New York Times
Chicago, for example, does not have a mandated sex education curriculum, although teachers are encouraged to include material in science or physical educationclasses. School officials see programs like Sex-Ed Loop, which began in September, as vital. ...
New York Times
Failing Talks Between DOE And Teachers Union Could Cost Schools Millions
NY1
The teachers union wants teachers who get poor ratings to be able to appeal to an independent arbitrator. Walcott says the union is just trying to keep ineffectiveteachers in the classroom. “The Department of Education has made the appeal process a ...
NY1
China Reviews Public Education
Voice of America
Education Minister Yuan Guiren said it was important to use the additional funds wisely and to focus on strengthening weak areas such as helping needy students, training quality teachers and making early education compulsory in rural areas. ...
Education reform work in progress
Cherry Hill Courier Post
Acting Education Commissioner Christopher Cerf answers a question in this September file photo. In an interview, Cerf discussed changes he and Gov. Chris Christie (left) hoped to make in New Jersey's school system. ASSOCIATED PRESS In this photograph ...
Bill would mandate physical education in all public K-12 schools
AnnArbor.com
LANSING- The state may require public schools to offer specific amounts of physical education at the elementary and middle schools levels, not just high school. The Michigan Department of Community Health says more physical education in schools could ...
GOP's 2011 efforts to reinvent Michigan education create biggest K-12 changes ...
Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com
Watkins said the key to a great education system is “great teachers who know their subject and are passionate about teaching and learning.” Yet, dating back to his time as state superintendent, Watkins has maintained Michigan needed to overhaul ...
Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com
Organization for English teachers marks 100 years
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
The National Council of Teachers of English, which is headquartered in Urbana, has been evolving with American education since it began in 1911. Leila Christenbury began researching and planning for the centennial celebration in 2003 and found that ...
Schoolmates, convent teachers pleasantly surprised
Times of India
VADODARA: It is vacation time and schools largely bear a deserted look and are devoid of much action, but for a bunch of teachers and students of the Convent of Jesus and Mary it was an opportunity to celebrate the New Year early in the day. ...
Education for special children has a long way to go, finds survey
Times of India
But Goa has a long way to go when it comes to providing inclusive education to physically and mentally challenged children. As per the survey for 2009-10 carried out by the Union human resource development ministry (HRD), children with physical and ...
Chile protests claim another education minister
Newsday
Nation Newsday > News > Nation Chile protests claim another education minister Originally published: December 29, 2011 6:06 PM Updated: December 29, 2011 7:57 PM By The Associated Press FEDERICO QUILODRAN (Associated Press) SANTIAGO, ...
Gay teachers tell of double life in Ireland
Irish Central
Leo Kilroy, 34, came out as a gay man in his late 20s after leaving his teaching post at a Catholic-run primary school in Dublin's inner city. Gay, lesbian, and bisexual teachers in Irish schools, many of which remain under the control of the Catholic ...
Prioritise education, says JTA
Jamaica Gleaner
PRESIDENT OF the Jamaica Teacher's Association (JTA) Paul Adams is calling on Prime Minister Designate Portia Simpson Miller to make education the top priority when she settles down to deal with the country's business. Adams who congratulated the ...
Teachers' pay that reflects respect
News & Observer
I went through around three or four revolutions in teaching, starting with Effective Teacher Training in North Carolina. Each was supposed to solve the crisis ineducation. I can't remember the exact number because each faded into obscurity as it was ...
News & Observer
Private school education at $2 per month for poor in India
Economic Times
In many states, government education is in severe disarray, with teachers often failing to show up. Rote drilling still predominates. English, considered a prerequisite for most white-collar employment, is usually not the medium of instruction. ...
Branstad to unveil education reform legislation next week
DesMoinesRegister.com
Teachers, education administrators and some parents have voiced strong opposition to the idea. In December, Branstad shelved a plan to revamp the state's teacher pay system after parents,teachers and community members criticized the creation of a ...
Romney's Book Showcases Education Record, Policy Ideas
Education Week News (blog)
If giving these students these skills is 'teaching to the test' then I'm all for it." And Romney likes the idea of using technology to make it easier to teach kids with different learning styles. Teachers' unions oppose a "good deal" of the new ...
School Superintendents Call for Education Transformation
Patch.com
Some need tutoring, some need a different method of learning, but the students don't move ahead until they are ready.” Superintendents from 161 towns weighed in on the recommendations made by the Core Group of education professionals. ...
Faces of Native American Education in 2011
Indian Country Today Media Network.com
Davina Spotted Elk, Navajo project director with Arizona State University's Center for Indian Education, is trying to address the shortage of Native American teachersthrough the Four Corners Teacher Preparation Project. Dr. Janine Pease, who was ...
Indian Country Today Media Network.com
January 2012: Free Continuing Education Events | Library ...
By Christina Manz
During this 60 minute session, Troy Anderson (Customer Education Specialist – Gale CengageLearning) will demonstrate effective ways to navigate, highlight new features and discuss the applicability of the information found within Newsstand's amazing collection. With simplified, customized guidance we'll ..... In this digital age, teachers and librarians need to be on the lookout for new ways to connect with readers—-especially those who struggle. In this free, hour-long webinar...
Library Developments
Manickchand channels unbridled ambition towards improvement of ...
By KNews
However, the renewed efforts that have been engaged are not limited to education officials andteachers as according to Manickchand “it involves listening to people because for me that is hugely important. It is not just what we want or what ...
Kaieteur News
Why a getting good education and a good job doesn't necessarily ...
By James Pethokoukis
Which means we shouldn't be laying off good teachers right now — we should be hiring them. ... The shortage of industrial skills points to a wide gap between the American education system and the demands of the world economy. ...
The Enterprise Blog
M.I.T. Game-Changer: Free Online Education For All « Online ...
By Ray Schroeder
Online Learning News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor ~ University of Illinois at Springfield. « Online learning students produce online radio. M.I.T. Game-Changer: Free Online Education For All. by James Marshall Crotty, Forbes ...
Online Learning Update
Less Affluent Schools, Lower Physical Education Scores? - Latina ...
By Marisa
Differences between the schools may contribute to the inequity: Sycamore Elementary has “physicaleducation specialist” who helps students train for the test. Cesar Chavez doesn't. Sycamore does not allow cupcakes or other unhealthy ...
Latina Lista
By Pearson Foundation
The film—which appeared first on PBS stations nationwide early in the year—shares with parents, teachers and education leaders the ways in which exceptional educators are using digital media and innovative practices to ignite their ...
Pearson Foundation Blog
Conn. teacher brings travel lessons to classroom
Boston.com
"It's really helped me understand different learning styles, so I feel like I can relate to the kids a little bit better and maybe adjust my teaching style to what's best for them," said Shortell, 47, an Enfield resident who taught in Alaska, ...
DC School System: 'We Want To Make Great Teachers Rich'
Huffington Post
"Lots of teachers leave the profession, but this has kept me invested to stay," said Ms. Johnson, 29, who is a special-education teacher at the Ron H. Brown Middle School in Northeast Washington. "I know they value me." That is exactly the idea behind ...
Education involves smart decisions
Las Vegas Sun
I teach at one of those neighborhood public schools, and I have had students accepted to Stanford, MIT, Notre Dame, USC and many other fine institutions of higher learning. I would appreciate it if more of our students and teachers would get the ...
Conn. teacher union to unveil proposed reforms
Boston.com
HARTFORD, Conn.—Connecticut's largest teachers' union is releasing a plan for education reforms that it says will help boost student achievement. The Connecticut Education Association is scheduled to unveil the plan Tuesday. ...
NSS calls for UDF Intervention in the Education Department
The Hindu
G Sukumaran Nair, general secretary Nair Service Society (NSS) has called for immediate intervention of the ruling UDF leadership in the functioning of the EducationDepartment, which according to him was still run by the 'ghost' of anti LDF ...
The Hindu
New year brings new attacks on evolution in schools
msnbc.com
By Stephanie Pappas The new year is bringing new controversy over teaching evolution in public schools, with two bills in New Hampshire seeking to require teachers to teach the theory more as philosophy than science. Meanwhile, an Indiana state senator ...
Education key to get nonnative speakers into retirement plans
Business Insurance
Fundamental obstacles keep nonnative English speakers from investing in 401(k) plans, say experts who work with midsize employers. “Spanish speakers who spent their formative years in Latin America and have come here to work have misconceptions about ...
Education, job creation priorities for Missouri lawmakers
Springfield News-Leader
Education groups and some lawmakers are concerned that changing the formula in the midst of a budget crisis could shrink the overall education funding totals. Legislators should instead freezeeducation funding levels and prevent state spending on new ...
E-learning pushed
Tempo
Manila, Philippines – The country's out-of-school youths (OSYs) may earn high school diplomas if the Department of Education (DepEd) would only tap the e-learning system to allow them access to formal education. Cagayan Rep. Jack Enrile said government ...
Pope calls for peace education
Reuters Video
Jan 1 - During his New Year Mass, Pope Benedict says new generations must be educated in justice and peace to avoid further conflict. Sunita Rappai reports.
Kuwait in retrospect: major events in 2011 Education, national, religious events
Arab Times Kuwait English Daily
On September 21, the first school specialised in difficult learning opened in Kuwait. On October 24, the ministry of education launched “flash memory project” for school students, known as e-books. The project aims at replacing textbooks for electronic ...
Early education challenge
TheDay.com
If the solution Mr. Barnes proposes is expanding the school system down to an ever younger age, with the teaching requirements and the associated pay to follow, he is talking about an approach that Connecticut cannot afford. Early childhood education ...
Economy, education among top 2011 stories
The Daily News Journal
Bill Haslam's stance on teachers' collective bargaining rights stirred reaction from many state educators. Proposed legislation prompted a protest of more than 1000 supporters of the TennesseeEducation Association, the state's largest teachers' union, ...
And the 2011 education awards go to ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Which leads us to: Question of the Year: Who's going to go into teaching in the future? Walker says that both administrators and teachers will find that without union contracts to encumber them, they can work as a team and find success in educating ...
2011 proves tough for district education department
Times of India
VARANASI: The 2011 year proved tough for the district education department. The efforts to recruitteachers in government primary and upper primary schools after the declaration of TET results proved insufficient as the department could fill only 107 ...
Mission to promote education - The Nation
In addition, Intel Teach is an ongoing project that Intel launched in 2003 in partnership with the Ministry of Education. To date 150000 teachers in Thailand and some 10 million around the globe have been trained. Last week, Sasin Graduate ...
NationMultimedia.com - Business
Education in India — Marginal Revolution
By Tyler Cowen
In recent years, Indian officials have increased spending on government education, dedicating far more money for new schools, hiring teachers and providing free lunches to students. Still, more and more parents are choosing to go private. ...
Marginal Revolution
The Best Education-Related Books Visitors To This Blog Read In ...
By Larry Ferlazzo
My own personal favorite was Teaching 2030: What We Must Do for Our Students and Our Public Schools–Now and in the Future by Barnett Berry and my colleagues at the Teacher Leaders Network. Here are others readers shared: ... Fryer not only shows how technology can impactlearning, but also provides the tools and links and guidance for teachers who know they need to move in that direction, but are not sure where to begin. The ebook format also allows Fryer to embed all ...
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Teach for America Set to Debut in Northeast Ohio | Education News
By B. A. Birch
More than $2 million has been donated in foundation grants to help bring Teach for America teachersto Ohio schools in the next year. ... “It's not a cure-all for education, but it's a very much-needed innovation,” she said. Breakthrough charter schools ... Sue Taylor, president of the Ohio Federation of Teachers, believes participants don't perform any higher academically as undergraduates than those who come through teaching colleges, calling Teach for America training “inadequate ”. ...
Education News
Thoughts on Professional Military Education: After 9-11, Iraq, and ...
By Dave Maxwell
While there are many areas that could (and should) be considered for reform this paper will focus on two: A common core focus on the five fundamentals for professional military education and the development of an educational framework that separates education level from advancement in ....Finally, the fundamental five would be the basis for a career long learning process, to include self study, that will provide the intellectual foundation for military and national security professionals. ...
Small Wars Journal Articles
His Holiness starts Kalachakra Teaching - Central Tibetan ...
By lekshey
His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the first day of the Kalachakra Teaching at Bodh Gaya (Photo: Sangay Kyap). Bodh Gaya, His Holiness the Dalai Lama initiated the Kalachakra Teaching today at Kalachakra Ground at around 01.00 in the ...
Central Tibetan Administration
The Innovative Educator: 20 Quotes About Learning That Inspired ...
By Lisa Nielsen
Last year I shared my Top Ten Quotes for Teaching Generation Text. In 2009 I shared ... In 2008 I shared these Ten 21st Century Education Quotes I Carry With Me. This year I am sharing another compilation of quotes and concepts I have collected over the past year from my personal learningnetwork. These are .... Parents, students, teachers, policy makers, home educators, public, private, interdependent schools, community or alternative educators, and any one that cares.This effort ...
The Innovative Educator
Liturgy as Mystagogy: Towards a Pagan Religious Education, Above ...
By Sam Rocha
Unfortunately, it has become quite standard to think of education being primarily about learning, nothing more than the acquisition of knowledge. Education, to most philosophers, theologians, and catechists, is an exclusively epistemological ...
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