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Pearson to Launch Higher Education College

Pearson to Launch Higher Education College
Wall Street Journal
Pearson--which generates around 60% of its earnings and sales from its education business--said in a statement that it will be the first time a FTSE 100 company has directly delivered a degree course. Pearson also publishes Penguin books and the ... 

Teachers' Lounge: The Lifelong Eighth Grader
Huffington Post
The Teachers' Lounge is an ongoing series of interviews with inspiring educators. Today in the Lounge, teachers are doing the asking and the answering. High school English teacher Shekema Silveri interviews Sandy Hayes, President-Elect of the National ...

Accreditation warning issued to Penn State
NBCNews.com
The Middle States Commission on Higher Education, which accredits universities in the Mid-Atlantic region, cited information in the school's internal investigation led by former FBI director Louis Freeh and the severe penalties imposed by the NCAA over ...

NBCNews.com

Teachers won't get sympathy
London Free Press
Wages for teachers at the top of Ontario's education pile are beginning to eclipse $100000, the point at which their T4 slips get publicly pried open on the province's yearly "sunshine list" of its best-paid public servants. Many teachers are worth ...

Westerville teachers, board OK deal
Columbus Dispatch
But the contract gives teachers two of their major demands. First, it will bring back eight teacherswho had been laid off amid cuts this year. Bringing back those teachers guarantees that onlyteachers who specialize in art, music or physical ...

White House backs affirmative action in higher ed
Politico (blog)
The majority found the schools were not aiming for a compelling interest of diversity in education, but rather the goal was maintaining certain demographics at their schools, and they also held the Seattle schools' method was not narrowly tailored ...

The Education System Needs More Than a UNEB Review
AllAfrica.com
This encouraged many schools to divert from the teaching syllabus that is ideally intended to promote learning in all its three domains that is, cognitive (imparting knowledge), affective (positive attitude change) and psychomotor (skills development ...

Beware the Gremlins in "Teacher Value Added" Models!
Huffington Post
If, after a semester of learning American history, the students in Teacher A's classroom performed better than the students in Teacher B's classroom, despite the fact that these students began the class with identical scores on the first test and were ...

Education Realty's Upsized 15 Million-Share Offering Prices at 3.3% Discount
Wall Street Journal
By Saabira Chaudhuri. Education Realty Trust Inc. (EDR) said its upsized offering of 15 million common shares priced at a 3.3% discount to Monday's close. Shares fell 2% in recent premarket trading to $11.09, but were above the offer price of $10.95.

Wichita school board OKs teacher contract
Kansas.com
At Monday evening's school board meeting, Mousley told members that teachers face “some very interesting challenges with the waiver of No Child Left Behind,” referring to a waiver granted last month to Kansas schools by the Department of Education ...
FPL energizes STEM education in Florida schools
Sacramento Bee
To qualify for the match, a teacher must receive at least a $25 donation throughwww.AdoptAClassroom.org/fpl. Teacher Grant Programs. All public, private and charter schoolteachers in ... FPL.com/community/learning/solarstations.shtml. Teacher ...

Education Data Companies Chosen
Wall Street Journal
Once in place, depending on which services are offered or created to work with the data system,teachers could share lesson plans, videos or student work with parents, education officials said. Students could also take state tests delivered ...

Family mourns music teacher killed in Skokie car crash
Chicago Tribune
She was a longtime music teacher who most recently worked with the Jewish Community Center of Chicago, according to her daughter, Milana Pavchinskiy. Maya Rekhtman spent her life sharing the gift of music with the countless young people to whom she ...

Tensions high as Edwardsville teachers consider a strike
STLtoday.com
The Edwardsville Education Association, the union representing about 415 teachers and other employees, has filed an intent to strike, but the earliest that can happen is Aug. 23. Classes in the district will start on Wednesday. "We need them to come ...

Education debates continue
The Daily Advertiser
Local private schools accepting state taxpayer dollars as part of the Louisiana Scholarship Program use a wide range of curricula when it comes to teaching the origins of man and the universe. Some schools teach a combination of creationism and evolution.

Paul Ryan's Views And Record On Higher Education | Inside Higher Ed
Huffington Post
With the selection of Representative Paul Ryan as his running mate Saturday morning, presumed Republican nominee Mitt Romney made federal spending -- including on higher education -- a major flash point of the coming presidential campaign. Ryan ...

Balfour Education Centers to be a non-traditional high school
BlueRidgeNow.com
Balfour Education Center principal Kent Parent told the Henderson County School Board on Monday he wants to rebrand the school from the “alternative” high school to a non-traditional high school. Parent said the school is focusing more on technology ...

Flip Video co-founder unveils new e-learning company
San Jose Mercury News
"There's something magic that happens when a teacher and a student connect. How can we replicate that? ... San Francisco-based Knowmia trolls the Web for teaching videos, then organizes them into study plans developed by a network of teachers from ...

Follett Higher Education Group First to Save Students $1 Billion on Textbooks
Sacramento Bee
OAK BROOK, Ill., Aug. 13, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Amidst rising higher education costs and student loan debt, college students across the country set a new record for saving this fall. Follett Higher Education Group announced students have saved $1 ...

Muskegon special education screening, segregation violate law, district ...
Muskegon Chronicle - MLive.com
Teachers were not using a series of different instructional approaches to help struggling students -- including small group instruction -- before referring them for special education testing. That was in violation of ... The special education testing ...

Muskegon Chronicle - MLive.com

Contract with Wichita teachers approved
Sacramento Bee
Wichita teachers and the district's school board have approved a tentative contract that includes the first raise for teachers in four years. ... Union officials said Monday that about two-thirds of the district's 4000 teachers voted, with 88 percent ...

Brizard 'optimistic' on deal with teachers 'before Labor Day'
Chicago Sun-Times
One “good sign,'' Brizard said, was the 11th-hour deal forged with the CTU that allows elementary students to enjoy a seven-hour day, up from last year's 5 3/4-hour one, without substantially increasing the teacher work day. Roughly 500 elementary ...

Joel Klein, Former New York City Schools Chief, Touts News Corp. Tablet ...
Huffington Post
CEO Rupert Murdoch (L) shakes hands with Joel Klein (R) during a keynote address at the National Summit on Education Reform on October 14, 2011 in San Francisco, California. Rupert Murdoch was ... s entry into the burgeoning field of digital learning ...

A look at education then and now
The Southern
Education is your way out. Just get the best possible education you can!” And that's what I decided to do. My most inspirational teacher was Mrs. Madelyn Stratton. She taught 7th-grade social studies, but she also taught a lot more — like self-respect ...

'A teacher at heart'
Jackson Sun
We're looking for teachers using innovative methods or classes doing interesting projects. Let us know, and they will ... Contact Education Reporter Tajuana Cheshier at 425-9643 or by e-mail attcheshier@jacksonsun.com. ... Betty Patterson, a third ...

Schools learning to deal with cuts
Jacksonville Daily News
Despite cries that the skies would fall if proposed cuts to education were implemented, most North Carolina school systems have proven they can cope with unhappy fiscal news if they must, according to a recent analysis by The Associated Press. The news ...
Animation teacher faces the sack for refusing to push "unnecessary ...
By Cory Doctorow
In July I asked the US Department of Education, the California Bureau of Private PostsecondaryEducation and WASC (our accrediting agency) to look into my concerns. Since that time, the school and its parent company EDMC have escalated ...
Boing Boing

Flip video cofounder launches learning platform Knowmia — Tech ...
By Ki Mae Heussner
he said. “I found myself drawn to education.” ... As the site grows, the plan is that the initial videos and tags will provide the foundation for additional notes and teacher-provided tags, which helpteachers and students discover content. The idea ...
GigaOM

Aloha teen and heroic teacher persevere to beat special education ...
By Wendy Owen, The Oregonian
Plasker will be a sophomore in the fall and is considering a career in nursing or teaching. ALOHA – Hanna ... Plasker has spent her life overcoming a learning disability that could have prohibited her from reaching college if not for a dedicated middle school teacher, an intensive special educationprogram and a family that pushed her to succeed. It's easy to like .... Plasker developed a web ofteachers and students she could turn to if she struggled with homework. Her junior year ...
Washington County News

Wichita teachers vote to accept contract | Wichita Eagle
By Suzanne Perez Tobias
Wichita school board OKs teacher contract. Wichita teachers have overwhelmingly approved a tentative contract that includes the first raise for teachers in four years, union officials announced Monday. Of the 2626 votes returned to the United ...
Wichita Eagle: News Updates

New Miami-Dade Teachers Getting Ready For School Year « CBS ...
By cbs4lisa
Public schools start next week, but a special group of teachers is already getting to work. ...“Nervous, I'm definitely nervous, but I'm really excited to meet the kids and just get in there,” new teacher Kristen Pavon told CBS4′s Natalia Zea. Pavon desperately wants to be a good teacher. She's going to teach 4th grade reading and writing in Goulds at a struggling school. “To get these kids engaged, and get them learning and making the growth goals that they really need to make.” ...
CBS Miami

California Special Education Teacher Arrested For Allegedly Having ...
By Tara Dodrill
Vista, CA - Special education teacher Kelly McKenzy Watson was arrested and charged with unlawful sexual intercourse a with student attending a school for.
The Inquisitr

Schools Matter: The Walmart Model for Education
By Judy Rabin
The Walmart Model for Education. In These Times Wamart, Right-Wing Media Company Hold Star-Studded Benefit Promoting Education Reform Film by Josh Eidelson ... Asked whether "TeachersRock" would address education policy, including teacher layoffs across the country, Weil said it would not. "It's a celebration of a group of unsung heroes of our society - our .... Why e-learningindustry is enthusiastic about the ... Will the Harry Potter online book club encourage r... Tim Slekar...
Schools Matter

How One Teacher Built a Computer Lab for Free Using Ubuntu ...
By jono
Home · About · The Art of Community · Community Leadership Summit · Blog · Blog Archives · Twitter · YouTube · Contact Me. You are here: Home » Community » How One Teacher Built a Computer Lab for Free Using Ubuntu. Subscribe ...
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Education: A Predictor of Longer Life - Yahoo! News
If you want to know how long you will live, you might stop fretting over genetics and family history and instead look at your educational achievements. Education ...
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FARK.com: (7266914) Terrorizing charges against the teacher who ...
Terrorizing charges against the teacher who said, "I'm going to go on the roof with an M-16 and start shooting" will be dropped in 60 days if he doesn't go on the ...
www.fark.com/.../Terrorizing-charges-against-teacher-who-sai...

Westerville Teachers Approve 3-Year Contract | NBC 4i
The deal would also phase out the board of education's contribution to teachers' health savings accounts. Those cuts will allow the district to retain art, music ...
www2.nbc4i.com/.../westerville-schools-close-deal-teachers-un...

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