Los Angeles Times
If a school wants to fire a low-performing teacher who already has tenure, it must first try to help the teacher improve. If the teacher challenges the termination, the case is submitted to binding arbitration. Teachers are given a little more than ...
Bobby Jindal School Voucher System Blasted As 'Destruction Of Education' By ...
Huffington Post
... and they're doing so with government money, my tax dollars." "Teaching the theology of Creationism is part of the mission of religious schools, and religious education more broadly – I defend with my life's work their right to teach future ...
Ben Bernanke: Financial education supports economic health of US
Washington Post
“Financial education supports not only individual well- being, but also the economic health of our nation,” Bernanke said today in remarks prepared for a town hall meeting with teachers at the Fed in Washington. ... education “can play a key role” in ...
Why teachers quit — and why we can't fire our way to excellence
Washington Post (blog)
The teachers prepared through alternate routes such as the NYC Teaching Fellows and Teach For America — 26 percent of those surveyed — were more likely to consider leaving their classrooms and schools, even when other teacher characteristics were ...
Online Education Degrees On The Rise: USA Today Analysis (SLIDESHOW)
Huffington Post
In 2001, the for-profit University of Phoenix awarded 72 education degrees to teachers, administrators and other school personnel; last year, in 2011, it awarded nearly 6000 degrees -- placing it ahead of every other university. ... Feistritzer ...
On teachers unions and sexual predators
Washington Post (blog)
But “if it were just easier to fire the bad teachers!” is the ongoing refrain of a movement that has less concern for students than for how its donors can privatize and profit off of education. It's an argument designed to destroy solidarity and pit ...
Transplanted teachers waiting — and waiting — for alternative certification ...
MinnPost.com
And there's a law on the books that is supposed to make it easier for newcomers who learned their craft in nontraditional teacher training programs elsewhere to get the Minnesota licenses they need to fill the jobs. Yet a year and a half after the law ...
Increasingly, More Education Linked to Longer Lifespan in US
Philadelphia Inquirer
TUESDAY, Aug. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Despite recent medical advances, the life expectancy of poor and less-educated Americans has increased only slightly over the past several decades, researchers say. In some cases, life expectancy for people who ...
National Education Association: Put students first
USA TODAY
By Becky Pringle. Updated. Comments. With the release of its new report, The NewTeacher Project has helped focus attention on one of our nation's most valuable assets: the dedicated professionals who educate our children. The National Education...
USA TODAY
American Public Education Reports Second Quarter 2012 Results
MarketWatch (press release)
CHARLES TOWN, W.Va., Aug 08, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- American Public Education, Inc. (NASDAQ:APEI) - parent company of online learning provider American Public University System (APUS), which operates through American Military University ...
Education and profit motive don't mix well
Dickinson Press
The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions issued a report last week with a revealing title: “For-Profit Higher Education: The Failure to Safeguard the Federal Investment and Ensure Student Success.” By: John Crisp, The ...
Teachers criticise Cameron's Olympic school-sport remarks
BBC News
At the time, in autumn 2010, Education Secretary Michael Gove said he wanted to cut bureaucracy for head teachers, while trusting them to give pupils the best physical education and more opportunities to play sport competitively. He expected that ...
BBC News
Lowcountry panel discussing teaching technology
Sacramento Bee
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. -- Teachers preparing to set sail on a new school year will board an aircraft carrier in South Carolina to learn the latest in innovations and technology. A program scheduled for Wednesday aboard the USS Yorktown on Charleston ...
Top-paid teachers: Blue-collar suburbs offer blue-chip pay
Chicago Sun-Times
Those are some of the results of a Chicago Sun-Times analysis of teacher pay schedules in close to 900 Illinois school districts for this past school year, based on data provided by the Illinois State Board of Education. Districts are required to ...
Ohio has opportunity to bolster accountability in education
Columbus Dispatch
Standardized testing has proven to be the best, most objective tool for measuring both student and teacher success. This is important to remember as Ohio deals with a widening scandal around allegations of “data fudging” to improve test passing rates.
Columbus Dispatch
Palo Alto education foundation announces $4.75M fundraising goal
San Jose Mercury News
The campaign will run through January, with the resulting gift being announced in March. Donations to schools through PiE help underwrite teachers, specialists, counselors and aides, according to theeducation foundation. The money can also be used to ...
Education Department Says School Closure Will Benefit Learners
AllAfrica.com
They typically offer multigrade teaching, with more than one grade in a class," said Vinjevold. She said should the schools be closed, her department planned to place the learners in schools that offer single grade classes with one teacher per grade ...
India ranks second in education searches: Google
NDTV
With over half of the Indian Internet population in the age bracket of 18-35, India has raced to the number two spot globally when it comes to absolute volume of search queries related to educationon Google Search, according to a recent Google India ...
MOOCs: a massive opportunity for higher education, or digital hype?
The Guardian (blog)
Whether or not the rise of MOOCs will prove to warrant such hyperbole, there is no doubt that something very important is happening in the global system, raising profound questions about the very nature and future of higher education. MOOCs are not ...
The Guardian (blog)
Schoolhouse provides look at Charles education as it was years ago
Washington Post
Because the classroom had several grade levels, there had to be a “cooperative affair between students and teachers,” she said. The teacher would teach the older students, who would then teach the younger students, Marshall said. Education was not ...
Olympic legacy: Coalition axes school sports targets
Telegraph.co.uk
Today, the Department for Education insisted that this was no longer the case. “Instead of handing down target and quotas from Whitehall, we have chosen to trustteachers and parents when it comes to deciding how much sport pupils should do,” a...
Telegraph.co.uk
Edwardsville teachers need reason
Alton Telegraph
Posted: Wednesday, August 8, 2012 6:00 am. Edwardsville teachers need reason. What do teachers want in the Edwardsville school district? We wish we could tell you, because the contract they just rejected had a little something that every teacher around ...
Kaplan's Blended Learning English Language Courses Prove Successful
MarketWatch (press release)
Face-to-face classes at Kaplan provide a great English learning environment as students benefit from the guidance and support of experienced, highly-motivated teachers and interactions with other students. However, the effectiveness of these ...
Oregon school officials set low goals, angering education chief Rudy ...
By Betsy Hammond, The Oregonian
Oregon's new chief education officer, Rudy Crew, is blasting many of the state's school boards and superintendents for aiming too low on their first yearly "achievement compacts," saying their tepid aspirations for improving student outcomes represent a ... But he said school district leaders also want and deserve acknowledgment for consistently raising test scores and graduation rates over the past decade even as budget constraints forced them to cut teachers and other essentials.
Portland News
Telegraph.co.uk
Today, the Department for Education insisted that this was no longer the case. “Instead of handing down target and quotas from Whitehall, we have chosen to trustteachers and parents when it comes to deciding how much sport pupils should do,” a...
Telegraph.co.uk
Edwardsville teachers need reason
Alton Telegraph
Posted: Wednesday, August 8, 2012 6:00 am. Edwardsville teachers need reason. What do teachers want in the Edwardsville school district? We wish we could tell you, because the contract they just rejected had a little something that every teacher around ...
Kaplan's Blended Learning English Language Courses Prove Successful
MarketWatch (press release)
Face-to-face classes at Kaplan provide a great English learning environment as students benefit from the guidance and support of experienced, highly-motivated teachers and interactions with other students. However, the effectiveness of these ...
Oregon school officials set low goals, angering education chief Rudy ...
By Betsy Hammond, The Oregonian
Oregon's new chief education officer, Rudy Crew, is blasting many of the state's school boards and superintendents for aiming too low on their first yearly "achievement compacts," saying their tepid aspirations for improving student outcomes represent a ... But he said school district leaders also want and deserve acknowledgment for consistently raising test scores and graduation rates over the past decade even as budget constraints forced them to cut teachers and other essentials.
Portland News
TED Blog | From hand puppetry to teaching boxes: Highlights from ...
By Kate Torgovnick
07 August 2012. From hand puppetry to teaching boxes: Highlights from TED@Shanghai · TED Talent Search: TED@Shanghai ... Andrew Yu: “Teaching boxes” for rural classrooms. He presents a very interesting idea. Lei Lei: The story of an ...
TED Blog
USDA Blog » Education Builds Bioenergy Systems
By Daniel Cassidy, USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture/Office of the Chief Scientist
The Northeast Bioenergy and Bioproducts Education Program, led by Cornell University, and working with 1890 Land-Grant Universities and the Ohio Bioproducts Innovation has provided nearly 5500 hours of teacher instruction to 60 educators from grades six through ... These teachers have in turn brought in new concepts of plant growth, product development, sustainability concepts, and economic marketing to their classrooms; revitalizing the students interest in biological sciences.
USDA Blog
Bucks High School Teacher Arraigned, Jailed On Student Sex ...
By Ed Fischer
By Mark Abrams. WARMINSTER, Pa. (CBS) – The choral director at William Tennent High School in Bucks County was sent to Bucks County Prison this afternoon after surrendering to authorities to face charges of inappropriate contact with ...
CBS Philly
NJ's Christie Signs Teacher Tenure Reform into Law
By Teresa Shumay
Legislators in New Jersey recently dealt a heavy blow to the oldest teacher tenure law in the nation.... Lawmakers hope that these evaluations and consequences will not only lead underperformingteachers to seek other career options but also encourage talented, tenured teachers to maintain strong teaching performance. The law also changes the process for gaining ... Teresa Shumay →. Tags: Chris Christie, education reform, New Jersey, teacher tenure, teachers, teachers unions ...
The Foundry: Conservative Policy...
Australia Adopts System to Assess Teachers Yearly | Education News
Australian education ministers have approved a new teacher assessment framework that will have instructors undergoing an evaluation every year. Although the details of the implementation are being left up to schools, every teacher must ...
Education News
Australian education ministers have approved a new teacher assessment framework that will have instructors undergoing an evaluation every year. Although the details of the implementation are being left up to schools, every teacher must ...
Education News
Calculated Risk: Fed's Bernanke: Teacher Town Hall Meeting
By Bill McBride
Fed's Bernanke: Teacher Town Hall Meeting. by Bill McBride on 8/07/2012 02:30:00 PM. Teachertown hall meeting with Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke: Financial Education Follow on Twitter #FedTownHall. If Bernanke hints at QE3, it will ...
Calculated Risk
By Bill McBride
Fed's Bernanke: Teacher Town Hall Meeting. by Bill McBride on 8/07/2012 02:30:00 PM. Teachertown hall meeting with Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke: Financial Education Follow on Twitter #FedTownHall. If Bernanke hints at QE3, it will ...
Calculated Risk
Remainders: Teacher cited Romney's 'false sense of knowledge ...
By Philissa Cramer
In giving a C, Mitt Romney's French teacher noted a false sense of knowledge. (HuffPo via Russo) An Upper East Side ... (GS Community/Hechinger); A UFT chapter leader urges his colleagues to conduct their own surveys of teachers. (Labor Lessons); A teacher recognizes his own historyteacher's excellence and worries about others like him. (Yo Mista); A national office faults the way districts coordinate special education services after high school. (HuffPo); Principals who lobbied ...
GothamSchools » Newsroom
3quarksdaily: Education and “The Public Promotion of Moral Genius ...
By Abbas Raza
Hershock is an education specialist at the East-West Center in Honolulu. In addition to Buddhism in the Public Sphere, he has written or co-edited many other books, including Educations and Their Purposes: A Conversation Among Cultures.
3quarksdaily
Marvin Hamlisch, Music, and Arts Education | La Figa
By Lisa Derrick
Composer Marvin Hamlisch, whose popular songs for stage and screen were a vibrant part the 1970s, has gone to the great piano bar in the sky. He scored The Sting,adapting the music of Scott Joplin, and was responsible for the music in ...
Firedoglake
Teacher incentives: F is for fewer bucks | The Economist
HOW do you improve education? To economists the answer is simple. Pay teachers for performance: if the pupils get good test results, give the teacher a bonus.
www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/.../teacher-incentives
CEE's Humbyrd wins School of Engineering teaching and mentoring ...
Award recognizes and encourages extraordinary teaching and mentoring by a ... Nominators describe Chelsea as a "truly gifted teacher" with a "great future ahead" who ... that her true calling was to pursue a PhD in engineering education .
web.mit.edu/.../2012-school-of-engineering-graduate-student-...
Save Our Schools on teacher unions. « Fred Klonsky
Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data. ... SOS believes that teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions ... Teaching Now - EducationWeek Teacher blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teach…
Why Teachers Quit - National Education Policy Center - University of ...
In the past few weeks, two major reports on teacher turnover and retention ... that the rhythms ofteachers' lives matter, including their pathways into teaching and ... to year in teachers' value-added scores as well as the learning curve of novice ...
nepc.colorado.edu/.../why-teachers-quit-and-why-we-cant-fire...
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