On education, money counts

On education, money counts
MiamiHerald.com
Even taking into account extra federal funds that go toward helping states teach students in living in high-poverty regions, the disabled or those learning a second language, Florida just scored a “D+” in revenue spent per student, ranking 39 out of 50 ...

Michael Gove: Free schools from the dead hand of unions
Daily Mail
There was not a hint of recognition that, by making it easier to replace failing teachers, Michael Gove's sole aim is to ensure children are not unforgivably held back in theirlearning. Instead, the unions made sabre-rattling threats about industrial ...

Daily Mail

Education: Mr Gove's 'policy' consists of highly destructive tinkering

The Guardian
To be radical he could turn his searchlight on to education in the early years, consulting teachersand others on ways to free young children who are held back by restricted upbringing. He could accord prime status to primary teachers. ...

Quality of teachers 'issue': Blair
The Press Association
Tony Blair has admitted that he could have "gone further" as prime minister to ensure that teacherswere up to the job. He said the quality of teaching was "an issue" throughout his time in office but added that it would take "a significant period of ...

Education: Successes, but more to do
Nevada Appeal
In my State of the State address last year, I said we should provide for an improved and innovative means for evaluating teachers and principals, and we did. This system, now being prepared by the new Teachers and Leaders Council, will require for the ...

India's Education Dream Risks Remaining Just That
New York Times
In this situation, how do you expect teachers to work?” The lack of amenities for faculty members is not the only issue. After 30 years at Jesus and Mary College, which is one of dozens administered by the University of Delhi, Ms. Amin makes the ...

Teachers cool on bonus pay
The Age
A total of 21 teachers received reward payments under the individual scheme last June, while four schools received rewards under the whole school scheme. Mary Bluett, the president of the Victorian branch of the Australian Education Union, ...

The Age

Proficiency-based learning gaining popularity for its focus on knowledge
Statesman Journal
Thomas Patterson / Statesman Journal It's a process of teaching and learning in which students progress through the education system based not on classes attended and credits earned, but on demonstration of mastery of skills and knowledge, according to ...

Malloy Demands Sweeping Education Reforms
The Daily Darien
“Not only do we need more funding, we also must expand the school day and year to provideeducation for many students who need extra time. We also need to set better standards forteachers.” Lavielle and Hamilton say education reform must include a ...

AISD teachers, staff get MLK Day off for first time
Amarillo.com
About 10 percent of Amarillo ISD students are African-American, about 4 percent are Asian, about 44 percent are Hispanic and about 38 percent are white, according to the most recent data from the Texas Education Agency. Teachers and staff have Martin ...

Vegetarian Cuisine and Culinary Education
Huffington Post
With over 35 years experience as a vegetarian chef I have, in recent years, been asked many times by aspiring culinary students to recommend a culinary school that can deliver a professionaleducation on vegetarian cuisine. These requests are emerging ...

Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia Aim to Raise Their Higher ...
New York Times
Now, education ministers from those countries — who cooperate on a variety of issues under the umbrella of the Visegrad Group — have decided to band together to learn from each other and make strides toward reform. “We have seen a rapid development ...

New learning center to assist in students' educational needs
The Coloradoan
A new learning center is opening its doors Monday in Fort Collins, offering another resource for struggling students in need of an extra hand in education. Access for Knowledge Fort CollinsLearning Center, 1431 Shortleaf St., will offer free ...

Education, skill level set Divinity Design School apart from competition
The Jackson Citizen Patriot - MLive.com
We are a salon who believes in education. … Continuing to educate yourself in our field is a choice. (The salon industry is) one of the only licensed professions in the state of Michigan who are not required to perform continuing education. ...

The Jackson Citizen Patriot - MLive.com

Christopher Duffy Want to keep teachers? Get rid of summer break
The Boston Globe
Many of my friends studied education, and almost all chose to work at charter schools or through Teach for America. There's a simple reason for this. Teaching in a regular public school generally requires a master's degree in education and ...

The Boston Globe

Education reform draws praise, doubt
Sioux Falls Argus Leader
“Administrators will have a strong foundation to make informed decisions about their teaching force and the flexibility to carry out those decisions.” Give math and science teachers $3500 bonuses every year, starting in 2013-14. ...

IPO Education Foundation Launches 2nd Annual Video Contest and Sweepstakes
MarketWatch (press release)
Today the Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation announces its 2nd Annual IP Video Contest to educate teens and the public at large about how the patent system protects inventors and promotes progress. Contestants in three age categories ...

Learning math through Lego
Aspen Times
Hanson is one of 26 teachers across the nation on the Lego education advisory panel. She received a grant from Lego to show the program to children and their parents through this event. The grant included 18 boxes of Lego pieces and posters to help ...

Education: The priority
Jackson Clarion Ledger
•Improve teacher quality by increasing the Teach for America and Mississippi Teacher Corps teachers in the state, strengthening school of education entry requirements and for teachingcertification, and developing a sound approach to merit-based ...

Implementing national sex ed guidelines would require Wyoming education changes
Casper Star-Tribune Online
Natrona County schools don't offer health courses, but physical education and classroom teachersshare the responsibility of teaching state health standards, said Kristin Underwood, who teaches physical education and health at Verda James Elementary ...

Fund education with coal severance, U-Pikeville needs more study.
Lexington Herald Leader
Paul Patton for bringing attention to Eastern Kentucky's future and its desperate need for affordable higher education. All of Kentucky should care about this because all of Kentucky pays for the region's poverty and lack of opportunity. ...

Education's help-seeking gap
Janesville Gazette
When I ran across a story about the study, I was amused that this was news to anyone—probably because I had spent my professional teaching experience with low-income and minority students. Compared to the wealthier students who start to curry favor in ...

NYC teachers who broke law for vacation time are knuckleheads of the week
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Two city teachers were caught breaking the law to get time off. Really, how can any of us squeeze an entire summer's worth of island-hopping, sunbathing and beach blanket bingo into a measly two-month vacation? For a pair of jet-setting New York City ...

The Star-Ledger - NJ.com

Nominations for top teachers due Feb. 3
Sentinel and Enterprise
Now in its 51st year, the statewide program honors a Massachusetts teacher who represents the positive contributions of all teachers statewide and energizes the teaching profession. The selected teacher will be announced on May 8, recognized as ...

Education collaboratives seeking trust and transparency
MetroWest Daily News
By Scott O'Connell/Daily News staff Local lawmakers and educators support a bill passed by the Senate last week that creates stricter regulations for special education collaboratives, saying it will bring greater transparency and inspire more trust in ...

Ban on female education forced Malala to raise voice against Taliban
Associated Press of Pakistan
“It was very painful for me and my class mates on hearing the news that our school may be closed and we would not be allowed to get education,” She adds. Though I was student of 5th class in 2009, but I decided that I would convey the concern of female ...

Cooperative learning worth the effort
Pacific Daily News
I became part of the University of Portland's Masters in Education program, where I had to engage in a cooperative learning environment. My mind was blown away when I realized that the smartest

Instituting Reforms in Philippine Education
Manila Bulletin
A feature of the new curriculum is the institutionalization of mother tongue-based teaching, in which students from Grades 1 to 3 will be taught in their native language. The Department of Education is developing learning materials in the country's ...

Lawmakers: Make college education more affordable by treating it as a priority
AnnArbor.com
The review found that students attending public universities in our state are paying more for theireducation than students in virtually any other state. The reason for that is quite straightforward. The state of Michigan has been slashing support for ...

Education: Graduated from Silverton High School and got a bachelor's in ...
Statesman Journal
Favorite time of the year: For a week each summer, he is a counselor at the Chris Dudley Foundation's Camp for Kids With Diabetes. Ben was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes as a freshman in high school and takes insulin shots daily. ...

Education should include opportunities in sports, activities
Las Vegas Sun
Sports and extracurricular activities are an important part of a student's education. Involvement in activities helps students connect with the school. They also teach important lessons that can't be replicated in a classroom — consider the ...

Education round-up 14/1/12 | libcom.org
By Choccy
Long gone are the days, as if they ever existed, of teaching being perceived as a 'cushy' profession, with 'jobs for life'. Gove, Wilshaw and their ilk are stripping education to its bones, de-skillingteachers and forcing them to be in perpetual fear ...
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Learning with 'e's: We learn by teaching
By Steve Wheeler
In his 1968 book Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire wrote 'Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.' ...
Learning with 'e's

Govt urged to spend more on education - The Nation
Tossaporn later told reporters the council wanted the government to address rural children's lack of access to higher education opportunities due to a lack of scholarships, tutoring, learning resources,teaching materials and school ... The group urged Yingluck to suspend the plan pending a study of its pros and cons; a public hearing for students, teachers and university personnel; and an assurance that the plan's implementation will not burden students with high tuition fees. ...
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Is there too much innovation in education?
By Tony Bates
Maxim Jean-Louis in a recent comment to my post on the e-learning outlook for 2012 referred to observations by Ben Levin who in an interesting interview with Cheryl Jackson argues that what the education system needs is not more ... Furthermore, as in other countries, the post-secondary institutions have absorbed this increased growth by maintaining methods of teaching that worked well for an elite, low teacher:student ratio, but which are demonstrably inadequate in terms of ...
Tony Bates

CCSF president pledges Internet security crackdown after learning ...
By Sarah Gantz
City College of San Francisco's board president vowed Friday to bring the school's Internet security system up to speed after learning a virus had been lurking in campus computers for the past 10 years. Board of trustees President John Rizzo ...
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Earth-like Planet: Teaching About Climate Change, Part 1: Framing ...
By Charles Carrigan
Teaching About Climate Change, Part 1: Framing the Discussion. Every year, I teach a geoscience course on natural resources & the environment. It is a general education course that any student can take so long as they've already taken a ...
Earth-like Planet

Innovation Generation grant for Education Foundation | St Augustine ...
By news
“Through the Innovation Generation program, we are thrilled to partner with programs like Consortium of Florida Education Foundations, and their member education foundations, to provide students andteachers with the necessary tools to ...
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The Education Vortex – Tenth Amendment Center Blog
By Sabrina Reynolds
America touts the best educational system in the world – our federal government, at least, spends a good deal on education ranking second behind Switzerland on money per child– an average of $91700 per student in the nine years between the ages of 6 and 15 according to ... “We have tried spending more money and putting more teachers in classrooms for more than a generation, with no observable improvements to anything except the schools' bottom lines,” states de Rugy. ...
Tenth Amendment Center Blog

Instapundit » Blog Archive » LEGAL EDUCATION UPDATE: While ...
By Glenn Reynolds
January 15, 2012. LEGAL EDUCATION UPDATE: While Law Schools Dither Over Reform, the Legal Profession May be Passing Them By. Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 7:44 am. Tweet ...
Instapundit

HealthLawProf Blog: AALS Panel on Teaching Health Law: A Tour ...
By HealthLawProf Hodnicki
Scott noted that experiential learning can happen in time slots ranging from an hour to a day to a semester or year, so any committed professional can fit some opportunities into their schedule at some point. She particularly focused on how ...
HealthLawProf Blog

Exploring the Virtual Online Learning Classroom: What Students ...
By Ray Schroeder
Exploring the Virtual Online Learning Classroom: What Students Need to Know (and TeachersShould Consider). by Garry Falloon, Journal of Online Learning and Teaching. Technological improvements in many countries ... This study explores the affordances and limitations of an online virtual classroom, Adobe Connect Pro, when used in the learning programmes of two groups of undergraduate and postgraduate education students. Results indicate that while both groups gained...
Online Learning Update

Occupy CHOP for Amelia | Special Education & IEP Advisor
By Special Education Advisor
Learn Your Special Education Laws, Special Education Rights, and Share IEP Goal Ideas. SpecialEducation & IEP Advisor. Member Login: Not a member? Click here to sign up! Username Password. Remember Me. Home · Special ...
Special Education & IEP Advisor

Supporting Innovative Teachers as Knowledge Generators « Center ...
By Advancing the Teaching Profession
Instead of Race-to-the-Top grants that go to State Departments of Education and large school districts, why not make available to teachers Innovation Grants in Teaching and Learning. Since Race-to-the-Top was slightly over $4 billion dollars, ...
Center for Teaching

Kenneth Marcus Strikes Out: Department of Education Dismisses ...
By Richard Silverstein
Kenneth Marcus of the Institute for Jewish and Community Research, suffered a new defeat in his campaign to enforce politically correct pro-Israel discourse on U.S. college campuses. After persuading an Orthodox Jewish Barnard College ...
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