Digitization in Education the "opportunity of a century"

McGraw-Hill Names Lloyd Waterhouse Head of Education Unit
Bloomberg
(MHP) named Lloyd “Buzz” Waterhouse as president and chief executive officer of McGraw- HillEducation, ahead of the parent's planned split into two companies. Waterhouse, a former CEO of Harcourt Education, will step into the role on June 14, ...

McGraw-Hill Names IBM Veteran to Lead Education Arm
Wall Street Journal
His appointment underscores the gaining importance of the digital side to selling learning tools as it prepares to spin off the unit. Mr. McGraw has called digitization in education the "opportunity of a century," saying McGraw-Hill was putting in ...

The McGraw-Hill Companies Appoints Lloyd G. Waterhouse President & CEO of ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Mr. Waterhouse will report to Harold McGraw III, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of The McGraw-Hill Companies, as the process continues to establish McGraw-Hill Education as an independent, digital learning and education services ..

Mildura teachers join rallying cry
ABC Online
About 250 Sunraysia Australian Education Union members congregated at the Settlers conference centre and watched video footage from the Melbourne teachers' stop work event at Hisense Arena. Those at the Settlers heard from AEU Victorian Branch ...

Teachers union accuses CPS of trying to sabotage strike authorization vote
Chicago Sun-Times
By ROSALIND ROSSI Education Reporter June 7, 2012 9:44PM Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard meets with the media after speaking to a parent training session at the Christian Fellowship Flock Church, 10724 S. Ewing. Wednesday, June 6, 2012.

Advice for Teachers' Unions
Huffington Post (blog)
I explained how collective bargaining allows teachers to negotiate for the conditions that create an environment that supports learning. Such things as working conditions, class size, teachingresources, aids, and planning time all benefit children.

Another stoush looming over education reforms
TVNZ
But scrapping the Budget cuts leaves a $114 million hole in the Government's books, money it will now squeeze elsewhere from the education sector. "So what the Government will go and do is talk to the sector, work with others but find another way of ...

Teachers cheer backdown on class sizes
New Zealand Herald
By Claire Trevett Education Minister Hekia Parata said yesterday that 'the buck stops with me' but expects to keep her job despite Opposition demands that she should go. Photo / Brett PhibbsTeacher unions and education groups have welcomed Education ...

Scott Walker's Education Victory
Wall Street Journal
Yet hidden among the Wisconsin governor's reforms has been another significant success: He's helped change the education paradigm. Conservatives have push ededucation reform for decades, with notable successes. But the debate had also become ...

Wall Street Journal

LFT challenges education changes
Shreveport Times
BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana Federation of Teachers is challenging the constitutionality of Gov. Bobby Jindal's education package using public school funds to pay for private and parochial school vouchers and making what the governor calls "significant ...

Vic teacher pay offer fair, Baillieu says
Ninemsn
More than 10000 teachers went on strike on Thursday, forcing the closure of 160 schools, with Australian Education Union members rejecting the government's offer to give 70 per cent of teachersthe opportunity for a performance bonus above its public ...

City skeptical of teachers' tally
Chicago Sun-Times
“What we have an issue with is they're not using an independent monitor to oversee this process that is going to have a huge impact on the city, to at least ensure there's integrity,'' said Becky Carroll, spokesperson for the Board of Education.

Education secretary Mike Russell told to 'stand up' for Scottish teachers over ...
Scottish Daily Record
EDUCATION Secretary Mike Russell has been told he "cannot hide behind the coat-tails of some Eton toffs" at Westminster on the issue of pensions. Larry Flanagan, the new general secretary of the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS), ...

Ontario College of Teachers to kick out bad teachers, end secrecy
Toronto Star
Both the provincial Education Ministry and the college have vowed to move quickly on the recommendations. Education Minister Laurel Broten is expected to introduce legislation that will, among other fixes, ensure teachers guilty of sexual misconduct ...

Toronto Star

Teachers at Washington Post Co. educational unit vote for representation by ...
Sacramento Bee
By Newspaper Guild of New York NEW YORK, June 7, 2012 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New York City-based teachers of English as a second language at the Washington Post Co.'s [NYSE: WPO] educational subsidiary, Kaplan Inc., voted today for workplace ...

Teachers on the brink of striking tell of their anger at huge workloads ...
Scottish Daily Record
One secondary teacher described how he was emailed a mass of teaching schedules on the controversial new Curriculum for Excellence days before he was due to take the lessons. Many other members of the EIS – Scotland's largest teaching union – called on ...

Teachers vote against taking strike action over curriculum shake-up
Scottish Daily Record
Members of the country's largest teaching union, the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS), debated the issue at their AGM this morning. It comes amid concerns that some schools are not ready for the National 4 and 5 qualifications, being brought in ...

Education Reform Is Much More Than Partisan Politics
Huffington Post (blog)
Wickham actually believes that parental choice is "fool's gold of education reform." Hold on! Say what you want, but the truth is that the emerging cry for parental choice is warranted, and it's not coming from the Republican Party playbook.

Teachers challenge education changes
Natchez Democrat
BATON ROUGE (AP) — A Louisiana teachers union asked a state court Thursday to throw out a set of sweeping education changes pushed by Gov. Bobby Jindal and passed by lawmakers in the just-ended legislative session. At issue are changes to the state's ...

Teachers union asks judge to scrap Jindal education reforms
Houma Courier
Also targeted are changes made to teacher tenure and salary law, to make it harder for teachers to reach the job protection status and to get rid of statewide pay scales for teachers. The Louisiana Federation of Teachers filed two lawsuits in Baton ...

Teacher deserves an A
Vancouver Sun
Education is a partnership among teachers, students and parents. If students won't do their part - which includes handing in assignments as required - then they deserve a zero. Dorval is simplyteaching students that there are consequences.

'Huge relief for parents, students, teachers'
Stuff.co.nz
Education Minister Hekia Parata announced the U-turn yesterday afternoon. It means there will be no changes to the teacher-student funding ratios. More than 1000 schools nationwide stood to lose Government funding as a result of the changes announced ...

Changes planned in teacher discipline
Toronto Sun
TORONTO - A former Superior Court justice is recommending sweeping changes to how Ontario'steachers are disciplined. The new proposals include tougher punishments for sexual misconduct towards students and greater transparency when it comes to teacher ...

Zeros for missed work unfairly skew grades: education experts
Edmonton Journal
Education experts and officials are defending the controversial no-zero approach used in most Edmonton public high schools, despite public backlash unleashed last week after a high schoolteacher who gave zeros was suspended. Advocates of the approach ...

Teachers' poverty stirs discontent
China Daily
Ding Rui, editor of a Guiyang-based education magazine, posted photos of five teachers' pay stubs on t.qq.com, a Twitter-like microblogging service run by Chinese Internet portal Tencent, on May 31. The five teachers - Sun Yan, Wu Xuemin, Liu Xingyou, ...

Teachers guilty of sexual misconduct should be punished: discipline review
Toronto Star
Teachers found guilty of sexual abuse or sexual misconduct should almost always have theirteaching license revoked, according to recommendations in a discipline review by the Ontario College of Teachers. A Star investigation last year found serious ...

Walter's Perspective: Teacher Contract Dispute Has Become ...
By Mike Ramsey
CBS 2's Walter Jacobson says the Chicago Board of Education and the Chicago Teachers Union should stop acting like children. ... Walter's Perspective: Teacher Contract Dispute Has Become Schoolyard Fight. June 7, 2012 10:06 PM. Share this. View Comments. More Activity. Facebook ...Unreasonable adults teaching children to be unreasonable, setting the worst kind of example, for which they ought to be in dunce caps and standing in a corner. Luckily, that's not the whole story ...
CBS Chicago

Education reform lawsuit filed - WAFB 9 News Baton Rouge ...
By Charisma Thrash
LFT representatives claim the addition of vouchers and changes to teacher tenure are unconstitutional. They argue the Constitution states every bill should be limited to one object; whereas the education reform bills hit on more than one issue.
WAFB - Local News

North End Middle School Teacher Kathleen Pyles On Leave After ...
By brama1
WATERBURY, Conn (CBSNewYork/AP) - Perhaps one Connecticut math teacher should stick to numbers, not names. A Waterbury Middle School teacher has been placed on paid leave while school officials investigate complaints about the ...
CBS New York

Mead student teacher dismissed amid sex crime probe - Spokesman ...
The Eastern Washington University graduate student was teaching at Mount Spokane High School where the girl is a student, according to university and Mead School District officials. Rob Humphrey was dismissed from his internship as soon ...
Spokesman.com: News stories

'Bridesmaids'-Inspired Slap Has Malibu Teacher in Hot Water With ...
By Aaron Couch
A Malibu high school teacher is learning that acting like a character from Bridesmaids isn't so funny in real life. Last week, a 9th grader at Malibu High School told police her teacher slapped her in the face multiple times in a ...
Hollywood Reporter

Former Band Teacher Given Jail Time, Ordered To Attend Sex ...
By Alan Carter
A former band teacher at George Washington Preparatory High School in South Los Angeles was sentenced Thursday to 30 days in jail and ordered to undergo a sex-offender program.
CBS Los Angeles

Teachers trick eighth graders into eating moose poop on a school ...
By Carmel Lobello
Something is bound to go wrong on a middle school canoe trip, be it poison ivy, that kid who forgot his EpiPen or, say, a group of teachers who think it's funny to trick kids into eating moose poop. That last of these happened recently when ... A little girl trying to get the moose poop out of her braces while her teacher and principal looked on belly-laughing has to be one of the saddest middle school moments that took place anywhere in the last decade. Developmentally speaking, middle ...
Death and Taxes

Schools Matter: Chicago Teachers Voting Now to Authorize Strike If ...
This space explores issues in public education policy, and it advocates for a commitment to ...What is going on in Chicago among teachers should be a lesson for the country, ... at the same time seeing the profession of teaching as an institution collapse in a real way. .... CorporateEducation Reform: the Status Quo That "n.
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