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| Online Learning? Choice, Yes. But a Good One? New York Times Sounds like a winning formula for transforming public education and achieving success in children with nontraditional means. Not so much. As Stephanie Saul reports in The New York Times on Tuesday, there are serious questions about whether online ... | ||
| Teachscape's Professional Learning Suite Wins ComputED Gazette's 16th Annual ... Sacramento Bee The online Professional Learning Suite helps teachers and instructional leaders deepen their understanding of academic content and strengthen effective teaching strategies. The EDDIE Awards target innovative and content-rich programs and websites that ... | ||
| Teaching Channel Starts Search for Chief Development Officer PR Newswire (press release) "The person who fills this position must be energized by our start-up environment, and passionate about inspiring teachers, advancing education, and ultimately improving student learning in the classroom." For this position, Tch is looking for a ... | ||
| State unveils education accountability model Rapid City Journal The South Dakota Department of Education newly proposed accountability model for schools and teachers is available online at http://doe.sd.gov/secretary/documents/ProposedAccountabilityModel.pdf. Public comments can be made. ... | ||
| Teaching in a Diverse America: It's the Relationships That Matter Huffington Post (blog) Culturally responsive teachers work with children and their families to discover the cultural "funds of knowledge" that might be used as the basis for all kinds of new learning. For example, a teacher in California's Central Valley impressed Teaching ... | ||
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| Time to revalue teaching The Australian The problem is not just that we lack comparable metrics for teaching performance or studentlearning that could be used to target redundancies. But this was the rationale offered by TertiaryEducation Minister Chris Evans for the $240 million cut in ... | ||
| Florida graduation rates soar, but there's a catch Tampabay.com By Ron Matus, Times Staff Writer The Florida Department of Education announced a record-high graduation rate of 80.1 percent Monday, prompting school districts around the state to celebrate. But experts say take the numbers with a grain of salt. ... | ||
| New Teaching With Brian Selznick Website Launches With a Virtual Field Trip to ... Sacramento Bee Paired with the virtual field trip are activities for each stop on the tour to help students and teachers further explore the subject matter through science, language arts, social studies and art resources and activities. Additionally, the new Teaching ... | ||
| Vt. teachers union files complaint over $300000 Boston.com BENNINGTON, Vt.—A month after teachers in a Vermont school district ratified a new contract following a strike, their union has filed a complaint with the state saying the school board is taking too long to make $300000 in adjustments to their ... | ||
| Learning Tree International Expands IT And Management Training To Houston And ... TheStreet.com (press release) Those attending management and IT training in Houston and Dallas will experience the same high-quality learning environment offered at other Learning Tree Education Centers, including state-of-the-art hardware and software, expert instructors, ... | ||
| Madrasa Education- What's the Reality Behind It? The News International (blog) Now, what curriculum and syllabi is being followed in these centers of education, and the credibility and qualifications of the teachers hired to teach there has a dubious identity However, whether the curriculum is in synchronization with the running ... | ||
| Local teachers' union leaders said they're encouraged by preliminary ... Oshkosh Northwestern Several education unions, including those in Oshkosh and Omro, won't vote to recertify until next fall because they successfully negotiated one-year contract extensions last spring. But, “I personally think it's encouraging. ... | ||
| Gov. Herbert's budget plan gives education boost St. George Daily Spectrum Education was a particular focus in Herbert's budget, as he recommended $111 million in new money for public education, including $40.6 million for an anticipated 12500 new students and a 1 percent pay raise for teachers - the first pay increase they ... | ||
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| 5 DeSoto teachers gain National Board Certification Memphis Commercial Appeal By Chris Van Tuyl The newest class of more than 6000 national board-certified teachers includes five from DeSoto County Schools. Recently attaining National Board Certification, considered the gold standard for teaching excellence, were Southaven ... | ||
| Sheldon Kennedy tells US Senators more education needed to fight abuse Vancouver Sun He cited the need for tougher legislation, minimum sentences for perpetrators and a federal approach to prevention education. "We have learned that social change takes time and has to occur at both the grassroots level and from the government on down," ... | ||
| Education Needs - Talking Stories on iPhone and iPad With Pictello Sacramento Bee Teachers, parents and kids can use it to create talking picture books and develop literacy and narrative skills. Kids with special needs can use it to communicate, teachers and parents to facilitate comprehension or develop learning supports. ... | ||
| Appleton teachers question handbook language Appleton Post Crescent The proposal would allow administrators to consider past teaching experience, practical background, additional training and other factors when picking the best candidate. Teachers hoping to move to another assignment would have to go through an ... | ||
| Santa Claus Gives Children a Love for Math, Says Whizz Education Expert San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Getting kids excited about learning math is a gift that will last long after the holidays are over and Santa Claus can help, according to Kevin Judd, Vice President of Whizz Education, creator of the award-winning, online math tutor, Math-Whizz. ... | ||
| Has the Baltimore Teachers Union contract lived up to its promises? Baltimore Sun (blog) Other teachers said that the ultimate impact the contract will have is worth the wait. District and union officials maintain that the contract will still revolutionize the teaching profession in Baltimore city, encouraging teachers to do and earn more. ... | ||
| YouTube launches education-only site, won't teach evolution of ... By James Trew YouTube launches education-only site, won't teach evolution of dance (video). By James Trew posted Dec 12th 2011 10:12PM ... Well, in the VHS era teachers had control, but now it's a minefield. With its wealth of knowledge, YouTube is an ... Engadget | ||
| Teaching Law - NYTimes.com By By STANLEY FISH Stanley Fish on education, law and society. ... But learning the tricks would not amount to much and might well be impossible for someone who did not know — in a deep sense of know — what the trade is and why it is important to practice it. ... Opinionator | ||
| Turnstyle: Will More Latino Teachers Solve The Latino Achievement ... By Turnstyle We cannot just match Latino teachers up with Latino students, but we have to help them be critical about their own ideologies." Alfredo Rodriguez, Alumni Affairs Coordinator at Teach for America in the Bay Area, who went through the teaching ... The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com | ||
| SPECIAL REPORT: The Future Of Learning By Dan Frommer The Future Of Learning, Transformed By Software. The education and learning industries, like most, should be profoundly transformed by software and technology over the next decade. It may happen slower than some fields, such as media, ... SAI | ||
| YouTube for Schools versus Schools' Web Filters | Hack Education By Audrey Watters Google's philanthropic arm has helped fund Khan Academy and the company has embraced the idea of educational video production, kicking off another YouTube endeavor earlier this year called YouTube for Teachers. That program helps teachers learn to make ... Codecademy and the Future of (Not) Learning to Code 28. Oct, 2011. universityofphoenix150 University of ... Code Academy:Teaching Chicago How to Build Web Apps 10. Dec, 2011. Ed-Tech Weekly News Roundup: ... Hack Education | ||
| Fashola's war on education But today politics is having a reversed role with education. And today the Area Boys syndrome has waxed so strong that they are even a threat to the ruling “godfathers”. A case in point is the current court case involving Lagos State and the ... Vanguard News | ||
| Learning not brands - Pontydysgu – Bridge to Learning ... By Graham Attwell “Open Educational Resources: A guide for teachers” is a web, PDF, and print guide focused on OER for teachers at the basic education level. It was created to fill a gap in ... Our Wikispace for teachingand learning. Sounds of the Bazaar Radio ... Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning | ||
| The Best Comic Strips For Students & Teachers In 2011 | Larry ... By Larry Ferlazzo …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL ... Another strip reformers who have little (if any) direct experience in education but have unhelpful ideas — and the power to push them. A little information can be dangerous. The difference, of course, is that ... Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... | ||
| Instapundit » Blog Archive » HIGHER EDUCATION ... By Glenn Reynolds HIGHER EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENT TRIES TO REFORM ITSELF: But, in general, the visions of innovation offered up by panelists—more online learning, greater engagement with public schools, new forms of financial aid—were far from ... Instapundit
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