Teachers' dilemmas over pension strikes

Teachers' dilemmas over pension strikes BBC News At the same time teachers will be asked to work for longer, with a retirement age of 68 planned for all public sector workers and the government wants to change the pension scheme from a final salary one to one based on a career average. Education ...

Chicago Teachers Express Concern Over New Evaluation System Huffington Post Starting next year, some Chicago school teachers will be graded in part based on their students' performance, if the new evaluation proposal drafted by CPS and Illinois State Board of Education members passes the Illinois legislature as is. ...

Border staff, teachers join major UK strike The Associated Press Education officials say nine out of 10 schools will close. "For most people, the size of this strike will be unprecedented in their lifetime," said John Kelly, a professor of industrial relations at the Birkbeck University of London. ...

Research for Better Teaching's Dr. Jonathon Saphier Speaks at Michigan ... San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Established in 1979 by Jon Saphier, RBT has been leading the way for improved skills for teachers and furthering the mission to provide quality education. Programs, publications and consulting focus on building in-house professional development to ...

Education board votes to put receiver in charge of Lawrence schools Boston Herald By State House News Service The state Board of Education today voted to authorize Education Commissioner Mitchell Chester to appoint a receiver for the chronically underperforming Lawrence School district, where district-wide performance on the English ...

Education board fires UO president Richard Lariviere KOIN Local 6 In a unanimous vote, the State Board of Higher Education has fired University of Oregon president Dr. Richard Lariviere “without cause.” The decision came in a special meeting Monday at Portland State University. According to an Oregon University ...

HIV positive teachers to petition China govt AFP BEIJING — Three Chinese men who say they were illegally denied governmentteaching jobs because they are HIV-positive have taken their cases to the country's top leaders, their lawyer told AFP on Tuesday. The men all had passed employment exams but ...

Training a spotlight on what it takes to tackle teaching The Australian About half of all Australian teachers and two-thirds of primary school teachers undertake a bachelor of education over four years that integrates educational studies with studies of teaching subjects. About 15 per cent, mostly secondary teachers, ...

Pledge to provide universal nursery education for two, three and four-year-olds Daily Mail The Coalition promised universal nursery education for three and four-year-olds last year. It also made a pledge to extend this to the most disadvantaged two-year-olds. A Government source said: 'We're aiming to close the gaps between young children ...

Scrutiny of online education puts Idaho reforms in national limelight The Idaho Statesman Writes Fang: "From Idaho to Indiana to Florida, recently passed laws will radically reshape the face of education in America, shifting the responsibility of teaching generations of Americans to online education businesses, many of which have poor or ...

7city Learning Introduces Tablet Technology for CFA(R) Training MarketWatch (press release) 7city Learning, a leading provider of learning and development solutions for the financial services industry, today introduced the groundbreaking 7cTablet for the 7city Learning CFA training program for the June 2012 sitting. The 7cTablet provides CFA ...

BenchPrep™ Introduces OpenPrep To Enhance Online and Mobile Learning Courses San Francisco Chronicle (press release) BenchPrep, the education technology company that creates interactive and social learning courses for web and mobile, announced the release of OpenPrep, a new feature that augments thousands of open educational resources including Wikipedia articles, ...

Malloy: Education Effectiveness Data Lacking in Higher Ed CT Newsjunkie by Hugh McQuaid | Nov 29, 2011 5:30am As next year's education-focused legislative session approaches, the state will have to address a lack of adequate data about how well higher education teaching programs are working, Gov. ...

Teachers take to streets to oppose proposed education cuts Yakima Herald-Republic 28, 2011 to let passing motorists know of possible cuts to the state's educationbudget. The teachers staged both a morning and afternoon picket at the intersection of 16th Avenue and Summitview Avenue. Teachers rallied throughout the Yakima Valley and ...

Students Take Teachers' Pay into Own Hands Indiana's NewsCenter “It's been proven that merit-based pay doesn't help get rid of bad teachers or improve test scores,” Saunders said. “The way the system is now works better because I believe with more experience they will have better teaching techniques and be a better ...

Why are teachers getting a €22m rise? Herald.ie By Cormac Murphy TEACHERS are to receive pay increases of almost €22m next year, while other parts of the education budget will be slashed, it has emerged. More than 30000 teachers will get the increments as part of measures agreed by the last ...

Teaching Strategies Introduces Get Fit! Kit Based on the Recommendations of ... Sacramento Bee Teaching Strategies' Get Fit! Kit offers a variety of research-based resources and activities that can easily be integrated into any early childhood program and shared with families. The Kit directly supports teachers' efforts to follow the Let's Move ...

Education officials plan 4-hour state reading exams for 3rd through 8th grade ... New York Daily News BY Ben Chapman Teachers and parents criticized the state's plan to extend reading tests for students in grades 3 to 8 as excessive. A plan to nearly double the length of state reading exams to more than four hours over back-to-back days was flunked ...

Abstinence-only education does not lead to abstinent behavior, UGA researchers ... Red and Black The paper indicates that states with the lowest teen pregnancy rates were those that prescribed comprehensive sex and/or HIV education, covering abstinence alongside proper contraception and condom use. States whose laws stressed the teaching of ...

The Answer Sheet | Dilemmas for early childhood Washington Post (blog) They're essential for establishing reasonable expectations or benchmarks for teaching and for deciding which curriculum to follow.And they're fundamental to conducting meaningful assessments. In some ways, you could say that we can't live — or at ...

The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) Accredits Capella ... MarketWatch (press release) Capella University is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA), www.ncahlc.org . Capella University, Capella Tower, 225 South Sixth Street, Ninth Floor, Minneapolis, ...

Chilean government's education budget passes Chamber of Deputies over students ... Washington Post SANTIAGO, Chile — The Chilean government's 2012 education budget won legislative approval Friday by a three-vote margin in the Chamber of Deputies. The center-left opposition lined up against the measure, but the support of three independent deputies ...

State Department of Education rejects Martin County school district's ... WPTV The state Department of Education has rejected an agreement between the Martin County School District and the local teachers' union on a teacher evaluation process required for the district to draw money from a $1.3 million federal grant. ...

Teachers on strike - your guide to school closures Horncastle Today PRIMARY and secondary schools are due to close on Wednesday, December 30 as teachersparticipate in the nationwide public sector strike over changes to pensions. Gartree Community School in Tattershall, Tattershall Primary School and St Lawrence School ...

Can education policy be used to fight crime? | vox - Research-based ... This column argues education policy should be part of the answer. Exploiting a Swedish education reform as a source of exogenous variation in years of education, it suggests that one additional year of schooling decreases the likelihood of ... VoxEU.org: Recent Articles

Jeff DeGraff: It's Education, Stupid (Not Taxes) By Jeff DeGraff It's easy to cut education because it's a latent form of value -- it pays sometime in the future. Innovation requires the ...  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com

State Board of Higher Education deciding on whether to oust ... By The Oregonian The State Board of Higher Education is voting on whether to renew the one-year contract of University of Oregon President Richard Lariviere. He was told last week that the board would not renew his contract. Portland News

Professional Learning Deserves Professional Pay : NEA Today By twalker You can bet this tend identified by NAEP won't be publicized by many so-called education “reformers” who have targeted pay differentials for teachers with advanced degrees as pretty much a waste of money. ... The National Education Association (NEA) believes that attaining advanced degrees professionalize teaching as a career and should be recognized as a form of professional development that improves a practitioner's skill and knowledge to improve student learning. “I was a... NEA Today

Well, I'm Back: Moves In Computer Science Education By Robert Apparently there is a push in the UK to replace teaching of business software in schools (what one might refer to as "IT education") with teaching of programming (which I might refer to as "CSeducation"). That would be a very good move. ... Well, I'm Back

Sex Education Game Privates Wins BAFTA | GamePolitics By james_fudge Sex Education Game Privates Wins BAFTA. November 28, 2011. Indie game studio Size Five Games has won a BAFTA for controversial sex education game, Privates. The game won the Learning Secondary BAFTA. "It's a complete honor and ... GamePolitics blogs

MercatorNet: Is American higher education cheating students? ... Tuesday, 29 November 2011 tags : higher education, liberal arts ... It is true as well that many (certainly not most) professors are scholars as well as teachers and therefore attempt to avoid heavy classroom schedules in favor of research and writing. By 2005, lower cost and .... Arum and Josipa Roksa. The authors document lax standards in the classroom, and report that 36 percent of students experienced no significant improvement in learning after four years of higher education. ... MercatorNet

Richard Lariviere tells higher education board that strong ... By The Oregonian The State Board of Higher Education took testimony from supporters but eventually voted to end his contract. Oregon Education

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