Americans are most likely to say U.S. children who go to private schools get an excellent or good education (78%), followed by parochial school (69%) and charter school (60%) students. That compares with 37% for public school students.
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Washington Post Invests in Education Tech Site - Peter Kafka ...
By Peter Kafka
EdSurge, a site that covers the boom in education technology, has raised a $400000 seed round led by the Washington Post Co. and NewSchools Venture Fund, along with angels like Allen & Co.'s Nancy Peretsman and Silicon Valley ...
AllThingsD
UT trustees ponder raising profile of online learning, summer school
Knoxville News Sentinel
NASHVILLE — University of Tennessee leaders narrowed their focus Tuesday to two priorities that could change how students are taught in the future: online learning and summer school. UT Board of Trustees members and administrators in a workshop ...
Massively Online Open Courseware – Massively Off Course?
UConn Advance (blog)
One of the hot trends in higher education is the spread of MOOC: Massively Online, Open Courseware. MOOCs are online courses with high production values that are freely available to the public. For example, Harvard and MIT recently announced edX, ...
New Mexico Virtual Academy Opens Blended Learning Program
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
FARMINGTON, N.M., Aug. 28, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ -- New Mexico Virtual Academy (NMVA), a new statewide online public charter school authorized by Farmington School District, will open a new blended learning center in Farmington designed to meet the ...
Library system offers 500 online continuing education courses
TCPalm
STUART — Martin County Library System (MCLS) announces that beginning Aug. 27, MCLS users will have access to more than 500 online continuing education courses through a new online learning tool called Universal Class™. Topics include arts and ...
Free Online Courses for All: An Effective and Sustainable Education Model?
City Town Info Education Channel
Massive open online courses (MOOCs), which are internet-based classes available to the global public, have received a great amount of publicity in recent months, and with good reason. These online educational services have garnered millions of ...
City Town Info Education Channel
E-learning hybrid 'can meet university education challenges'
Virtual College
E-learning hybrid 'can meet university education challenges'. A hybrid of e-learning and traditional education is an effective solution to the challenges of providing academic services in university. Robert Sternberg, senior vice-president, provost and ...
W&M lacks online courses
Virginia Gazette
E-learning components have been built into some courses, but the idea of a fully online education doesn't have a place at America's second oldest college. "We don't offer any fully online courses," Registrar Sallie Marchello said flatly. Topics ...
Sign up online for Vanderbilt Osher Lifelong Learning fall classes
Vanderbilt University News
For the first time, online registration is now available for Vanderbilt's Osher Lifelong Learning courses. The non-credit classes are open to all adults 50 and older who want to pursue lifelonglearning through lectures and discussions in a relaxed ...
Designing Digitally, Inc. Selected by the National Fire Protection Association ...
Einnews Portugal
Designing Digitally, Inc. was recently awarded a contract to create educational and engagingE-Learning developments for the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). These E-Learningmodules are focused on the dissemination of the National Fire ...
MU Online Spending Up
OzarksFirst.com
Tweet. COLUMBIA, Mo. -- You don't have to go to Columbia to get a degree from Mizzou...the University adds $2.5 million to the online degree program. Last year, over 9,100 students enrolled in M-U's online learning program. That generated enough money ...
Online learning in higher education is no panacea | NewsOK.com
Online learning can and does play an important role in higher education. But it can't replace the face-to-face learning that takes place every day in our colleges ...
newsok.com/online-learning-in-higher...is-no.../3703984
Teachers Unions, Federal Spending Slammed at GOP Convention
Education Week News (blog)
As for overhauling teacher tenure, Christie said teachers unions were "just too powerful. Realteacher tenure reform that demands accountability and ends the guarantee of a job for life regardless of performance would never happen. For the first time ...
New Code Aims to Ease Suspensions of Students
New York Times
News, data and conversation about education in New York. . . With an aim of reducing punishments that keep students out of the classroom, the department's new disciplinary code also guides teachers to ...
Kindergarten teacher charged with ill-treating child
TODAYonline
Kindergarten teacher charged with ill-treating child. Updated 07:33 PM Aug 29, 2012. SINGAPORE - A kindergarten teacher from a PAP Community Foundation Education Centre has been charged with ill-treating a five-year-old child under her care. The court ...
NJ Teachers, Principals Suspended in Cheating Scandal
NBC 10 Philadelphia
Officials say third-graders at the Avenel Street School were coached by teachers who were given the statewide exam in advance. "The kids are just way too young for this," remarked parent Emily Pereire. "They should be learning their elementary skills ...
Who will be President Romney's education chief
The Seattle Times
I'm not getting ahead of myself but now that Hurricane Isaac has decided to avoid the Republican Convention in Tampa - I'll save the jokes for later - Day Two of the convention turns to other things, such as predicting who a President Mitt Romney would ...
Catholic college teacher suspended in gay marriage row
TVNZ
A teacher at a Catholic college in Whangarei has been suspended and students allegedly threatened in a dispute with the principal over gay marriage. The bitter stand-off was prompted by comments from Pompellier College principal Richard Stanton in the ...
Thousands more pupils dragged into GCSE grading row
Telegraph.co.uk
By Graeme Paton, Education Editor. 3:42PM BST 29 Aug 2012. Comments. Headteachers insisted that earlier estimates relating to the number of pupils affected by a sudden hike in grade boundaries may have been short of the mark. An analysis by the...
Telegraph.co.uk
Michelle Rhee At Republican Convention: Education Reform Will Require ...
Huffington Post
“There is a difference in my mind between teacher union leadership and rank-and-file teachers,” she said, adding that most teachers got into the profession wanting to have a positive impact. Fixing problems, she said, is “going to require teachers ...
Republican Education Platform 2012 Emphasizes School Choice, Teacher ...
Huffington Post
Instead, the GOP outlines what is in fact powering education reform at the local level across America: ... Reiterating its commitment to school choice, the GOP advocates “options for learning,” including home schooling, single-sex classes, full-day ...
Teachers have a new 'demon'
Toronto Sun
It's probably the same planet McGuinty was on when his government hiked teacher pay to the stratosphere, as the rest of us struggled. Teachers at the top end of the pay grid make more than $90,000 a year and in some boards, they're allowed to bank up ...
Education a Key to Hurricane Evacuations, City Finds - NYTimes.com
By By MIREYA NAVARRO
Andrea Mohin/The New York TimesCornelia Taylor decided to stay in her Queens apartment during Hurricane Irene. Green: Living. Of the 370,000 New York City residents ordered to evacuate as Hurricane Irene approached last Aug. 28, only ...
Green
School: Teacher Helps Students Cheat Because She Says They're ...
By Candice Leigh Helfand
http://ourtaxdollarsatwork.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/fifth-grade-atlanta-georgia-teacher-helped-dumb-as-hell-students-cheat-on-tests-just-one-of-180-teachers-inplicated-in-scandal/ Fifth Grade Atlanta Georgia Teacher Helped “Dumb As ...
CBS Atlanta
Education Waiver Would Spell Entanglement for Alabama
By Lindsey Burke
Alabama is considering requesting a waiver from the U.S. Department of Education to relieve the state of some of the burdensome requirements of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). But the waivers represent a troubling pact with Washington: To ...
The Foundry: Conservative Policy...
Teachers Are Boring, Irrelevant, and Not Necessarily Authoritative ...
By Katherine Mangu-Ward
Erickson offers a tidy wrap-up of what's wrong with public education, including the prevalent notion that students should be discouraged from using their "kid" technology (e.g., texting) for educational communications because it will leave them unprepared for professional life. ... Technology leads to a new role for teachers (and parents): that of a learning facilitator and coach, rather than of an authoritative source of information. .... The teacher had one of us "die" from a scorpion bite.
Hit & Run
Chile education crisis: Water cannons and tear gas on the streets of ...
By RT
Clashes have broken out as tens of thousands of students and their supporters demanded improvements to Chile's public education system in the streets of Santiago. Police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the most radical protesters. ... unleash water cannons, tear gas on thousands of Chilean students (PHOTOS). Clashes erupted after tens of thousands of students marched in the Chilean capital of Santiago for education reform. Spanish press reported 15 police injured, ...
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Hunger in Our Schools: Share Our Strength's Teacher Report | End ...According to a new survey of public school teachers released by Share Our... No Kid Hungry ...
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Plan Your Free Online Education at Lifehacker U: Fall Semester 2012
Your education doesn't have to stop once you leave school—freedom from the ... of school and just want to keep learning, there are an incredible amount of free, ..... Individuals interested in teachingclasses regularly post to the University of ...
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Where a college education counts -- and doesn't -- in jobs search ...
Finance: Where a college education counts -- and doesn't -- in jobs search. ... One of the main problems there is that the residents have little education so they ...
finance.yahoo.com/.../where-college-education-counts-doesnt-...
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