Tech Savvy Students Headed to Boot Camp

Tech Savvy Students Headed to Boot Camp
WNYC (blog)
After Tech Boot Camp, the students will participate in nine weeknight sessions through the fall to further explore topics in entrepreneurship and technology, finalize their mobile apps, and develop a pitch presentation and business plan. Winning teams ...

Chicago Teachers Raise: Fact Finder Recommends Nearly 15 Percent Raise ...
Huffington Post
CHICAGO -- An independent fact finder has recommended that Chicago teachers receive a 14.85 percent raise to "compensate teachers for working a longer school day and year," a union official union said Monday. The announcement is the latest turn in ...

Universities Reshaping Education on the Web
New York Times
As part of a seismic shift in online learning that is reshaping higher education, Coursera, a year-old company founded by two Stanford University computer scientists, will announce on Tuesday that a dozen major research universities are joining the ...

New York Times

Respecting teachers
Chicago Tribune
This past year has been a steady attack on teachers in Chicago. We teachers have been called lazy, greedy, and accused of not caring about the kids. We have been attacked by everyone from the Mayor, the CEO, and the radio ads being funded from ...

University of Illinois to offer free online courses
Chicago Tribune
U. of I. joins groups that offer free Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, a new trend in highereducation. ... Wise said the U. of I. approached Coursera because it was eager to join what some are calling a revolution in higher education. Coursera ...

Teachers learn ways to keep students' attention, but are brain claims valid?
Kansas City Star
The "class-yes" technique, for example, is supposed to improve learning by activating the prefrontal cortex, a complex, highly evolved part of the brain associated with decision-making, planning and regulation of behavior. "There's no ...

TN education reform hits bump in teacher evaluation
The Tennessean
Of teachers who received the learning gains score of 1, the average observational score was, on average, 3.6. In this first state review of evaluations — launched last summer — the educationdepartment suggests some principals will need to be trained ...

Can Georgia learn from Tennessee's review of its new teacher evals?
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
Tennessee is ahead of Georgia in developing a teacher evaluation system that considers student outcomes, a factor in its early receipt of a federal Race to the. ... by the Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System or a comparable measure and the other 15 ...

U-Va. takes major step in online education
Washington Post
The University of Virginia joins a prestigious online consortium, moving the school toward the front of a potentially transformative movement to online learning on a global scale.

Teen reaches deal in Fontana hazing case, will testify
Los Angeles Times
An 18-year-old Fontana high school student facing assault and sex charges in connection with the alleged hazing of his classmates has agreed to a plea deal and will testify against his teacher, officials announced Monday.

De-emphasizing the Role of Master's Degrees in Teacher Compensation
Center For American Progress
The Center for American Progress and the Center on Reinventing Public Educationhave previously pointed out the potential advantages of more complex teachercompensation systems, in which higher pay goes to teachers in shortage subject areas, to ...

Center For American Progress

Mitt Romney's Higher Education Overhaul In Massachusetts Fizzled
Huffington Post
Now the likely Republican presidential nominee, Romney hasn't said much on the campaign trail about his higher education proposals, so his record in Massachusetts could offer clues about his approach to the issue if he wins the White House. The wealthy ...

Arbitrator's report will help CTU bring back issues they wanted to discuss at ...
Chicago Tribune
An arbitrator's recommendation that Chicago teachers get raises starting at nearly 15 percent gives union officials additional leverage and could embolden them to press harder on nonmonetary issues, said experts in education and labor Monday ...

Education fair helps Mountain State University students figure out their futures
The Herald-Mail
Worried Mountain State University students, fearful of their educational futures since they learned their school was losing its accreditation, searched for options Monday at an education fair.Among.... According to The Associated Press, the national ...

DeKalb school board rejects teacher layoffs
Atlanta Journal Constitution
DeKalb County schools has put itself in a position to spend $20 million beyond its recently approved budget after board members Monday again rejected a plan to layoff about 250 teachers. ... $10.2 million: increase special education class sizes by an ...

Union president says fact finder recommends Chicago teachers' pay be bumped ...
Washington Post
CHICAGO — An independent fact finder has recommended that Chicago teachers receive a 14.85 percent raise to “compensate teachers for working a longer school day and year,” a union official union said Monday.

Education disruption: Top universities join free online platform
ZDNet (blog)
Summary: More universities are heading towards digital teachings methods, but is Coursera about to shake up the higher education model for good? ... Education disruption: Top universities join free online platform. Summary: More universities are ...

McGraw-Hill Higher Education Enters Consumer Market by Offering Digital Tutor ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, July 17, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Today, McGraw-Hill Education announced plans to make McGraw-Hill LearnSmart(TM) - its industry-leading adaptive learning program that is proven to help students study more efficiently and perform ...

Teachers Prepare for Tunisia Mathematics Olympiad
AllAfrica.com
Ondangwa — Namibian teachers and education officers are being taken through the ropes by renowned mathematician from the U.S. Dr Tim Sanders, in order to prepare learners to participate in the upcoming Mathematics Olympiad to be held in Tunisia.

The Teaching Company Banks on Tagetik for Budgeting, Planning, Profitability ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Tagetik, a global provider of enterprise software solutions for Performance Management, Disclosure Management, Financial Governance and Business Intelligence, today announced that The TeachingCompany, LLC ( http://www.thegreatcourses.com ) has ...

Chicago Teachers Union thumbs nose at proposed 20% raise
Town Hall
The Chicago Teachers Union made headlines a few months ago when it was revealed that the union was demanding a 30 percent raise in its new contract proposal. Such an enormous raise – regardless of the supposed justification – would be unthinkable in ...

New Oriental Education 4th-period net rose 14%
MarketWatch
New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc.'s EDU fourth-quarter earnings climbed 14%, as increased student enrollment helped boost the education company's revenue. The company also forecast current-quarter revenue of $342.7 million to $356.3 ...

Charest loses Education Minister as election campaign gears up
Globe and Mail
Educatioon Minister Michelle Courchesne has announced she will not run for re-election.

Globe and Mail

Push for career-technical education meets parent resistance
msnbc.com (blog)
SAN DIEGO -- Career and technical education has come a long way since the days when students could be steered from academics into hairstyling, auto repairs or carpentry. But that ... At the top end, students in medical courses might spend time at a ...

msnbc.com (blog)

Substitute Teaching Undergoes New Scrutiny
Education Week News
New data on teacher absenteeism are causing schools to re-examine their use of substituteteachers. ... The mythology surrounding the substitute teacher is not a pretty one: Paper airplanes, lost learning, bullying. But as schools ... "We ought to be ...

Romney as governor fell short in push to revamp higher education in ...
Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney took over as Massachusetts governor in 2003 with a sweeping plan to overhaul the state's public college system to cut waste, reduce costs and boost efficiency.

Teaching Fellows Represent, Respect Teachers | ED.gov Blog
By Arne Duncan
Official Department of Education photo. Last week was bittersweet at the Department of Education. After a truly incredible year working with some of the best teachers in the country, we released our 2011-2012 Teaching Ambassador Fellows ...
ED.gov Blog

An Education Tsunami « Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
By rjlipton
Stanford is one of the centers of the innovative use of on-line social systems for teaching. Instead of only writing papers about learning, an honorable and well respected model, she has decided to actually change education. Essentially she is ...
Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Lynda.com Tackles Blended Learning -- Campus Technology
At the Campus Technology 2012 conference taking place this week in Boston, Laurie Burruss, professor at Pasadena City College and education consultant for lynda.com, will offer up tips for faculty members looking to move their teaching ... " Additionally, Burruss will discuss how theteacher and students can evaluate as a group which activities should occur in valuable face-to-face time in the classroom and which can take place outside the walls of the classroom anywhere and at any ...
Campus Technology: News

High School Teacher Brags About How His School Stopped an ...
By Hemant Mehta
He recently got an anonymous letter from a high school teacher who saw the SSA's Educator's Brochure (PDF) and felt the need to correct it and save children from eternal damnation. This person said ... There are presently three XXXXXs teaching at high schools in the United States. I'm sure you.... In Board of Education of Westside Community Schools v. Mergens .... Prayer banners, teacherslike this asshole endorsing xtian views, principals organasing mandatory religious stuff …
Friendly Atheist

Some Concerned About New Pa. Teacher Evaluations « CBS Philly
By ATAtkins
According to the new law, 50 percent of the teaching assessment will be based on observation, including preparation, instruction and classroom environment. The other half will be based on various... For teachers of grades or subjects not covered by standardized tests, evaluations will include 15 percent building level data and 35 percent elective data, but no teacher specific data, EducationDepartment spokesman Tim Eller said. State officials already have gleaned valuable ...
CBS Philly

Teacher Idiotically Brags About Illegally Blocking an Atheist Student ...
By Katie J.M. Baker
No wonder the only book this teacher (let's remember that this man is responsible for teaching impressionable young people things about the world) thinks students should read for information is the Bible. He, on the other hand, could've saved ...
Jezebel

Can Effective Teaching Transfer Across Schools? - Teacher Beat ...
By Stephen Sawchuk
Education Week's blogs > Teacher Beat See our Teachers news coverage · Teacher ... 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 ...
Teacher Beat - Education Week

Top universities join free online teaching platform | The Raw Story
By Jeevan Vasagar, The Guardian
Koller said: “We're fortunate to have the support of these highly respected academic institutions as we move toward our shared goal of providing a high-quality education to everyone around the world.” Many universities already offer online lectures and some ... The growth in online learning is likely to push universities towards greater emphasis on one-to-one tuition and other interaction with students, Boxall said. “What does that mean for 500-seat lecture theatres? It's amazing that ...
The Raw Story

Another Teacher Beaten Down « Diane Ravitch's blog
By dianerav
... teachers we have now. What plans do they offer to replenish the teaching profession after they have driven away so many who are dedicated to teaching? Magic. ... The crisis is caused by the constant attacks on public education and those who teach in public schools, by the effort to micromanage everything that teachers do and turn their work into data that can be used to evaluate them. This terrible scourge that ... Like this: Like. Be the first to like this. Categories Education Reform ...
Diane Ravitch's blog

Political Animal - Education and Federalism
By Ed Kilgore
Changing the system to lower the compensation, salary and benefits, paid to teachers and to lower their job security will not improve student learning. The starting point for any discussion about changes to public education, particularly high ...
Political Animal

Cindy Clifton, Former Tennesee Teacher, Pleads Guilty To Sex Acts ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Cindy Clifton, a former teacher at Crestview Middle School in Covington, Tenn., pleaded guilty to a range of criminal charges Thursday after investigators accused her of performing sex acts on 10 students in the classroom and at her home, WMC -TV reports. According to the ... School Bullying;Teacher's Union; Charter Schools; Education Reform. More ..... The stupidest thing these teachersare doing is expecting a 14 year old boy that just got laid to keep it to himself. fixitguy331: The ...
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Fantasy is Big Business at Comic-Con - The Learning Network - The ...
The Learning Network - Teaching and Learning With The New York Times ... WHAT did one science teacher suggest was a “looming pedagogical crisis”? ... Teachers can use or adapt our lessons across subject areas and levels. ... This network should be Must See E-education/infotainment for all ages/circumstances.
learning.blogs.nytimes.com/.../fantasy-is-big-business-at-comi...

Top universities join free online teaching platform | Education ...
Coursera set to shake up higher education model after adding 12 US and ... Public highereducation is under pressure but the bigger market for learning is just ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../jul/.../top-universities-free-online-class...

Helping victims of a College Education - Gerard Murphy - Catholic ...
ONE tragic side effect of modern education is that it leaves many young people more obtuse than they were when they first entered college or university.
richarddawkins.net/.../646525-helping-victims-of-a-college-ed...

McGraw-Hill Higher Education Enters Consumer Market by Offering ...
McGraw-Hill LearnSmart is a super-adaptive learning program that tailors the ... For professors, LearnSmart facilitates "just-in-time teaching" by providing them ...
finance.yahoo.com/.../mcgraw-hill-higher-education-enters-14...

Dallas - Fort Worth News | wfaa.com | Education
Operation Education: Send us your questionsadd to reading list ... Haslet teacher arrested for having sex with studentadd to reading list ... Students, teachers say farewell to Dallas schooladd to reading list ...
www.wfaa.com/news/education/

New Tech Network Annual Conference to Draw 1200 Educators, Students, and ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"It's inexcusable that technology has become an integral part of every facet of society over the last 30 years with the exception of education, the foundational piece. The New Tech Network is redressing that gap. This year's conference promises to ...

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