Salman Khan and Stanford University’s President John Hennessy talk about online education (video)

Khan and Hennessy on Online Education, the Full D10 Interview (Video) - Kara Swisher - Conferences - AllThingsD: "One of the more important of the interviews at the 10th D: All Things Digital conference was the pairing of Khan Academy’s Salman Khan and Stanford University’s President John Hennessy to talk about the state of online education. And we have a lot to learn, as it turns out, to make digital education really start to have an impact globally. Hennessy (who runs one of the world’s most influential educational institutions and a huge engine of Silicon Valley growth) and Khan (whose online site teaches thousands of people in math, science and other subjects daily, and has delivered 150 million Web lessons) are the ones who would know."

Bill to expedite firing teachers is rejected
Los Angeles Times
The California bill would have let school boards immediately suspend teachersaccused of "serious and egregious" conduct toward children. ... Los Angeles schools chief John Deasy blasted state lawmakers Thursday for not passing a bill to speed up the ...

Los Angeles Times

Is Online Teacher Training Good for Public Education?
TIME
Online teacher training involves much of the workload that traditional in-the-class instruction does: textbook lessons, classroom observations, student teaching. But the challenges of training successful teachers online were made clear to me during a ...

New report on teachers: Culture more important than salary, student demographics
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
A new report released by The Education Trust, “Building and Sustaining Talent: Creating Conditions in High-Poverty Schools That Support Effective Teaching and Learning,” outlines the need to pair efforts to improve outdated, inadequate teacher ...

5 more states granted NCLB waivers
Boston.com
In exchange, the states and all others granted waivers must develop accountability plans that set new targets for raising achievement, advancing teacher effectiveness, preparing all students for careers and college, and improving the performance of ...

Pa. House OKs bill to assess teachers based on student achievement
Philadelphia Inquirer
Pennsylvania appears to be headed toward a teacher evaluation system that for the first time would be based in part on student test scores. ... The legislation, which still must be voted on by the state Senate, would "help student achievement by ...

Defeat of Calif. teacher bill shows union power
San Jose Mercury News
SB 1530 had previously sailed through the Senate, but ran into a stepped up lobbying effort by the CTA at Wednesday's hearing of the Assembly Education Committee. Teachers from around the state travelled to Sacramento to testify, successfully arguing ...

Calif. teen, teacher face sodomy accusations
New York Daily News
Fernando Salgado, 18, was one of four high-school students in Fontana, Calif., who were arrested along with a teacher in the attempted sodomy of another student with steel rebar while the other three - all minors - allegedly held the boy down and ...

New York Daily News

District 202 Board of Ed, teachers reach 4-year agreement
Chicago Tribune
The School District 202 Board of Education recently approved a new four-year contract in a 5-0 vote after the Teachers' Council membership and Evanston Township High School faculty agreed to a new contract for the district's teachers.

Chicago Tribune

Obama student loan plan nearing end
Boston.com
WASHINGTON (AP) — Borrowers hoping to consolidate their student loans through a special program created by President Barack Obama last year have just until Saturday to apply.

Teachers voting on two-year collective agreement
Canada.com
Cowichan Valley teachers joined their colleagues across the province Wednesday in voting on a proposed. ... The agreement, which would run until June 30, 2013, sets out improved language to manage leave provisions, and is consistent with government's ...

Report: Make Improving Teacher Working Conditions a Priority
Education Week News (blog)
To boost teacher retention and student achievement at high-poverty schools, states and districts must first look to improve working conditions for teachers, concludes a new report by TheEducation Trust, a Washington-based nonprofit group ...

California Assembly bill to alter teacher firing process dies
Sacramento Bee
Legislation to expedite the process of firing teachers for sex, violence or drug offenses involving children was killed late Wednesday by an Assembly committee after sparking strong opposition from the state's largest teachers union.

Victoria teachers' association rejects agreement
Victoria Times Colonist
"We've concluded this agreement in order to prevent government from imposing a contract that would further erode teachers' hard-won rights and do more harm to students' learningconditions," she said. The BCTF's executive committee is recommending ...

Southwest teacher's passion leads to national award
Lincoln Journal Star
Hartman, 39, is one of two Nebraska teachers who recently received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, the highest recognition math and science teachers can receive. Beatrice High School ... mathematics teacher ...

Limpopo Textbooks - Only the Beginning of Basic Education's Woes
AllAfrica.com
Wednesday, five minutes to midnight and a phone rings in Limpopo. "Hello?", a groggy school principal answers. We know who picks up the phone because, according to the basic education director-general, principals and district offices were on standby ...

Section 27 and Basic Education Department Reach a Truce
AllAfrica.com
In March, following a court application by Section27 to compel the department of basic educationto deliver textbooks to schools in Limpopo, it was agreed that all books would be delivered by 27 June. On Thursday afternoon, representatives of Section ...

Pa. House approves teacher evaluation bill
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
The plan won the support of the Pennsylvania State Education Association, the state's largestteachers union, because it includes multiple measures of student performance, not just standardized tests. "Educators are not afraid of having our performance ...

Virginia wins waiver from some No Child Left Behind provisions
Washington Post
The news, which comes after months of negotiation between state and federal educationofficials, means that school systems in Virginia will no longer face sanctions if they fail to ensure that all students are proficient in math and reading by 2014 ...

Student accused in Fontana hazing case breaks down in court
Los Angeles Times
An 18-year-old Fontana high school student broke down in court Thursday, where he was arraigned on sexual charges in connection with an alleged in-classroom hazing that also led to the arrests of a teacher and three other students.

Teaching as an essential service 'has not fallen flat', says Motshekga
Business Day
THE African National Congress (ANC) did not reach resolution at its policy conference this week on making teaching an essential service, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga, a member of the party's education and health commission, said on Friday ...

Education as essential service - debate goes on
News24
Education as essential service - debate goes on| News24|South Africa|Politics| The ANC could not agree whether education should be seen as an essential service, education commission member Angie Motshekga says. ... "If the report-back shows that there ...

Teacher suspended after 'mother's instinct' led her to offer pupil a lift home
Telegraph.co.uk
"I'd appeal to councils and schools to use some good common sense on the balance of evidence before jumping to conclusions. "What Heather was doing was the best for the pupils. "Teachers won't want to try anymore and it will result in poorer teaching." ...

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Hot line for special ed
New York Post
The city Department of Education is devising a hot line for special-education students' parents who are unable to get their concerns — about services or class assignments for their kids — addressed.

School board passes budget, teachers not happy
Canada.com
According to Comox District Teachers' Association president Steve Stanley, the LearningImprovement Fund (LIF) should have been used to hire more teachers and fewer educationassistants. The LIF is a separate fund set ... "We recognize the important ...

Victoria teachers' group urges rejection of contract deal
Vancouver Sun
The B.C. Teachers' Federation reached the tentative agreement with the B.C. Public Employers' Association on Tuesday night after meetings with mediator Charles Jago. The accord includes improvements in benefits and leave provisions, but no salary ...

Teacher dies after trying to save student from Lake Erie rip currents ...
By msnbc.com staff
She was one of four teachers who came with Harris and four other students on the annual beach outing for the private nonprofit Positive Education Program, which serves 2500 Cleveland-area children with special learning needs, WKYC ...
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Health-Care Ruling Has Implications for Education Spending - The ...
By Mark Walsh
The part of the U.S. Supreme Court's historic decision upholding the new federal health-care law which also held that its Medicaid expansion was unduly coercive on the states likely has implications for federal education spending programs. ... " Suppose also that this funding came with conditions governing such things as school curriculum, the hiring and tenure of teachers, the drawing of school districts, the length and hours of the school day, the school calendar, a dress code for ...
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Education is undergoing a startling revolution: Let's support it ...
By Rob Nail/Singularity University
Artificial intelligence and adaptive learning: Platforms such as IBM's Watson (the winner of a special three-match series on “Jeopardy” in 2011) are demonstrating increasingly complex intelligence that is quickly being applied to education to ...
VentureBeat

Texas GOP's 2012 Platform Accidentally Opposes Teaching Of ...
By Eric Lach
We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education(OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior ...
TPMMuckraker

China:Famous School Teacher Harassed Boys · Global Voices
By Gloria Wong
China:Famous School Teacher Harassed Boys. Posted 29 June 2012 4:48 GMT. Written byGloria Wong. Countries, China. Topics, Education, Human Rights, Youth. Languages, Chinese, English ...
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LAUSD Chief Blames Teachers' Unions For Sacramento Setback ...
By Staff
[Superintendent John Deasy was furious after the Assembly Education Committee defeated a bill that would have streamlined the process for terminating teachers in cases involving sex, drugs, violence against against the children. "I mean ...
CBS Los Angeles

Unholy Alliance: Teachers Union Partners with Occupy Chicago
By Brittany Clingen
He also condemned groups such as Education Reform Now, Democrats for Education Reform, and Stand for Children – saying these groups, among other insidious acts, have been targeting African-American and Hispanic communities ...
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Ohio Department Of Education Reimburses Contractor For $9800 In ...
10 Investigates uncovered questions about trips taken by the Ohio Department of Education superintendent and his staff, 10 Investigates' Paul Aker reported on Thursday. ODE Superintendent Stan Heffner and his staff took trips for work on ...
Central Ohio News Headlines | WBNS 10TV

Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and - ASCE
Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice ... Case- Based and Collaborative-Learning Techniques to Teach Delivery of Sustainable ...
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Education Silver Lining in ObamaCare Decision? | Cato @ Liberty
Anyway, I eventually discovered what might be a small silver lining in the ruling, at least foreducation: the Medicaid section might have begun to place some, ...
www.cato-at-liberty.org/education-silver-lining-in-obamacare-...

New report on teachers: Culture more important than salary, student ...
The Education Trust released a new report on keeping good teachers in the classroom. ...Ingersoll said teacher turnover was worst at schools with high numbers of student ... lies in improving the conditions for teaching and learning that shape school culture, and they are .... So why has so little education reform occurred?
blogs.ajc.com/.../new-report-on-teachers-culture-more-importa...

Google Initiatives In Developer Education
Google Initiatives In Developer Education ... By providing more learning tools and interaction platforms for the global community, we are building and enhancing ...
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GeoGebra: Free mathematics software for learning and teaching. ... access to higher educationfor talented mathematics, science, engineering, and technology students ... Teacher's guide to the use of Google Docs in the iPad ... Ed. Teachers ...
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Texas business leaders accuse educators of 'scaring mom' about standardized tests

Texas business leaders accuse educators of 'scaring mom' about standardized ...
Washington Post (blog)
The backlash in Texas against excessive high-stakes standardized testing seems to be rattling business leaders, who have now blamed teachers and administrators for panicking parents about the dangers of such testing. 

BC teachers' union accepts deal reluctantly
CBC.ca
"I think clearly the teachers of British Columbia have decided that we are going to make sure that public education and the health of public education is a vote-determining issue in the next election," she said, adding the union she considers non ...

BC Teachers' union court action stokes labour war
Globe and Mail
But even if teachers ratify the new agreement, a bigger battle between the British Columbia Teachers' Federation and the provincial government rages on, with the union on Wednesday saying it has filed a court challenge against Bill 22, education ...

Globe and Mail

Now opening to world, Myanmar pays price for crippled education system and ...
Washington Post
President Thein Sein, a former general who has loosened the military's vise on power through unprecedented reforms, pledged in his inauguration speech last year to improve education and seek foreign expertise to lift standards to international levels ...

Teacher, students arrested in hazing investigation
Marin Independent-Journal
FONTANA, Calif.—A masonry teacher and four students have been arrested on allegations that attempted sodomy was part of a brutal hazing in masonry classes at a Southern California summer school, according to police.

BCTF interests are not about education
Canada.com
Now we now know what it takes to get the corrupt B.C. Teachers' Federation to finally accept an agreement.

Teachers see main demands denied in contract
Canada.com
Nanaimo's teachers will gather at Beban Park today at 4 p.m. to vote and to express any concerns they. ... The agreement is also consistent with the government's net-zero mandate, according to B.C.Education Minister George Abbott. The BCTF said it ...

Education Trust Report Emphasizes Need For Culture, Policy Changes In High ...
Huffington Post
A new report released by The Education Trust emphasizes the need for policy and culture changes in the public education sector, and not just updated teacher evaluation systems. ... Education Reform; Teachers; School Bullying; Segregation ...

China Education Resources Inc. Signs Exclusive Agreement with Shanxi ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Further to CER's May 1, 2012 press release, the Company is pleased to announce that it has signed an exclusive agreement with the Teaching & Research Division of Shanxi Provincial EducationDepartment to customize the Company's School Platform (CER-SP ...

Global union body backs NSW teachers
Herald Sun
Federal School Education Minister Peter Garrett and Federal Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten were both copied in on the letter but it does not appear to have been sent to ministers in the NSW government, which is working to pass legislation in ...

Sanoma expands its learning solutions portfolio - acquires Bureau ICE, expert ...
Reuters
Press Release 28/06/2012 14:15 Educational publisher Malmberg, part of Sanoma Learning has acquired and closed the acquisition of the testing and examination company Bureau ICE. The result of the ... Bureau ICE produces tests and exams for secondary ...

Student borrowing hits record in state
Lexington Herald Leader
LOUISVILLE — Kentucky college students borrowed a record $1.2 billion for higher education during the 2010-11 school year, and the average student will spend a decade shelling out $200 a month to retire their loans, new data show.

Bill responding to LA-area teacher sex case fails
Sacramento Bee
The bill failed to clear the Assembly Education Committee on Wednesday after heavy opposition from teachers unions who said the bill would harm teacher due process rights. Padilla, a Democrat from Los Angeles, sought the bill after longtime Miramonte ...

Penn. teacher who blogged that students are 'lazy whiners' is fired a year later
Syracuse.com
School board president Paul Faulkner said in a statement that the termination "has nothing to do with freedom of speech," but rather an "obligation to have satisfactoryteachers in its classrooms." "Ms. Munroe's lawsuit against the school district ...

Syracuse.com

New teacher evaluations gets support in Pa. House
The Times Herald
(AP) — Pennsylvania's House of Representatives on Wednesday cast a strong, if symbolic, vote in favor of widening the scope of professional evaluations for tens of thousands of teachers and principals across the state. ... pilot project that involves ...

Career Education Corporation Appoints Daniel Hurdle as Senior Vice President ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Hurdle leads the new, consolidated Career Schools Education Group, encompassing more than 70 culinary, health, and art & design education campuses serving more than 40000 students across the United States. ... schools and universities that are part of ...

Reversing vocational education failure
Washington Post
A college-oriented program, International Baccalaureate, wants to bring back vocational education.... But students must take four career-related courses, plus an Approaches to Learning course and a foreign language. They have to do community service ...

City's push to fire brute teach in kid beat
New York Daily News
Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott was “disturbed” by video of a hulking teacher pummeling a scrawny student at a Brooklyn school and will seek the teacher's firing, a spokeswoman said.

New York Daily News

CPS to raise property taxes to the legal maximum
Chicago Sun-Times
The $41 million in new revenue will help CPS plug an estimated deficit of up to $700 million — including $114 million in lost federal and state funds — just as it battles with teachers to replace a union contract that expires June 30. The district ...

Psych and tired of school ER calls
New York Daily News
New Education Department numbers released Wednesday reveal that schools called 911 a whopping 3600 times during the last school year to deal with non-suicide-related mental health problems. That means that 17 students a day were sent to the ...

New York Daily News

Chicago Public Schools to levy maximum property tax hike
Chicago Tribune
Talks in recent weeks appear to have broadened to include items once thought off the table, possibly including class size, teacher breaks and recall procedures for teachers who are laid off. An arbitrator that is considering issues in the talks is ...

BC teachers disciplined for broad range of misdeeds
CBC.ca
A B.C. high school teacher who sent sexually suggestive phone texts to his teenage babysitter and another teacher who put masking tape across the mouth of a talkative student are among those who have been disciplined for their behaviour. ... been ...

Teachers union fined $6k over 2011 NSW strike
ABC Online
The New South Wales Industrial Relations Commission has fined the state's teachers union $6000 over an illegal strike held last year. ... Teachers unite against education changes Photo icon Video icon; Sydney Biennale explores big ideas Photo icon ...

Triumph Higher Education Group Launches First-Ever Online Culinary School
MarketWatch (press release)
The chef-designed program focuses on the building blocks of a culinary education, with core courses covering Culinary Basics, Culinary Groundwork, Culinary Essentials, and Culinary Careers. Each course includes a series of interactive learning modules ...

Education and Option Value: A Conversation With Virgil Storr, Bryan ...
By Bryan Caplan
What Arrow Said About Education in 1973. June 25 ... On Monday, my colleague Virgil Storr heard my IHS lecture on "The Case Against Education," and sent me some interesting comments. ...Teachers emphasize classic literature and poetry.
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OpEdNews - Article: Meet My Best Teachers
Meet my best teachers. They are advocates of all cultures that learn, teach, model and show how to get more abundant supplies of food, energy, learning and health, along with cultures that cultivate access to opportunity to maximize potential ...
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Brooklyn Teacher Seen On Video Getting Into Scuffle With Student ...
By pvictorwins
On the surveillance tape, the teacher appears to grab the boy by the arm, yank him around, and pull him towards a table. After much tussling, the student, who is barely over 5-feet-tall, went down to the ground.
CBS New York

Daily Kos: Texas GOP Platform opposes teaching "Critical Thinking ...
By rss@dailykos.com (MinistryOfTruth)
Learning about pollution and the effect pollution has on the environment? Is that a paddling too? Controversial Theories – We ... Teachers and students should be able to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of these theories openly and without fear of retribution or discrimination of any kind. Who needs science? That might be "challenging ... NY-GOV covers the New York governor's race. Tags do not compound: that is, "education reform" is a completely different tag from " education".
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Education "Equal Treatment" Law Implemented
By NCCM(Ret)
Today, Navy Recruiting Command released its new Tier I education requirements as mandated in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, just under the 180 day implementation deadline. Now, credentials such as a Virtual/ Distance School Diploma, a diploma awarded upon completion of an accredited Home Study, Distance Learning, Independent Study, Self-Study, Correspondence School, Cyber School or Virtual Learning Program can now qualify as Tier I. The ...
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Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Answers Your Questions on ...
By aastles
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan answers your questions on college affordability during a special session of White House Office Hours on Twitter.

Education for Sustainable Citizenship – State of the Planet
By Guest Blogger
UNESCO panel at Rio+20. Panelists at a UNESCO-sponsored event at the Rio+20 conference on sustainable development spoke about the importance of education in building a sustainable society. Earth Institute Director Jeffrey Sachs is ...
State of the Planet

USDA ERS - Employment & Education
Labor market conditions are of great importance in rural America as elsewhere, having a powerful impact on both individual and community well-being.
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Jane's Extracts: Web Tour of the Social Learning Centre
In my webinar presentation today for the LSG Online Conference - entitled Using a collaborative platform for brilliant learning - I didn't use PowerPoint slides but ...
janeknight.typepad.com/.../web-tour-of-the-social-learning-ce...

Media: Snapshot Of Education Journalism Changes
There are some great people covering national education news these days, both ... Despite all the foundation support for education journalism the changes just ...
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Big Data Has Come to Education - Openness Must Come Next

Big Data Has Come to Education: Why Openness Must Come Next
Huffington Post
With the rise of big data in education well underway, openness and ... Education Reform ·Teachers · Bullying · Standardized Testing · Lunch Box ... curricula to adaptive learning systems to large interactive screens -- will be on display, ... dataset ...

Education is Undergoing a Startling Revolution -- Let's support it!
Forbes
Rob Nail, CEO Singularity University Education is undergoing an incredible and ...applied to education to provide ever adaptive learning environments (check ...

Forbes

Google: 500 U.S., European school districts use Chromebooks | ZDNet: "Google has said that more than 500 school districts in the United States and Europe are using Chromebooks, and has just added three more school districts into the mix. . . ."

Bill Gates on Higher Education, Part 2 - Wired Campus - The ...
By Jeffrey R. Young
He praised new hybrid approaches to college teaching, such as an introductory math course at Arizona State University that replaces the traditional lecture with adaptive software that can guide individual students through exercises at their ...
Wired Campus

TED Blog | Using data to build better education systems: Andreas ...
By Helen Walters
He heads up the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment, also known as PISA, and he's here to make the case that international comparisons of education systems can help to raise the global bar for students and learning. ... “ The test of truth is how education weighs against other priorities. How do you pay teachers? Would you rather your child be a teacher or lawyer? How does the media talk about teachers? We've learned that in high-performance systems, the ...
TED Blog

Striking teachers defiant as state plans $220000 fine
Sydney Morning Herald
THE Education Minister, Adrian Piccoli, responded to yesterday's strike by public school teachers by calling on the upper house to pass legislation that would ...

Sydney Morning Herald

The College Board Democratizes Access to Public Education
Huffington Post
Teachers; Standardized Testing; Lunch Box; Michelle Rhee .... The SAT was created to democratize access to education, so all students, regardless -- of their ...

Bucks County teacher whose blog made headlines is fired
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Bucks County high school teacher whose blog drew national attention for ... "but rather [the board's] obligation to have satisfactory teachers in its classrooms." ... The Central Bucks EducationAssociation filed a grievance with the district to ...

Borrowing for college skyrocketing in Ky.
CBS News
Kentucky college students borrowed a record $1.2 billion for higher education during the 2010-2011 school year, and the average student will spend a decade ...

Teacher, student charged in hazing probe
Atlanta Journal Constitution
A masonry teacher and one of his students were charged Tuesday with sex crimes that authorities said were part of brutal hazing intended to maintain order in a ...

Atlanta Journal Constitution

BC government and teachers' union agree on tentative deal
Globe and Mail
New education legislation passed that month ended teachers' strike action, imposed a cooling-off period and introduced a mediator, who was required to ...

Globe and Mail

NSW teachers need a lesson
The Australian (blog)
NSW state school teachers, who last week launched a charter about "Putting Students First", were on strike yesterday and will continue to strike "for as long as it ...

NSW teachers go on strike
ABC Online
Striking New South Wales teachers have not ruled out further industrial action over State Government changes to public education.

NSW teachers likely to strike again
Sydney Morning Herald
NSW teachers are likely to strike again after voting to intensify a campaign against a ... But the government says the union is misleading members about the education plan. ... Blue Mountains primary school teacher Margo Wilkinson, who has been ...

Corinthian says 7 pct programs fail new rule test
Reuters
June 27 (Reuters) - For-profit education company Corinthian Colleges Inc said 7 percent of its programs did not comply with new education rules, according to ...

For-Profit Education Companies Rise On Gainful Employment Report
Wall Street Journal
Shares of beaten-down for-profit education companies rebounded Tuesday following an employment evaluation from the Department of Education that was ...

Pennsylvania teacher Natalie Munroe bashed students as ...
New York Daily News
A Pennsylvania teacher who was caught calling slamming her students as "rude," "loathsome" and "frightfully dim" on her blog last year has flunked out of school ...

New York Daily News

DreamBox Learning Earns Four Prestigious Awards for Its Intelligent ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"We are honored that DreamBox Learning Math has been recognized by parenting, education and technology experts as positively impacting how children are ...

Business Leaders Outline Critical Need For Early Childhood ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Early childhood education is what will give them that competitive edge. ... Investing in earlylearning and development is the best foundation for human capital. ... including education reform, workforce competitiveness, campaign finance, health ...

Conn. Joining Teacher Trend
Wall Street Journal
Connecticut is set to revamp the way it evaluates public-school teachers with a ... regarding ateacher's practice and performance," Education Commissioner ...

NSW teachers vote for more strike action
Herald Sun
Striking NSW teachers have voted to intensify their campaign against a state government educationpolicy they believe will cut funding to schools.

California teacher, student charged in hazing probe
Fox News
Prosecutors have charged a California masonry teacher and one of his students with sex crimes that authorities say were part of brutal hazing during summer ...

Gov. Chris Christie may not sign teacher tenure bill, stuck on layoff ...
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Teresa Ruiz (D-Essex), the sponsor, left seniority rights unaltered to secure support from the state's largest teachers union, the New Jersey Education ...

The Star-Ledger - NJ.com

Teachers vote to ramp up action
Illawarra Mercury
He said his Government had delivered "record state funding for education" in the last state budget and was not sacking teachers, reducing teacher numbers or ...

BC teachers' union and province reach tentative "net zero" deal
Victoria Times Colonist
B.C. Teachers' Federation president Susan Lambert said the labour deal was put ... B.C. EducationMinister George Abbott announced the tentative "net-zero" ..... teachers' hard-won rights and do more harm to students' learning conditions,” ...

Neb. Dept. of Education to track college readiness
Kearney Hub
LINCOLN (AP) — Nebraska's public high schools will receive more detailed information this school year about how well they've prepared students for college ...

Mission Education Center In San Francisco Sees Drastic Decrease ...
Huffington Post
187 passed," said fifth-grade teacher Lilly Chow, referring to the controversial ballot ... It has sliced the number of teachers nearly in half. ... Students normally stay for a year or two, learning English and catching up on academics before they ...

Report creates winners, losers in education stocks
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Report creates winners, losers in education stocks.

Local Schools, Local Defiance
ABC Online
The Teachers Federation is standing by its decision to strike today, despite the NSW ... NSWEducation Minister Adrian Piccoli has condemned the action taken by ... guarantees around class sizes, around casualisation of the teaching service, ...

NSW education minister vows to fine union
Sydney Morning Herald
NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli has vowed to have the teachers' union ... "We have never faced a more serious threat to our learning conditions," he told ...

Can Anyone Teach? This Teacher Says No « Diane Ravitch's blog
By dianerav
This Teacher Says No. June 27, 2012 //. 2. In Louisiana, as I wrote in a recent blog, the Jindal legislation does not require that teachers in charter schools have certification. Certification is not a high bar in Louisiana, but it does represent a standard: a minimum grade point average in college, ...At a recent meeting, a Harvard-educated member of the state board of education suggested thatteachers don't even need to have a college degree. ... One last thought, teaching is a calling .
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Central Bucks School District Fires English Teacher Who Blogged ...
By Crystal Cranmore
By Todd Quinones. DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (CBS) - The Central Bucks East High School Englishteacher who made national news with her blog is now out of a job. In her blog, Natalie Munroe called students “lazy whiners” among other things.
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Rod Paige Interview: Romney's Top Education Adviser
By Cynthia Gordy
Former Education Secretary Rod Paige takes on federal spending, teachers unions and school-voucher critics. ... born in 1933 in segregated Mississippi, Paige was named to the Romney campaign last month. He has also served as a teacher, dean of the College of Education at Texas Southern University and superintendent of the Houston Independent School District. His disclaimer.... A Romney Advisor's Solution for Learning Gap. Blogging the Beltway: Rod Paige pitches charter...
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Education, training, and the research university « The Reality-Based ...
By Mark Kleiman
I'll be visiting the University of Virginia this fall, teaching the introductory course in the Batten School's new undergraduate major in public policy. Last week I was in Charlottesville for a ...Learning how both to capture what goes on in its classrooms for export to other institutions and individual students, and how to substitute other inputs for teacher-hours in the educational process will be a necessity for the survival of U.Va., and every other university. And learning how to do so at...
The Reality-Based Community

Teachers use final days of this school year to prep for the next ...
By Rachel Cromidas
... Monday and Tuesday in favor of adding prep time for teachers. Department of Education officials extended the option, which parents were supposed to approve, to all schools late this spring. Many schools took the time to give teachers a crash course in new learning standards known as the Common Core. ... “Our goal next year is to have a lot more student ownership of what they know,”teacher Rachel Cerlen explained. “Like, 'I know I'm a novice here, but I'm an apprentice there.” ...
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Education Week: Foes of education reforms launch opposition drive
Campaign Chairman Mike Lanza says the laws approved in 2011 are bad for students, teachers and public education across the state. ... Leveraging Adaptive Learning to Personalize Education ...Elementary Bilingual Teacher; School District U46, Elgin, IL; Lower School Principal; The American School in London, London, United Kingdom; Nadine and Robert A. Skotheim Director of Education; The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA ...
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Ed Gragert: Linking US Global Competence With Education Globally
By Ed Gragert
What if global competency efforts were focused on building awareness of and taking action with countries and cultures where quality education is most lacking?
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For-Profit Colleges May Lose Federal Money Under New Rules

Feds: For-profits could lose federal student aid - Boston.com: "Former students in career-training programs at dozens of for-profit institutions have had so much trouble paying off their loans that the schools could lose access to federal student aid if they don't improve, new data from the U.S. Department of Education finds. The Education Department reported that at 193 programs at 93 schools, students were unable to meet any of three measures under the agency's new "gainful employment" rule. The new regulations, announced by the Obama administration last year, are aimed at making sure students in career-training programs at for-profit, nonprofit and public institutions are able to get a job and pay off their student loans when they graduate." 

For-Profit Colleges May Lose Tax Money Under New Rules
Businessweek
Career Education, based in Schaumburg, Illinois, rose 0.9 percent to $6 at 10:22 ... the largest for-profit chain, had one: a teacher's assistant program in Tempe, ...

School stampede highlights Vietnam education woes
CBS News
In this Confucian nation where education is a national obsession, schools at all levels ...Vietnamese were studying at foreign higher learning institutions last year. ... Another problem is that parents bribing teachers for high marks and degrees ...

N.J. passes bill to overhaul teacher-tenure system
Philadelphia Inquirer
Under the legislation, any teacher could be fired after two poor reviews. ... The state's largestteachers' union, the New Jersey Education Association, backed the ...

Sweeping NJ teacher's tenure bill passes Legislature, heads to Gov ...
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Christie and the state's largest teachers union, the New Jersey EducationAssociation ... Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a visible advocate for education reform,.... so it would be difficult to teminate educators because teaching postions were used ...

The Star-Ledger - NJ.com

National education reform group's spending shown
Reuters
(Reuters) - The national education reform group StudentsFirst, which has set out to ...abolishing teacher tenure; permitting more teachers without formal education ... her policy prescriptions have not been shown to improve student learning.

Revised Sexuality Education programme targets social networking ...
TODAYonline
SEd will also be delivered through subjects such as Science, Health Education and Civics and Moral Education and each school will have at least ten teachers ...

Teachers to go ahead with strike
ABC Online
Teachers in NSW public schools are set to strike on Wednesday, in defiance of an order ...Education Minister, Adrian Piccoli, defended the new policy to 1233 ABC ... give principals the power to select at least every second teacher in that school ...

McGraw-Hill Education Restructuring International Operations To ...
MarketWatch (press release)
McGraw-Hill is the adaptive education technology leader with the vision for creating a highly personalized learning experience that prepares students of all ages ...

Teachers 'refusing to send yob pupils to the headmaster'
Telegraph.co.uk
Thousands of teachers are refusing to use back-to-basics methods of ... send them to the head's office - according to Department for Education research. ...pupils to the head teacher's office to be disciplined, while 13 per cent refused to issue ...

Telegraph.co.uk

Pupil behaviour improving, suggests teacher survey
BBC News
Pupil behaviour is better than four years ago, suggests a survey of teachers - but a... which was commissioned by the Department for Education, revealed teacherswere .... how an idea formed in a cupboard is reinventing distance learning ...

BBC News

NJ lawmakers pass teacher tenure bill
Education Week News
For many education reformers, finding ways to remove ineffective teachers is a key to improving schools. ... However, it doesn't do something many education reform advocates want to ...Leveraging Adaptive Learning to Personalize Education ... Teaching ...

IRC slaps O'Farrell over teachers' strike
Sydney Morning Herald
Mr O'Farrell has expressed disappointment that teachers will strike on ... in one case the Department of Education and Training withdrew its application (2010) ...

Scholastic Introduces Program To Help Teachers Assess Students ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Teachers can easily evaluate a student's responses and performance compared to research-based rubrics outlined in the Teacher's Guide, and then plan ...

Fine striking NSW teachers, urges O'Farrell
ABC Online
Thousands of teachers are expected to defy an order by the IRC to call off the industrial ... to (by Mr O'Farrell) did the Department of Education and Training ask for the ... arrangements for their children and it does impact on our children's ...

Far west teachers to strike despite IRC ban
ABC Online
Teachers in the far west will join a 24 hour strike across NSW tomorrow, ... "It's very very important to education in the future, to our public schools of the future. ... to improve the learning outcomes of students at all, it is simply to cut costs.

eLogic Learning Partners with Rustici Software to be an Early ...
San Francisco Chronicle
This takes e-Learning to the next level and integrates mobile devices, not only as a platform for training, but as a means to facilitate education. Rather than a dry ...

San Francisco Chronicle

Benchmark Learning Listed Among Top Finalists for the 2012 ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Benchmark Learning is an award winning education services company, delivering education on IT, ITIL, Development, Business Analysis, Project Management ...

Teachers walk off job
Illawarra Mercury
Hundreds of Illawarra teachers will converge on Wollongong Town Hall this ... order not to take action to protest about State Government education reforms. ... not increase class sizes, cut funding or decrease specialist teacher positions as part ...

Teacher who gave zeros threatened with termination
CBC.ca
The Edmonton teacher who was suspended for giving students zeros in ... to consider recommending termination of your teaching contract with Edmonton Public ...

CBC.ca

What Arrow Said About Education in 1973, Bryan Caplan | EconLog ...
By Bryan Caplan
The highlights begin on page one, when Arrow describes the many ways that education could increase productivity - and, by implication, the many traits that education could signal: From the viewpoint of formal theory, it does not matter how the student's productivity is increased, but implicitly it ... On page three, Arrow considers and rejects the "employer learning" critique of the model: It will probably be argued that this description [that "the buyer has very good statistical information but ...
EconLog: Library of Economics...

Test Yourself | June 26, 2012 - New York Times Learning Network
By By THE LEARNING NETWORK
The Learning Network - Teaching and Learning With The New York Times .... Out of a lot of greatteachers that I've had, I'd want to thank my 7th grade gym teacher most. He was young but was like 1000 years old because he taught even ...
The Learning Network

Latino Education Advancement Program enters fifth year | WTVR ...
By Alix Bryan
The Latino Education Advancement Program is a four week college prep course held at the Steward School. ... Latino Education Advancement Program enters fifth year. Posted on: 9:54 pm, June 25, 2012, by Alix Bryan ...
WTVR.com – Richmond News &...

StudentsFirst Raises $7.6 million in 2010-11 - Blogs - Education Week
By Stephen Sawchuk
Education Week's blogs > Teacher Beat See our Teachers news coverage ... Stephen Sawchuk, a former federal education beat writer, turns his inner policy geek to digging around in the weeds of the teaching profession. Join him as he ... ( Education Week examined the rising influence of school-focused interest groups like Students First, Stand for Children, and Democrats forEducation Reform in a series of stories earlier this year, titled The Changing Face of EducationAdvocacy. ) ...
Teacher Beat - Education Week

2 O.C. beginning teachers win $175000 fellowships | teaching ...
By By SCOTT MARTINDALE
News: 2 O.C. beginning teachers win $175000 fellowships | teaching, science, teacher, math,teachers, high, fellowship, school, foundation, knowles. ... York this fall, is finishing her teachingcredential at Stanford University. A graduate of UC San Diego, she has worked as a special-education coach in San Diego, an assistant instructor for a Long Beach high school dropout recovery program, and a student-teacher at a Redwood City high school. Do emigrated from Vietnam at age 7, ...
The Orange County Register -...

Thank a Teacher Today « Diane Ravitch's blog
By dianerav
I have written several blogs about how teachers today are under appreciated. I think teachershave one of the hardest and most thankless jobs in our society. Teachers do work of great social value and yet they are paid far less than people in ...
Diane Ravitch's blog

Louisiana Private Schools Teach Loch Ness Monster Is Real In ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
The Times Educational Supplement, a British publication for teachers, published an article in 2009 that included an excerpt from Accelerated Christian Education's Biology 1099 textbook, which was published in 1995: ... A Washington, D.C. teacher was fired from Center City Public School's Trinidad campus in March 2012 for <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/05/teacher-fired-for-giving-_n_1322173.html" target="_hplink">sending home violent, morbid and traumatizing ...
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed

The Best of Etsy for Children · Playful Learning
By mariah
Online Learning Experiences for Parents and Children. Home · Online ... We are big believers in imaginative play – to the point where at certain ages, our kids “education” is made up of up to 80% imagination games. Felt food is a favorite in ...
Playful Learning

Peabody College of Education and Human Development ...
Peabody College of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt ... Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations of Early Learning (CSEFEL) ...
peabody.vanderbilt.edu/hall_rogers.php

Illinois may dump test for would-be teachers — Joanne Jacobs
Teacher candidates must pass — they have five tries — to be admitted to a teacher preparation program. The state board of education should resist pressure to eliminate the ... with children, and dedication to the teaching profession,” writes Strauss. ... may dump test for would-beteachers · Fractions are key to math learning ...
www.joannejacobs.com/.../illinois-may-dump-test-for-would-b...

Are Machines Learning To Think?
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Inside Google's secretive X laboratory, known for inventing self-driving cars and augmented reality glasses, a small group of ...
www.outsidethebeltway.com/are-machines-learning-to-think/

Recommended Learning | FWD
June 26, 2012 in Data and Technology, Next Generation Learning ... Tags: Alleyoop, collective intelligence, crowd learning, Education, Learning, Pearson ...
fwd.pearson.com/2012/06/26/recommended-learning/

Three Steps for Improving Teacher Questions | Edutopia
WHAT WORKS IN EDUCATION The George Lucas Educational Foundation ... Some teachersmay be tempted to believe that they are "teaching" when they are ... Savvy teacher will designlearning activities in preparation for student-led ...
www.edutopia.org/.../improving-teacher-questions-ben-johnso...

California teacher, students arrested in hazing investigation
The Oshkosh Northwestern
(AP) — Police said Monday they have arrested a teacher and four students as they ... on a computer literacy program at the Adult Basic Education Lab at Fox ...

San Clemente teacher charged in sexual assault of eighth-grader
Los Angeles Times
An Orange County middle school teacher who has already pleaded not guilty to lewd behavior with two students was charged Monday with repeatedly sexually ...

Teacher Accused of Ordering Students to Haze, Assault Others
ABC News
A high school hazing incident in which a teacher and four students were arrested now believe more students than initially suspected were assaulted by the ...

ABC News

Teacher, students arrested in hazing investigation
Boston.com
A masonry teacher and four students have been arrested on allegations that attempted sodomy was part of a brutal hazing in masonry classes at a Southern ...

Boston.com

S. Cal. Teacher, Students Arrested for Hazing
TIME
(FONTANA, Calif.) — Police said Monday they have arrested a masonry teacher and four students as they investigate allegations of brutal hazing at a summer ...

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