Education Run by the States? #ABadIdea Huffington Post (blog) Shifting power from the federal to state governments isn't the solution to education reform in America. It's a bad idea and it will only make a quality K-12 public school education for all children an unreachable ideal. Steve Jobs attended public ... | ||||
Will teaching Pearl Harbor and WWII history be banned in Arizona? Tucson Citizen These 4 people have no excuse now to keep going after the MAS program and its director andteachers, except for good ol' fashioned racism. Based on Tom Horne and John Huppenthal's logic, they should agree with this ban if they want consistency also. ... | ||||
Teachers earn National Board certification Martinsville Bulletin “The process encouraged me to honestly critique my teaching and pushed me to look at new ways of doing things to improve student learning.” The National Board certification process takes about one year to complete. Teachers begin by creating a ... | ||||
Some lessons for virtual learning Boston.com (blog) I hear so many people tell me that VL is going to decimate teachers unions, address low- (poor, underachievers) and high-end achievement gaps, fix budget problems, make testing a thing of the past, make learning student-centered (some see this as an ... | ||||
My View: Education's Battle at Wounded Knee CNN (blog) Providing states with waivers from the accountability that testing brings will not improve teaching and learning in America's public schools. No Child Left Behind is the boldest public education policy of our generation. It's exactly what I expected to ... | ||||
Scott's proposed budget would increase education spending in some areas Florida Independent In August, Scott said at a gathering for conservative politicians and organizations that his administration has done four things in education: eliminate more teacher tenure; pay teachersbased on standardized test results; support and increase charter ... | ||||
Education Management Should Face Recruitment Suit, US Says BusinessWeek 8 (Bloomberg) -- Education Management Corp., the second-largest US for-profit college chain, should be forced to defend a lawsuit alleging its recruiting policies helped the company wrongfully secure more than $11 billion in student aid, ... | ||||
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Social Networkers Bet on Education as Next Frontier BusinessWeek The entrepreneurs-turned-venture capitalists today led a $15 million investment in Edmodo, a freelearning site for teachers and students that claims almost 5 million registered users. The cash pile, from Greylock Partners and Benchmark Capital, ... | ||||
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Novi Teachers Use Late-Start Days to Align Curriculum, Assessment Patch.com On the first late-start day this year, all the teachers studied an article by Richard DuFour, a retired superintendent from Illinois and a national expert in PLCs. His PLC model focuses on the idea thateducation should concentrate on students learning ... | ||||
Discovery Education and OPEI Expand TurfMutt Science Program to Reach K-5 ... MarketWatch (press release) With these resources, teachers can emphasize the benefits of landscaping in balance with local environments, and instill a new appreciation for environmental issues. About Discovery Education Discovery Communications ... | ||||
Officials Praise New Teachers' Contract Patch.com However, the certified salary line in this year's education budget, which includes salaries for teachers, administrators, the superintendent and other staff with certification such as guidance counselors and social workers, totaled roughly $25 million. ... | ||||
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Teachers voice concerns, legislators talk immigration law at forum News Courier She asked Republican lawmakers to quit political in-fighting with the Democratic-led Alabama Education Association. “It disturbs me how teachers are being treated in the state of Alabama,” she said. “Right now there are children in Athens City Schools ... | ||||
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Career Education Directors Sued Over Placement-Rate Reports BusinessWeek 7 (Bloomberg) -- A Career Education Corp. investor sued the for-profit college operator's board for failing to ensure the accuracy of reported job-placement rates used to determine federal tuition funding eligibility. The shareholder, Kharran Bangari, ... | ||||
Parents Hold Teachers Hostage In France Huffington Post The parents are angry about the quality of education their children are receiving and aim to get one teacher fired, the paper reports. Notre-Dame de Caderot is located in Berre l'Etang in southern France. "We are very worried that the pupils are ... | ||||
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Communications Guru Jason Falls Urges Teachers to Embrace Social Media in the ... PR Newswire (press release) If they have bad grammar, punctuation and spelling, it has nothing to do with texting; it has to do with their education." Falls' conversation with Katrina Allen, program director of 21st century learning at St. Philip's Academy, is available for free ... | ||||
Cengage Learning Named to 2011-2012 EContent List of 100 Digital Companies ... PR Newswire (press release) 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cengage Learning, a leading global provider of print and digital teaching, learning and research solutions, today announced that it was named to EContent magazine's list of 100 companies that matter most in the digital content ... | ||||
Teaching Ventures Catch the Programming Wave - Jessica E ... By Jessica E. Vascellaro Many of the investors want to cash in on a technology-driven sea change in learning that will allow consumers to cultivate a broad array of skills online and help ease Silicon Valley's talent crunch. Treehouse Island Inc. launched last month ... AllThingsD | ||||
The import of civic education | Harvard Gazette In recent years, civic education, an important element for democracy to flourish, has fallen to the public schools, universities, and colleges to provide, said Peter Levine, director of the Center forLearning and Engagement and research director at Tufts University's Jonathan Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service. “There used to be a ... Getting people to act on ideals is a key to making such teaching relevant. “If we get ... Boston Public School teachers go back to class. What do ... Harvard Gazette | ||||
On 'Punched Out' - The Learning Network - New York Times By By JENNIFER CUTRARO and HOLLY EPSTEIN OJALVO The Learning Network - Teaching and Learning With The New York Times ... Health. Teaching ideas based on New York Times content. See all in Health » · See all lesson plans ». Dec. 8, 9:15 a.m. | Updated. Overview | In this lesson, students ... Note to Teachers | The source material for this lesson deals with violence and drug addiction. OtherEducation Resources at The Times. Education Life.. The Learning Network | ||||
Van Roekel Announces Plan to Strengthen Teaching Profession ... By twalker National Education Association (NEA) President Dennis Van Roekel today laid out a new action agenda for the nation's largest organization of educators that will help transform the teaching profession and accelerate student learning. ... The net effect of these initiatives will be to increase the quality of teacher candidates, make sure that teachers remain at the top of their game throughout their careers, and to improve student learning by helping educators become leaders in their ... NEA Today | ||||
Democurmudgeon: Teachers in Walker's Ads face Criticism, and ... By Democurmudgeon “I have sat by for my 14 years and have been saddened by the amount of non-learning that is allowed to take place in our school. The unions are destroying public education and it makes me sick … “I just don't fit in the education system. ... Democurmudgeon | ||||
Teaching Moments: On Accountability, Love & Patience « The Crunk ... By rboylorn At the start of the semester I warn my students that learning about diversity and various methods and strategies for communicating about and across difference can be challenging. I tell them that when your concrete ideologies are compared ... The Crunk Feminist Collective
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