San Jose Mercury News
By Thomas L. Friedman PALO ALTO -- Andrew Ng is an associate professor of computer science at Stanford, and he has a rather charming way of explaining how the new interactive online education company that he cofounded, Coursera, hopes to revolutionize ... Coursera.org
Taylor Swift gives $4M to Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum for children's ...
Washington Post
Now, she's donating $4 million to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum to make sure that education continues. The gift is the largest given to the museum by an artist and is the second largest from an individual, officials said.
Strike is teachers' only choice, they say
NEWS.com.au
TEACHERS in New South Wales say they have no choice but to strike today after being frozen out of plans to give principals more autonomy over decision-making. The NSW Teachers Federation yesterday said it understood the anger of parents of the 750000 ...
Grading teachers is tough to get right
The Detroit News
By Jennifer Chambers Pioneer Middle School social studies teacher Jennifer Reid, with students Tatiana Janicevic, left, Amelia Beson and Latrice Funches, is among teachers who can expect to be evaluated annually under new tenure laws, using a four-tier ...
The Presidential Campaign And Latino Education
Huffington Post
However, Latino education is rarely a campaign issue and neither party would have much to show in terms of concrete results in this area. The achievement gap between Hispanics and other ethnic groups in standardized testing and overall education is ...
Florida teacher, fired for premarital sex, has right to a trial, court rules
Christian Science Monitor
A teacher at a Christian school, fired in 2009 ostensibly for engaging in premarital sex, can proceed with her lawsuit against the school, a US appeals court ruled Wednesday. She says the real reason she lost her job was pregnancy.
Blackboard Wins CODiE Award for Best Postsecondary Learning Management System
MarketWatch (press release)
Last year, Blackboard Learn was named the Best Corporate Learning Solution and the Best Professional Education Solution by SIIA. In 2010, the product was also named the Best K-12 Course Management Solution. "Blackboard is continuously innovating their ...
Taylor Swift gives $4M to Country Hall of Fame expansion
Chicago Sun-Times
Swift is donating $4 million to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum to fund the 7500 square foot-plus Taylor Swift Education Center in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Taylor Swift has taught a generation of kids to ...
Teacher Arrested on Child Pornography Charges
New York Times (blog)
By ANDY NEWMAN A teacher at a children's day care and after-school center in the Bronx has been arrested on charges of possessing and distributing child pornography, federal prosecutors and the police said on Thursday. According to a complaint (see ...
Students' suit claims teacher tenure deprives them of quality education
Plain Dealer
By Plain Dealer wire services LOS ANGELES -- In a sweeping challenge of teacher employment rules, eight students have filed suit claiming that California law violates their right to a qualityeducation by protecting bad teachers from being laid off or ...
Teacher layoffs are bad for all
Detroit Free Press
In the long run, both students and the quality of public education are going to be negatively impacted." Changes that have been made do not make students, teachers, or parents happy. Some are worried they may not have a teacher in every classroom.
Teacher fired over pregnancy can sue religious school
Chicago Tribune
(Reuters) - An appeals court on Wednesday revived a Florida teacher's lawsuit against a Christian school that fired her after she admitted to conceiving a child before her marriage. Overturning a lower court ruling in the school's favor, ...
Education Report: Chronic Absenteeism Undermines Over 5 Million Students
Huffington Post
As some education advocates push for more rigorous academics and teacher accountability, Balfanz argues they fail to ask a basic question: Are kids actually in school? "Like bacteria in a hospital, chronic absenteeism can wreak havoc long before it is ...
Quebec education minister quits as student strike rages
The Australian
QUEBEC'S education minister has resigned, citing a deadlock in negotiations to end a student strike in the mostly French-speaking Canadian province that is entering its 14th week. Quebec'seducation minister resigned Monday, citing a deadlock in ...
Buyouts Offered to Hundreds of City Teachers
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The policy is intended to put a dent in a group of about 800 teachers who have been unable to find a job in one of the city's 1750 schools. Some teachers in the group, called the Absent Reserve Teacher pool, were let go by their principals while others ...
Russia: Teacher Who Said She Was Pressured to Rig Vote Faces Trial
New York Times
The teacher, Tatyana Ivanova was in charge of a polling station set up in the school where she worked. She accused Natalya Nazarova, an education department official in St. Petersburg, of pressuring her and other poll workers to falsify the vote and ...
Teachers strike to go ahead
ABC Online
Yesterday the Education Minister Adrian Piccoli said the industrial action is proof that theTeachers Federation is out of control. "Unfortunately, thanks to the belligerent actions of the union, parents will have to make alternative arrangements for ...
Designing Business Education for a Custom Fit
New York Times
Duke Corporate Education, which spun off from Duke University's Business School in 1999 to become a boutique school with customized programs, sent 22 faculty members to work with about 1000 of the company's employees. “We had to design the program ...
Teachers, Wichita school district spar over contract details
Kansas.com
United Teachers of Wichita is asking for a 3 percent salary increase and a return to raises — plus back pay — for additional education or experience, known as steps and tracks. It also seeks fewer professional development days, a proposal that ...
School Board/Teachers Union discuss contract
KWCH
Both sides made headway into how to evaluate teacher's work, but the main issue remains pay raises. The union has asked for a three percent salary increase, step increases and back pay. “I would think the board of education's position when we talk ...
Russian teacher who reported being pressured to rig vote for Putin's party ...
Washington Post
Like many teachers and principals in Russia, Tatyana Ivanova was in charge of a polling station set up in the school where she worked. She accused Natalya Nazarova, an education department official in St. Petersburg, of pressuring her and other poll ...
Education Trust Fund budget approved
Montgomery Advertiser
The Alabama Legislature approved a $5.4 billion Education Trust Fund budget Wednesday evening that maintains class sizes without eliminating teacher positions. The approved budget, passed unanimously by the Senate and on a 96-to-4 vote by the House, ...
Learning Tree International Introduces Two SQL Server 2012 Courses: SQL Server ...
MarketWatch (press release)
RESTON, Va., May 17, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Learning Tree International (NASDAQ:LTRE) has announced the introduction of two new courses. SQL Server 2012: Administration Skills Upgrade and SQL Server 2012: Business Intelligence Skills Upgrade are ...
Teachers could have more input to reforms
Sydney Morning Herald
AAP The NSW education department is considering whether to give teachers more input into how controversial reforms are implemented in a last-ditch effort to avoid planned strike action. The NSW Industrial Relations Commission (IRC) on Wednesday ...
What teachers don't need (but are getting anyway)
Washington Post (blog)
By Paul Thomas Just days ago, I completed my 28th year as a teacher — 18 as a high schoolteacher of English followed by 10 years as a professor of education. And I am excited about the coming semesters because, as I have felt every year of my ...
Teachers Union Agreement to Save District $325K, Maybe More
Patch.com
By Mitch Cooper After more than a year of negotiations, Nora Suder-Riley, Twinsburg Education Association president, is glad to have reached an agreement with Twinsburg City School District. On Wednesday the school board approved a new agreement with ...
Teachers must resist NSW reforms: union
Sydney Morning Herald
AAP The head of the teachers' union admits parents will be angry over teachers' decision to go ahead with a two-hour stopwork meeting on Friday. But the threats posed by the state government's school autonomy reforms are too important not to act, ...
Teaching Periods Set as Yearlong Courses Recommendations Arrive
Patch.com
The Winnacunnet teaching schedule won't change next year, although a community committee recommends adopting a six-block day in the following year. By Kyle Stucker The Winnacunnet School Board laid to rest Wednesday many of the fears and rumors that ...
Lane Garrison -- Teaching Prisoners a Lesson | TMZ.com
By TMZ Staff
Lane Garrison is putting on a real show in jail -- TMZ has learned, the former "Prison Break" star is teaching acting classes ... to his fellow…
TMZ.com
The Detroit News
By Jennifer Chambers Pioneer Middle School social studies teacher Jennifer Reid, with students Tatiana Janicevic, left, Amelia Beson and Latrice Funches, is among teachers who can expect to be evaluated annually under new tenure laws, using a four-tier ...
The Presidential Campaign And Latino Education
Huffington Post
However, Latino education is rarely a campaign issue and neither party would have much to show in terms of concrete results in this area. The achievement gap between Hispanics and other ethnic groups in standardized testing and overall education is ...
Florida teacher, fired for premarital sex, has right to a trial, court rules
Christian Science Monitor
A teacher at a Christian school, fired in 2009 ostensibly for engaging in premarital sex, can proceed with her lawsuit against the school, a US appeals court ruled Wednesday. She says the real reason she lost her job was pregnancy.
Blackboard Wins CODiE Award for Best Postsecondary Learning Management System
MarketWatch (press release)
Last year, Blackboard Learn was named the Best Corporate Learning Solution and the Best Professional Education Solution by SIIA. In 2010, the product was also named the Best K-12 Course Management Solution. "Blackboard is continuously innovating their ...
Taylor Swift gives $4M to Country Hall of Fame expansion
Chicago Sun-Times
Swift is donating $4 million to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum to fund the 7500 square foot-plus Taylor Swift Education Center in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Taylor Swift has taught a generation of kids to ...
Teacher Arrested on Child Pornography Charges
New York Times (blog)
By ANDY NEWMAN A teacher at a children's day care and after-school center in the Bronx has been arrested on charges of possessing and distributing child pornography, federal prosecutors and the police said on Thursday. According to a complaint (see ...
Students' suit claims teacher tenure deprives them of quality education
Plain Dealer
By Plain Dealer wire services LOS ANGELES -- In a sweeping challenge of teacher employment rules, eight students have filed suit claiming that California law violates their right to a qualityeducation by protecting bad teachers from being laid off or ...
Teacher layoffs are bad for all
Detroit Free Press
In the long run, both students and the quality of public education are going to be negatively impacted." Changes that have been made do not make students, teachers, or parents happy. Some are worried they may not have a teacher in every classroom.
Teacher fired over pregnancy can sue religious school
Chicago Tribune
(Reuters) - An appeals court on Wednesday revived a Florida teacher's lawsuit against a Christian school that fired her after she admitted to conceiving a child before her marriage. Overturning a lower court ruling in the school's favor, ...
Education Report: Chronic Absenteeism Undermines Over 5 Million Students
Huffington Post
As some education advocates push for more rigorous academics and teacher accountability, Balfanz argues they fail to ask a basic question: Are kids actually in school? "Like bacteria in a hospital, chronic absenteeism can wreak havoc long before it is ...
Quebec education minister quits as student strike rages
The Australian
QUEBEC'S education minister has resigned, citing a deadlock in negotiations to end a student strike in the mostly French-speaking Canadian province that is entering its 14th week. Quebec'seducation minister resigned Monday, citing a deadlock in ...
Buyouts Offered to Hundreds of City Teachers
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The policy is intended to put a dent in a group of about 800 teachers who have been unable to find a job in one of the city's 1750 schools. Some teachers in the group, called the Absent Reserve Teacher pool, were let go by their principals while others ...
Russia: Teacher Who Said She Was Pressured to Rig Vote Faces Trial
New York Times
The teacher, Tatyana Ivanova was in charge of a polling station set up in the school where she worked. She accused Natalya Nazarova, an education department official in St. Petersburg, of pressuring her and other poll workers to falsify the vote and ...
Teachers strike to go ahead
ABC Online
Yesterday the Education Minister Adrian Piccoli said the industrial action is proof that theTeachers Federation is out of control. "Unfortunately, thanks to the belligerent actions of the union, parents will have to make alternative arrangements for ...
Designing Business Education for a Custom Fit
New York Times
Duke Corporate Education, which spun off from Duke University's Business School in 1999 to become a boutique school with customized programs, sent 22 faculty members to work with about 1000 of the company's employees. “We had to design the program ...
Teachers, Wichita school district spar over contract details
Kansas.com
United Teachers of Wichita is asking for a 3 percent salary increase and a return to raises — plus back pay — for additional education or experience, known as steps and tracks. It also seeks fewer professional development days, a proposal that ...
School Board/Teachers Union discuss contract
KWCH
Both sides made headway into how to evaluate teacher's work, but the main issue remains pay raises. The union has asked for a three percent salary increase, step increases and back pay. “I would think the board of education's position when we talk ...
Russian teacher who reported being pressured to rig vote for Putin's party ...
Washington Post
Like many teachers and principals in Russia, Tatyana Ivanova was in charge of a polling station set up in the school where she worked. She accused Natalya Nazarova, an education department official in St. Petersburg, of pressuring her and other poll ...
Education Trust Fund budget approved
Montgomery Advertiser
The Alabama Legislature approved a $5.4 billion Education Trust Fund budget Wednesday evening that maintains class sizes without eliminating teacher positions. The approved budget, passed unanimously by the Senate and on a 96-to-4 vote by the House, ...
Learning Tree International Introduces Two SQL Server 2012 Courses: SQL Server ...
MarketWatch (press release)
RESTON, Va., May 17, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Learning Tree International (NASDAQ:LTRE) has announced the introduction of two new courses. SQL Server 2012: Administration Skills Upgrade and SQL Server 2012: Business Intelligence Skills Upgrade are ...
Teachers could have more input to reforms
Sydney Morning Herald
AAP The NSW education department is considering whether to give teachers more input into how controversial reforms are implemented in a last-ditch effort to avoid planned strike action. The NSW Industrial Relations Commission (IRC) on Wednesday ...
What teachers don't need (but are getting anyway)
Washington Post (blog)
By Paul Thomas Just days ago, I completed my 28th year as a teacher — 18 as a high schoolteacher of English followed by 10 years as a professor of education. And I am excited about the coming semesters because, as I have felt every year of my ...
Teachers Union Agreement to Save District $325K, Maybe More
Patch.com
By Mitch Cooper After more than a year of negotiations, Nora Suder-Riley, Twinsburg Education Association president, is glad to have reached an agreement with Twinsburg City School District. On Wednesday the school board approved a new agreement with ...
Teachers must resist NSW reforms: union
Sydney Morning Herald
AAP The head of the teachers' union admits parents will be angry over teachers' decision to go ahead with a two-hour stopwork meeting on Friday. But the threats posed by the state government's school autonomy reforms are too important not to act, ...
Teaching Periods Set as Yearlong Courses Recommendations Arrive
Patch.com
The Winnacunnet teaching schedule won't change next year, although a community committee recommends adopting a six-block day in the following year. By Kyle Stucker The Winnacunnet School Board laid to rest Wednesday many of the fears and rumors that ...
Lane Garrison -- Teaching Prisoners a Lesson | TMZ.com
By TMZ Staff
Lane Garrison is putting on a real show in jail -- TMZ has learned, the former "Prison Break" star is teaching acting classes ... to his fellow…
TMZ.com
Google bots learning to read webpages like humans, one step ...
By Sarah Silbert
Google just launched its Knowledge Graph, a tool intended to deliver more accurate information by analyzing the way users search. Of course, with a.
Engadget
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Latino Voters: Education More Important Than Immigration
By Israel Ortega
But with a high school drop out rate of nearly 50 percent for Hispanic students nationwide, it is clear that the educational system is failing to provide the fastest growing demographic with a quality education. In addition to ineffective teachers ...
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Should kindergarteners be allowed to evaluate teachers? - The Week
By The Week
Best Opinion: GOOD, Education Week, Hechinger Report. A the tender age of 5 some kids are just learning how to spell "cat." In Georgia, though, 5-year-olds will soon be tasked with filling out surveys that could help determine which teachers ...
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Times Higher Education - The week in higher education
The University of Aberdeen ducked any further accusations of promoting "quackery" by deciding against establishing a chair in a form of alternative medicine that advocates mistletoe as a cure for cancer. The chair in "integrative health care ...
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Eagle County School District Replaces Foreign Language Teachers ...
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As part of a massive budget balancing, one school district is now getting rid of most of the foreign language teachers and replacing them with computers. ... The Eagle County School District is calling it a blended online learning model. They've tested it out at the Vail Ski and Snowboard Academy, which specializes in distance education with students. But even the ... “I knew there were going to be cuts but I never thought the foreign languages were targets,”teacher Cynthia Blanke said.
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A costly divide in education | Harvard Gazette
As part of the John Harvard Book Celebration, Harvard Graduate School of Education Dean Kathleen McCartney spoke about the most effective ways to close the achievement gap between low-income students and their middle and ...
Harvard Gazette
Joseph Hill: Why are Education Apps Built by the Lowest Builder?
By Joseph Hill
My belief is that the main reason that apps are made badly is that the developers are putting their hopes and dreams of helping their future app users (whether it is giving joy with a game or eventeaching people to read and write) into the hands of the lowest bidder. People who promise the moon for 70% below what others are asking. ... Our kids and even learning adults deserve better than a lowest bidder build. If you are building an app, don't put it in the hands of the lowest bidder.
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Baltimore Schools Offer Programs To Prevent Learning Loss During ...
By sbhagav
“What we know is that kids lose a lot of the learning that they gained in the school year during the summer if they don't continue to read, learn and practice what they just learned,” Crystal Ashe, ateacher at Baltimore City Schools, said.
CBS Baltimore
Mother: Teacher put special needs student in box | North Carolina ...
The mother of a 14-year-old special education student says she was horrified when she learned his teacher was putting her son in a box as a form of punishment.
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Longer Learning Could Up Your Life Expectancy, Study Suggests
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The researchers examined their causes of death, and found that people who got the added year of learning had lower risks of death from certain conditions that seem linked with education. For example, women had a lower risk of dying from ...
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Noel Brinkerhoff, Vicki Baker All Gov May 17, 2012. Raymond Gilmartin's landing was a soft one after leaving behind an embattled Merck. The one-time top ...
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How many teachers would move next year? - School Zone - The ...
The district in December submitted plans to hire outside groups to run those schools -- but those plans are contingent on the district submitting a teacher ...
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Education Department Senior Official to Participate in Panel on ...
Education Department Senior Official to Participate in Panel on Blended Learning at Education Writers Association Seminar. Contact: Press Office, (202) ...
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Hannemann shares education platform | Hawaii 24/7
Hannemann continued, “From my kindergarten teacher at Kalihi Kai Elementary, ... To provide greater support for Hawaii's teachers, Hannemann pledges to: ... His perspectives oneducation reform for higher education resonated well with us .
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