Is Sebastian Thrun's Udacity the future of higher education?

Is Sebastian Thrun's Udacity the future of higher education?
CNN
Last year, while teaching a graduate level artificial intelligence class at Stanford University, Thrun lamented that his course could only reach 200 students in the suburbs of Palo Alto. So, he decided to offer his own free online class, with the same ...

Thousands of veterans sign up for job education
CBS News
Officials at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs say there has been an enormous response to a new skills-based program that pays for up to a year of education toward an associate degree or a non-college-degree or certificate. In fewer than seven ...

Is 'filling the pail' any way to train teachers?
Washington Post (blog)
At the Relay Graduate School of Education, teacher education that balances research, theory and practice has been replaced by 'filling the pail' training. Designed to ... “Effective teaching increases the probability of learning, you cannot guarantee ...

The Teacher War of 2012
The Detroit News (blog)
Since the Detroit Federation of Teachers (DFT) had already abandoned any idea of working with DPS long ago, this may be the first signal of the fight for the district, already left for scavengers to re-box and re-sell to others. ... Detroit Public ...

In Chicago, a battle over schools' future
Washington Post
The name of the nation's largest labor union — the National Education Association — seems calculated to blur the fact that it is a teachers union. In this blunt city, ... America's school year (about 180 days) is one of the shortest in the industrial ...

Education tax credits a good idea, but at what cost?
Philadelphia Inquirer
DO THE DOLLARS we spend on vacation really count? Most of us spending money on cheap trinkets and overpriced T-shirts don't believe they do — until we get the credit-card bills. Similarly, it appears state lawmakers believe that the money earmarked ...

Some fear tying teacher evaluations to student performance ignores many ...
Kansas City Star
Schools may use some team teaching. They may pull some students out of class for special instruction. Students or even teachers may switch classrooms. And principals may, for good reasons, assign more problematic students to one teacher over another.

Ontario Catholic teachers reach deal with province; agree to wage freeze
Toronto Star
The Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association is the first teacher union to come to an agreement, breaking ranks with others that have walked away from provincial-level talks. “It has been a tough road,” said Education Minister Lauren Broten at ... 

Teachers Maintain a Majority on NEA Committees
Education Week News (blog)
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 explicates the policy ... A constitutional amendment that would have decreased the number of ...

College Education is NOT for our Troops; Or Is it?
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Back during the showdown between Bush and Kerry, there was an uproar over Kerry's controversial comment (of which he states was misconstrued) that one “get an education or get stuck in Iraq,” furthering support for the urban myth that college education ...

NEA leader: Teachers need to become 'social justice patriots'
MLive.com
Teachers need to extend their role beyond the classroom to become “social justice patriots” to “defend democracy, fight for equal opportunity and create a more just society, a National Education Association leader said. Executive Director John Stocks...

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Big rewards, less job security for college leaders
Philadelphia Inquirer
"It's harder now than ever before," said Stephen Trachtenberg, who works for a Washington-based higher education executive search firm after spending a total of 30 years as president at George Washington University and the University of Hartford. "You ...

Realizing the Promise of New Education Technologies
Education Week News
Unfortunately, if the nation—the education community, in particular—fails to embrace this new technology, we risk squandering an extraordinary opportunity to create a renaissance in teachingand learning. How do we persuade the skeptics to stop ...

Braun: NJ higher education's latest lesson: 7 plus 7 equals ... 15?
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog)
Chris Christie as "an historic reform of higher education" sailed through the Legislature containing a mistake of simple arithmetic in one of its key provisions. ... Instead of having Rowan University — now about to be called a "major research ...

The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog)

Unions enabled by pandering pols
Boston Herald
CHICAGO — The title of the nation's largest labor union — the National Education Association — seems calculated to blur the fact that it is a teachers union. In this blunt city, however, the teachers union candidly calls itself the Chicago Teachers ... 

Biden Solidifies Support of Teachers at NEA Annual Meeting
Kansas City infoZine
Washington, D.C. - infoZine - Scripps Howard Foundation Wire - While taking jabs at Republicans'education policies, Biden emphasized his understanding of what teachers go through on a daily basis. It's something presumptive presidential candidate Mitt ...

Experts can't explain drop in state's special education numbers
Houston Chronicle
Advocates worry that school districts are making it harder for students to qualify for specialeducation services, and say the learning disability category may be easier to dispute than categories that include children with severe developmental ...

Teaching Economics
American Spectator
The opposite extreme from teaching economics with mathematical models was described by a professor who uses an approach she characterized as democratizing the classroom, "so that everybody is a co-teacher and co-learner." This has sometimes been ...

Texas' low special ed rate raises questions
Houston Chronicle
HOUSTON (AP) — The percentage of special education students in Texas public schools has declined to the lowest of any state, and teachers and parents say they don't know why. Even with a rising ... special education students. Jack Fletcher, a ...

Uganda: 3000 Government Teachers Teach in Private Schools
AllAfrica.com
There could be about 3000 teachers on the Government payroll, who are also teaching in private schools. Sources in the education ministry said this is rampant in schools partnering with the Government to run free secondary education. The anomaly is ...

Education Woos Rwandan Students
AllAfrica.com
The minister of trade, Amelia Kyambadde and education minister, Jessica Alupo are leading a delegation to Kigali, Rwanda for a three-day higher education exhibition that opened Wednesday. The "Study in Uganda Universities Exhibition" is intended to ...

New Oklahoma teacher evaluation system will begin test year
NewsOK.com
The second most popular choice was the Marzano Teacher Evaluation Model. Now, teachers are typically given raises based on their education and years of employment. Under the new models,teachers will be evaluated on student growth, classroom ...

Sixteen Lawrence teachers face firing
Eagle Tribune
The teachers — all of them with more than three years' experience who have attained professional status — recently received notification that they face termination after failing a rigorous teacher review process aimed at improving the quality of ...

SparkTruck Is A Force For STEM Education On Wheels | TechCrunch
By Gregory Ferenstein
Budget cuts and bureaucracy have kept engineering equipment from our nation's schools, so a scrappy Stanford team is taking a truck chock-full of fun tools to the students themselves. SparkTruck literally parks a engineering bench outside of ...
TechCrunch

Live, Love, Laugh Everyday in Kindergarten: Teaching Smart
By Tammy
Tammy: Nebraska City, Ne, United States: I am currently a Kindergarten teacher. I have been at Reeder Elementary for 6 years. Before teaching there, I was an Early Childhood Special Educator in Gwinnett County, Georgia. I have four ...
Live, Love, Laugh Everyday in...

School of Fail: Teaching 101: Now Go Thank a Teacher - EPIC FAIL ...
By Cheezburger Network
Education in America isn't free. The cost is that it's crappy education. Each of those responses is based on a logical fallacy. 1. Red Herring – Giving a teacher absurd amounts of pay isn't at all related to them actually teaching something. 2. Argumentuum ad absurdum – The teacher's proposition is NOT ... I don't think it was considered to be a serious response, but rather a distillation of the exasperation that most teachers feel. When they do make serious responses to statements like ...
EPIC FAIL Funny Videos and Epic...

Journey of a Substitute Teacher: Heart of a Teacher
By Miss T
Heart of a Teacher. Wizard of Oz: As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart. You don't know how lucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable. Tin Woodsman: But I still want one. Ah Tin Man, you ... One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is ... on TpT Now! Staff - Education - TeachersPayTeachers.com ... Teaching, Learning, & Loving ...
Journey of a Substitute Teacher

State's Low Special Education Rates Questioned « CBS Dallas / Fort ...
By KTVTPhil
Teachers and parents say they don't know why Texas public schools have the lowest percentage of special education students of any state in the country.
CBS Dallas / Fort Worth

ED Charter Abuse, DC Is No Atlanta, & For-Profits in Court - Rick ...
By Rick Hess
Education policy maven Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute think tank offers straight talk on matters of policy, politics, research, and reform. Follow Rick and AEI's Education Program on Twitter http://twitter.com/AEIeducation.
Rick Hess Straight Up

The Gates Foundation's Leveraged Philanthropy: Corporate Profit ...
By Anthony Cody
Teacher Blogs > Living in Dialogue See our Teachers news coverage · Living in ... With education at a crossroads, he invites you to join him in a dialogue on education reform and teaching for change and deep learning. For additional ...
Living in Dialogue

Kingston teachers' union buys books to encourage summer reading ...
Citing work from Richard Allington, an academic researcher at the University of Tennessee, Kingston special education teacher Bonnie Van Kleeck said academic ground lost over the summer accounts for 80 percent of the reading achievement gap ... On July 31, teachers, teaching assistants and retired educators will volunteer at each elementary school in the Kingston district from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. to provide follow-up activities, and students can swap books if they want.
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Teacher creates works of art during lunch break | Photo Gallery ...
View the Teacher creates works of art during lunch break photo gallery on Yahoo ! ... Gregory Euclide is an artist and teacher living in the Minnesota River Valley.
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Techmeme: Google Revamps Its Workforce Education Programs ...
Nexus 7, Google's New Tablet, Seriously Challenges the iPad — You can love Apple or you can hate Apple, but one thing's for sure: its favorite game is Lead the ...
www.techmeme.com/120705/p13

The Culture of Digital Education - Leonardo Electronic Almanac
The Culture of Digital Education: Innovation in Art, Design, Science and ... Innovation at the intersection of interdisciplinary teaching and learning practices ...
www.leoalmanac.org/the-culture-of-digital-education-lea-call-...

Perdido Street School: Andrew Cuomo's Teacher Evaluation System ...
Every year, two out of every ten teachers will be rated "highly effective," three will be rated "effective," three will be rated "developing" and two ... leader of this regressive movement called education reform. ... Under Assault: Teaching in NYC ...
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