US Department of Education's Learning Registry will be accessible for free through PBS LearningMedia

PBS LearningMedia to Offer Schools Initial Access to US Department of ... MarketWatch (press release) WASHINGTON, Nov 07, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- In a move that brings vast digital educational resources together for teachers to use in the classroom, content shared through the US Department of Education's Learning Registry will be accessible for free through PBS LearningMedia ... http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/

Help Students Run the Numbers on Higher Education's Worth: View San Francisco Chronicle Cities with high levels of education have correspondingly high incomes, which help attract more educated newcomers, and higher-paying employers, in a dynamic, virtuous economic circle. But despite many pockets of excellence, the US higher- education ...

Friends and foes unite to praise MP who fought for education New Zealand Herald Although Labour later abolished bulk funding, he remained a strong advocate of performance pay for teachers after he entered Parliament, despite being unable to push National into another battle with the education unions. ...

Higher Education Professionals Meet at the Next Generation Education Summit to ... Sacramento Bee By GDS International The Next Generation Education summit - which took place from 1 st to 3 rd November at The Homestead, Hot Springs, Virginia - provided leading executives with an ideal framework for new business relationships to flourish. ...

Tenn. Board of Education Alters Teacher Evaluation Program Education Week News One change is aimed at streamlining time-constrained principals' meetings with teachers both before and after they conduct multiple personal observations of educators' classroom performance. Another seeks to make sure the personal observation scores ...

Focus on standardized tests may be pushing some teachers to cheat Los Angeles Times Her principal criticized her teaching and would show up to take notes on her class. She knew the material would be used against her one day. "My principal told me right to my face that she — she was feeling sorry for me because I don't know how to ...

What's Waiting for the Winners in Trenton? Education Reform NJ Spotlight Meanwhile, a key player in the election is not on the ballot but may prove as potent as any: the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA), the statewide teachers' union. The union's PAC has spent more than $1 million on a combination of individual races ...

Capella Education Company: Value Plus Growth Opportunity Seeking Alpha Capella Education Company (CPLA) was founded in 1991 in Minnesota as an education institution targeting working adults. By 1993 the company was offering doctoral and master's degrees through distance learning programs, and by 1995 CPLA had begun ...

Philadelphia group plans Holocaust education center on the Parkway ... Philadelphia Inquirer A member of the Consortium of Holocaust Educators of Greater Philadelphia, which is advising the foundation, Friedman said the proposed center had won broad support among the region's museums and teaching institutions on the Holocaust. ...

Ambow Education to Announce Third Quarter 2011 Earnings Release on Monday ... Sacramento Bee With its extensive network of regional service hubs complemented by a dynamic proprietary learningplatform and distributors, Ambow provides its services and products to students in 30 out of the 31 provinces and autonomous regions within China. ...

Future Teachers Prepare for Classrooms Filled with New Technology Twin Falls Times-News Fox led her students in a discussion Friday centered around one question — “What role should technology play in education?” Some students said online classes are a detriment to learningbecause there are distractions and the format may not mesh well ...

Is student loan, education bubble next? CBS News 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? Some experts have raised the possibility. Last summer, Moody's Analytics pronounced fears of an ...

W.Va. aiming to protect LGBT students from bullies The Associated Press The civil rights group Fairness West Virginia lauds the enumeration of reasons why children are bullied as "a landmark achievement" that effectively provides political and legal cover to teachers, counselors and others who might hesitate to intervene ...

American Capital Invests $10 Million in Second Lien Term Loan Financing to ... MarketWatch (press release) The Company's products are found in more than 70000 schools across the US and are designed to accelerate learning and improve test scores by providing students practice of essential skills, specifically writing, reading and math, and helping teachers, ...

Dayton Public Schools Selects Fast ForWord Software to Provide Reading ... MarketWatch (press release) As a result, learners can realize achievement gains of up to two years in as little as three months, and maintain an accelerated rate of learning even after the programs end. Funded through the federal government's Race To The Top education funding ...

BJ Gallagher: Street Dharma: Teaching Meditation to the Homeless By BJ Gallagher We will be living, learning and practicing together. Or, if you'd like to support our ...  The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed

Study finds California science education lacking — and teachers ... Forty percent of the California elementary teachers surveyed for the study say they spend 60 minutes or less teaching science each week. The research blames the pressure to score well on standardized tests in English ... Elk Grove Unified elementary students get 60 to 80 minutes of science instruction a week, depending on age, said Anne Zeman, director of curriculum and professional learning for the district. The focus on science is in the fourth through sixth grades at Twin Rivers ... mcclatchydc.com: Nation

Are Public School Teachers Underpaid? « Jay P. Greene's Blog By Jay P. Greene The “wage gap” disappears when teachers and non-teachers are compared using objective measures of cognitive ability, as opposed to years of university education. Beyond paper qualifications, comparisons of public school teachers to their ... Jay P. Greene's Blog

Jane's Pick of the Day: Key social learning resources: part 10 By Jane Hart I have just returned from Las Vegas where I hosted the Management Xchange stage at DevLearn, so this week I am going to link to 3 presentations that were given by Internet Time Alliance principals during that time that focused on the topic of ... Jane's Pick of the Day

Fun Techniques for Teaching Your Kids to Read | Made by Joel By Joel Come join a pretty great discussion here on the Facebook Page, for some wonderful methods and ideas on teaching your kids to read. There are some really great comments coming in, and we'd love to hear any of your ideas, too. ... Made by Joel

2012-13 Teacher Education STEM Scholarship Program, USA ... By team Scholarship Description: The Virginia Space Grant Consortium (VSGC) offers the Teacher EducationSTEM Scholarship Program to encourage talented individuals to consider education careers in science, technology, engineering, and math ... College Scholarships, PhD Scholarship...

Conversations Episode 111 - Evaluating Teachers | EdTechTalk By mariaknee After a bit of a rocky start due to issues with LiveStream, today's Conversation was about howteachers should be evaluated. What is the ideal teacher evaluation method? What should be done? How would you like to be evaluated? ... EdTechTalk

Top 4 Stocks In The Education & Training Services Industry With The ... By Monica Gerson Below are the top education & training services stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of dividend yield. Ambassadors Group Inc (NASDAQ: EPAX) has a dividend yield of 5.30%. EPAX's shares closed at $4.50 on Friday. ... Benzinga - Stock Market Quotes,...

Coaching Courses : NSCAA Education Home » Education » Coaching Courses. Coaching Academy ... www.nscaa.com/education/courses SLIDESHOW: English Learning Center draws students from all corners of the world KENS 5 TV There are also students who have already been through training at the English Learning Center and who have returned to continue their education in order to spearhead English learning programs in their own countries. On a recent weekday, five students ... Classroom Management Help for New Teachers with Book Series from Responsive ... Sacramento Bee Northeast Foundation for Children, Inc. (NEFC), a not-for-profit organization, was established in 1981 by elementary school educators who envisioned a way of teaching that would bring together academic and social learning throughout the school day. ... Oshkosh teachers union requests alternatives to $4.6 million budget cuts Oshkosh Northwestern Oshkosh Education Association leaders said the cuts disproportionately affect middle and high school teachers and could result in the shedding of around 67 educators. The union leaders met over the weekend to discuss the cuts and sent a letter to ... Career Education Shares Plunge, as CEO Resigns; Bellwether for Education Stocks? Forbes Shares of Career Education Corp. (NASDAQ:CECO) lost half their value last Wednesday and continued to decline last Thursday in the wake of regulatory scrutiny by the federal government and the resignation of the company's CEO. ... Science and Maths: Let Education Ministry decide The Sun Daily “There must be proper plans in terms of training of teachers, teaching materials and allocation of periods for affected subjects to raise the standard of English among students for all categories of schools,” he said. Dong Zong (United Chinese School ... Learning Circle Improves K-12 Student Performance With Information Builders ... MarketWatch (press release) Nationwide Insurance developed the application in conjunction with Learning Circle EducationServices, using Information Builders' BI and enterprise integration technology to gather the raw data, transform it into applicable information, and present it ... Review school education Times of India Despite the government's massive investment in primary education, teaching and learning in rural India is far from perfect. A recent study conducted by the ASER Centre in collaboration with Unicef and Unesco, points out the critical challenges in rural ... Nation's education system doesn't make the grade The Blue Banner And that means improving our education system, not demolishing it. President Obama is still pushing his American Jobs Act, and part of that act includes a $30 billion proposal to keep teachers in classrooms. That would be nice after the massive layoffs ... Even Math Teachers Struggle to Understand Fla. Value-Added Formula Education Week News "We don't have evidence that this approach is going to improve teaching and learning," said Douglas Harris, an expert on value-added modeling at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of the 2011 book Value-Added Measures in Education: What ... Learning the language of fitness Reuters Teaching a client a brand new movement is hard enough without having the verbiage going on.'" Stolz thinks most clients can learn a new movement on their own. The right amount of coaching speeds up the process, but too much inhibits it. ... Second Editions of Todd Whitaker Bestsellers Feature More Strategies for ... Sacramento Bee By Eye On Education LARCHMONT, NY, Nov. 7, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- In two newly revised editions published by Eye On Education, Whitaker offers even more accessible strategies fo rteachers and principals that are not subject to finite trends in ... Canada Supports Global Education MarketWatch (press release) In 2010, CIDA assisted the Mozambique Ministry of Education to distribute newly revised textbooks, student workbooks, and teacher manuals to more than 3.5 million primary school students andteachers. In Bangladesh, CIDA and its partners contributed to ... Follow @eSummaCom