By Owen R. Smith, The Oregonian
With bursts of humor that had the audience in the Taylor Meade Performing Arts Center laughing at unexpected moments, Dr. Yong Zhao explained to more than 100 eager listeners what he thinks is wrong with American education — and ...Zhao, who donated his time with the caveat that the community work together on the event, finished his speech with one last piece of wisdom: “If after 12 years, your student is still laughing and happy, you’ve succeeded.”
Washington County News
Plan Your Free Online Education at Lifehacker U: Spring Semester 2012
Lifehacker
Whether you're in school and getting ready to head back for the spring semester, or you're out of school and just want to keep learning and growing, there are an incredible amount of free, university-level courses that become available on the web every ...
School ICT to be replaced by computer science programme
BBC News
Other experts voiced concerns about a shortage of teachers qualified to deliver the new curriculum. Bill Mitchell, of British Computing Society, said: "It is tremendous that Michael Gove is personally endorsing the importance of teaching computer ...
BBC News
US Education Secretary Cautions New York on Race to the Top
WGRZ-TV
The state Education Department provided training and materials on the reform agenda, recruited 1819 additional teachers through alternative certification and set up a $40 million support fund for struggling schools, the federal report said. ...
Apple Announces Education Event On January 19 In NYC
TechCrunch
Apple has always been bullish when it came to supporting education, and that trend continues with the announcement of an education event on January 19 at New York's famous Guggenheim Museum. The company's most recent school-friendly efforts included ...
Virginia Governor Unveils 2012 Education Reform Agenda
Sacramento Bee
By American Federation for Children WASHINGTON, Jan.10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell yesterday announced an expansive education reform agenda for the 2012 legislative session that is poised to significantly expand ...
Mouldy homes drive teachers from Ontario First Nation
CBC.ca
"And it is a tragedy that these students are now being denied their basic human and legal right to education because the government can't provide teachers safe and healthy living conditions." Donnelly added the mould in the teachers' homes needs to be ...
CBC.ca
McGraw-Hill Education Expands Investment in Personalized Digital Learning
Sacramento Bee
The report states that interactive and engaging teaching sparks creative learning and that frequent real-time assessment enables effective personalized learning. Additionally, a McGraw-HillEducation study announced last week, reported that students ...
Teachers jump off the fast track
The Age
Research published in the US education journal Phi Delta Kappan last year showed 40 per cent of Teach for America teachers left teaching after their two-year commitment and more than half left their initial placements in low-income schools. ...
The Age
Apple promises 'education announcement' in New York on January 19th
Engadget
Granted, this one -- slated to be held January 19th at the Guggenheim Museum -- is packing far fewer implications than the Verizon iPhone event of 2011, but suffice it to say, anyone who enjoys "learning" should be tuning in later this month. ...
Meet Andrew Cuomo, the education governor
Crain's New York Business
Andrew Cuomo railed against the teachers' union and accused Assembly Democrats for putting their interests over those of schoolchildren. The US Department of Education has warned that New York may be one of three states to lose hundreds of millions of ...
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to Keynote SXSWedu 2012 Conference
Sacramento Bee
Our attendees represent education professionals including teachers, administrators and university professors, and also business, industry and policy leaders who all share a keen interest in modernizing teaching and learning. Content strands at SXSWedu ...
Bridgepoint Education Unveils New THUZE Learning Platform at CES 2012
Sacramento Bee
"We've seen tremendous interest and great feedback at our booth today, and we're looking forward to demonstrating the power of collaborative learning here at CES for the rest of this week." BridgepointEducation, a provider of innovative solutions that ...
ChildCare Education Institute Online Professional Development Completions ...
Sacramento Bee
11, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- ChildCare Education Institute (CCEI), an IACET approved, nationally accredited, distance training institution dedicated exclusively to the child care industry, is proud to announce that its students have completed more than ...
Education reform dominates Branstad's legislative goal list
Clinton Herald
The plan would call for increased standards for teaching applicants, an emphasis on literacy programs for young students and the establishment of a fund to help promote innovative learningpractices. The $25 million in reforms would be implemented ...
K-12 teachers, workforce get governor's emphasis in address
Black Hills Pioneer
And investing in teachers goes to the bottom line of education … that is making certain that our kids are learning and not just passing,” Nelson added. “This program appears to work to identify and reward the best teachers, while providing a benchmark ...
Colorado Education Department to vote on rules to raise standards for online ...
Denver Post
The state board of education is expected to vote on the rules today. Those new rules would establish new quality standards for online schools and make them subject to the same scrutiny as the state's other schools when they don't meet those standards. ...
NetCom Learning Featured Alongside MIT in Financial Times Feature Story About ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The media giant Financial Times had NetCom Learning CEO Russell Sarder weigh in on why unemployment has remained high while the job vacancy rate has increased. NEW YORK, Jan. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Despite a high unemployment rate, ...
Alameda County Board of Education Unanimously Denies Charter School Petition
Patch.com
Derek Austin, General Legal Counsel for the Tri-Valley Learning Corporation, responded by saying the commute from east Dublin to the current high school takes a toll on the potential productivity of Dublin students and teachers. ...
Archipelago Learning's Study Island Receives Readers' Choice Award from ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Our supplemental product offerings facilitate the evolution of education as technology transforms the learning experience. For more information, please visit us at www.archipelagolearning.com . Study Island is a fully-digital rigorous supplemental ...
Jindal makes education reform top task
American Press
That will pit Jindal's reform mission against the state's teachers union, a battle of epic proportions that will surely equal, if not overshadow, the BCS showdown in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome Monday night. Noticeably absent in Jindal's speech, ...
American Press
Groups call for teachers to be fired after math lesson outrage
WLTZ 38 NBC
That four of the nine third grade classes received those questions which were reportedly an attempt at cross-curriculum teaching. Using what children are learning in social studies to do math problems. But the subjects were slavery and beatings. ...
Fourier Education Introduces TERRA NOVA™ - Solar & Wind Renewable Energy ...
Sacramento Bee
FourierEDU.com), a global pioneer in the science education technology industry, announced today the launch of its TERRA NOVA - Solar & Wind Renewable Energy Science Kits. TERRA NOVA is designed to provide teachers and students with the tools needed to ...
Legislative breakfast addresses concerns of teachers in NHC
WECT-TV6
During the first ever legislative breakfast, elected officials got to hear about the issues that are holding back the progress of education in New Hanover County. Both teachers and lawmakers who attended Wednesday's breakfast agree that while things ...
Teachers strike the focus of packed, heated school board meeting
phillyBurbs.com
Superintendent Louis Muenker announced at the outset that unofficial word from the state Department of Education indicates that the current work stoppage must come to an end by Jan. 19, with schools reopening Jan. 20. There must be 180 student days ...
ICF to support federal education efforts
Boston.com
Consulting and technology services provider ICF International has been awarded a five-year contract worth nearly $33 million to support federal education efforts. The Fairfax-based company said Wednesday that it will lead the Institute of Education ...
Zion-Benton teachers head back to school after strike
Chicago Tribune
James Wolfinger, a DePaul University history and education professor who specializes in labor issues, said many teachers are hesitant to strike because they know that taxpayers in their communities continue to struggle with the effects of the economic ...
Bellevue University Tops U.S. News Ranking of Online Teaching and Student ...
Sacramento Bee
Bellevue University is a recognized national leader in providing post-secondary educationopportunities for working adults. A private, non-profit institution, Bellevue University serves students atlearning sites in three states, as well as worldwide ...
Teaching and Tutoring Jobs Abound at Leading In-Home Tutoring Provider WyzAnt.com
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
When hiring tutors through WyzAnt, parents and students can easily review the local tutor profiles that include detailed background information, education, customer reviews, photos, blogs and more. Other useful tools include real-time background checks ...
Teachers Demand DOE Fire Bronx High School Principal Over Lewd Comments
NY1
Teachers rallied on Tuesday for a Bronx principal to be fired after investigators found he made inappropriate remarks to female staffers. NY1's Education reporter Lindsey Christ filed the following report. A report by the Department of Education Office ...
NY1
The American Spectator : Education's Medicaid Problem
By RiShawn Biddle
More bad news for privileged public employee teachers. ... Bring education out of the government funded and PAC supported arenas and the power to choose their child's method of learning back to the families who really care about their kids. Defund the DOEs, limit the Unions and remake America great, ... Look at any major public school system and you will find that administrative personnel numbers have increased far faster than teaching personnel. Often they are former teachers ...
The American Spectator and The...
Tom Vander Ark: Is Online Learning One Third Cheaper?
By Tom Vander Ark
There should be a couple of robust learning platform ecosystems two years from now. Like me, the report is optimistic that technology will take some of the drudgery out of teaching (grading, reporting, etc) and will allow teachers to spend more ...
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed
Word of the Day | satire - The Learning Network - New York Times
By By THE LEARNING NETWORK
About The Learning Network. The Learning Network provides teaching and learning materials and ideas based on New York Times content. Teachers can use or adapt our lessons across subject areas and levels. Students can respond to our ...
The Learning Network
Obama's State Department Offers 'World Class' Education in the U.S. ...
By Pamela Geller
More preferential treatment for the "special class." It galls me that my taxpayer dollars are going to fund this. Sick. Hillary Clinton Offers 'World Class' Education in the U.S. to Women from Muslim Countries CNS (hat tip Craig) The U.S. ...
Atlas Shrugs
iPad has potential as programming teaching tool, if Apple would let it ...
By Erica Ogg
Forward-thinking educators are looking to the iPad as a cheap, powerful and creative learning tool. Some use it specifically to ... But his latest passion is his foundation, the Westminster Institute for Science Education. Through it, one of the ...
GigaOM
UK to reintroduce computer science teaching in schools – Computer ...
By Matthew Humphries
Jan. 11, 2012 - The amount of technology each of us use in our day-to-day life is growing every year, and yet, in the UK at least, we haven't been teaching children about. ... Michael Gove, educationsecretary for the UK government, is today going to announce ICT is being scrapped in schools and in its place a computer science curriculum will be taught. So learning about applications is out, learninghow to make those applications is in. Such news should be met with celebration ...
Geek.com
Apple Announces January 19 "Education Event" in New York - Peter ...
By Peter Kafka
So that resolves a couple of questions about what Apple and Eddy Cue are up to this month. And leaves plenty of others. Start up the speculation machine again!
AllThingsD
There will never be a real national sex education standard, but let's ...
By By KJ DELL'ANTONIA
A group of advocates for sexuality education in schools, including the Sexuality Information andEducation Council of the United States, Advocates for Youth and Answer, have joined forces and worked with “40 individuals from the fields of ...
Motherlode
Should teachers own their learning? | Ideas and Thoughts
By Dean Shareski
What if school districts and school administrators trusted teachers to let them direct their own PD? What if the ideas of personalized learning and students owning their learning was applied toteachers? These are questions I ask as I wonder ...
Ideas and Thoughts
Lifehacker
Whether you're in school and getting ready to head back for the spring semester, or you're out of school and just want to keep learning and growing, there are an incredible amount of free, university-level courses that become available on the web every ...
School ICT to be replaced by computer science programme
BBC News
Other experts voiced concerns about a shortage of teachers qualified to deliver the new curriculum. Bill Mitchell, of British Computing Society, said: "It is tremendous that Michael Gove is personally endorsing the importance of teaching computer ...
BBC News
US Education Secretary Cautions New York on Race to the Top
WGRZ-TV
The state Education Department provided training and materials on the reform agenda, recruited 1819 additional teachers through alternative certification and set up a $40 million support fund for struggling schools, the federal report said. ...
Apple Announces Education Event On January 19 In NYC
TechCrunch
Apple has always been bullish when it came to supporting education, and that trend continues with the announcement of an education event on January 19 at New York's famous Guggenheim Museum. The company's most recent school-friendly efforts included ...
Virginia Governor Unveils 2012 Education Reform Agenda
Sacramento Bee
By American Federation for Children WASHINGTON, Jan.10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell yesterday announced an expansive education reform agenda for the 2012 legislative session that is poised to significantly expand ...
Mouldy homes drive teachers from Ontario First Nation
CBC.ca
"And it is a tragedy that these students are now being denied their basic human and legal right to education because the government can't provide teachers safe and healthy living conditions." Donnelly added the mould in the teachers' homes needs to be ...
CBC.ca
McGraw-Hill Education Expands Investment in Personalized Digital Learning
Sacramento Bee
The report states that interactive and engaging teaching sparks creative learning and that frequent real-time assessment enables effective personalized learning. Additionally, a McGraw-HillEducation study announced last week, reported that students ...
Teachers jump off the fast track
The Age
Research published in the US education journal Phi Delta Kappan last year showed 40 per cent of Teach for America teachers left teaching after their two-year commitment and more than half left their initial placements in low-income schools. ...
The Age
Apple promises 'education announcement' in New York on January 19th
Engadget
Granted, this one -- slated to be held January 19th at the Guggenheim Museum -- is packing far fewer implications than the Verizon iPhone event of 2011, but suffice it to say, anyone who enjoys "learning" should be tuning in later this month. ...
Meet Andrew Cuomo, the education governor
Crain's New York Business
Andrew Cuomo railed against the teachers' union and accused Assembly Democrats for putting their interests over those of schoolchildren. The US Department of Education has warned that New York may be one of three states to lose hundreds of millions of ...
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to Keynote SXSWedu 2012 Conference
Sacramento Bee
Our attendees represent education professionals including teachers, administrators and university professors, and also business, industry and policy leaders who all share a keen interest in modernizing teaching and learning. Content strands at SXSWedu ...
Bridgepoint Education Unveils New THUZE Learning Platform at CES 2012
Sacramento Bee
"We've seen tremendous interest and great feedback at our booth today, and we're looking forward to demonstrating the power of collaborative learning here at CES for the rest of this week." BridgepointEducation, a provider of innovative solutions that ...
ChildCare Education Institute Online Professional Development Completions ...
Sacramento Bee
11, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- ChildCare Education Institute (CCEI), an IACET approved, nationally accredited, distance training institution dedicated exclusively to the child care industry, is proud to announce that its students have completed more than ...
Education reform dominates Branstad's legislative goal list
Clinton Herald
The plan would call for increased standards for teaching applicants, an emphasis on literacy programs for young students and the establishment of a fund to help promote innovative learningpractices. The $25 million in reforms would be implemented ...
K-12 teachers, workforce get governor's emphasis in address
Black Hills Pioneer
And investing in teachers goes to the bottom line of education … that is making certain that our kids are learning and not just passing,” Nelson added. “This program appears to work to identify and reward the best teachers, while providing a benchmark ...
Colorado Education Department to vote on rules to raise standards for online ...
Denver Post
The state board of education is expected to vote on the rules today. Those new rules would establish new quality standards for online schools and make them subject to the same scrutiny as the state's other schools when they don't meet those standards. ...
NetCom Learning Featured Alongside MIT in Financial Times Feature Story About ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The media giant Financial Times had NetCom Learning CEO Russell Sarder weigh in on why unemployment has remained high while the job vacancy rate has increased. NEW YORK, Jan. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Despite a high unemployment rate, ...
Alameda County Board of Education Unanimously Denies Charter School Petition
Patch.com
Derek Austin, General Legal Counsel for the Tri-Valley Learning Corporation, responded by saying the commute from east Dublin to the current high school takes a toll on the potential productivity of Dublin students and teachers. ...
Archipelago Learning's Study Island Receives Readers' Choice Award from ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Our supplemental product offerings facilitate the evolution of education as technology transforms the learning experience. For more information, please visit us at www.archipelagolearning.com . Study Island is a fully-digital rigorous supplemental ...
Jindal makes education reform top task
American Press
That will pit Jindal's reform mission against the state's teachers union, a battle of epic proportions that will surely equal, if not overshadow, the BCS showdown in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome Monday night. Noticeably absent in Jindal's speech, ...
American Press
Groups call for teachers to be fired after math lesson outrage
WLTZ 38 NBC
That four of the nine third grade classes received those questions which were reportedly an attempt at cross-curriculum teaching. Using what children are learning in social studies to do math problems. But the subjects were slavery and beatings. ...
Fourier Education Introduces TERRA NOVA™ - Solar & Wind Renewable Energy ...
Sacramento Bee
FourierEDU.com), a global pioneer in the science education technology industry, announced today the launch of its TERRA NOVA - Solar & Wind Renewable Energy Science Kits. TERRA NOVA is designed to provide teachers and students with the tools needed to ...
Legislative breakfast addresses concerns of teachers in NHC
WECT-TV6
During the first ever legislative breakfast, elected officials got to hear about the issues that are holding back the progress of education in New Hanover County. Both teachers and lawmakers who attended Wednesday's breakfast agree that while things ...
Teachers strike the focus of packed, heated school board meeting
phillyBurbs.com
Superintendent Louis Muenker announced at the outset that unofficial word from the state Department of Education indicates that the current work stoppage must come to an end by Jan. 19, with schools reopening Jan. 20. There must be 180 student days ...
ICF to support federal education efforts
Boston.com
Consulting and technology services provider ICF International has been awarded a five-year contract worth nearly $33 million to support federal education efforts. The Fairfax-based company said Wednesday that it will lead the Institute of Education ...
Zion-Benton teachers head back to school after strike
Chicago Tribune
James Wolfinger, a DePaul University history and education professor who specializes in labor issues, said many teachers are hesitant to strike because they know that taxpayers in their communities continue to struggle with the effects of the economic ...
Bellevue University Tops U.S. News Ranking of Online Teaching and Student ...
Sacramento Bee
Bellevue University is a recognized national leader in providing post-secondary educationopportunities for working adults. A private, non-profit institution, Bellevue University serves students atlearning sites in three states, as well as worldwide ...
Teaching and Tutoring Jobs Abound at Leading In-Home Tutoring Provider WyzAnt.com
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
When hiring tutors through WyzAnt, parents and students can easily review the local tutor profiles that include detailed background information, education, customer reviews, photos, blogs and more. Other useful tools include real-time background checks ...
Teachers Demand DOE Fire Bronx High School Principal Over Lewd Comments
NY1
Teachers rallied on Tuesday for a Bronx principal to be fired after investigators found he made inappropriate remarks to female staffers. NY1's Education reporter Lindsey Christ filed the following report. A report by the Department of Education Office ...
NY1
The American Spectator : Education's Medicaid Problem
By RiShawn Biddle
More bad news for privileged public employee teachers. ... Bring education out of the government funded and PAC supported arenas and the power to choose their child's method of learning back to the families who really care about their kids. Defund the DOEs, limit the Unions and remake America great, ... Look at any major public school system and you will find that administrative personnel numbers have increased far faster than teaching personnel. Often they are former teachers ...
The American Spectator and The...
Tom Vander Ark: Is Online Learning One Third Cheaper?
By Tom Vander Ark
There should be a couple of robust learning platform ecosystems two years from now. Like me, the report is optimistic that technology will take some of the drudgery out of teaching (grading, reporting, etc) and will allow teachers to spend more ...
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed
Word of the Day | satire - The Learning Network - New York Times
By By THE LEARNING NETWORK
About The Learning Network. The Learning Network provides teaching and learning materials and ideas based on New York Times content. Teachers can use or adapt our lessons across subject areas and levels. Students can respond to our ...
The Learning Network
Obama's State Department Offers 'World Class' Education in the U.S. ...
By Pamela Geller
More preferential treatment for the "special class." It galls me that my taxpayer dollars are going to fund this. Sick. Hillary Clinton Offers 'World Class' Education in the U.S. to Women from Muslim Countries CNS (hat tip Craig) The U.S. ...
Atlas Shrugs
iPad has potential as programming teaching tool, if Apple would let it ...
By Erica Ogg
Forward-thinking educators are looking to the iPad as a cheap, powerful and creative learning tool. Some use it specifically to ... But his latest passion is his foundation, the Westminster Institute for Science Education. Through it, one of the ...
GigaOM
UK to reintroduce computer science teaching in schools – Computer ...
By Matthew Humphries
Jan. 11, 2012 - The amount of technology each of us use in our day-to-day life is growing every year, and yet, in the UK at least, we haven't been teaching children about. ... Michael Gove, educationsecretary for the UK government, is today going to announce ICT is being scrapped in schools and in its place a computer science curriculum will be taught. So learning about applications is out, learninghow to make those applications is in. Such news should be met with celebration ...
Geek.com
Apple Announces January 19 "Education Event" in New York - Peter ...
By Peter Kafka
So that resolves a couple of questions about what Apple and Eddy Cue are up to this month. And leaves plenty of others. Start up the speculation machine again!
AllThingsD
There will never be a real national sex education standard, but let's ...
By By KJ DELL'ANTONIA
A group of advocates for sexuality education in schools, including the Sexuality Information andEducation Council of the United States, Advocates for Youth and Answer, have joined forces and worked with “40 individuals from the fields of ...
Motherlode
Should teachers own their learning? | Ideas and Thoughts
By Dean Shareski
What if school districts and school administrators trusted teachers to let them direct their own PD? What if the ideas of personalized learning and students owning their learning was applied toteachers? These are questions I ask as I wonder ...
Ideas and Thoughts
'Lesson Study," Japanese Strategy For Improving Teachers ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
[We've been] doing lesson study more than 100 years in Japan," says Toshiakira Fujii, a premier professor of math education in Japan who was among those teachers observing at Prieto. "But lesson ... As Chicago shifts to new "common core" learning standards, advocates hope lesson study might play a role in helping teachers teach to the more rigorous standards. ..... US teachers can study Japanese teaching techniques until they're blue in the face and it won't improve our schools. ...
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Apple Plans Education Announcement for January 19 - GalleyCat
By Jason Boog
Apple Plans Education Announcement for January 19.
GalleyCat
Teaching - Cognitive Edge
Teaching. when_masters.gif It's not often a month goes by without one Gaping ... maths at sixth form as two separate subjects we had two very different teachers. ...
www.cognitive-edge.com/blogs/dave/2012/01/teaching.php
Classroom Tech Learning, Education, PC, Mac, iPad, Bloom's ...
The Resource for Education Technology Leaders focusing on K-12 educators. Site contains a Software Reviews Database, articles from Technology & Learning ...
techlearning.com/index.aspx
Follow @eSummaCom
By The Huffington Post News Editors
[We've been] doing lesson study more than 100 years in Japan," says Toshiakira Fujii, a premier professor of math education in Japan who was among those teachers observing at Prieto. "But lesson ... As Chicago shifts to new "common core" learning standards, advocates hope lesson study might play a role in helping teachers teach to the more rigorous standards. ..... US teachers can study Japanese teaching techniques until they're blue in the face and it won't improve our schools. ...
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Apple Plans Education Announcement for January 19 - GalleyCat
By Jason Boog
Apple Plans Education Announcement for January 19.
GalleyCat
Teaching - Cognitive Edge
Teaching. when_masters.gif It's not often a month goes by without one Gaping ... maths at sixth form as two separate subjects we had two very different teachers. ...
www.cognitive-edge.com/blogs/dave/2012/01/teaching.php
Classroom Tech Learning, Education, PC, Mac, iPad, Bloom's ...
The Resource for Education Technology Leaders focusing on K-12 educators. Site contains a Software Reviews Database, articles from Technology & Learning ...
techlearning.com/index.aspx
Follow @eSummaCom
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