New York Post
Then there are the teachers unions. To cut through the complexities of the deals the unions made with Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Cuomo, consider this: Under the terms, no public-school teacher in New York state can be fired for incompetence until June ...
New York Post
Santorum Questions Education System; Criticizes Obama
New York Times
COLUMBUS, Ohio — With his candidacy surging, Rick Santorum on Saturday questioned the legitimacy of state-run public education systems and suggested that President Obama's agenda sprang from a “phony theology.” At one appearance here, he said the idea ...
New York Times
Santorum Defends Comments on Obama and Education
New York Times (blog)
Mr. Santorum did not say public schools were a bad idea, and he said that there was a role for government help in education. “Where did they come up that public education and bigger education bureaucracies was the rule in America?
Teachers' Unions to Rahm Emanuel: Hey, How About a 30% Pay Raise
Big Government
by Charles C. Johnson Only in education could you demand a higher pay for churning out an inferior product, but that's just what the Chicago teachers unions want for doing the jobs they were paid to do, according to the Chicago Tribune.
NASA Selects Iowa Teacher to be "Agent of Change" for STEM Education
Sacramento Bee
NASA's Endeavor Science Teaching Certificate Project provides live, online training for educators working to earn a STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) certificate from TeachersCollege, Columbia University, NY "This year marks the ...
Local teacher earns NASA fellowship
Iowa City Press Citizen
Throughout her studies, Hill will engage with education experts, NASA scientists and otherteachers across the country. Among the goals of the program are to bring a greater understanding of NASA discoveries into the classroom and to inspire a next ...
Court: Chicago teachers don't have rehire rights
Chicago Sun-Times
BY ROSALIND ROSSI Education Reporter/rrossi@suntimes.com February 17, 2012 11:14AM CPS attorney James C. Franczek, Jr. and Jennifer Dunn at a hearing before the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board last year. | John H. White~Chicago Sun-Times.
Term time holidays will be banned
Telegraph.co.uk
Parents are to be banned by Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, from taking their children out of school to save money on holidays. By Robert Watts, and Julie Henry He is to abolish the right of head teachers to “authorise absence” from the ...
Telegraph.co.uk
Students, teachers stage sit-in at struggling Chicago school that city plans ...
Chicago Tribune
The protesters — most of whom pitched tents outside, while 15 others holed up inside the building — said the planned takeover by a nonprofit academy working for the city government would likely mean cuts to special education and bilingual programs.
Start a fire, put it out, take a bow
Albany Times Union
He basked in the news conference Thursday announcing an 11th-hour agreement between the teachers union and the State Education Department over a revamped teacher evaluation plan. And why shouldn't he beam? Cuomo had beat the drum to elevate its ...
LAUSD Supt. John Deasy addresses Miramonte sex-abuse allegations
Los Angeles Times
In the wake of teachers being charged with lewd acts with students, Los Angeles Unified School District Supt. John Deasy has sought to reassure teachers and staff in a video address. The two accused teachers at Miramonte Elementary School have been ...
Tests don't measure teachers
Baltimore Sun
By Jay Gillen If we really care about the education of young people in poverty, we will stop focusing on test results and pay much more attention to the quality of life students and families endure. The more their parents and the students themselves ...
Education Secretary in row over use of homophobic texts in schools
Pink Paper
Education Secretary Michael Gove has become embroiled in a row over the use of anti-gayteaching material in faith schools, claiming the Equality Act that combats homophobic discrimination does not cover the content of textbooks used in the curriculum.
India offers higher education expertise to Lanka
Zee News
Colombo: India, which recently tripled its scholarships for Lankan students, has offered to share its the rapid advancements made in the field of higher education and research with Sri Lanka. The possibilities of cooperation between the two countries ...
The Education Report: Big-picture ideas in the Oakland school district
San Jose Mercury News
Teachers spoke too, about the importance of receiving support from the district and about the different ways in which they assess whether their students are learning. "This is a step forward, something we have been talking about for a while," ...
Texas Education Agency dlays STAAR's 15 percent rule
San Marcos Mercury
by MORGAN SMITH Responding to pressure from lawmakers, parents and school leaders statewide, Education Commissioner Robert Scott announced today that the Texas Education Agency will defer a rule requiring that new student assessments count for 15 ...
San Marcos Mercury
Teachers welcome kindergarten bill, not K-12
Journal Online
The TDC has been lobbying for a free and universal pre-school education which will eventually resolve learning discrepancies and will increase the school performance of learners in elementary level. This is one of the items in their 10-point Teachers' ...
Education department struggling to complete syllabus
Times of India
A number of government primary and upper primary school teachers were engaged in the election duty, due to which, teaching work suffered the most in the first two weeks of February. And now festivals like Maha Shivratri and Holi are going to be ...
Program to Bridge the Gap With Parents Draws Fire
New York Times
Despite a well-publicized commitment to involve parents in the city's public education system, some of them are not happy with how Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his school team are following through. And some say they are still not familiar with the new ...
New York Times
Education shackled to school buildings' past
Worcester Telegram
At a joint meeting last week of the City Council Education Committee and the School Committee Standing Committee on Finance and Operations, Mr. Allen said the Worcester public school system loses about 400 students a year to other school districts ...
Kfar Sava teachers declare mutiny against the time clock
Haaretz
More than 6000 teachers sign petition demanding Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar and teachersunion get rid of the time clocks. By Talila Nesher Tags: Israel education Elementary schoolteachers in Kfar Sava are refusing to punch a time clock before and ...
Education loan defaults becoming a problem
Hindu Business Line
The interaction was part of a series of interactive meetings proposed by the Ministry of Finance and IBA with various stake-holders in the education sector. He pointed out that as on March 31, 2011, the non-performing assets (NPAs) in the educational ...
Hindu Business Line
The report no parent can afford to miss
NEWS.com.au
"Every child should have access to the best possible education, regardless of where they live, the income of their family or the school they attend," the report will say. SCHOOLS need more maleteachers because boys make less effort in women's classes, ...
Connecticut system might be model for teacher accountability
TheNewsTribune.com
Teachers' unions are here to stay, and the only way to achieve systematic improvement is with their buy-in. Moreover, the United States critically needs to attract talented young people into teaching. And that's less likely when we're whacking ...
Two teachers in Petersburg achieve National Board Certification
Progress Index
She added that part of the process involved looking inward not just at what is done by teachers, but why it is that they are doing it. According to the National Board for Professional TeachingStandards, National Board Certification is an advanced ...
Adjust education for native students
TheChronicleHerald.ca
(ANDREW VAUGHAN / CP) Robert Genaille was not a big fan of teachers. His mother would talk about the scars the Kamloops Indian Residential School had left on his grandfather, how he refused to teach her his native language because his own experiences ...
TheChronicleHerald.ca
Learning never ends
Gainesville Sun
The Institute for Learning in Retirement offers courses for residents and nonresidents. Renner, Faris and Bloodworth are nonresidents of Oak Hammock. By Cara Mannion Eighty-three-year-old Dolores Greene recently stood up and, microphone in hand, ...
Illinois Schools May Chip In on Teachers' Retirement
New York Times
Even though one-third of Illinois schools have been placed on financial watch lists by the state Board of Education, leading Democrats are moving closer to a plan that would shift some teacher retirement costs from the state to schools.
Teachers, education leaders: profanity, political mandates not necessary
East Valley Tribune
Arizona lawmakers want to mandate that teachers can't curse in the classroom or influence how future voters make decisions at the polls. But really, teachers and education leaders say, those policies are already in place. "I don't know where the train ...
More money for state schools
The Age
Public schools should be the main beneficiary of additional education funding, according to a new report. THE lion's share of a proposed $5 billion annual boost in government funding for schools should go to the state system, according to a landmark...
The Age
Education round-up 19 Feb 2012
libcom.org (blog)
"The education provisions of the Equality Act 2010 which prohibit discrimination against individuals based on their protected characteristics (including their sexual orientation) do not extend to the content of the curriculum. Any materials used in sex...
libcom.org (blog)
Co-teaching pilot program helps prepare teachers of the future
Ventura County Star
The finding was published in November 2010 by a panel convened by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education to improve student learning. California is one of eight states to sign up for the initiative, and Correia said the School of ...
Education Organizing – The Path to Real Reform? | NEA Today
By twalker
As the guide states, “organizing begins with the premise that the people closest to the local schools – parents, students and teachers – are in the best position to make schooling decisions and to sustain educational improvement.” Education ...
NEA Today
Excellent Introduction To Online Learning | Larry Ferlazzo's ...
By Larry Ferlazzo
…For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL. Excellent Introduction To Online Learning. February 18, 2012 by Larry Ferlazzo | 0 comments. I've previously posted about the numerous online learning charlatans out there trying to use it to privatize education (see A Beginning “The Best…” List On The Dangers Of Privatizing Public Education). ... The February issue contains several related article, though I think the best ones are Surf's up! and Virtual schools still need real teachers and structure.
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Excellent adventures in education | Adverblog
By Tim
It seems like education is waking up to one fact: they are talking to very young people! Seems simple enough, but more often than not their comms seems more aimed at their parents. I bet you this gutsy ad will do more for Western Australia's ...
Adverblog
Weak teachers fail in New Haven, but not many — Joanne Jacobs
By Joanne
Roughly half of a teacher's evaluation would depend on the performance of his or her students — including on standardized tests and other measures of learning. Teachers were protected by a ...Fifty more teachers out of 1800 in the district have been warned their teaching must improve or they'll be fired. Mayor John DeStefano Jr. of New Haven ... Am I too bloodthirsty? Filed Under: EducationTagged With: evaluation, incompetent, job security, New Haven, teachers, tenure, union ...
Joanne Jacobs
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By The Unquiet Librarian
... and ADHD. An important, timely talk for parents and teachers. ... I'm a librarian who loves learning, literacy, stories, social media, dogs, fabulous shoes, and good lip gloss; I'm also a 2011 Library Journal Mover and Shaker. View all posts by ...
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By The Unquiet Librarian
... and ADHD. An important, timely talk for parents and teachers. ... I'm a librarian who loves learning, literacy, stories, social media, dogs, fabulous shoes, and good lip gloss; I'm also a 2011 Library Journal Mover and Shaker. View all posts by ...
The Unquiet Librarian
Smithsonian launches new website for teaching African American ...
Teaching African American Civil Rights through American Art at the Smithsonian is a new Web-based project developed jointly by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. It offers teachers an ... Interactive features allow teachers to share new lesson plans using a prepared template, provide activities and reactions to the site, and discuss how artworks suit their particular classroom needs. Additional ...
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Proposed education amendment now has to win over House of ...
By onlineeditor@nashuatelegraph.com (The Nashua Telegraph)
The plot thickens over a new education funding amendment to the state Constitution. Senate President Peter.
Nashuatelegraph.com: Local News,...
Teaching science to the religious? Focus on how theories develop ...
By News
"I don't ask students to believe in education because I don't ask them to believe in DNA either," Miller said. "To me ... Early in his teaching career at Brown, Miller delivered a biology lecture to his class on Ash Wednesday — this year it's Feb.
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Costs drop 5 percent for Nashua's special education out-of-district ...
NASHUA – While the overall cost of out-of-district placements for special education students is expected. ... Click here to view a list of Nashua's out-of-district special education placements and costs as of January 4, 2012. NASHUA – While the overall cost ... There are also two other placements costing upward of $100000 this year, including one student at Crotched Mountain in Greenfield for $136934 and another student at the Nashoba Learning Group in Bedford, Mass., for $104570.
Nashuatelegraph.com: Local News,...
How to Make the Cut with Distance Education » Includes ...
By admin
The fact is, distance education works just fine, if not better than traditional schools. The courses, resources used for distance learning are similar to that of traditional schools. Teaching faculty is no less experienced. • Distance education costs ...
Includes Challenges and Benefits...
Daily Kos: Santorum Calls for Conservative Education Commissars
By rss@dailykos.com (Pericles)
We're going to repeal all sorts of regulations ... that inject the federal government into the area ofeducation. He doesn't see the contradiction. Fundamentally, that's what's most dangerous about Santorum: his self-centeredness. It shows up ...
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Hungarian Spectrum: Two footnotes: Hungarian education and the ...
By Eva Balogh
After I wrote my piece yesterday on Hungarian education I saw a photo I thought I should share with you because it seems to me to fortify my strong suspicion that Viktor Orbán has made HÖOK, the official nationwide student...
Hungarian Spectrum
Mobile Learning On The Interwebs « Virtual School Meanderings
By mkbnl
Tags: blog, blogging, cyber school, education, high school, m-learning, mobile, mobile learning, news, virtual school. Beginning with the eSchool News. ... “They're really serving many purposes while transforming the environment of teaching and learning. And we can better communicate with ...A Catholic high school in San Diego is set this fall to become the first school in the region to distribute iPad tablet computers to all of its students and teachers. The initiative is an expansion of a...
Virtual School Meanderings
Debbie Squires Michigan Education Testimony Taken Down From ...
A Michigan education official testified that educators, not parents, know what's best ... Teachersand educators go through training for a reason. As a parent, I am continually learning how best to raise and educate my children. ... After what I saw and heard in the public schools, I left teachingand I'm home schooling my child.
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