Teachers Unions, States Clash Over Evaluation Systems

Education Roundup: Teachers Unions, States Clash Over Evaluation Systems
U.S. News & World Report (blog)
Once they're trained, educators will be able to personalize education for each student. "By using technology as a teaching tool, we add a resource that easily individualizes, and we free teachers to differentiate as well," Blom writes. ...

Big Study Links Good Teachers to Lasting Gain
New York Times
“That test scores help you get more education, and that more education has an earnings effect — that makes sense to a lot of people,” said Robert H. Meyer, director of the Value-Added Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, ...

Learning to code is NYC Mayor Bloomberg's New Years resolution
GlobalPost
(Spencer Platt/AFP/Getty Images) Learning to code is on New York City Mayor Bloomberg's agenda for 2012. Mayor Bloomberg has joined 170000 people who have signed up to learn code in the New Year, Mashable reported. The program, Code Year, was launched ...

Teaching unions refuse to sign up to pension reforms
The Guardian
Britain's two largest teachers' unions have demanded further talks with the government after refusing to sign up to pension reforms. NASUWT and the National Union ofTeachers urged the education secretary, Michael Gove, to change framework proposals ...

The Guardian

Poor teachers 'will slip through the net' under reforms
Telegraph.co.uk
The General Teaching Council for England will be scrapped in March under a Government plan. Photo: ALAMY By Graeme Paton, Education Editor Many cases of incompetence or misconduct will never be put before an official hearing because of proposals to ...

Telegraph.co.uk

What kind of education system has to bribe problem pupils?
Daily Mail
According to the TES, schools also encourage their worst teachers to stay at home on inspection days, bring in star teachers from elsewhere to make their own classrooms look good, and even borrow outstanding art from other schools to impress the ...

Daily Mail

Education reform tops legislators' agenda
Osceola Sentinel Tribune
By LARRY PETERSON - CNA staff reporter • lpeterson@crestonnews.com Proposed legislation to reform the state's education system unveiled today by Gov. Terry Branstad figures to be one of the main dishes on the table when members of the 84th General ...

School Rankings in Kenya Leads Teachers to Seek Protection
Voice of America
"The teachers must be provided with the security as government servants. They are working in insecure places, particularly when the results are out.” Results for the national Kenya Certificate of Primary Education examinations were released with great ...

Education advocates praise ruling on school funding
Longview Daily News
The average salary for Washington teachers is $52567, somewhat below the national average, $54319. The Washington Supreme Court ruled 7-2 Thursday that the state isn't meeting its constitutional obligation to amply pay for basic public education, ...

Teachers Rally Before Another Contract Negotiation Session
Planet Princeton
Waving posters with slogans like “Support PRS teachers, settle now!”, “A strongeducation equals a strong economy” and “We want to keep what we have”, teachersmarched in the cold for about 45 minutes, forming a line that snaked down Valley Road, ...

Planet Princeton

Bill Proctor says merit-pay, higher education reform are education committee's ...
Florida Times-Union
The state's top teachers union filed a lawsuit in September seeking to overturn the law because they say it “swept away the right of employees to negotiate their wages and terms and conditions of employment” promised in the Florida Constitution. ...

Education officials scramble to assess Gov. Brown's budget plan
89.3 KPCC
This would include about $200 million in cuts each to the University of California and the Cal State University systems and $4.8 billion to K-12 education and community colleges. "This is not nice stuff, but that's what it takes to balance the budget, ...

89.3 KPCC

Report: Education management sector expanding, particularly in area of online ...
Washington Post
The report out Friday is by the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado Boulder. It says that much of the growth is in the area of online learning, known as “virtual schools.” The operators are known as education management ...

Teaching above the Arctic Circle makes Port Townsend woman humble
Peninsula Daily
Wanting to go back to Alaska, Katie applied to Alaska Teachers Placement after graduating from Central Washington University last spring and received an offer from McQueen School in Kivalina, along with several others. As a special education teacher, ...

Teachers on lookout for quake-stressed kids at school
New Zealand Herald
"And also the teachers then will see these kids - 90 per cent of the classrooms' kids are probably fine, and they will be able to see the ones that are not." Boys of primary school age and girls in their mid-teens tended to be most affected, ...

Education, business development top list of budget priorities
Florida Trend
Trash talk: Private and public garbage haulers face off in Southeast Florida. Business profile: NetTalk.com gets boost from Walmart. Education: Miami-Dade is focusing on student performance to help determine teacher pay.

OP-ED | Deal or No Deal on Education Reform
CT Newsjunkie
More broadly, the education model needs to change just as the economic model is changing. Smaller class sizes should be a goal, but expanding the size of the public school and increasing the number of public school teachers need not be the means to ...

VINCI Early Learning Systems Announces VINCI Kids Library
MarketWatch (press release)
VINCI Kids Library supplements VINCI Early Learning Curriculum with interactive games, story books and learning videos that are developed by third-party content developers. VINCI provides guidance to the third-party developers and approves content to ...

Budget, education will top 2012 session
Coastal Courier
Our agenda during the 2012 session will focus on a fiscally responsible and balanced budget,education, reforming the tax code and job growth and economic development. Our Constitution requires that Georgia have a balanced budget, and that is one of ...

Education, business development top list of budget priorities facing state ...
TCPalm
Rick Scott held firm to a "no-new-taxes" mantra in his proposed $66.4 billion 2012-13 budget, but pulled an about-face on education when he called for more school dollars after pushing big cuts last year. During the 2012 legislative session starting ...

Oregon higher education board today will consider summer tuition increases, UO ...
OregonLive.com
By Bill Graves, The Oregonian Bill Graves/The OregonianThe urban center at Portland State University, where the State Board of Higher Education will meet today to consider summer tuition and fee increases. The State Board of Higher Educationtoday will ...

OregonLive.com

Learning Experience Students Sing To, Raise Money for NJ School of Deaf
Patch.com
“I could not be more proud of our wonderful students and very dedicated teaching staff,” Karen Rosen, Co-owner of The Learning Experience of Manalapan, said. “It was an aggressive undertaking to teach our young students not only the lyrics to the ...

Education groups rally to restore state funding for students
Morehead News
Marvin Moore, teachers Cathy Riley and Patsy Hensley representing the Rowan County EducationAssociation, and several other people from Rowan County Schools, traveled to Frankfort to join in the call to restore SEEK funding. “Unbridled Learning (Senate ...

The Myth of Substitute Teaching as an Entry Into a Full-time Teaching Position
Huffington Post
They should be given greater respect, and treated as if they were full-time teachers. Only then will substitute teaching and those who seek temporary employment in this field of education be on par with their colleagues and have the ability for upward ...

Teachers: Veto override a punishment
Greenville Daily Reflector
By Jackie Drake Some teachers and staff at Pitt County Schools are outraged at a decision by the Legislature they say is aimed at their membership in a professional organization. Early Thursday morning, the Republican-led Legislature overrode Gov. ...

Augusta County teachers ask for resumption of pay raises
News Virginian
Jenny Pippin, acting president of the Augusta County Education Association and a teacher at Buffalo Gap High School, said that teachers are doing more work for the same pay, and that preparing students for the Virginia Standards of Learning tests has ...

Family Learning Center
theDailyCamera
The Family Learning Center in Boulder is a non-profit that helps children of low-income families with a variety of needs. Video by Cliff Grassmick.

Chesco senator blasts education department
Delaware County Daily Times
Pennsylvania Department of Education spokesman Tim Eller said the district did not meet the criteria necessary to be declared financially distressed. Dinniman said the “real heroes” are theteachers who have decided to work for delayed pay.

Looking ahead: Education
Woodbury Bulletin
Here the Wooodbury Bulletin takes a look at some of the big issues ahead in Education for 2012. The year 2012 will see a lot of changes within Woodbury's school districts including new school board members, a new superintendent and possible even a new ...

Scottish Education: Commission on School Reform Urges Schools To Drop "“Old ...
eGov monitor
Teaching unions in Scotland are furious following a report by the Commission on School Reform which called for schools to abandon “bog standard” model of comprehensive education. The Commission set up by the centre right think tank Reform Scotland ...

America's Ideas to Support Entrepreneurship in Education, Energy ...
By Aneesh Chopra
Chief Technology Office Aneesh Chopra asks entrepreneurs and the broader public how to accelerate entrepreneurial innovation in three priority industries: healthcare, clean energy and education. ...Learning Technologies: Parents and teachers – what's your biggest barrier to educating your kids that technology could solve? How important is the ability to access your child's assessment data in electronic form? Clean Energy: Building and business owners – what's your biggest ...

Kenzo Shibata: Education Reform: Where's the Debate?
By Kenzo Shibata
Schools need to hire more social workers, psychologists, and nurses to make sure students are healthy enough to take their learning to the next level. One country that always comes up when discussing models for education reform is Finland, ...
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New York City's P.S. 64 Imposes Dress Code For Teachers, Bans ...
By jcap17
A dress code for students is standard at most schools, but at P.S. 64 Robert Simon School,teachers are being told how to dress for class.
CBS New York

Graduate School Advice: Part 1 – Classes and Teaching
By Ryan
Just after I finished TAing, I attended the Center for Astronomy Education teaching workshop and my mind was blown with just how poorly I had done at teaching my sections, and how much better astronomy can be taught. There are people out there who study how people learn and ... (I also happened to marry a physics teacher, so I am constantly learning more about teaching, and about how poorly I did it when I was a TA.) Be prepared to teach labs too. You mileage will certainly ...
Martian Chronicles

Bill Ayers Apostle Appointed White House Education Initiative ...
By Kyle Olson
According to a U.S. Department of Education biography, Rico worked for the Small Schools Workshop some 6 years. Klonsky beamed like a doting father on his website when Rico was appointed to the White House position. While Rico's ...
Big Government

Commentary: Best and worst education moments of 2011 ...
By Helen Gym
The plan was designed to save jobs and was driven by the belief that “district teachers can deliver a better education program than anything offered by a cybercharter school.” Philadelphia's educationdelegation should be heading to ...
Philadelphia Public School Notebook...

Social network Piazza connects students with their teachers, raises ...
By Sarah Mitroff
Piazza is a social network and “online gathering space” that encourages student collaboration under the guidance of professors and teaching assistants. Students can ask their professor questions regarding assignments, collaborate with ...
VentureBeat

New technologies for e-learning in 2012 (and a little beyond)
By Tony Bates
The NMC Horizon 2012 Higher Education Review lists six technologies over a five year horizon: One year ... All we need as instructors or teachers is imagination as to how we can use the Internet of Things to enhance our teaching. However ...
Tony Bates

Discussing Education Reform
By Maureen McManus
Cuomo also announced plans for an education reform task force. Tim Kremer of the New York State School Boards Association, Bob Lowry of the NYS Council of School Superintendents, and Nikki Jones of the Alliance for Quality Education all ...
Capital Tonight

As Digital Learning Day approaches, states pledge support ...
By Laura Devaney
Many students are without access to highly qualified and skilled teachers, top-notch teachingstrategies, or unique and enriching learning experiences, leaving them at a disadvantage. “To overcome these obstacles, the nation's education ...
eSchool News

The Education Gadfly Weekly
Education Gadfly Weekly · Education Gadfly Daily ... Learning to say “No” .... Critics of these initiatives point to studies finding that padding star teachers' paychecks ... This week a judge ruled that the program was teaching Latino history and ...
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