Jared Bernstein: nuances left out of the discussion

Jared Bernstein | On the Economy: "Too often, economists and policy makers have one recommendation to fix everything: more education. And truth be told, I’m pretty much on board, but there are important nuances that tend to be left out of the discussion."

Specialist subject teachers parachuted into primary schools Telegraph.co.uk “Children in private sector through prep schools get primary specialist teaching in core subjects such as maths and sciences,” he said today. “We want to make sure children in the state sector can benefit from the same opportunities. Learning about ...

The Global Search for Education: The 20% Huffington Post We need to change the approach to recruitment, support, and retention of teachers. We should begin by raising standards for entry into teaching. Teachers should have at least a year devoted to post-graduate study and practice. New teachers need the ...

Obama presses Congress on education, orders new Head Start rules Los Angeles Times Of course, Obama's bigger gripe is that Congress won't pass his plan to spend money to hire back teachers and prevent layoffs -- nor, for that matter, the rest of the $447 billion job creation plan he calls the American Jobs Act. His strategy lately is ...

Irish teachers celebrate classroom tech at global forum Siliconrepublic.com Christine Murphy-Gardner has led the project 'Empowering Communities: Targeting Innovation at the Heart of Learning' in Ballyclare High School & Carrickfergus Model Primary School, Co Antrim, teaching computer technology. She partners withteachers, ...

Donors need multilingual understanding The Guardian Teachers don't have good English themselves, which stops them using interactive teaching approaches. A lack of textbooks worsens the problem. In response, donors have increased their investment in international-language education. ...

Sec. Duncan says he supports allowing kids of illegal immigrants to pay in ... Washington Post WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Monday he's encouraged that some states are allowing the children of illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition at public colleges. As an example, Duncan pointed to Rhode Island, where this fall the ...

New App Library for Online Learning Platform Sacramento Bee By itslearning AS Learning platform provider itslearning is to launch a newly revamped App Library to make teaching and learning applications available to teachers and students directly through the cloud-based platform. itslearning's App Library ...

Bringing Education Reform to Idaho YouTube And while the state has lacked the drama playing out in the Midwest, the education changes implemented earlier this year in Idaho are arguably the most sweeping of any adopted in 2011. The reforms were spearheaded by Tom Luna, Idaho's superintendent of ...

Are Teachers Overpaid or Underpaid? Answer: Yes Education Week News By Frederick M. Hess Last week, the Education Week Teacher online site reported on a new study that used federal wage, benefit, and job-security data, along with measures of cognitive ability, to argue that teachers are overpaid compared to what they ...

Occupy Wall Street Protests Outside Department Of Education Huffington Post The protesters disbanded at 7:00 pm, with plans to continue the General Assembly on Sunday and perhaps break out into working groups. Occupy the DOE meets Sundays at noon at 60 Wall Street.Teachers across the country have joined with Occupy events to ...

BCNET DEPLOYS ADVA FSP 3000 IN BRITISH COLUMBIA RESEARCH & EDUCATION NETWORK Reuters (press release) "Distance learning, real-time collaboration and grid computing are just a few of the data-intensive applications that are now supported with significantly higher bandwidth. The key to success here is flexibility. We chose ADVA Optical Networking ...

Tennessee struggles with teacher evals. Is Georgia going to make same mistakes? Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog) It seems to me that the challenges are not unique to Tennessee and that we will encounter the same struggles with evaluating non core teachers. This was a point that Kristin Bernhard, education adviser to Gov. Nathan Deal, brought up during the panel...

Mobile And Modern Learning Experts From Bridgepoint Education And Ashford ... Daily Markets 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Attendees of the 2011 Sloan Consortium International Conference on Online Learning will be treated to a tour de force of online teaching, learning and publishing knowledge. Experts from Bridgepoint Education, Inc. (BPI) and ...

NJ's main teachers union presenting its own ideas CBS News "No one has more invested in the success of our students and our public schools than NJEA members," said Barbara Keshishian, president of the New Jersey Education Association, which represents nearly 170000 teachers and other school employees. ...

UF researchers head $5 million effort to transform science teaching in middle ... University of Florida ... teachers in their home districts,” said co-investigator Pringle, the UF science educationprofessor. “The Science Teacher Leaders will work as change agents to lead district-wide transformation in middle school science teaching and learning. ...

China Education Alliance Announces it will Release Third Quarter 2011 ... Sacramento Bee All resources and tutoring services are provided by famous teachers within mainland China. The purpose of online exam-orientated resources and onsite tutoring is to help Chinese students (ages 6 to 18) pass the two most important and highly competitive ...

Chalkboard: Tools for testing teachers get the spotlight Capital Times (blog) Mary Bell, president of the state teachers union, complimented the design team's work, saying "Through consensus building, Wisconsin will be using an educator evaluation system that will improve teaching and student learning. ...

Standardized Testing Focus May Be Pushing California Teachers To Cheat Huffington Post The teachers were afraid, reports showed, to be held accountable for students who performed poorly on standardized tests and subsequently be evaluated poorly, miss out on bonuses or contribute to their school and district's inability to receive funding ...

Top education official urges closure of Imagine schools STLtoday.com Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com St. Louis • The state's highest-ranking education official is recommending that Missouri Baptist University close the six Imagine charter schools it sponsors and work with the public school system ...

Teaching With the Enemy New York Times “Class Warfare” takes us into the classrooms of the Harlem Success Academy and other successful charter schools, where the teaching is first-rate and those students lucky enough to be admitted are genuinely learning. It charts the transformation of the...

Tech & Learning Magazine Honors NewTek TriCaster(TM) 850 With Prestigious ... MarketWatch (press release) "We have always believed that providing accessible and affordable network-quality production tools would open a whole new world in education. It's great to know our products are helping inspire teachers and students in the classroom and across the ...

David Teeter Joins iNACOL as Director of Policy MarketWatch (press release) He is a strong advocate for teachers and students -- an important perspective in addressing education policy opportunities and challenges at the federal, state and local level." Teeter has more than 25 years of professional experience in public policy, ...

Students at the heart of the system? 'Profit' would be more apt The Guardian The higher education white paper is in fact an attempt to turn the learning environment into a marketplace and learners into customers. "Profit at the heart of the system" would be far more accurate. The government seeks to justify cuts and fee ...

Asean Countries Put Education Up Front « CBS Philly By amyparmenter In the 10 countries that are part of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, there are 600 million people and higher education varies greatly. CBS Philly

Think Different: Teaching Kids to Be Entrepreneurs By Tim Sullivan It usually didn't matter that I had no idea how to replace a bathtub or efficiently organize a closet, there were books in libraries, helpers at local hardware stores, and now, google to offer a quick afternoon of learning. I now had an eye for opportunity and was learning skills that set jobs into motion. Suddenly, I was investing my own ... In school, I had a very job-centered education. In high school, we were asked to buy into a path that would lead us to a good university, which in turn would... Get Rich Slowly - Personal Finance...

Teachers' Union Spreading Wealth Around the Globe - Big ... By Kyle Olson Heck, things are so (allegedly) bad that President Obama is barnstorming the country in an effort to whip up support for his latest bailout for Big Education. Recipient of $6934 in teachers' dues dollars. In the midst of all the wreckage, one group ... Big Government

3 LA County Teachers Named Among California's 5 Best « CBS Los ... By Alyson Five teachers, including three from Los Angeles County schools, were named California's teachers of the year on Monday by state Supt. of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson. ... The others from Los Angeles County include: Florence Avognon, an English teacher who was previously part of the Reading Intervention Specialists Teachers program at Central Juvenile Hall, which is run by the Los Angeles County Office of Education; and Ken LaVigne, an English teacher at La Serna High ... CBS Los Angeles

3 L.A. County teachers named among California's 5 best - latimes.com By Rick Rojas The others from Los Angeles County include: Florence Avognon, an English teacher who was previously part of the Reading Intervention Specialists Teachers program at Central Juvenile Hall, which is run by the Los Angeles County Office of ... L.A. NOW

Learnlets » Layered Learning By Clark The events in your life give you a chance to use them as learning experiences, not just performance opportunities. If there are not enough in your life, you might have interstitial activities (those in dashed lines), but you can be developed across ... Learnlets

Willow Dea: 7 Habits for Effective Teaching By Willow Dea Integral Education Pioneer, Editor, 'Igniting Brilliance: Integral Education in the 21st Century'. GET UPDATES FROM ... You are invited to follow along for the next 7 posts, to dive into the 7 Habits for Effective Teaching. Leadership is all about ... The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed

Mormon Missionary Impossible: Mitt Romney's French education ... By Reuters Staff To understand why Mitt Romney persists in the face of rejection, opposition and indifference from his own party, look no further than the two and a half years he spent in France, getting up at 6:30 a.m. every day to venture forth and have doors ... FaithWorld

CARPE DIEM: Public School Teachers Are Overpaid by 52% By Mark J. Perry "In short, combining salaries, fringe benefits and job security, we have calculated that public schoolteachers receive around 52% more in average compensation than they could earn in the private sector. The compensation premium is ... CARPE DIEM

Oja.la hopes to bring online learning to Latin American aspiring ... By Anna Heim Ojala 300x185 Oja.la hopes to bring online learning to Latin American aspiring entrepreneurs For Casares' class to be confirmed, Oja.la will need 200 students to have pre-registered through Facebook Connect over the next three days. ... The Next Web

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