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The Digital Education Revolution, Cont'd: Meet TED-Ed's New Online Learning ...
The Atlantic
For the most part, though, despite years of education reform, we tend of think of education as a highly vertical experience, one of active teachers and passive students, one in which knowledge radiates out from a single speaker to a roomful of silent ...

New Jersey Autistic Boy Records Teachers' Alleged Abuse
ABC News
So Chaifetz said it was totally out of character when he began receiving reports from Horace Mann Elementary School that Akian was hitting his teacher and a teacher'saide. "The thing that said to me that something horrifyingly wrong was going on was ...

ABC News

In rush to evaluate teachers on student performance, districts struggle with ...
Washington Post
Still, the South Florida teacher sees signs of growth in the nine kindergarten to second-grade students in her class. Those little steps are what teachers like Campbell consider major leaps for students with the most significant physical and cognitive ...

Struggle over how to evaluate special ed teachers
Fox News
In a survey by the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality, 63 percent of specialeducation teachers said they believed student achievement gains should be a component of their evaluations, but only 21 percent thought standardized test scores ...

Teachers Taught to Combat Homophobia
Voice of America
April 25, 2012 Teachers Taught to Combat Homophobia Student actors are part of program to control classroom conduct Anny Celsi | Los Angeles, California In 2010, violent crimes against gay, lesbian and transgendered people were up 13 percent over the ...

State's top court considers releasing names in old NYC schools' anti-communist ...
Washington Post
ALBANY, NY — New York's top court is set to hear arguments on public disclosure of informants and teachers who were subjects of the anti-communist investigations by New York City Board ofEducation from the 1930s to the 1960s.

Burbank teacher wins national award, and praise from Obama
Los Angeles Times
Rebecca Mieliwocki, a seventh-grade teacher at Luther Burbank Middle School, was recognized Tuesday as the National Teacher of the Year. The president calls her 'the definition of above and beyond.' Rebecca Mieliwocki teaches her seventh-grade students ...

Los Angeles Times

Testing teachers
The Daily Advertiser
For special education students measuring that growth is complicated. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) The Associated Press MIAMI — Since the first day of class this school year, Bev Campbell has been teaching her students how to say their names.

International Teaching Job Opportunities for American Teachers - Featured on ...
Houston Chronicle
NewsWatch recently aired a story about the thriving job market for international teaching jobs. During a time when American teachers are facing fewer jobs, the international education market is currently experiencing phenomenal growth.

Teacher Fired After Receiving Fertility Treatments
ABC News
A Catholic school teacher in Indiana is suing a diocese there, claiming that she was unlawfully terminated after school officials learned she was undergoing fertility treatments to become pregnant. In a federal lawsuit filed in a Fort Wayne, Ind., ...

ABC News

Warning over school pay as 700 heads pocket £100k
Telegraph.co.uk
At least 700 head teachers earn six-figure salaries, according to the Department forEducation. Photo: GETTY IMAGES By Graeme Paton, Education Editor Official figures show that 700 heads are earning at least £100000 this year following a rise in ...

Telegraph.co.uk

Teachers union poll: Voters split on Emanuel's job performance
Chicago Sun-Times
By ROSALIND ROSSI Education Reporter rrossi@suntimes.com April 24, 2012 8:40PM Chicago voters are evenly divided on Mayor Rahm Emanuel's job performance — with increasing numbers giving him negative reviews, according to a poll released by the Chicago ...

Struggle over how to evaluate special ed teachers
Albany Times Union
More than a dozen states have passed laws to reform how teachers are evaluated and include student growth as a component. For special education students measuring that growth is complicated. (Lynne Sladky / AP) In this April 3, 2012, photo, teacher Bev ...

Teachers have new contract
Buffalo News
By Karen Robinson Teachers in the Frontier School District have a new contract that guarantees them a 4.15 percent average increase in their salaries over five years, but it also boosts their employee health insurance contributions, and prescription ...

Obama Honors National Teacher of The Year
ABC News (blog)
Standing before winners of state teachers of the year awards, Mieliwocki stressed “I am not the best teacher in America. There isn't one. All across this nation there are millions of teachers who do the work that I do, and many do it better.

ABC News (blog)

Conn. Gov. continues education tour in Bridgeport
Boston.com
Malloy will meet with parents, teachers and others during an hour-long town hall-style meeting Wednesday night at Central High School in Bridgeport. This session the Democratic governor is pushing an education reform package that includes expanding ...

Striking Gresham-Barlow teachers begin picketing in front of schools
OregonLive.com
The strike was announced on a teachers union website. Salary and preparation-time issues continue to separate the sides. Carol Burkamp, a 31-year-old teacher wearing an “I (Heart) My Students” t-shirt, was among about 15 teachers picketing at Gresham...

OregonLive.com

St. Mary's education center to expand services
Washington Post
Breanna Hurley, 8, said she remembers being intimidated by the idea of visiting the EducationOutreach Center at Leonard's Freehold in Leonardtown. “The first time I was nervous,” Breanna, a second-grader at Leonardtown Elementary School, ...

Obama honors Burbank's Rebecca Mieliwocki as teacher of the year
Los Angeles Times
President Obama recognized Burbank teacher Rebecca Mieliwocki as the 2012 National Teacher of the Year during a ceremony Tuesday at the White House. Mieliwocki, a seventh-grade Englishteacher at Luther Burbank Middle School, was cheered loudly by the ...

District 180 Teacher Salaries Below Average for DuPage County
Patch.com
Members of the District 180 Board of Education say they have made a fair and competitive offer for a new collective bargaining agreement with teachers, who have been working without a contract since Sept. 1, 2011. Board members say teacher salaries ...

Teacher assignments under review
CBC.ca
Education Minister Ramona Jennex was a teacher and union activist before becoming a politician. (CBC) Nova Scotia's education minister is creating a committee to examine why some teachers are assigned to teach topics they know little about.

CBC.ca

Mitchell teacher meets president
Daily Republic
South Dakota Teacher of the Year Pat Moller, of Mitchell, met President Barack Obama on Tuesday at the White House along with the Teachers of the Year from other states for a reception andteacher appreciation event. “You don't really plan to be ...

Teachers seek an end to salary freeze
Springfield News-Leader
The teachers aren't seeking base salary increases; they want a freeze on step advancement along the Nixa R-II School District's salary schedule lifted. The Board of Education raised the starting salary for teachers to $33660/year in 2011.

700 heads earning above £100000
The Press Association
Data published by the Department for Education reveals that 200 heads working in publicly funded schools are earning upwards of £110000 and 500 others had salaries of between £100000 and £109999. It means they are earning double that of the average ...

Capella Education 1Q profit falls with enrollment
CBS News
MINNEAPOLIS — Capella Education saw a 23 percent decline in first quarter profits because of falling enrollment amid tighter regulations. The online education company said that it expects revenue to fall between 1 percent and 2 percent during the ...

How One App Uses Digital to Empower Education
By Alissa Skelton
Three Ring allows teachers and students to digitize student work by snapping a picture or video with their mobile or tablet devices. ... Three friends — Alec Turnbull, Michael Lindsay and Steve Silvius — who share a passion for education reform joined to create Three Ring. Silvius has taught in LA charter schools. “Portfolios are powerful tools ... From there, the teacher can access the students' work on the Three Ring website from a tablet or computer. The teacher can create different ...
Mashable!

President Obama Welcomes the Teacher of the Year | The White ...
By Colleen Curtis
The President and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan welcomed Mieliwocki and all the recipients of the nation's highest honor for educators, the 2012 National and State Teachers of the Year, to the White House for a ceremony in the East ...
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Don McLeroy, Former Texas Education Board Chair, On The Colbert ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
... textbook debate. McLeroy, former chair of the Texas Board of Education, is a dentist whose predominant classroom teaching experience is in Sunday School. ... Loading... School Bullying ·Teachers · Standardized Testing · Arne Duncan .... More in Education... Stuart Chaifetz, Father, Puts Wire On Son... Marco Inskip, Teacher, Accused Of Telling 7-Year-Old... Joy Furman, Bullied Kentucky Girl's Mom, Seeks... We Need Experienced Teachers. FOLLOW US. Facebook. Twitter. Apple ...
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News Quiz | April 25, 2012 - New York Times Learning Network
By By ANASTASIA ECONOMIDES
The Learning Network - Teaching and Learning With The New York Times ... This Week on TheLearning Network ... Teachers can use or adapt our lessons across subject areas and levels. ....Other Education Resources at The Times ...
The Learning Network

Teacher From Louisville Honored By President Obama « CBS Denver
By matthewbuettner
I wouldn't be here today if it were not for teachers like these who challenged me and pushed me and put up with me and inspired me and set me straight when they had to,” the president said. A seventh-grade English teacher from Southern ...
CBS Denver

Learning Societies: Spring Meeting Part Three | MIT Center for Civic ...
By natematias
As an intentional polymath, Nathan's activities have ranged widely over the arts, technology, charities, ideas, and education. A graduate of Elizabethtown College and the University of Cambridge, his academic research has been just as ...
MIT Center for Civic Media -...

Can Gaming Salvage The Education System? - PSFK
Second, games are nature's way of teaching, and human-kind's way of learning. Play is the way that children learn boundaries and basic skills. While you aren't going to learn chemistry or biology from the type of play that children engage in, ...
PSFK

FG to withhold states's grants over teacher training
By adekunle
ABUJA — The Federal Government has declared that states that have not conducted the 2011 Professional Teacher Training programme will henceforth not get the annual Universal Basic Education Teachers Training Grants. Minister of State ...
Vanguard News

Gresham-Barlow cancels Wednesday classes; teachers strike set for ...
By James Mayer, The Oregonian
Enlarge Randy L. Rasmussen, The Oregonian GRESHAM, OREGON-April 24, 2014-- Tom Urbanowicz, a teacher at Gresham High School and bargaining chairman for the Gresham-BarlowEducation Association, hugs one of his students ...
Oregon Education

Distance-Learning Survey Shows Growing Concern for Student ...
By Joanna Chau
Other challenges included adequate assessment of distance-education classes, compliance with new financial-aid requirements, and operating and equipment budgets. “With the greater focus on distance learning, colleges' expectations are ...
Wired Campus

Dan Brown: The 5 Worst Things a Teacher Can Say to Students
By Dan Brown
Yet no matter what happens, there are some words so destructive that they should never be uttered by a teacher. ... Honesty is a virtue, but as a teacher, your top priority is building a safe and trustful environment for student learning. Showing your hand as ... More in Education... Two Poems for the Month of Testing. Stuart Chaifetz, Father, Puts Wire On Son... Marco Inskip, Teacher, Accused Of Telling 7-Year-Old... We Need Experienced Teachers. FOLLOW US. Facebook. Twitter. Apple ...
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Dad releases audio of teachers allegedly bullying autistic son
I battled teachers with my son when he was 6..he had a first grade teacher that ... and any credentials that would allow them to be in an education setting. ... teachers who teach these children have the credenital's for teaching children with ...
now.msn.com/now/0424-teacher-bullies-autistic-boy.aspx

Stuart Chaifetz Secretly Tapes His Autistic Son at School, Discovers ...
In October 2011, he met with Akian's teachers and school therapists. ...Another aide and ...
shine.yahoo.com/.../stuart-chaifetz-secretly-tapes-autistic-son-s...

Falsely accused teacher calls for accountability - British Columbia ...
An Ontario substitute teacher who was cleared of abuse allegations is speaking ... Dowell was on lunch room duty, during a one-day teaching assignment at R.L. .... of education at McGill University, has studied false allegations against teachers. ... is "a significant step" toward learningwhat befell the elderly St. Albert , Alta., ...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british.../bc-teacheraccused.html

Human Rights Petition: To the New Jersey Legislature and ...
My son, Akian, who has Autism, was bullied by his teacher and aide. ... To the New Jersey Legislature and Congress: Pass legislation so that teachers who bully ...
www.change.org/.../to-the-new-jersey-legislature-and-congress...

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