.coms popped, then mortgages. Are student loans and higher education the next bubble, the latest investment craze inflating on borrowed money and misplaced faith it can never go bad? ... Overhaul nation's education policy New Straits Times Muhyiddin has listed out various initiatives to enhance the teaching of English, including plans to bring in more than 300 teachers from the United States as teaching assistants in schools which are weak in the subject. ... How Bill Gates throws his money around in education Washington Post (blog) By Valerie Strauss This was written by educator Anthony Cody, who worked for 24 years in the Oakland schools, 18 years teaching science at a high-needs school and six years as a mentor and coach of teachers. He is a National Board-certified teacher. ... Surviving bad teachers San Jose Mercury News Once teachers pass their probationary stage, usually the first two years of teaching, they become protected by tenure. School officials agree the process is slow, clunky and secretive, and may offer little satisfaction for parents worried about their ... Parents and teachers have supported both during a series of town hall meetings. DesMoinesRegister.com Parents and teachers have shown support for extending Iowa's 180-day school year or lengthening the school day during town hall meetings focused on the education improvement proposals. Iowa law mandates a 5.5-hour school day; most students are in class ... Flipping the classroom Sydney Morning Herald ''It means the teachers have more time to answer directly our questions rather than [waiting and] marking our tests or homework and seeing what we haven't understood.'' Helen Carmody, the head ofteaching and learning at Kambala, said flipping opened ... NJEA: Meaningful reform is more than evaluation, tenure The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog) But the truth is, NJEA supports real education reform, including changes to tenure and evaluation that will help districts identify which teachers are performing at a high level and make it easier to remove those who do not do their jobs. ... WISE: how education around the world is changing euronews http://www.euronews.net/ "Changing societies, changing education" This was the theme of this year's world innovation summit for education, WISE, that took place last week in Doha. It comes at a time when the Arab world sees major political change, ... Sydney should embrace Asia, says O'Farrell Sydney Morning Herald Discussing education's role in NSW's engagement with Asian economies, Mr O'Farrell said the system must focus more on teaching Asian culture and languages such as Chinese - and languages should be taught earlier in school life. ... Reports reveal violence against teachers Sydney Morning Herald The reports showed that students had thrown furniture, smashed windows and assaulted  teachers by biting, kicking and hitting. The Department of Education and Communities said the safety of students and staff was a "top priority". ... Education Report: Readers respond to role of teachers in Occupy Oakland movement San Jose Mercury News Read more at www.IBAbuzz.com/education. Follow her at Twitter.com/KatyMurphy. Nov. 4: On the day of Occupy Oakland's general strike, 294 Oakland public school teachers, almost 15 percent of the teaching force, stayed out of school. ... THS Grad: Elect Thornton, Preserve Education Patch.com The positive results of my education do not end there. The hands-on experiences I had in science classes prepared me well for college chemistry. My teachers from the Social Studies Department, who were all very passionate about the subjects they taught ... Mass. education collaboratives bills face hearing Boston.com The bills will be the subject of a public hearing Tuesday at the Statehouse by the Education Committee. A state audit identified more than $37 million in questionable or undocumented expenses. They included lavish spending on golf outings, ... November 05, 2011|By Leslie Postal and Denise-Marie Balona, Orlando Sentinel Orlando Sentinel That is one of the key concerns prompting the new focus on education schools: that would-be teachers do not get enough practice teaching before they start full-time work. Some worry that fuels high turnover in the field. In Florida, after five years on ... Teaching math is electric Bundaberg NewsMail The award recognised her commitment to the use of interactive learning programs and the internet in the formulation of technology-focused interactive lessons. Mrs Munckton has been a champion of internet teaching tool Ed Studios which enables teachers ... Teaching quality is not the issue Las Vegas Sun By staralioflundnv (Star Ali Mistriel-Kogan) Students grow up learning that they own their lives and all the education and experiences they have allowed. They alone, are responsible for what they do with it in life. Scientific studies have also given ... Transforming Teaching in the Digital Age: A Blueprint (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) Wired (blog) Modernize professional learning programs and models – The Council urges states, local districts, Head Start and other early learning programs to develop curricula and training resources for teachers and parents on the appropriate use of technologies ... User-pays night schools see student numbers plummet Stuff.co.nz Where 212 schools taught adult and community education before the funding cut, there are now 43, with none in Hawke's Bay or the Hutt Valley, and almost none in rural areas. Community Learning Association through Schools president Linda Melrose said ... Arab Spring Spawns Interest in Improving Quality of Higher Education New York Times Now, academics are seeking to focus on the role that higher education can play to address their concerns, and the crucial steps that officials need to take to achieve this, like engaging with institutions outside the region, standardizing curriculums ... Whew! Chicago Tribune This controversy was an immense distraction from the real goals of education. It prompted fears that negotiations on a 2012 teachers contract would start on bitter terms and only get worse. "I'm hoping that we've taken some of the poison pill out of ... Shaking up the status quo in LA schools Los Angeles Times ... basement in education funding. "A lot of teachers we work with are just absolutely fed up with both the funding situation and the bureaucratic nature of teaching in LAUSD," said Marqueece Harris-Dawson, president of South LA's Community Coalition. ... Mobiles, despite hype, failing world of education? Economic Times Only years after seeing a lot of potential in using the tiny hand-held devices to promote learning, specialists are having second thoughts about their efficacy in teaching the millions. Commonwealth Technical Organisation CEO Tim Unwin said on the ... West Orange Teacher Receives $25000 National Teaching Award Baristanet The Milken Family Foundation National Educator Awards provide public recognition and financial rewards to outstanding elementary and secondary school teachers, principals and other educationprofessionals. Since the award was established in 1985, ... Apple & Ed-Tech Payola | Hack Education By Audrey Watters The series has been quite critical of education technology, questioning the amount of money schools are spending on it and doubting that those expenditures are having any impact on student achievement — as evidenced by stagnant test scores, at least. This most recent story again ... The problem according to Jobs (of course): teachers' unions. But as the Walter .... And “that” might be technology, but it also might project-based learning, student-centered teaching, etc. I think there's ... Hack Education Knewton, The Adaptive Learning Company, Receives $33 Million To ... By Peter Murray Instead of subjecting all students to the same curriculum, Knewton's technology shapes the material so that each student receives a personalized education that meets their unique needs. For example, after tracking the ... As with Knewton, teachers using Khan can track their students' progress and help them when needed. But Khan doesn't offer the ... Thus, better teaching tools could lead to higher graduation rates, higher GPAs, and more state funds. Graduating students on time ... Singularity Hub Higher Education--Part 3: Is It All About the Soul? | Rightly ... By Peter Lawler For those stuck with middle-class, technical jobs, such an education would arouse passions for greatness that just can't be satisfied these days. An accountant full of classical learning would be dangerously discontent. But the author, of course, ... Big Think Zakaria: Fix education, restore social mobility – Global Public ... By amarcnn I hope you are also looking at Finland as an example of a good education system. They have thrown out the idea of "testing" and spend more time on good training of teachers on how to engage their students. Maybe this would be a better ... Global Public Square Rhizomatic Learning – Why we teach? » Dave's Educational Blog By admin I'm going to try and create some context for a conversation about rhizomatic learning by offering four questions about education… and explaining how i've tried to answer them with this theory. Why do we teach? What does successful learning ... Dave's Educational Blog Want to Improve Learning? Take a Break… « Rapid eLearning ... By poojajaisingh Conversations on Captivate, Presenter and eLearning. Rapid eLearning | Adobe Captivate Blog Innovation Excellence | Innovation and Organizational Learning ... By Jim Clemmer The Innovation Excellence community is home to innovation articles, webinars, videos, training andeducation - powering successful growth in the innovation management profession. ... Innovation and Organizational Learning (Part 1 of 3) ... Innovation Excellence A National Commitment to High-Quality Early Learning Huffington Post During this week's NAEYC conference, a mere two years later, my Senior Advisor on EarlyLearning, Jacqueline Jones, announced our plan to create the US Department of Education's first ever Office for Early Learning. For too long, federal programs and ...

Whizz Education Announces New Distribution Partner in New Zealand San Francisco Chronicle (press release) It is a superb programme and making such a difference to the lives of kids and their parents (and their teachers). We are delighted to promoting Maths-Whizz and therefore happiness in numbers in New Zealand!" Says Richard Marett, CEO Whizz Education: ...

A pyrrhic victory for Malaysian parents Malaysia Kini What we should fight for is better teaching of English language instead of this half-baked PPSMI. This means demanding more English language class time at all levels of school and more resources devoted to training English-language teachers. ...

Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (It's Just So Darn Hard) New York Times (blog) The president and industry groups have called on colleges to graduate 10000 more engineers a year and 100000 new teachers with majors in STEM — science, technology, engineering and math. All the Sputnik-like urgency has put classrooms from ...

'Enough is enough' — teachers vote for national strike Scotland Courier By Grant Smith, education reporter Members of the country's biggest teaching union, the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS), have voted more than four to one in favour of industrial action to protest ''damaging changes'' to public sector pension ...

Selling higher education to those who aren't buying it Ottawa Citizen She got good marks in high school and was encouraged by a guidance counsellor, as well as by math teachers who connected her to Women in Science and Engineering events. “I guess that opened my eyes up to the possibility,” she says. ...

Wikipedia gaining respect in places of higher learning Vancouver Sun Wikipedia's goal of having open-sourced learning in higher education is mirrored by similar pushes at the secondary and elementary school level. The Toronto District School Board, for instance, lists Wikipedia as a primary source in a research guide it ...

Students and teachers cut, splice footage into film about life at Bonny Doon ... San Jose Mercury News The two Bonny Doon teachers who participated in the program -- Holiday Smith, who teaches a combined fourth- and fifth-grade class and third-grade teacher Gus Balla -- were so excited about learning the new skills that they decided to immediately put ...

Education act pulled from fall sitting St. Albert Gazette Alberta will have to wait until next spring for a new education act as the new minister has moved to pull the bill from fall consideration. Education minister Thomas Lukaszuk announced he was pulling the act from the order paper for reconsideration in ...

CPS, teachers union reach truce on longer school days Chicago Tribune By Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, Chicago Tribune reporter With the Illinois attorney general's office preparing to go to court to block Chicago Public Schools from expanding its longer school day initiative, the district and the teachers union finally reached ...

Silicon Valley Wows Educators, and Woos Them New York Times Articles in this series are looking at the intersection of education, technology and business as schools embrace digital learning. Shawn Alholm, a teacher in Little Falls, Minn., handing an iPad to an elementary school student. ...

WISE education summit euronews Today, 20000 modules are available, contributed by universities and individuals sharing their teaching materials, forming discussion forums and giving feedback. Another award winning project is Suena Letras. It is an initiative that aims to teach ...

Proposed Changes to Teacher Evaluation Process OK'd Missouri News Horizon The Tennessee State Board of Education approved a streamlining adjustment Friday in the state's new teacher evaluation system. The shift would allow two observations of teachers to be conducted in one block of time. Commissioner of Education Kevin ...

Guest Column: Evaluations ignore education factors Knoxville News Sentinel What the research consistently shows, rather, is that teachers are the most important school-level factor in student learning, and that other non-school factors including family income, parental influence, health, poverty and safety combine to shape a ...

Teachers act over pay 'insult' St George and Sutherland Shire Leader BY EVA TEJSZERSKI PUBLIC school teachers warn of more strikes this month and next year if the NSW government does not agree to progress in salary negotiations. Thousands of teachers attended stop-work meetings at venues across the state this week to ...

Education and the 2012 Election Huffington Post (blog) For decades, Americans have been searching for The Education President -- that one person who could put the school system on his or her back, make education the government's top priority and bear the heavy burden of reform. ...

Steve Jobs: Why His Biggest Success Was Learning From Failure Huffington Post It's been a month since Steve Jobs' death, and in the weeks since, the world has mourned and shared its admiration and appreciation for the man who brought us beautiful gadgets that changed our lives. Thanks to Walter Isaacson's new biography, ...

Backers of education tax hoping to extend winning streak Atlanta Journal Constitution Susan Anne MacKenna, a member of the pro-ESPLOST group, The Friends of DeKalb, said residents seem supportive of the tax once they understand how the projects will touch the lives of students and teachers. "The message to be sent to the [school] board ...

Sleep Apnea Linked to Obesity, Learning Problems in Children The Inquisitr Researchers at the University of Chicago have found that children suffering from sleep apnea or obesity may have a harder time learning, and those with cognitive difficulties may be at higher risk for obesity and sleep problems. ...

Farnsworth launches education collaboration knox.VillageSoup.com Stories will run throughout the academic year, with students learning from theirteachers, museum professionals, and mentor artists how to use the arts — particularly digital photography and video — in their studies of English Language Arts, ...

UNK celebrates state's first learning commons Kearney Hub By Sara Giboney A new Learning Commons in the Calvin T. Ryan Library at the University of Nebraska at Kearney provides students with academic support services. - The Learning Commons is housed in the Calvin T. Ryan Library and occupies 4800 square feet ...

At the Statehouse: Marshall County delegation appreciates efforts to keep ... Sand Mountain Reporter Teachers who wish to avoid the increases must retire by Dec. 1. However, education professionals have fought the legislation since the beginning, saying it will "negatively impact the learningenvironment for these children," according to Rhonda Jett, ...

A Student's Call for a Learning Revolution - NYTimes.com By By ANDREW C. REVKIN As I've written here before, finding and disseminating education methods that foster creative, collaborative and resilient learning and problem solving is a prime path toward fitting human aspirations on a finite planet. Nicholas Kristof's recent column, “Occupy ... Current classroom norms, which Goyal described as the “culture of fill in the bubble tests and drill-and-kill teaching methods,” aren't a good fit in a complicated, connected, competitive world. He referred to the TED talk of Sir Ken ... Dot Earth

Learning Music – Day 12 By Steve Pavlina I wouldn't have thought someone could make a decent DAW for a phone (DAW = digital audio workstation, i.e. music production software — I'm learning the acronyms!), but apparently someone did. I decided to buy a copy (only $15), so I can play around with making music on the go. ...Otherwise you're squandering your social support, teaching others that you aren't worth helping. People generally like offering help, support, and encouragement to those who will truly benefit from it.... Steve Pavlina's Personal Development...

Badges for Lifelong Learning: An Open Conversation | HASTAC By slgrant Badges for Lifelong Learning: An Open Conversation. Author: Sheryl ... Connie Yowell: Director ofEducation, MacArthur Foundation. Mark Surman: ... Karen Cator: Director, Office of Educational Technology, U.S. Department of Education ...

The maker movement's potential for education, jobs and innovation ... By Alex Howard "When you see kids at Maker Faire suddenly turned on to science and math because they want to make things, when you see them dragging their parents around with eyes shining, you realize just how dull our education system has made some of the most exciting and interesting stuff in the world. Dale has taken a huge step towards ... It's a hundred-year-old educational philosophy based on experiential learning that seems forgotten, if not forbidden, today. I see a huge opportunity to ... O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis,...

Learning clinical medicine takes a sufficient patient number — db's ... By rcentor I have quoted this observation often in relation to learning medicine. Today I ... As we consider the many changes that are occurring in medical education, we must understand that patient number is a key factor in gaining expertise. There are ... db's Medical Rants

The Cost Of A College Education - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan ... By Andrew Sullivan The Cost Of A College Education · College_Tuition. Judith Scott-Clayton claims that it's cheaper than we think because few students pay full price: This growing gap between sticker prices and net prices is not a bad thing; it enables colleges ... The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

First-Time Divorce Rate Tied To Education, Race By Eurasia Review New research from the National Center for Family and Marriage Research (NCFMR) at Bowling Green State University shows there is substantial variation in t. Eurasia Review

“What Teachers Can Learn from English-Language Learners” | Larry ... By Larry Ferlazzo …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL ... What Teachers Can Learn from English-Language Learners is a nice post from Lesli Maxwell, who is now posting at Ed Week's Learning The Language blog. .... MyEducation Week Teacher Blog ... Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

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