Huffington Post
Arne Duncan; Teachers; Education Reform; School Bullying .... According to census data the Education Department will release in advance of Duncan's speech, the percentage of adults between the ages of 25 and 34 with a post-secondary degree increased ...
Is Khan Academy a real 'education solution'?
Washington Post (blog)
Khan believes, says the article, that, with his “video-driven teaching method at its heart,” he has “stumbled onto a solution to some of education's most intractable problems. Learners watch his lectures as homework, then go to school where classroom ...
Former Broward Teachers Union president arrested after union probe found ...
MiamiHerald.com (blog)
To at least a few Broward Teachers Union board members, it was a hard pill to swallow. When former BTU President Pat Santeramo resigned in December — a resignation prompted by a pending criminal probe into spending irregularities — the...
Teachers need support from the community
The Daily Advertiser
"My heart is so heavy with these changes that went through this session," said former teacher and former Board of Elementary and Secondary Education member Mary Washington. She thinks the reforms were pushed through without the proper vetting by ...
NetCom Learning Announces an Exciting Milestone: Reaching the Highest ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, July 12, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- NetCom Learning has built a reputation as an innovative leader in IT, business and executive training organizations and was named Company of the Year by the American Business Awards.
Teachers, activists boo CPS budget
Chicago Tribune
Chicago Public Schools budget plan draws boos from teachers and community activists at public hearing. ... members wore red and orange T-shirts in solidarity with the teachers union. "I can find some more savings for the district — close all ...
Chicago Tribune
US Education Department: Percentage of Michigan residents with college ...
Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The number of Michigan residents between 25 and 34 with a college degree is up slightly, but U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan says the state – and nation – have far to go to meet goals. The Education Department released...
Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com
Percent of young adults with college degree rises slightly, remains far below ...
Washington Post
“We've made some progress, but the combination of deep state budget cuts and rising tuition prices is pushing an affordable college education out of reach for middle-class families,” Duncan says in prepared remarks. The United States ranks 16th in the ...
Feds' education chief pushes to raise rate of degree-holders
Columbus Dispatch
WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will lay down a challenge to the nation's governors Friday, telling them to raise the number of college–degree-holders in their states to 60 percent within the next eight years. That statistic would ...
Education III, Back to School Feature Package
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, July 12, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The following feature package is a roundup of feature stories dealing with Education and is appropriate for special sections and for general use. For each story included in this package, you will find ...
ConvergeUS Hosts Interactive Education Discussion on the Implementation of ...
Sacramento Bee
"Technology and innovation, which the standards encourage, like digital media and comprehensive assessment systems, will make it easier across states for teachers, parents and students to have clear and common expectations to work towards together in ...
Teachers say CPS budget creates financial crisis
WBEZ
“You are creating an emergency so that you can then turn around next year or the year after that and tell the Chicago Teachers Union, 'Well, we just don't have money for you,'” Chavez said. Norine Gutekanst, an organizer with the union, says the budget ...
WBEZ
Education secretary says governors need to cooperate
The Virginian-Pilot
WASHINGTON When U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan speaks with governors Friday in Williamsburg, he'll have one overarching message: Let's work together to boost college completion rates.
The Virginian-Pilot
Five more Redwood City schools could get PE teachers this fall
San Jose Mercury News
By the time her oldest child started school in 2004, district-paid physical education teachers were already extinct, recalled school board vice president Shelly Masur. Only a few schools with well-organized parent organizations paid for outside ...
US education official calls on state to step up higher-ed help
The Seattle Times
Martha Kanter, undersecretary of the federal Department of Education and a key policymaker on higher-education issues in President Obama's administration, spoke during a town hall-style meeting at the University of Washington on Wednesday.
Preschool teacher arrested
Ct Post
A teacher at a preschool for special needs children was arrested Wednesday after allegations that she abused a 3-year-old girl in her classroom. Jean Marie Pulaski, 48, a teacher at the Trumbull Early Childhood Education Center for more than a dozen ...
Should Program to Reward Teachers Include More Hours and Students?
New York Times
Anyone who has taught long enough to be able to reflect on how students learn knows: teaching is an immeasurably complex task, and public policy implemented by large bureaucracies often cannot capture the nuances of learning. To borrow the framework of ...
Teachers Opinions ARE Impacting Leaders Opinions and Positive Action!
GPB (blog)
You'll recall this is a group of teachers retained by the US Department of Education to listen in “round table discussions” to the voices of thousands of other teachers to create an in-depth document outlining recommendations for improving our ...
GPB (blog)
Learning Tree Introduces A New Course: Agile Testing Strategies
TheStreet.com (press release)
In-class at a Learning Tree Education Center2. Real-time via Learning Tree AnyWare™—our instructor-led training delivery solution that allows participants to join this course from their home, office or anywhere there is Internet access3. On-site as a ...
Talking leadership with Joanne Weiss, Arne Duncan's chief of staff at the ...
Washington Post
I loved learning how people learn. How did that lead to becoming chief of staff at the Department ofEducation? I helped start three education technology companies over the course of about 20 years. These organizations focused on everything from K ...
Dean Cannon: Measuring students' progress critical to education's success
Orlando Sentinel
Florida's education-reform efforts have proved that students succeed when our system is organized around measuring success, using data from assessments and customizing learning plans to the needs of each child. It's hard to believe that a little over a ...
Duncan: Control college costs
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Education Secretary Arne Duncan will on Friday urge governors to step up their efforts to control college costs and improve graduation rates, as the Education Department releases data showing the country far behind President Barack Obama's goal to lead ...
Des Moines teachers like alternative contract
DesMoinesRegister.com
The contract is believed to be the first of its kind in Iowa and is focused on improving classroom instruction and teacher retention. Teachers who complete the program will receive a master's degree in effective teaching, with an emphasis on urban ...
Two Pennsylvania Students Take Seats on State Board of Education
MarketWatch (press release)
HARRISBURG, Pa., July 12, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Secretary of Education Ron Tomalis today announced the induction of the State Board of Education's newest student representatives, Emily Clark and Kevin Bates. The non-voting, student ...
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Teachers on Leading From Within
Huffington Post
I love being in the classroom, but it is the opportunity to be part of the transformation of publiceducation that has kept me there. ... Teachers; Education Reform; School Bullying; Standardized Testing. More. Log in Create Account. Notifications ...
Michelle Malkin » Did your kids' teacher attend the Socialists ...
By Michelle Malkin
Did your kids' teacher attend the Socialists' scream-fest in Chicago? ... am, RedDog said: First Romney tasks: Dismantle the Department of Education and void the John Kennedy EO allowing public sector unions. ... These are TEACHERS??? WTF has our public school system become right under our noses??? The has to be stopped, and STOPPED NOW! These are our KIDS, for God's sakes. They need to be protected from these nutcases! OH, how far we have fallen into the abyss!
Michelle Malkin
The Myth of Slashed Education Funding | RedState
By Kevin Holtsberry (Diary)
Look at the above chart which illuminates state only education funding in Ohio (not local or federal spending). Does that seem like the ... Education reform, or collective bargaining reform, will not happen if people are ignorant of the fundamental economics. And lest you think I am just talking about Ohio: Since 1970, the public school workforce has roughly doubled—to 6.4 million from 3.3 million—and two-thirds of those new hires are teachers or teachers' aides. Over the same period, ...
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By Kevin Holtsberry (Diary)
Look at the above chart which illuminates state only education funding in Ohio (not local or federal spending). Does that seem like the ... Education reform, or collective bargaining reform, will not happen if people are ignorant of the fundamental economics. And lest you think I am just talking about Ohio: Since 1970, the public school workforce has roughly doubled—to 6.4 million from 3.3 million—and two-thirds of those new hires are teachers or teachers' aides. Over the same period, ...
Kevin_Holtsberry's blog
Wisconsin Teachers' Union Members Attack Arizona Schools Over ...
By Mytheos Holt
Unfortunately, the Wisconsin Teachers' Unions don't appear to have taken it to heart following their humiliating defeat against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who appears to have routed the teachers' unions so completely that... ... A Wisconsin teacher advised her “brothers and sisters” and the TUSD Governing Board members that this is “a revolution” and called for “solidarity” at last night's Governing Board meeting. Professor .... There are 3 reasons people go in to teaching …
TheBlaze.com - Stories
Does the American Elite Want Real Public Education? « naked ...
By Yves Smith
So was Steve Jobs. They pretend to care about education while in fact they are concern-trolling and want to privatize education, de-skill teaching and turn teachers into temps. Here is something ...Childhood poverty, which has been increasing, does a number on learning. Fix the poverty and the scores .... John Taylor Gatto (once New York Teacher of the year) wrote the definite text on the realities of U.S. education: http://johntaylorgatto.com/underground/. While some excellence to be ...
naked capitalism
By Yves Smith
So was Steve Jobs. They pretend to care about education while in fact they are concern-trolling and want to privatize education, de-skill teaching and turn teachers into temps. Here is something ...Childhood poverty, which has been increasing, does a number on learning. Fix the poverty and the scores .... John Taylor Gatto (once New York Teacher of the year) wrote the definite text on the realities of U.S. education: http://johntaylorgatto.com/underground/. While some excellence to be ...
naked capitalism
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE - PJ Media
By Glenn Reynolds
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Low-Paid Grads Not Spending Money Or Building Careers. Underemployment isn't debilitating only for individuals whose career and income opportunities are stunted. It threatens the economic ...
Instapundit
Teachers embark on strike
By mbgolu
The union demanded for the payment of one month arrears of 27.5 percent to primary schoolteachers, 12.5 percent to administrative staff of the local education authorities, payment of the enhancement allowance to primary school teachers ...
Vanguard News
Ohio links teacher pay to test scores – Schools of Thought - CNN ...
By Carl Azuz, Anchor
My view: Getting education reform right .... I have taught at two completely different schools with different student populations, getting much different results with the same teaching style and strategies on the district-wide tests. ... How are those teacher to be evaluated when a) ED teacherstypically support the student in the learning environment and aren't directly responsible for instruction and b) MD/MH teachers teach all subjects but focus those subjects on life and daily living skills ...
Schools of Thought
By Carl Azuz, Anchor
My view: Getting education reform right .... I have taught at two completely different schools with different student populations, getting much different results with the same teaching style and strategies on the district-wide tests. ... How are those teacher to be evaluated when a) ED teacherstypically support the student in the learning environment and aren't directly responsible for instruction and b) MD/MH teachers teach all subjects but focus those subjects on life and daily living skills ...
Schools of Thought
Choir Teacher, 39, Accused Of Kissing Student In Parked Car « CBS ...
By Alan Carter
A 39-year-old Magnolia High School choir teacher was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of molesting a former student she allegedly kissed while in a parked car in Stanton.
CBS Los Angeles
Frank Borzen, Miramar High School Teacher, Investigated For ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
A South Florida high school teacher has resigned after he was allegedly found Facebook sexting a learning disabled female student at Everglades High School in Miramar. The student's mother reported Frank Borzen, 31, after seeing a ...
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Teachers Working with Teachers: The Fragility of School-wide PLCs ...
By larrycuban
The fact is that school-based professional learning communities are fragile. A change in principals, retirement or transfer of teacher leaders, unexpected shifts in student demography, and unmindful district mandates, singly or in combination, ...
Larry Cuban on School Reform...
The End of Language Learning? | Disrupt Education | Big Think
Let's face it, lots of language teaching was centered around learning ... Why should anyone pay ateacher per hour when he/she can learn the same at their own pace ... engagement in educationresult in more tech-loving and savvy teachers?
bigthink.com/disrupt-education/the-end-of-language-learning
NetCom Learning Announces an Exciting Milestone: Reaching the ...
NEW YORK, July 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NetCom Learning has built a ... That milestone came as a result of the foundation that NetCom Learning has been ...
www.prnewswire.com/.../netcom-learning-announces-an-exciti...
Why Does Ohio Governor Kasich Treat Teachers as Public Enemy #1?
A site to discuss better education for all. « An Exchange with a Reader ... Kascich has madeteachers public enemy number one. We may have defeated his ...
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A site to discuss better education for all. « An Exchange with a Reader ... Kascich has madeteachers public enemy number one. We may have defeated his ...
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