Apple's education event: “On the cusp of something great”
Washington Post
10:12 am: Apple has prepared a video with interviews of teachers explaining the limits of teachingwith traditional textbooks — namely, low student engagetment — and talking about the excitement they see from students when they use the iPad to learn, ...
US education advocates tackle climate change sceptics
New Scientist
To make sure that doesn't change, the NCSE announced this week that it is adding climate change to its portfolio. Until now, the organisation has focused on supporting the teaching of evolution in schools. "Climate change education is kind of where ...
Teachers Deal in Talks
Wall Street Journal
But a deal between state education officials and the union, New York State United Teachers, wouldn't resolve a related dispute between the New York City Department of Education and the city'steachers union, the United Federation of Teachers, ...
Jindal aims high on education overhaul
The INDsider
The governor's proposal also includes putting an end to automatic annual pay raises for teachers and giving superintendents more hiring and firing power, both of which have been strongly opposed byteachers' unions and school boards in the past. ...
Idaho State Board of Education Selects Blackboard to Establish K-20 Platform ...
Sacramento Bee
Under the four-year deal Blackboard, a leading provider of education technology, will provide institutions with its latest solutions for teaching and learning, Web conferencing and mobilelearning. The agreement creates a common platform that will ...
Teachers Turn Out in Force at PEP Meeting
New York Times
By Mary Ann Giordano Hundred of teachers' union members came out to a Panel for Educational Policy meeting on Wednesday night in a demonstration of their anger toward Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and frustration with his education policies. ...
New York Times
Syracuse Expels Education Student for Criticizing Racial Comment on Facebook ...
Huffington Post
This time, Syracuse's School of Education effectively expelled a graduate student from its teachingprogram after he complained on Facebook about a racially charged statement made in his presence by a community leader. Syracuse told Matthew Werenczak ...
Tennessee teachers urge evaluation changes
The Tennessean
The Tennessee Education Association is calling on Gov. Bill Haslam and state lawmakers to revise the state's new teacher evaluation system and throw out the results from this year. TEA President Gera Summerford said Wednesday that this year — the ...
Hawaii teachers head to polls to vote on contract
Boston.com
The results are expected to impact a $75 million Race to the Top grant the US Department ofEducation has placed on "high-risk" status. State education officials say making progress on some reforms has been complicated by a labor dispute. ...
More bread for top teachers
Queens Campaigner
Any of the mayor's suggestions outlined in the State of the City would need to be approved by the powerful United Federation of Teachers. “Historically, teachers unions around the country have opposed rewarding great teaching through merit pay, ...
Missouri teachers could be evaluated on student progress
STLtoday.com
Ann Jarrett, teaching and learning director for the Missouri National Education Association, said the Missouri Assessment Program, the state's standardized test, should not be that measure. It was not designed to evaluate teachers, she said. ...
Buffalo teachers get free plastic surgery courtesy of taxpayers
Syracuse.com
Board of Education member Christopher Jacobs agreed with their frustration, telling the Buffalo News that the way the costs skyrocketed "smacks of abuse." In August, the school board took heat for laying off 117 staff members and was asked to end the...
Syracuse.com
Plan for annual reviews for teachers questioned
DesMoinesRegister.com
Greg Forristall, R-Macedonia, said he worried the provision could force school districts to cutteaching positions in order to hire more administrators certified to conduct employee evaluations. Possible unintended consequences of the legislation were ...
Spalding Education International Releases 6th Revised Edition of "The Writing ...
MarketWatch (press release)
19, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Spalding Education International (SEI) says the just-released 6th revised edition of The Writing Road to Reading gives teachers and parents even more assistance inteaching children spelling, writing, and listening/reading ...
Education funding and reform in Washington state
The Seattle Times
That makes as much sense as evaluating teachers by student achievement tests. If you want better test scores, get richer parents. On average, the reading scores of children from well-to-do homes go up over the summer while the scores of children living ...
Teachers Denounce Mayoral Plan To Remove Educators From Failing Schools
NY1
Up to 1750 teachers from those schools would be removed from their jobs, representing almost 3 percent of the city's teaching force. "Teachers are very upset. They heard the mayor in the State of the City address, they heard what he said last year. ...
NY1
Gov. Christie: I can cut NJ income taxes while boosting state education aid
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Chris Christie said he can institute an across-the-board 10 percent income tax cut and still increase state aid to education. As part of a day-long victory lap Wednesday to promote the ideas unveiled one day earlier in his State of the State address, ...
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Rover Browser for Education Brings New Features to Transform Classroom iPads ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"For teachers using iPads, Flash has been the missing piece, but now, with Rover, teachers can, without switching technologies, seamlessly include web-based interactivity in their daily learningstrategies," said Karen Marshall, ...
Teachers buzz over Apple education announcement
Globe and Mail
On Thursday, teachers especially will be paying close attention. At 10 am ET, the iPad-maker is set to make an unspecified announcement about education, which has plugged-in teachers buzzing. While some are excited about the learning potential of...
Globe and Mail
Perdue renews push to temporarily restore sales tax to fund education
Lumina News
We've cut public education, we've lost teachers; classroom sizes are expanding." Democrats and Republicans were at odds about how the state budget has affected education jobs reflected in state Department of Public Instruction figures. ...
Few Miami teachers dismissed for poor performance
MiamiHerald.com
By CHRISTINE ARMARIO AP Education Writer MIAMI -- A group that analyzes teacher quality says the nation's fourth largest school district dismisses the fewest teachers for poor performance of any they've studied. The National Council on Teacher Quality ...
NetCom Learning, the Leading Training Organization, Celebrates 14 Years of ...
MarketWatch (press release)
19, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- NetCom Learning, a leading IT and business learningcenter, celebrates 14 years in business this year. Founded in 1998, the company has become a trusted name in the learning industry for providing the best training ...
The Value Behind "Value-Added"
Huffington Post
Are union leaders who oppose charter schools 'on principle' adding value to the teaching profession? When union leaders insist that teachers cannot be held accountable for student learning, are they elevating the teaching profession? ...
TAL Education Group Announces Unaudited Financial Results for the Third Fiscal ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Total physical network grew to 275 learning centers as of November 30, 2011 from 114 learningcenters as of November 30, 2010. Net revenues increased by 62.9% year-over-year to US$125.3million from US$76.9 million in the same period of the prior fiscal ...
State Board Approves Education Reform
Patch.com
In her new role she will also oversee the governor's goal of removing unnecessary red tape and bureaucracy that can impede student learning. The COO will also oversee a new, cross-bureau function to study the creation and support of community schools, ...
Education may help keep your brain young
Death and Taxes
Young adults are increasingly moving back in with their parents after graduation and cursing the system that makes basic education so unaffordable. Partly because of the stress inherent in being 23 and $50000 in debt, 20-somethings appreciate evidence ...
Michigan Gov. Snyder plans more education spending
Lansing State Journal
Rick Snyder said Thursday he will propose more spending for Michigan education in his upcoming budget proposal. School districts took a cut of more than 2 percent in this year's budget, and many have had to lay off teachers and contract out food and ...
Learning the tricks of a magical company
Financial Times
How do you make a book about Apple interesting if it isn't about Steve Jobs? Adam Lashinsky, a senior editor from Fortune magazine, has taken on that difficult-sounding mission, with somewhat predictable results. His effort to explain how the Apple ...
Live Coverage of Apple's Education-Focused Media Event - Mac ...
By Eric Slivka
Apple today is holding its education-focused media event where it is widely expected to introduce a new push into digital textbooks. The event is... ... world's largest catalog of free education content, 700 million downloads from iTunes U. - New iTunes U app for iPad that lets teachers do everything they need to do for a class. - Jeff Robbin on ... They do it because all of us at Apple know you can empower people through learning. And tech has a role to play in that — that's one of the best ...
MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors...
Apple's Education Announcement, Live From New York - Peter ...
By Peter Kafka
Apple has a unique understanding of learning, student achievement. “We're so proud to take part in anything we can do to help ... you probably won't be prepared to compete internationally. List of poor showing by U.S. in world education rankings. Now a video reel of teachers bemoaning the state of affairs, backed up by swelling music track. ... not an ideal learning tool for kids. Cumbersome, get dog-eared, “written-in, worn, just not the ideal teaching tool.” Image of badly-beaten book.
AllThingsD
Live From the Apple Education Announcement
By Lance Ulanoff
Join Mashable for a live blog of Apple's NYC education announcement. We expect to hear about a new interactive ebook toolkit for the iPad.
Mashable!
Liverpool Audience Demands Refund After Learning The Artist Is A ...
By Perez Hilton
This is pretty outrageous. First of all, who goes to see a movie without knowing the major details. Hell, the selling point of this film is that it´s a silent flick. Maybe some people need to...
PerezHilton
Apple education event live blog — Apple News, Tips and Reviews
By Erica Ogg
... Apple's education event at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The company is expected to launch a set of tools that allow self-publishing of textbooks and possible partnering with textbook makers to push a digital learning initiative.
GigaOM
Join ED and Teachers for a #TeachTalk Discussion on Twitter | ED ...
Following the screening, participants will engage in a discussion regarding how we can reshape the culture of American education to better attract, retain, and support highly effective teachers. Because all of the tickets for this event were completely given away less than 48 hours from the start of registration, the Washington Teaching Ambassador Fellows have created a “virtual” outreach opportunity for teachers from across the country. Following the screening of the film, while ...
News | U.S. Department of Education
Live Blogging Apple Education Announcement - Wired Campus ...
By Jeffrey R. Young
All week long, other education-technology companies have seized the moment to push out their own announcements trying to ride a wave of mainstream attention to how technology is changingeducation. This morning starting at 10 a.m. EST, the ... The iPad's many virtues include 20K+ ed/learning apps. —–. 10:06: First area he will talk ... 10:05: Showed video of K-12 teachers. —-. 10:02: Giving bleak ... Categories. Libraries · Publishing · Research · Software · Student Life ·Teaching ...
Wired Campus
Coverage of Apple's education event begins at 10AM ET | iLounge ...
By Charles Starrett
10:03 - Now discussing the challenges of education, notes that only 70% of HS freshman in the US graduate, and that the US compares poorly in education rankings with other industrialized nations. 10:06 - After a brief video, Schiller reveals that over 1.5 million iPads are now in use in the education... 10:48 - New iTunes U app - lets teachers handle syllabus, outline, everything on the iPad. Looks similar to iBooks. 10:50 - iTunes U app offers tabs for Info, Posts, Notes, and Materials.
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone,...
Apple's Education event: iBooks 2, iBooks Author, and an iTunes U ...
By Sal Cangeloso
Classrooms are lacking the technology, some times even the texbooks, that they require. Education, he says, is in the dark ages. apple education. The iPad, it turns out, is a great tool for learning. It has over 20000 education apps built just for it ...
Geek.com
Explosive Growth in Education Apps | MindShift
By Tina Barseghian
Today's children will benefit if apps become an important force for learning and discovery. This report, iLearn II: An Analysis of the Education Category on Apple's App Store, documents the results of an analysis of the Education category of ...
MindShift
The state of Indian rural education 2011 | Empirical Zeal
By aatish
By comparing trends of schooling and learning in different states, they have put together the most detailed picture so far of what's working and what isn't in rural education. The general picture that is emerging is one of rising ... Teachers are attending school regularly. Their attendance is at 87% (on the day of the survey). Gujarat ... It was improving in teaching effectiveness until 2008, after whichlearning levels took a precipitous fall. Some of this must have to do with the lower levels of ...
Empirical Zeal
Metaliveblogging Apple's Education event in NYC | TUAW - The ...
By Erica Sadun
10:48AM Teachers and students have all the tools they need, right on their iPad. Again, the .....10:00AM Macworld: (Schiller) -Apple's entire education business is based on teaching, learning, and student achievement. Try to bring the same ...
TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Live from Apple's education event at the Guggenheim - Apple 2.0 ...
By Philip Elmer-DeWitt
Runs video of teachers talking about how education is in the dark ages. Phil Schiller. Photo: PED. 10:03. What can Apple do? Improve "student engagement" i.e. with the iPad. Extols the virtues of the device -- fun, engaging and "affordable." ...
Fortune Tech: Technology blogs,...
Apple Education Event NYC live (updating) | 9to5Mac | Apple ...
By Seth Weintraub
Seth Weintraub Apple Inc Tweet. January 19 ... This will engage children thereby improving learning. Publishers make great ... 10:50 Students and teacherscommunicate over this. RIP Blackboard.
9to5Mac
Wolfram Education Portal: Free Resources and Materials for Teachers
Expose your students to a whole new way of learning and understanding algebra through our dynamic teaching tools and materials. Built by our math education ...
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