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NY Senate to vote on Cuomo teacher evaluation bill

NY Senate to vote on Cuomo teacher evaluation bill
Wall Street Journal
Andrew Cuomo's bill to keep teacher evaluations secret from most taxpayers. ... Cuomo wants to disclose the one-phrase evaluations of teachers only to the ...

Cuomo's Teacher-Evaluation Bill Still Alive in New York Senate
Bloomberg
Governor Andrew Cuomo's bill that would limit disclosure of teacher ... and is backed by the New York State United Teachers, the largest educators union.

Michael Gove's plan to scrap GCSEs is ludicrous, say teaching ...
The Guardian
The education secretary has already scrapped the modular element of ... the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, described the move as the education ...national curriculum how will he ensure a rigorous approach to learning in all schools?

The Guardian

NY Senate to take last look at teacher eval bill
Wall Street Journal
Andrew Cuomo's bill that would restrict public release of a teacher's ... He has said that is the quickest way to improve instruction and motivate teachers. ... A court, education reformers and Bloomberg have said all evaluations should be made ...

Public access to teacher evaluations up for vote as legislative ...
The Journal News | LoHud.com
The debate over how to disclose new teacher evaluations was the most contentious undecided piece of legislation as ... Assembly Democrats and teachers' union said they supported the governor's initiative. .... Newspapers in Education ...

Gov's teacher evaluation plan needs to be approved this week ...
New York Daily News
Cuomo's plan to restrict release of teacher evaluations before ending the ...Education. SITE BLOGS WEB Search powered by Yahoo! Search Field ... Andrew Cuomo & state lawmakers crumbling: source · Why teaching scorecards must be made fully public · Gov ...

New York Daily News

Probe: Bad judgment in military school Islam class
msnbc.com
Poor judgment and poor oversight led to the teaching of anti-Islamic material at a military school for officers, the Pentagon said Wednesday.

AMA Backs Requirement for Obesity Education in School
Fox News
It cited data showing that more than 300 million people worldwide are obese and said requiring nutrition education to prevent obesity has never been proposed.

Michael Gove plans to scrap dumbed-down GCSEs and bring back ...
Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE: Leaked documents seen by the Mail reveal Education ... course with theteaching unions, local education authorities, the Liberal Democrats and ... schools are judged, meaning teachers have no incentive to help them at all. .... on learning ...

Daily Mail

Gilbert teachers to receive pay raises
East Valley Tribune
Gilbert school teachers could see their pay increase an average of $1500 ... Greenfield Elementary School kindergarten teacher Trasie Johns helps her students with a classroom exercise at the Gilbert school in April, 2010. ... the amount of funding to ...

Lag in online learning worried U.Va. board's leaders
GoDanRiver.com
"U.Va. has been a national leader in digital scholarship and digital education for ... Sullivan's) rather pedestrian answer to my question … about online learning ...

A history teacher's brilliant idea
CNN
The 39-year-old husband and father of three has been teaching U.S. history for 13 years. He's seen firsthand the demise of U.S. history education, now our high school seniors' ... Teachers like Hoekstra are a great influence on their students.

Scrapping GCSEs: a leap towards selection and grammar schools
The Guardian
Michael Gove, the education secretary, may deny that he has any intention of abolishing ... But as many teachers and parents saw it, selection at 11 had simply been ... results proved a dramatic rise in the standards of teaching and learning.

D-Day for teacher grade disclosures
New York Post
Thousands of teacher evaluations could be made public in two months unless the state ... a bill that would limit the disclosures, top state education officials warned. ... Scores for fourth- through eighth-grade math and English teachers and their ...

Two-tier education already exists, says Michael Gove
The Independent
Michael Gove has insisted that England already has a two-tier education ... "While there were undoubtedly improvements in our schools and by our teachers over the ... He said the key to improving literacy and numeracy was to raise teaching ...

Teacher Layoff Deal: Five Key Takeaways
Voice of San Diego
Teacher Layoff Deal: Five Key Takeaways - Voice of San Diego: Education ... At the core of the agreement are two key concessions from teachers: They will put ...

Plans for O-level-style exams to replace GCSEs
BBC News
England's exam system needs further changes, Education Secretary Michael Gove ...but supporters say teenagers are working harder than ever and teachers are getting ...The big teaching unions have echoed Mr Brennan's warnings about a .... Widen the ...

BBC News

Lib Dems vow to block Michael Gove's plan to axe GCSEs
Telegraph.co.uk
A major coalition row erupted today over Education Secretary Michael Gove's plans to axe ...schools — giving head teachers complete freedom to set their own lessons. ... But it is bound to provoke fierce hostility from teaching unions amid claims ...

Senate to pass Cuomo's bill blocking teacher ratings' release
New York Post
ALBANY – Say goodbye to seeing teacher evaluations. ... The bill would allow only parents to see evaluations by name, and only for their own kids' teachers. ... Merryl Tisch, a Silver ally and the state's top education policy-making official, say ...

Judge: New Orleans teachers fired illegally after Katrina
USA TODAY
More than 7000 New Orleans teachers and other school employees were wrongfully fired after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, a judge ruled. Civil District Court ...

Chicago Teacher Stands Up to Stand for Children and Wins
Huffington Post
Chicago Public Schools history teacher Jennifer Johnson was tired of watching her colleagues being... Teachers; School Bullying; Education Reform; Literacy ...

Scrapping GCSEs will hurt yet another generation of children
The Guardian
There might be free market forces at work in education now, but as a pupil you ... to get rid of bad teachers, but wants to limit the possibility of them teaching children to.... The daily drip drip of his insanity goes on - rote-learning of poetry ...

The Guardian

Labour attacks 'two-tier' exams
BBC News
Shadow education minister Kevin Brennan has accused the government of seeking to... over deep understanding - gobbets of knowledge over real learning".

BBC News

Slate: 5 misconceptions about teaching math and science
SouthCoastToday.com
Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education is crucial in the ... Better that your child should be taught by an exciting, creative teacher using an ... more excellent teachers, and attracting top students into STEM teaching helps.

State legislators give teachers raises but little else to public schools
News & Observer
The budget delivers what could be a fatal below to the state teacher recruitment program, the N.C. Teaching Fellows. ... $27 million education reform plan ...Bethany Meyers, a Johnston County middle school teacher, said teachers were ... at Duke as ...

News & Observer

Best Android apps for learning Spanish
By Carl Parker
Tweet · Tweet. If you know that paella is a rice dish, flamenco is a dance, and that Don Quixote is ingenious, then you are either Spanish by blood or you just happened to learn these terms when you channel-surfed and got glued to a Spanish ...
Android Authority

Times Higher Education - The week in higher education
21 June 2012. • From an Elsevier boycotter to one of the sector's most prominent female vice-chancellors, the Queen's Birthday Honours List, announced on 16 June, recognised a diverse array of higher education figures. Timothy Gowers ...
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Confusion Can Solidify Higher Level Learning | Psych Central News
By Rick Nauert PhD
Confusion Can Solidify Higher Level Learning A new study discovers that a state of confusion, if properly introduced, can be beneficial for learning complex information. The finding is contrary to the perception that confidence and certainty are ...
Psych Central News

Texas Teacher Abused Autistic Child, Stuffed Her In File Cabinet ...
After the teacher, 47-year-old Julie Gosch, purportedly pulled out a clump of hair from one of her student's heads, two of her teaching aides decided to email school administrators, describing months of abuse. Gosch had allegedly called the students "losers," "stupid," "retarded" and "a bitch." She would hit ... Recently several special education teachers have been accused of abusing their students. The parents of four students at Taft Elementary School in Orange, Calif., filed a lawsuit in...
Ball Backs Cuomo On Teacher Evaluations | Politics on the Hudson
By Joseph Spector
“I think that the parents should certainly have access to the evaluations, but I also appreciate the concerns of especially special-needs teachers being unfairly compared and not having a fair or equitable evaluation across the board.” “So it's a ...
Politics on the Hudson

Missouri Education Officials To Test New Evaluations | FOX2now ...
By Kelley Hoskins
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ Missouri education officials will be testing a new teacher evaluation system in the upcoming school year. The State Board of Education approved the pilot project during a meeting this week in Jefferson City.
FOX2now.com – St. Louis News...

Teaching Fellows fall by the wayside, as lawmakers fund Senate Bill ...
By Clayton Henkel
Speaker Thom Tillis then followed-up by saying details could come as early as next week regarding other programs being discussed to give superintendents “a good pipeline of new teachers.” To watch the exchange, click below: YouTube ...
The Progressive Pulse

NC teacher who forbade student from 'disrespecting' Obama will ...
By Sally Nelson
North Carolina teacher will keep her job after telling a student he could be arrested for speaking against Obama. ... “Teachers must create a positive instructional environment conducive to learningwithin the guidelines of our state curriculum. School administrators report that the incident does not reflect Dixon-Neely's usual performance, hence her retention. Before the recording ... to improve herteaching skills,” Grissom said. Follow Sally on Twitter. Tags: Education, obama, Teacher ...
The Daily Caller

Technologies Promises to Education - Innovative-Education - Site ...
By RichardRyan
Technology integration in education in Australia and globally. Learn how teachers and students are using Microsoft and other technologies to tackle challenges of 21st century skills. Stories from Partners in Learning. ... In a recent speech at the National Association of Independent Schools Conference in Seattle, USA, Bill Gates talked about technologies can help increase the impact ofteaching and learning. There is no doubt that a lot has been promised, a lot is possible and perhaps...
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Cooper Was Giant of Business Education « Know
By University Communications
There he became part of a radical shift in business education that emphasized scientific and mathematical rigor over trade-school, hand-me-down instruction and professors teaching in departmental silos. Cooper was not only a leader in ...
Know

Valve giving away Portal 2 to teachers as part of its Steam for ...
By Tyler Lee
There are some who feel that video games are a waste of our brain and that it disrupts learning and whatnot. On the flip side there are also those who encourage gaming since it helps stimulate our mind and helps [...]
Ubergizmo

Flipped Learning Founders Set the Record Straight -- THE Journal
Since then, it's developed a significant following of flipped devotees, with many more educators peering in, and has even evolved as teachers combine it with other models, like project-basedlearning. T.H.E. Journal ... Even though we came up with the idea in 2007, they probably had the idea, at least as far as I know, originally, but we've been calling ourselves pioneers in the movement since we've been the ones in the forefront, at least in terms of K-12 education. It's not just about the...
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Don't Take My Word For It - Check Out the Reading Rainbow App
Chip Chicklets
Reading Rainbow, the classic children's television show that encouraged kids to read and offered up recommendations, is making a welcome comeback in the form of an iPad app. From the looks of it, it's going to be the last word on storybooks apps.

Changing Education - GovLoop - Social Network for Government
One of the challenges of internet based video education is that students aren't really learning, they just feel like they are learning, let's call that couch potato ...
www.govloop.com/profiles/blogs/changing-education

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