Education predictions for 2012

10 education predictions for 2012
Washington Post (blog)
Strategies to use technology as a transformative tool in education will take a backseat as for-profit online learning charlatans and the Khan Academy take up the tech money and the media space. 10. As I did last year, I'm borrowing this last one from ...

The Year in Education: Seven Innovations Changing the Way the ...
This year's education innovations focused on technology, leadership, and creative thinking. From the expansion of free college courses to teachers becoming entrepreneurially minded leaders, these are the .... City Year: Learning to Read ...
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Teachers trump Coalition under pay rise loophole
The Age
The pay rise will affect the state's 45000 government teachers and teachers in the Catholic system, which has 16420 teaching and non-teaching staff. Ms Bluett said all other terms and conditions in the expiring agreement would remain until a new deal ...

The Age

Parliament fails to approve even a single education bill
Hindustan Times
Not just the Lokpal bill, many important government legislations including education bills piloted by HRD minister Kapil Sibal and pending for over six months failed to get clearance of Parliament. of Technology and Education Tribunal --- that were ...

Just 17 teachers struck off for incompetence in 10 years
ParentDish UK
The sanction from the General Teaching Council for England prevents failing teachers from applying for another job in education after being asked to leave a school because of poor performance. The Coalition has proposed overhauling the system by ...

NEWSMAKERS: Teachers recertify union in wake of Budget Repair Bill
Fond du Lac Reporter
Fond du Lac Education Association President Hedy Eischeid, a fifth grade teacher at Evans Elementary School, works with student Collin Kurtz in her classroom. / Aileen Andrews/The Reporter This is the 11th — and final — in a series of year-end ...

Chile Education Minister Felipe Bulnes resigns
BBC News
Mr Bulnes is the second education minister to resign since President Pinera took office in March 2010. His predecessor Joaquin Lavin stepped down in July in the face of massive protests by students and teachers that closed many schools and universities...

BBC News

Medical teachers resume agitation over pay issues
Times of India
These scales are much higher than those given to medical teachers despite the fact that they work for public health in addition to their teaching duties. The doctors have also raised the issue that the pay ceiling applicable to central government ...

Education Roundup: Teachers Should Tread Lightly When Teaching Politics
U.S. News & World Report (blog)
By US News Staff Welcome to the new High School Notes weekly roundup of education news. Every Friday, you'll find out what's making headlines around the Web. With the Republican presidential campaign in full swing, history and government teachers have ...

Callista Gingrich debuts music education video
Washington Post (blog)
By Amy Gardner MASON CITY, Iowa — Callista Gingrich, the wife of presidential contender Newt Gingrich, is debuting a video this week in which she pushes an issue near and dear to her heart: musical education. But the video does more than reveal a ...

TAL Education Group to Announce Third Quarter of Fiscal Year 2012 Financial ...
Sacramento Bee
TAL Education Group, which operates under the brand "Xueersi," is a leading K-12 after-school tutoring service provider in China associated with high teaching quality and outstanding student academic performance. Its tutoring services cover the core ...

Local teachers receive national certification
Parkersburg News
Mary Blaker, Connie Bowers, Lisa Coleman, Corinne Full and James Stewart all received the certification, which is the highest credentials available in the teaching profession. The names of this year's National Board Certified teachers were announced by ...

Virtual Teachers Provide Lessons on the Go
Sci-Tech Today
"The presentation of workflow is the real strength of video-oriented teaching." For example, Video2brain offers an app that is not just for use underway, but for practicing new or learning a programming language at one's desk. ...

In education, it's all about dollars and cents
Chicago Sun-Times
We've also learned that no matter how much self-styled education “reformers” claim otherwise, the always-demonized teachers unions are not holding our education system back. As the New York Times recently noted: “If unions are the primary cause of bad ...

Inside Education: 2011 School News
Leesburg Today
Teachers, administrators, students and local representatives gathered for a dedication ceremony in October. They honored the school's namesake J. Michael Lunsford, who worked for the school division for 41 years before he passed away from a stroke in ...

Survey Finds Education Grantmakers Getting More Strategic in 2011
Education Week News
based WK Kellogg Foundation has found this year, said Alandra Washington, the foundation's deputy director of education and learning. One of the larger members of the association, the Kellogg Foundation finances education and other community ...

Arts education: preparing today's students for creative thinking and evolving ...
Pomerado Newspaper Group
By Kevin Yaley, Head of Francis Parker School In his best-selling work entitled A Whole New Mind, writer Dan Pink explains that today's educators must change their approach to arts in education in order to effectively prepare students for life in the ...

New Year's Eve: Education about designated drivers has helped
Quincy Herald Whig
"There's more education now about designated drivers," said Slough, a registered nurse who for more than 20 years has been the director of emergency services at Hannibal (Mo.) Regional Hospital. Unfortunately, New Year's Eve is hardly without incident ...

MIT's new learning platform points to future of higher ed
The Boston Globe
Meanwhile, MITx also represents an important milestone for distance learning, an idea once seen mainly as a mere substitute for face-to-face education but has promise all its own. To its great benefit, Boston has been deeply invested in a model of ...

New Teachers Reflect on Teaching in 2011
Huffington Post (blog)
To wind down 2011, we asked some first-year public school teachers to tell us what they've learned now that they have some experience in the classroom. Some of them are traditionally trained with advanced degrees in education. ...

Rwanda: Recruitment of Teachers of English Is Welcome
AllAfrica.com
The Government bid to recruit teachers from the East African Member states, to teach English Language and Literature is welcome. The development of English teaching is critical at this time of the country's regional integration in the East African ...

Domestic policy chief starts, leaves amid crises
Chicago Sun-Times
She tops that list with the early work to stabilize the economy, 21 months of consistent job growth and the president's long-term investments in education overhaul, an area that became her specialty. “Our work on education reform, it'll be part of this ...

Artist enjoys teaching, and continues learning
Gulf Coast Newspapers
Jan Vining can be seen flitting about the gallery, answering questions or teaching art classes. The petite brunette said she enjoys helping and learning from other artists while she immerses herself in her first love, and second career. ...

Santorum for Higher-Education Czar
National Review Online (blog)
By Jay Schalin It seems one of the Republican presidential candidates is going after the higher-education-reform vote. Rick Santorum didn't hold anything back with these comments at an Iowa speech: “Let's look at colleges and universities,” Santorum ...

MERCER: Three ideas for education
Daily Republic
From those examples, programs and plans can be built for South Dakota teachers and schools . K-12 teachers could head to the university campuses in the summer, and video-conferencing could be used to link the university centers and schools throughout ...

St. Michael-Albertville Teachers Recognized by TIES
Patch.com
Ryan is always willing to be a technology resource and leader for the staff in his building. Histeaching is a great example of how the tools of technology can have a positive impact on studentlearning at the middle level.

Schools marred by testing scandals in 2011
USA TODAY
His investigation eventually persuaded the state Education Department to take up the matter. Its 44-page report, issued in September, found "sufficient credible evidence" of cheating, finding that teachers got test questions ahead of time, ...

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State of Education: Reviewing 2011 and looking ahead to 2012
YNN
We caught up with state Education Commissioner John King for a little insight. First on the list of discussion: funding of the January state regents exams. For the past year, they were funded through private donations, but this year it's a little ...

Larry Ferlazzo: Education-Related Predictions for 2012
By Larry Ferlazzo
As the 2012 presidential election nears, and the polls show a Romney/Obama contest as a nail-biter, the Obama Administration will offer a "fall surprise" to teachers by offering states waivers to No Child Left Behind requirements that don't have the "poison pills" of rules and costs that their ... Strategies to use technology as a transformative tool in education will take a backseat as for-profit onlinelearning charlatans and the Khan Academy take up the tech money and the media space. ...
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Chile Protests: Education Minister Felipe Bulnes Steps Down
By The Huffington Post News Editors
SANTIAGO, Chile -- Chile's student protest movement claimed its second education minister on Thursday as Felipe Bulnes stepped down, citing personal reasons, and conservative President Sebastian Pinera named a replacement. Chile's ...
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Wrong on Education
By Downes
Nor, in the case of bizarre approaches to teaching math, is it just that those in charge of oureducation system are themselves intellectually incapable of understanding basic principles of math (i.e. 'division' in math doesn't involve conflict and doesn't need to be called 'sharing,' which is a different .... Perhaps he should view this video about 21st century learning in New Brunswick (from his comments we have to judge that he has never seen it). ... Sure - depend on the teachers, he says. ...
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On-demand learning | Onlignment
By Clive Shepherd
We move on to look at the third element in the contextual model, on-demand learning. To refresh our memories, on-demand learning is a form of 'learning to'. It occurs because we don't know how to perform a particular task and therefore need ...
Onlignment

Profile of a learning architect: Dick Moore | Clive on Learning
By Clive Shepherd
In this final profile, we look at the work of a learning architect who has worked within what is very much a top-down learning environment and on a very large scale. Dick's work at learndirect helped ....Dick Moore has worked as an educational technologist for 30 years and now runs his own company Moore Answers Ltd, an IT interim/consultancy and change management house that is particularly keen on charities, education systems and infrastructure. Dick was until May 2010 Director ...
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Pay Teachers More, Get Better Outcomes? Seriously? : Lawyers ...
By Dave Brockington
The second mechanism is more subtle – namely that improving teachers' pay improves their standing in a country's income distribution and hence the national status of teaching as a profession. As a result of this higher status .... The way this works today is that if you have 20 years experience in business, even if that includes 10 years in as a courseroom teacher in that business, you have to start at the bottom of the pay scale when you move to public education. This has two really bad ...
Lawyers, Guns & Money

FUNcube at Science Education Conference | Southgate Amateur ...
AMSAT-UK will be demonstrating the potential of the FUNcube satellite as a teaching tool at the Association of Science Education Conference, January 5-7, 2012. The ASE exists to provide support and ideas for school science teachers in the ...
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USA Today June 2012 Report – Distance Learning: From the Margin ...
By mkbnl
In collaboration with the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA), Mediaplanet Publishing is producing a 12-page report dedicated to introducing and promoting online education to current and new learners to be distributed via ...
Virtual School Meanderings

MIT to Offer Free Online Education | Kansas City News | fox4kc.com ...
By Sarah Clark
Education for free? From M.I.T? Yes. The Massachusets Institute of Technology announced it will offer a free online learning initiative called MITx. The program offers online interactive learningopportunities to anyone in the world -- all free of ...
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2011 Lesson #4 Mixed Mode learning – the way ahead | Connected ...
By sharris
Blended learning should not be reduced to an efficiency drive to deliver education via rotated methods, even if it allows for teachers to move to a preferred coach or mentor mode. It could be so much more. I have decided that I am not about to ...
Connected Principals

PM calls for increase in public health education | Dominica News ...
By admin
Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit is calling for an increase in public health education. In an end of year Government Information Service interview, he said a national plan to address chronic non communicable diseases (CNCDS) must place ...
Dominica News Online

Education CEO urges speedy implementation of policies : Kaieteur ...
By KNews
Minister Manickchand also made reference to the delayed availability of lab chemicals and other materials, which according to some teachers have been hindering their teaching efforts. This dilemma, she assured, will become a thing of the ...
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Education, Creative Thinking, Open Education Resources

Sailing the Shift in 2012

By Ana Cristina Pratas

Throughout 2011, anyone who spends time online will have witnessed the increased focus on leadership in education, creative thinking, the spreading of Open Education Resources (e.g. MIT Open Course Ware , Open Culture, among many ...

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Education, disrupted: MIT to offer free, online courses to all
SmartPlanet.com (blog)
Beyond the MIT campus, MITx will endeavor to break down barriers to education in two ways, according to program organizers. First, it will offer the online teaching of MIT courses to people around the world and the opportunity for able learners to gain ...

Can crowdsourcing shake up education?
Reuters
Among the best known is Edmodo, a social learning network for teachers, students and parents that allows grades and homework to be assigned and submitted online. Launched in 2008, Edmodo now has 4.8 million users and in December secured a second round ...

New York City education funds hang on teacher rating deal

New York Daily News
City education officials trekked a dozen blocks from Tweed Courthouse to teachersunion headquarters on Wednesday to save millions in federal funds threatened by a deadlock over teacher evaluations. The union and city have until Sunday to reach an ...

New York Daily News

Education - 2012 is Year for Action
AllAfrica.com
The expectation is that more effort would be put towards a better pension scheme, free medical care and a federal bursary for trainee teachers next year. At the basic education level, Nigerians would love to see the practicability of some of the 9 ...

Teaching is just another way to pay the bills
Times of India
Principals say that in recent years they have noticed a steady deterioration in the quality of candidates applying for teachers posts in schools. They are concerned that the profession, rather a calling, is losing its lustre. Teaching was considered a ...

Teachers' union warns reluctance to exclude leaves classrooms 'terrorised' by ...
Scotland Courier
A teaching union has claimed some Scottish schools are too reluctant to exclude problem pupils. By Grant Smith, education reporter The Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association said the result is staff and well-behaved pupils being ''terrorised'' by ...

Learning From Brilliant Mistakes
Forbes
Specifically, that means using criteria to rank mistakes — such as low cost, quicklearning, and extending the bounds of what managers think is possible. This is the sort of thing that is a matter of course for start-ups but very difficult for large ...

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Teachers contract okayed
Concord Monitor
Hall said Bow residents have a strong history of supporting education, but clearly communicating the teachers' needs and drawing voters to the meeting will be a challenge. "We have to do our homework," she said. "We have to make sure that the ...

Microsoft Learning Paths, Customized By QuickStart, Provide Roadmap to IT ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
QuickStart Intelligence, the largest Microsoft Gold Learning Partner in the western United States, has introduced their exclusive QuickStart Intelligence Learning Paths to make it easy for these professionals to chart the roadmap to their future. ...

Education minister plans to fix Alberta's aging schools
Calgary Herald
By Matt McClure, Calgary Herald December 29, 2011 6:31 AM Education Minister Thomas Lukaszuk hopes to announce an ambitious plan early next month to replace decaying schools in established neighbourhoods and build additional facilities in fast-growing ...

During radio appearances, Christie says 2012 focus will be on education
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
He made several radio appearances this morning where he continued his push to end unused sick-time payouts for public workers and looked ahead to his educationagenda in 2012. TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie continued his push to end unused sick-time ...

The Star-Ledger - NJ.com

Czech Education Ministry faces EU subsidies suspension
Czech Happenings
Prague - The payment of EU subsidies to the Czech Education Ministry will be probably temporarily suspended as the European Commission's audit found out mistakes in the placing of public orders in the Education for Competitiveness programme, ...

Czech Happenings

Jobs, education, health care top list of Hispanic concerns
Winston-Salem Journal
In it, 66 percent favored allowing illegal immigrants to remain in the country and eventually qualify for US citizenship if they meet certain requirements, such as paying back taxes, learning English and passing a background check. ...

SAU 16, teachers agree on 2-year contract to send to voters
Seacoastonline.com
Teachers work at Exeter High School, Cooperative Middle School, the Seacoast School of Technology and the Alternative Education Program at the Tuck Learning Campus. The current contract outlines a 2.15 percent increase in salaries for year one with an ...

Highlights from 2011: Education
Deseret News
Teachers were hit hard this year with budget cuts, larger class sizes and wider gaps inlearning, but I found countless teachers who were focusing on how they could make a difference in each student's life ?— and many were doing just that. ...

Deseret News

Greycells Education Arm Associates With CUD To Offer EMDI Courses In UAE
NASDAQ
(RTTNews.com) - Greycells Education Ltd. said its wholly-owned subsidiary EMDI (Overseas) FZ LLC. had entered into an association with Dubai Education LLC, which presently operates the Canadian University of Dubai or CUD. The association will offer and ...

Education in 2011: From budget cuts to bad weather
Daily Press
It was a year of budget cuts, bad weather and new leadership in K-12 and highereducation across the Peninsula. Most local districts grappled with budget cuts but managed to eke out small pay raises and minimize layoffs. Some fought legal battles,...

Daily Press

Advertiser Editorial: Learning gains at risk
Montgomery Advertiser
Robert Bentley may prove to be correct when he says that the drop in the number of teachers in Alabama's public schools hasn't hurt student achievement. But he also may be completely off the mark. Years of declining budgets in public education have ...

Ultimate Medical Academy (UMA) Enters Voluntary Education Partnership With ...
Sacramento Bee
29, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Recognized by GI Jobs as a Military Friendly School®, Ultimate Medical Academy (UMA) has been approved for participation in the Department of Defense (DoD) VoluntaryEducation Program. Under the terms of this program, ...

In OpenWorld Learning's after-school program, computers build confidence
Denver Post
OpenWorld chief executive Dean Abrams believes computers can serve as the front door to igniting a more overarching love of learning in students. "What it looks like we are doing is teaching kids computer skills, but what we are really doing is helping ...

See how well your school district pays its teachers, superintendent
Sacramento Bee
Source: 2010-11 Certificated Salary Data, California Department of Education Reader comments on Sacbee.com are the opinions of the writer, not The Sacramento Bee. If you see an objectionable comment, click the "Report Abuse" link below it. ...

Three school districts here will merge teaching efforts
Lancaster Newspapers
But this is the first time districts have collaborated to offer their own courses taught by their ownteachers in online and "live" formats to students from multiple school districts. Tim Eller, spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of Education, ...

UMKC's School of Education receives $1.5M gift
BusinessWeek
The University of Missouri-Kansas City has received a $1.5 million gift to expand its focus on urbaneducation. The money comes from the Sosland Foundation and the Vivian & Hymie J. Sosland Charitable Trust. The Sosland family started Sosland ...

2011 in review, No. 3: Teachers and others protest budget bill
Herald Times Reporter
"Not all of us can go to Madison, so this is a way that we can at least show our support," said Michelle Preussler, chief negotiator for the Manitowoc Education Association. Students at Two Rivers High School staged a brief walk-out on Feb. ...

Can Crowdsourcing Disrupt Education?
By The Huffington Post News Editors
By Deborah L. Cohen - CHICAGO (Reuters) - Former teacher Alex Grodd is betting on social media to solve a big problem in education: how to tap other teachers' hands-on experience for what works in the classroom. His startup, BetterLesson, is leveraging the ... Among the best known is Edmodo, a social learning network for teachers, students and parents that allows grades and homework to be assigned and submitted online. Launched in 2008, Edmodo now has 4.8 million users ...
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Innovation Excellence | Innovations in Digital Learning in 2011
By Tom Vander Ark
As Bob Mendenall of Western Governors University wrote, “Our nation needs greater productivity and higher quality from all our institutions of higher education.” In 2012 ... We wrote about blending online and onsite learning every month including blended CBOs, blended restarts, and reasons teacherslove blended learning. As Bob Wise said at an event during 2011, blended learning is the only possible way to address the academic, teaching and fiscal crisis facing the country. 8. ...
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Immigration, education concern state's Latinos | CJOnline.com
By Andy Marso
Immigration and education are two issues on the minds of Kansas Latinos, who make up 10.5 percent of the state's population, heading into the upcoming legislative session. Kris Kobach, one..... I had similar experiences to yours when I started a teaching career after serving in the Marines in Vietnam era and my students were all white the minority being ones with brown eyes I quit at mid term and told them to sue and put teachers license where sun does not shine . Login or register ...
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Cheesebrow: Musician, Photographer, Music Education « CBS ...
By Sara Boyd
There's no doubt those affiliated with the Twin Cities music scene are proud to be a part of such a distinguished list. It's no wonder so many artists give back to the community that helped nurture their talent.
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The top 5 underreported education stories of 2011 | The Daily Caller
By Joy Pullmann
Some interesting education stories from 2011 that you may have missed. ... But the latest estimates suggest that completely redoing state textbooks, retraining teachers and administrators, and adopting aligned tests will cost something like $30 billion. ...
The Daily Caller

A Teacher's Treasure: Teaching Blog Expo!!!!!!!
By A Teacher's Treasure
Along with AMAZING other teachers & bloggers,. I'll be speaking in the: Everything Primary TeachingExpo on Feb.25th, 2012 - Foldables Factory! Everything Intermidiate Teaching Expo on March 24 - Interactive Student Notebook. Technology ...
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Missouri Education Watchdog
By Anngie
How about if the federal Department of Education and Department of Labor scrutinized your son's academic performance to see if he should be “encouraged” to leave high school early to learn a trade? Would you think the .... Missouri college students and/or union workers may very well belearning violence is acceptable and encouraged behavior in labor disputes. ... Teachers Get Reassigned to the Pep Squad for Commo. ... Thanksgiving and Education: Teaching Gratitude and....
Missouri Education Watchdog

Gov. Christie Bemoans Lack Of N.J. Education Reform In 2011 ...
By ebindelglass
TRENTON, NJ (AP) - Gov. Chris Christie on Thursday said that not getting his proposed public education overhaul through the Legislature is his biggest regret of 2011. The governor wants to implement merit pay for teachers, take away some ...
CBS New York

Two stories from Asia: how education is changing - Microsoft ...
By Microsoft Citizenship Team
SOLS 24/7 – Science for Life (www.sols247.org) is a nontraditional teaching environment. Founded in 2000, in Cambodia, SOLS 24/7 is ... The schools serve as a center for life-long learning for the entire community; a hub for economic and social advancement with micro-loans available for families with kids in the school; and a teacher training facility; where teachers from rural areas can come to enhance their teaching skills. One of the more innovative aspects of the learning ...
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Four game changers
By Steve Wheeler
OLPC is premised on the basis of one child interacting with one free laptop, in many ways a counter to social forms of learning witnessed in communal contexts such as Mitra's Hole in the Wall project. Brechner is one of the few who have actually made OLPC a success, exactly where it ... He makes some stark, incisive remarks about education: 'Stop teaching calculating, and start teaching maths'. He argues that the value chain of knowledge is changing, meaning that knowledge ...
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Teacher Salary Myth -- Are Teachers Underpaid?

The Teacher Salary Myth -- Are Teachers Underpaid? - Forbes: "The real problem is a shortage of good teachers . . . the teachers unions work very, very hard to prevent the public from being able to measure the performance of the teachers whose salaries we pay. However, if one were to design a system from scratch purposefully to promote mediocrity, one could hardly do better than the human resource systems used in public schools. Government schools hire based on certifications rather than ability, pay based on tenure rather than performance, and almost never fire a teacher for any reason other than fiscal problems (and even then layoffs are by tenure). Public school teachers must work in stultifying organizations that have as many as one administrator for every teacher. . . "

Ofsted head calls for local school troubleshooters
BBC News
So it is perhaps unsurprising that Sir Michael sees them reporting directly toEducation Secretary Michael Gove - the man who asked him to be chief inspector of schools. Sir Michael also said scruffy teachers could be rebuked by his organisation,...

BBC News

Higher Education and Research Bill tabled in Rajya Sabha
The Hindu
The government on Wednesday tabled the Higher Education and Research Bill, 2011 in the Rajya Sabha that seeks to establish the National Commission on Higher Education and Research (NCHER), an overarching regulatory body for university education ...

Northern Ireland's education year
BBC News
The Department of Employment and Learning did a deal with the Assembly Executive to peg fees at current rates, plus inflation. So, in keeping with Wales and Scotland, local students who study in their home country will get a better deal than residents ...

BBC News

How Digital Learning Will Benefit Low Income Students
Huffington Post (blog)
As education shifts from a place to a service, social learning groups will extend a culture oflearning beyond traditional classrooms. Teacher social networks are connecting subject areateachers across the country. Reducing the isolation of teachers ...

Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities, Inc. Awarded $25000 Grant From LW ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities (SKLD) recently received a $25000 grant from the Laurence W. Levine Foundation to support SKLD's ongoing programs, including the expansion of its comprehensive website and free e-newsletter. ...

Seattle special ed teachers who refused to give state test lose appeal
Seattle Post Intelligencer
In a decision released Tuesday, the state Court of Appeals for the region unanimously found Seattle Public Schools was right to suspend special education teachers Juli Griffith and Lenora Stahl-Quarto after they refused to have six students take a ...

Fear grips unemployed teachers
The Citizen Daily
Staying at home for yet another year is frightening not only for thousands of young men and women like her, but also to parents, who have heavily invested in their children's education.Dreams of her mother, Hadija, 51, a widow, who is still teaching at ...

A teachers contract that works
Baltimore Sun
The Baltimore City school system as made much progress toward under its new teachers contract. As with any new contract, it takes time for all its provisions to be fully implemented ("Baltimore schools' uncharted waters," Dec. 20). ...

Alabama public schools see loss of 3290 teachers since 2007
al.com (blog)
''If we don't get some help, we're actually going to lose almost 3000 teaching units," he said. He noted that lawmakers, in a bid to make proration less likely, in March passed a law that will cap spending from the Education Trust Fund in the 2013 ...

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Kwanzaa speaker points to education
Buffalo News
Hill said teachers bear a great responsibility for educating these students, but they can't if parents and others in the community don't see to it the students get to the classrooms. "I've got [students] that it's so evident the situations they've got ...

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Why education in emergencies
Reuters AlertNet (blog)
... learning materials need to be replaced and teachers will need to be supported. Many teachershave died in the floods, so there needs to be an influx of new teachers or at least teachingassistants so that the remaining teachers can cope with the ...

Abstinence-Only Education Debate Resurfaces
U.S. News & World Report (blog)
By Jason Koebler A longtime controversial topic on Capitol Hill, the debate over the effectiveness of abstinence-only sex education, has resurfaced. In the 2012 budget, signed by President Obama last week, the House Appropriations Committee set aside ...

Education Management Corp (EDMC) Shares Downgraded to a "Underperform" Rating ...
LocalizedUSA
Education Management Corp (NASDAQ: EDMC) was downgraded by equities research analysts at Zacks Investment Research from a “neutral” rating to an “underperform” rating in a research note issued to investors on Wednesday. ...

Will higher education see a sea change?
Business Standard
11 Bills related to education sector are pending in Parliament. The Foreign Universities Bill is expected to improve quality of education. From news about abolishment of the Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Exam (IIT-JEE) to the pending ...

Viewpoint: Unlocking our potential: Teachers are the key
Muskegon Chronicle - MLive.com
Our great teachers are the torches lighting the way for us all. Rhetoric from the state and our nation's capital have never educated a single child. It is our teachers who know their subject matter, who have a passion for teaching and learning, ...

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Six Ohio Education Stories to Watch in 2012
StateImpact Ohio
But that could change: The Ohio Department of Education is developing rules for evaluating those schools. Let's see if the state legislature takes action. 6. Teachers rising. Hey, remember when Issue 2 was defeated? Ohio teachers financed a large part ...

EDUCATION NOTEBOOK: Stock market game names winning 'investors'
Rapid City Journal
The program incorporates curriculum into the financial experience, teaching students about business, math, economics, personal finance and investing. At the end of the 10-week trading session, Philip had the highest ending portfolio with $143631, ...

Education campaign to focus on early childhood learning
The Telegram
A $100000 contract to produce a multi-media education campaign to highlight the connection between play-based activities and early childhood learning has been awarded to WaterWerks Communications Inc. of St. John's, the provincial government announced ...

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Education digest
STLtoday.com
ILLINOIS SCHOOLS > State ranks high for board certified teachers • Illinois ranks third nationally for the number of teachers who achieved National Board Certification this year, according to the state. The National Board for Professional Teaching ...

Seven Education Leaders to Watch in Tallahassee
StateImpact Florida
Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson — He's only been on the job a few months but he's already set a tone. Robinson disregarded the recommendations of a panel of educators, business leaders and others and recommended a higher required score on the ...

StateImpact Florida

Legislature must make wise decisions about education
Anniston Star
Education reform is said to be a top priority for the Republican majority. That's good; Alabama's schools need improvement in areas such as how they are funded, how much is spent on them, how they train, hire and retain teachers, and how they produce ...

Matthew Resnick: Changing Education in an Ever-Changing World
By Matthew Resnick
Teaching historical events without citing modern relevance is missing a powerful point that could potentially transform the value of history, as well as current events, in the eyes of students. Teachersbecome major influences on the lives of students, and their ability to transform their education and help them become knowledgeable and prepared citizens is incomparable to anything money can buy.... Teach students why history isn't just in the past, and what learning is really about. ...
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Bricks, Mortar, and Education, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of ...
By Arnold Kling
Every education would be ad hoc. It would be student-directed toward the job market she's aiming for. Gordon argues that book stores and retail stores in general should take of up less space and hold less inventory. Along the same lines, ...
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Poughkeepsie to meet education commissioner's deadline; Yonkers ...
By Cara Matthews
However, settlements by December 31st are impossible considering that both Yonkers Federation ofTeachers and the Yonkers Council of Administrators are unavailable until the end of holiday break, January 2nd. “Commissioner King's ...
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StartUp: Learning Entrepreneurism – New Course at CU Boulder ...
By Brad Feld
As entrepreneurship in Boulder continues to grow, Boulder Digital Works is offering a new course with Robert Reich (co-founder of OpenSpace, OneRiot, and the.
Feld Thoughts

D46 explores early childhood education program — Crystal Lake ...
By Lawerence Synett
The blended-method of teaching would give general education preschool students the opportunity to enroll as opposed to using private preschools in the area, Martin said. The district anticipates having 10 to 12 spots for general education ...
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Borepatch: Learning
By Borepatch
Learning. The illiterate of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot read, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. - Alvin Toffler. I had the pleasure of meeting Aretae and his family for dinner a months or so back. They're a ...
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IQ isn't fixed at birth, can increase with education

IQ isn't fixed at birth, can increase with education
USA TODAY
By Steven Reinberg, HealthDay Although time spent in school has been linked with IQ, earlier studies did not rule out the possibility that people with higher IQs might simply be likelier to get more education than others, the researchers noted. ...

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Top 10 Education Stories of 2011
Heritage.org (blog)
Education unions have long been a roadblock to reform. But in a bold move in early 2011, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker limited the power of public sector collective bargaining in his state. Most importantly, Gov. Walker gave teachers a choice: Public ...

The most popular education stories of 2011
BBC News
Academies, free schools, spending cuts, pupil premiums, inspection changes, compulsory subjects, coasting schools, the English Baccalaureate, admissions codes, faith schools, teaching qualifications, all failed to trouble the scorers. The teachers' ...

BBC News

A year in Scotland's education
BBC News
But teachers' more immediate concern is the squeeze on public spending which restricts the availability of computers, text books - and staff. There's been a sharp fall in recent years in the number of teaching posts. Just 16% of those who qualified ...

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Sacramento Teachers' Union Sues District Over Seniority Rights in Layoffs
Education Week News
The Sacramento City Teachers Association's lawsuit comes months after the union fought the district's decision to utilize a seldom used provision in Education Code in order to not layoffteachers at six persistently low-performing schools. ...

Teacher makes learning fun, but watch out for the fires
Indianapolis Star
“He's probably one of the most creative teachers I've ever seen in my life,” said Creekside Principal Tom Harmas. / Kelly Wilkinson / The Star Education: Majored in wildlife biology at Auburn University; earned teaching degree from Indiana ...


Grading teachers takes more than test scores
Baltimore Sun
Personally, I firmly believe teachers' salaries should be based on tenure and their performances should be evaluated by committees appointed by the school system including some supervisors and principals who would visit the teachers' classrooms and ...

Zimbabwe: Better Year for Education Sector
AllAfrica.com
Payment of incentives to teachers and lecturers helped in diffusing tension between government and the teaching fraternity. The incentives, however, courted a fierce debate with one group calling for their immediate removal on the grounds that the ...

Six Education Bills to Watch in the Florida Legislature
StateImpact Florida
By John O'Connor The week between Christmas and New Year's is something of a slow news week for education reporters. But lawmakers return to Tallahassee next month, so we'll spend a few days getting you up to speed on what to expect this legislative ...

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HSU professors strive to adapt new methods of teaching
Times-Standard
While it may work for some, research shows that engaging, interactive learning leads to lasting success in college students. Implementing these new methods of teaching is not a simple process, but Humboldt State University is home to a growing dialogue ...

Give public education your vote
Corpus Christi Caller Times
These cuts have been the deepest to public education since World War II. Who will be around to clean up the mess? The data is now coming in after living with these budget cuts during the fall semester of 2011. Teachers and school employees are telling ...

New education commissioner's 'listening tour' makes stop in Colchester
Reminder Newspapers
The “administrative stuff happens in the background, but it shows in the teaching,” said Bacon Academy senior Joshua Kvasnik, one of two non-voting student members of the Board of Education. He and fellow student, BOE member Emily Boucher, ...

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Dr. Will Thalheimer Named Keynote Speaker at Nexlearn's Immersive Learning ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Dr. Will Thalheimer to present at NexLearn's Immersive Learning University Conference and Symposium held in New Orleans January 18-20 2012 Dr. Will Thalheimer will present at NexLearn's Immersive Learning University's Conference and Symposium, ...

Nigeria: Free Education for Madalla Blast Orphans
Myjoyonline.com
The Nigerian Minister of Interior Abba Moro Monday announced Federal Government's free education plan for children who lost their parents in the Christmas blast at the St. Theresa's Catholic Church in Madalla, Suleja Local Government, Niger State. ...

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Thoughts on Mindful Awareness Practices in Education
Huffington Post (blog)
Jennings says the current educational climate requiring standardized testing, has put tremendous stress on schools, and that programs like MindUP could create a calmer, grounded approach toteaching and learning. "If we don't take the time to help kids ...

Vulnerable Children, Underperforming Schools: The Need for Cross-Agency ...
Huffington Post (blog)
As Congress debates reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), we need to consider how our educational policy priorities will or will not benefit our most vulnerable students. If policymakers are interested in the ...

Public money for private education?
Mount Vernon News
An analysis by the Education Tax Policy Institute determined that HB 136 could create approximately $480 million in new costs for Ohio's education funding system as the bill's provisions are phased in over a very short period of time. ...

Ashworth College Offers Online Resource for Current, Future Early Childhood ...
MarketWatch (press release)
She went on to add "For our students, we wanted to create a comprehensive online learningenvironment where they can interact with others who have similar interests and goals, faculty, and working professionals in the education field. ...

"Teaching is more than a profession; it is what you are."
SouthCoastToday.com
The award — this is the fourth annual — was established to recognize exceptional SouthCoastteachers who have made lasting impacts on their students, in and out of the classroom. "Once again, a number of parents, colleagues and students stepped up to ...

Landrieu Commends Louisiana Education Officials on 'Race to the Top' Win
PoliticalNews.me (press release)
WASHINGTON — US Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., congratulated Louisiana education officials following the announcement that the state was chosen by the US Department of Education as one of seven winners of the third round of its Race to the Top ...

EDUCATION: RIT converting to semesters
Rochester City Newspaper
Since most US colleges and universities operate on a semester calendar, the move will improve RIT's interaction with other higher-education institutions by offering students more opportunities to study abroad, the website says. ...

East Village Principal's Dress Code Deprives Teachers Of Jeans
Gothamist
Uh, they got a taste of what teaching in New York City is like? Two teachers are quoted in the article as supporting the new dress code, with one calling it "a reasonable request" and another saying that teachers "need boundaries. ...

Gothamist

Big honors for top teachers
Pauls Valley Daily Democrat
He graduated from ECU with kinesiology education degree. This is his fourth year of teaching with the first at Mesquite, Texas and the last three in PV. His duties include 6th grade science, varsity cross country, 5th-6th grade athletics, freshmen boys ...

Digi-Comp 1 emulator toy for learning the foundations of computers ...
By Cory Doctorow
Digi-Comp 1 emulator toy for learning the foundations of computers. By Cory ... See also the magnificent CARDIAC, the cardboard teaching computer produced by Bell Labs. ... Read more computer science education submitterator web theory ...
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Standardized Test Results Obfuscate Real Learning
By Wesley Fryer
Listen to Cheryl Beaman and Michelle Barnes describe what their 1:1 learning project did to some of their worst teachers in Grandview, Oklahoma (convinced them to quit) if you're uncertain about this. Technology is a powerful amplifier, and it ...
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Education expert reviews Alaska schools | Washington Examiner
By The Associated Press
An education expert from Columbia University visited Anchorage and Bethel area schools last month and then spoke about what impressed him and things that illustrated problems that schools face across the nation. ... Finally, the teachers also displayed real joy in their role as guides," he added. Abrams also admired the range of programs at the King Career Center and he liked the way Native culture was woven into learning in some schools. He said programs like vocational ...
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My View: The best and worst education events in America in 2011 ...
By Donna Krache, Exec. Producer
Brown dismissed the use of test-score data and complained that a proposed law did not ensure “good character or love of learning.” Brown also truckled to the teachers unions when he signed a law that forced districts with tightening budgets ...
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Students Reflect on Their Own Learning | Edudemic
By Jessie Chuang
More and more teachers have their students reflect on their own learning experience. Jenny Luca (her... My approach to instruction borrows from the thinking of Donald Finkel who believed that teachingshould focus on “providing experience, provoking reflection.” Since I first ... Reflection for Learning by Dr. Helen Barrett is a site to support reflection for learning in education, from early childhood through higher education and into the professions, with many resources. Why to reflect in ...
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Students as teaching evaluators — Joanne Jacobs
By Joanne
... Freelance · Our School · Advertise. You are here: Home / Education / Students as teachingevaluators ... They came into my classroom taking notes, and asking my students what the learningobjective was for the day. “Did I teach my lesson clearly? What are my students saying when asked about their learning?” I wondered nervously. A teacher at a neighboring high school had recruited students to visit classrooms and provide feedback to teachers. Now Wickstead's middle school ...
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Preventing Forced Marriages: It's An Education Issue | Care2 Causes
By Steve Williams
He needs to be backed here in the UK by the Education department, the Minister for Women, local councillors and community programmes so that no child ever again suffers a forced marriage. Plan UK stresses that teachers can be the ones to ...
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