USA's top teachers union losing members

USA's top teachers union losing members
USA TODAY
The USA's largest teachers union is losing members and revenue, potentially threatening its political clout. ... The National Education Association (NEA) has lost more than 100000 members since 2010. By 2014, union ... "Things will never go back to the ...

USA TODAY

NAEP Scores Still Stalled for Native American Students
Education Week News
In a year of growth for many student groups on national tests, students of American Indian and Alaskan native descent are in an academic rut, according to a new study of the National Assessment of Education Progress. ... more likely to have other ...

Teachers' Union Calls For More Responsibility, Obama Support As Its ...
Huffington Post
"The glass half full takeaway is that there seems to be consensus that it's the system that's faulty, not individual teachers, some of whom have been ill-served by the system we have now," said Charles Barone, Democrats for Education Reform's policy ...

Teacher Bashing
Huffington Post (blog)
I am fed up with teacher-bashing. It seems everyone is willing to belittle teachers. But these same critics are not willing to step forward and do the job themselves. ... More in Education... HigherEducation for the 21st Century · Manatee County ...

Higher Education for the 21st Century
Huffington Post (blog)
If higher education is going to prepare Americans for any type of future, reform is desperately needed. ... Teachers; School Bullying; Education Reform; Ed-lection 2012 ..... Social Studies for Secondary Schools: Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach ...

Education Department: Native American students continue to trail peers in math ...
Washington Post
Native American students continue to trail their peers in math and reading proficiency. The U.S. Department of Education's National Indian Education Study released Tuesday found Native American students scored 19 points lower on average in reading in ...

Pennsylvania High School For Sale on eBay
ABC News
So begins the tongue-in-cheek, but completely serious, eBay listing for The LearningCenter, a Langhorne, Pa., school that has found a unique method to fight debilitating budget cuts--the school has put itself up for auction on eBay. The Learning ...

ABC News

Replacing NCLB with new system
Salt Lake Tribune
Utah and other states have long complained, argued and protested the federal No Child Left Behindeducation-reform law, former President George W. ... In exchange for the waiver, Utah had to promise to implement a plan to address college and career ...

Ruling lets SC students earn credit for religion classes
USA TODAY
Janice Butler, executive director of Christian Learning Centers of Greenville County, said the ruling will allow students "to continue their Bible education and be able to exercise their religious rights in order to do so." "We're praying that things ...

Bradenton teacher's Facebook 'orangutan' comment about student sparks ...
Bradenton Herald
A Facebook controversy is brewing in Bradenton as the Manatee County School District has no written policy in place when it comes to teachers and their use of social media.

The Un-Education of a Nation: Where We Went Wrong
Forbes
The answer is the intellect of our Founding Fathers were formed by, and highly developed as a result of something most of our leaders today don't have – a classicaleducation. Nations rise and fall with the quality of their leaders, and their leaders ...

Forbes

Top teachers union losing members
Tucson Citizen
Top teachers union losing members - News from USA TODAY. ... The National EducationAssociation (NEA) has lost more than 100000 members since 2010. By 2014, union projections show, it could lose a ... “Things will never go back to the way they were ...

Pennsylvania high school, The Learning Center, puts itself up for sale on eBay
New York Daily News
Not to mention the satisfaction of "delivering an education to a group of kids who could really use it," according to the ad. Neshaminy officials did not immediately return requests for comment Monday. The 7000-student district has endured a pair of ...

New York Daily News

Alabama Education fund to avoid cuts this year
The Birmingham News - al.com (blog)
"We continue to estimate that there will be adequate receipts in the Education Trust Fund in fiscal year 2012 to meet the appropriations to schools and education institutions of the state," Assistant Finance Director Bill Newton said. The trust fund ...

DPS contract to cut teacher benefits
Detroit Free Press
The new contract that Roy Roberts, the Detroit Public Schools emergency manager, has imposed onteachers will not call for more pay cuts, but it will cut benefits and reduce the amount of paid time elementary schoolteachers now get to prepare for ...

A Liberal Arts Education, Made in China
New York Times (blog)
If China's education system is really going to be transformed, it will have to develop students' individual spirit -- and start from year one of primary school.

New York Times (blog)

The Daily Start-Up: NEA, Revolution Back BenchPrep for Online Education
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Chalk up another significant venture capital investment into education, this time for BenchPrep. The Chicago-based start-up has closed a $6 million round led by New Enterprise Associates and joined by Revolution LLC. NEA Partner Peter Barris said his...

Wall Street Journal (blog)

Taunton teacher held without bail on sex case
Boston.com
A Taunton social studies teacher accused of having sex with two 14-year-old students has been ordered held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing. ... Taunton teacher held without bail on sex case. July 3, 2012. E-mail|; Print|. Text size – + ...

Manatee County School District Teachers Under Fire For Offensive Facebook ...
Huffington Post
"I'm fairly convinced that one of my students may be the evolutionary link between orangutans and humans," one of the teacher's wrote, according to the conversation obtained by the station. ...Teachers; School Bullying; Education Reform; Ed-lection ...

'Iron Science Teacher' competitors at Exploratorium use museum paper as ...
San Jose Mercury News
SAN FRANCISCO -- In a fun-filled spoof of the foodie-favorite "Iron Chef" competition, educators from around the country are matching wits this summer at the Exploratorium as they vie for the title of "The Iron Science Teacher." Two Bay Area teachers ...

Teacher evaluations: Less than 25% meet NY deadline
Press & Sun-Bulletin
ALBANY -- Fewer than a quarter of the state's school districts met a July 1 deadline to submitteacher and principal evaluation agreements to the state Department of Education, as required by an amended law passed this year. ... We're trying to improve ...

How to Keep Learning as a Leader... on a Budget
Fox Business
Time pressures make that a tall order – and few have the budget to partake in the executiveeducation program at Wharton or Stanford. But learning can happen – and will happen – when you see ... The Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal ...

Education set for 2400 job cuts over four years
Sydney Morning Herald
The Herald understands the Department of Education has told teacher union officials a total of more than 600 permanent and part-time non-teacher jobs will be cut each year for the next four years as part of the announcement by the NSW Treasurer, Mike...

Sydney Morning Herald

Tacoma middle school teacher charged with having sex with student
TheNewsTribune.com
Pierce County prosecutors have charged a Tacoma middle school teacher with having sex with a student in her classroom and the boy's bedroom five years ago.
TheNewsTribune.com

Education, resources part of prevention
Marietta Times
After one presentation, a teacher came up to him afterward and said she'd been sexually abused as a child. "This woman was in her late 50s. So for 42 years she had carried this around and never told a soul ... Staff members at the Ely Chapman Education ...

Give colleges more credit
Los Angeles Times
Others foresaw financial ruin for higher education during the Depression, when public colleges suffered 40% reductions in funding and private institutions lost more than a quarter of their endowments and more than 70% of gifts from benefactors ...

Taunton teacher held without bail
Taunton Daily Gazette
Patrick Doyle, 33, a social studies teacher, faces four counts of aggravated statutory rape; five counts of enticing a child under 16; two counts of distributing obscene material, and one count of reckless endangerment of a child.

Andrew Benton: Whither Higher Education?
By Andrew Benton
I enter the classroom this fall committed to enlivening my classroom with careful preparation and with technology to illuminate the teaching and learning process. My teaching colleagues and I do not compete against the titans of technology; ...
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Statement of the United States Department of Education in response ...
By Peter Cunningham
Statement of the United States Department of Education in response to the ruling of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in APSCU v. Duncan. Posted on July 2, 2012 by Peter Cunningham. The court clearly upheld the authority to ...
ED.gov Blog

Transforming teacher ed — Joanne Jacobs
By Joanne
Relay Graduate School of Education, based at New York City's Hunter College, aims to “transformteacher education to fit the needs of urban schools,” writes June Kronholz in Education Next. The school trains novice teachers, usually without ...
Joanne Jacobs

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE - PJ Media
By Glenn Reynolds
July 2, 2012. HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: A TedX Talk On The Future of Education. The analysis may sound a bit familiar. Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 2:34 pm. Tweet · RSS Feed · Podcast RSS Feed · Email Instapundit ...
Instapundit

VatorNews - Resetting Education: The rebounding edtech ecosystem
By Faith Merino
The systems allow teachers to identify struggling students who might be too shy to answer a question in front of the class. Startups like Renaissance Learning, iRespond, eInstruction, and Promethean World have developed “clickers” (some of ...
Vator.tv news stories and report

Capitol Confidential » A.M. Roundup: First teacher eval deadline ...
By Jimmy Vielkind, Capitol bureau
A.M. Roundup: First teacher eval deadline blows by. ... How this happened is a great puzzle. (NYT). More than 3/4 of the state's school districts are late in implementing teacher evaluation systems. (TU/GNS). Names are floating for the new ...
Capitol Confidential

Free nature photography workshop for teachers scheduled for ...
By stcarrol
“This is a wonderful opportunity for teachers to enhance their teaching effectiveness,” explained Henderson, the DNR's DNR Nongame Wildlife Program supervisor. “It connects the ... When they return to school in the fall, teachers can then take their students on “photo safaris” and subsequently use the photos to enhance learning in science, art, language arts, geography and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) classroom activities, Henderson said. Teachers can also ...
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National Education Association Discusses Education Reform | C ...
... teachers are facing in tough economic times. He called on teachers to “raise their game” in preparation and professionalism in teaching. ... National Education Association Discusses Education Reform. Washington, DC Monday, July 2, 2012 ...
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What is e-learning good for? | Clive on Learning
By Clive Shepherd
There's nearly always an agenda behind this question or at least a great deal of scepticism about the potential of e-learning. What people really want to know is whether e-learning has any relevance beyond the obviously restricted domain of ...
Clive on Learning

A bar exam for teachers? — Joanne Jacobs
You are here: Home / Education / A bar exam for teachers? ... Weingarten said that we could do with teacher screening and training what we are doing ... And how would teaching ability, as opposed to subject-matter knowledge, be tested?
www.joannejacobs.com/2012/07/a-bar-exam-for-teachers/

Tacoma teacher accused of sex with student | Local News | The ...
The News Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/LV6JY1) the 32-year-old is accused of having sex with the boy five years ago when she was a sixth-grade teacher at Gray ...
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World's top 10 early childhood education environments Photos ...
See World's top 10 early childhood education environments and find more pictures in ... Finland attracts the best teachers as they are highest paid in the world. ... In India all the pre-schooling is done at home, mother being the first teacher to ...
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