Study: Voters Value Education

Study: Voters Value Education
Inside Higher Ed
Calling education a “top-tier issue” in this year's election, a new College Board report shows that swing state voters emphasize education as much as health care despite a comparative lack of attention from candidates. In a representative sample of ... 

A report card for teachers
Chicago Tribune
Too often teachers got a cursory evaluation from the principal and no constructive criticism on how to improve. They were rated on a checklist system that both teachers and principals called useless. Parents couldn't tell if their child's teacher was ...

Mo. Senate budget plan spares education from cuts
BusinessWeek
By DAVID A. LIEB Public education would be spared from funding cuts but fewer state employees would get pay raises under a budget plan put forth Wednesday by a Missouri Senate committee. The Senate Appropriations Committee agreed to follow the House's ...

Empower Effective Teachers -- Get Out of Our Way!
Huffington Post (blog)
Insightful administrators understand that they ought to give their best instructors autonomy and exert control only on those teachers who need it. But our education system doesn't support or encourage such differentiation. Teaching our children is a ...

Education Nonprofit CFY Awarded Millions in Grants to Help Teachers, Parents ...
MarketWatch (press release)
National education nonprofit CFY ( www.cfy.org ) today announced an initiative to help K-12 students, teachers and parents locate and access high-quality online digital learning activities--videos, simulations and other educational software-- to propel ...

Education measures pass
The Advocate
The other plan, House Bill 974, would make it harder for public school teachers to retain a form of job security called tenure, and for new teachers to earn it in the future. Senate EducationCommittee Chairman Conrad Appel, R-Metairie and sponsor of ...

Can This 'Online Ivy' University Change the Face of Higher Education?
The Atlantic
By Jordan Weissmann Meet The Minerva Project, the chest-beating, Silicon Valley-spawned, Larry Summers-backed "E-lite" school that just might be the change the face of higher education. Traditionally, for-profit colleges have operated on the lowest ...

The Atlantic

Dominican University and Bisk Education Offer Two Scholarships for 100% Online ...
MarketWatch (press release)
These scholarships for teachers, valued at $5580 each (or $465 per course), will pay 33% of the current tuition price for 2011-12, enabling outstanding educators to earn a Master of Arts in Education degree in Reading, Elementary Education, ...

For financial stress ills, try education cure
Reuters
Financial education can save as much as $2000 per employee annually through increased productivity, reduced healthcare costs and better utilization of employee benefits, according to the Personal Finance Employee Education Foundation (PFEEF).

Sleepy teacher may soon be fired
Fox News
Robert SingerFOX13 A Manatee County teacher's aide is in danger of being fired because he has severe sleep apnea and nods off in the classroom, FOX13 reported. Robert Singer supervises in school suspensions at Braden River Middle School in Bradenton, ...

The University of Scranton Announces Bisk Foundation Teacher Education ...
MarketWatch (press release)
TAMPA, Fla., April 5, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The University of Scranton, a US News & World Report-ranked, regionally accredited university, announces applications are now being accepted for the Bisk Foundation Teacher Education Scholarship.

Boundless Learning, $8M in Tow, Raises Ire of Textbook Publishers
Xconomy
A Boston-based ed-tech startup is getting an education of its own: if you mess with an entrenched industry, the major players are going to mess with you. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. The startup just might have the resources and wherewithal ...

Tax Benefits for Education Costs
Fox Business
Money used toward tuition, course materials, fees, books, and equipment can be considered for either the American Opportunity Credit or the Lifetime Learning Credit. Money spent on room and board is not eligible for either tax credit.

Bronx teacher Shawanda Weems honored by White House as “Champion of Change ...
New York Daily News
By Kim Whitehead / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS The students from Public School/Middle School 15 are off and running with help from their English teacher, Shawanda Weems. Eight years ago, Weems, 36, with the New York Road Runners, established the Young Runners ...

New York Daily News

Rapides school officials want change, but have concerns about Jindal plan
Alexandria Town Talk
Bobby Jindal's proposed education-reform package, but also concerns with some parts of it. Jindal's plan would enable economically disadvantaged students at poor-performing schools to attend private schools at the state's expense, ...

Higher Education Marketing Report Honors Web Site Created by Elliance
Houston Chronicle
Elliance, a digital higher education marketing agency focusing on web site design, search engine marketing, and electronic engagement for higher education clients, has been recognized by the Higher Education Marketing Report's 27th Annual Education ...

Chambersburg district teachers get contract extension
Chambersburg Public Opinion
The starting salary for a Chambersburg teacher in 20012-13 will be $45234. The average salary is $55630. Negotiations were based on 558.4 teachers in the district. Chambersburg AreaEducation Association voted to accept the proposal during a meeting ...

Teacher rally at the Capitol had little effect on senators
The Daily Advertiser
BATON ROUGE — Teachers from around the state gathered at the state Capitol on Wednesday to lodge protests against an education package they view as harmful to them and to publiceducation. But their messages to senators had little effect on votes as ...

While America's Teachers Blame Technology for Bad Spelling, eReflect Announces ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer
With teachers in the United States regularly going public about their frustration at technology's impact on spelling, eReflect bucks the trend – announcing that computers may be just what kids need. Textisms and slang among young people are more ...

More special-education students in Salem-Keizer district
Statesman Journal
The number of Salem-Keizer students receiving special-education services increased by nearly 27 percent in the last eight years. More than one in eight students get special-educationservices in Oregon, and the number is growing, according to a report ...

Students protest teacher layoffs at OPRF High School
Chicago Tribune
Each spring school districts set staffing rosters for the next school year, based on anticipated enrollment, the types of classes students sign up for and teacher seniority, school officials said. In total, 21 nontenured teachers were dismissed by the ...

Head of Harlem Center for Education fosters learning in the community
New York Daily News
Paula Martin, executive director of the Harlem Center for Education, heads a program that provides tutors, SAT prep classes, computer training and other educational enhancement offerings for area youths and adults. As Paula Martin was growing up in ...

New York Daily News

Now schools have finally admitted how bad discipline has become it is time to ...
Daily Mail
These children, according to Dr Bousted, treat teachers like servants, squabble with other children, demand instant gratification, and fail to accept that other children in their class also want attention from the teacher.

Daily Mail

Ex-Stanford Teacher's New Startup Brings University-Level ...
By Contributor
He left Stanford and launched Udacity, a company focused on bringing free university-level education to the world. In the interview above, Sebastian Thrun, Co-Founder of Udacity, ...Classes are interactive and stop to quiz you on what you're learning. And one of the benefits is that you go at your own pace, unlike a traditional lecture. Of course, there are drawbacks toteaching a class to hundreds of thousands of people online. It's more difficult to form connections with other students in ...
TechCrunch

Teaching, NFL style | Harvard Gazette
A team-oriented approach to teaching, one that encourages educators to think about the success of a student well beyond the year they spend in a particular classroom, is a vital part ofeducation, agreed panelist Tim Daly, president of the education nonprofit TNTP, which addresses issues of teacher quality. ... Experts agree that most teachers receive inadequate feedback on the work they do, with evaluations often consisting of a visit from a principal for a few minutes each year.
Harvard Gazette

Portland Public Schools unfairly overloaded high school teachers ...
By Betsy Hammond, The Oregonian
View full sizeBenjamin Brink/ The OregonianTeachers at many metro-area high schools shoulder heavy teaching loads. Tualatin High math teacher Lyn Spitz had more than 210 students in 2010, including 39 in this calculus class. Portland ...
Portland News

Molalla High School teacher accused of sexually abusing student ...
By Nicole Dungca, The Oregonian
A Molalla High School teacher sexually abused a student multiple times during the boy's senior year, according to allegations contained in court documents released Wednesday. Tanya Maroochy Earle, 37, of Oregon City is accused of nine ...
Clackamas County News

JSerra acted 'as it should' in teacher's sex-abuse case, report says ...
By BY FRANK SHYONG
News: JSerra acted 'as it should' in teacher's sex-abuse case, report says | ricardo, aldana, catholic, high, school, san, juan, capistrano, dana, point, child, girl, mother, committee. ... In February, the Register obtained documents from Aldana's previous employer, the Centinela Valley Union High School District, that revealed he was suspended from a teaching job at Hawthorne High School in 2003 after "allegations of misconduct and/or inappropriate behavior." The committee report ...
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Learnlets » Social Learning, Strategically
By Clark
Increasingly, as I look around, I see folks addressing learning technology tactics; they'll make a mobile app, they'll try out a simulation game, they'll put in a portal. And there's nothing wrong with doing each of these as a trial, a test run, some ...
Learnlets

GOP Budget Guts Education Spending To Benefit The One Percent ...
By Jeff Bryant
Now Watch Republicans Hang Education "Reform" Around Democrats' Necks. by Jeff Bryant | March 29, 2012 ... Shifting to states and districts the cost of educating 358378 children withlearning disabilities (special education) in 2013 and again to 1260961 of those children in 2014. "The Ryan budget," the NEA analysis states, "is projected to slash education funding by $115 billion over ten years -- hurting the neediest students, causing class sizes to rise even further, forcing ...
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Times Higher Education - The week in higher education
Scholars often ask: "What is higher education for?" But teaching Buddhist monks to spout corporate mumbo-jumbo is rarely offered as an answer. On 2 April, the Financial Times reported on Keisuke Matsumoto, a monk at a Tokyo temple who ...
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Dan Cardinali: Loving Relationships and Education Reform
By Dan Cardinali
Current education policy can easily miss the point that caring adults, highly skilled at building authentic relationships with students, very well may be the sine qua non of successfuleducation.
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Public Education Money Pit — GraniteGrok
By Steve MacDonald
Local education works better when you keep the budgets lean and efficient and the money local. You don't ... Maybe its time to start electing more politicians (at every level) who see the money supposedly spent on their teaching the same way.
GraniteGrok

Education Expert On Fox & Friends: Study Shows Liberal Professors ...
By Noah Rothman
On Thursday, Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy interviewed Peter Berkowitz, member of the National Organization of Scholars and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, to talk about a recently conducted study that reveals American college ...
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