Teachers, Unions and Education Reform

Teachers, Unions and Education Reform
New York Times
Re “Teachers on the Defensive,” by Frank Bruni (column, Aug. 19): There is no question that teacher bashing, not just union bashing, has become a preoccupation for many, especially those with a vested financial interest in seeing to it that the ...

CTU boss: No immediate plans to file strike notice
Chicago Tribune
Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis leaflets commuters at the 95th Street-Dan Ryan Red Line stop regarding ongoing teacher contract negotiations. (Nancy ... The Chicago TeachersUnion continued its push to win the hearts and minds of the ...

More teacher sex victims emerge
New Zealand Herald
More children have come forward with complaints against a teacher who this week admitted 49 charges of sexually abusing pupils of a school in the Far North, the school's commissioner says. Pamapuria School commissioner Larry Forbes, who ... In 2009 ...

Obama Campaign Introduces Stronger Education Plan For Black Students
News One
Although the presidential fight between Barack Obama and his opponent Mitt Romney has been almost universally focused on jobs and the economy, education is another campaign talking point that voters are paying close attention to as November approaches ...

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St. Paul is hiring teachers, a key part of the district's plan to raise ...
Pioneer Press
St. Paul leaders said the employer-friendly job market meant they had their pick of many strong applicants. The majority of the new hires have previous teaching experience. The district was nervous about the notoriously hard-to-fill science teacher ...

Education officials investigate security breaches surrounding NJ ASK exam
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
In Wanaque, an eighth-grade teacher gave her students scratch paper during standardized testing this spring, then later learned the pages had old algebra problems and equations printed on the back. ... The state Department of Education is investigating ...

The Star-Ledger - NJ.com

Every child deserves to have the best in education
The Australian (blog)
Ensuring every young person has access to a great education is the next and the most important issue in the Gillard government's policy program. Education is the key that unlocks two doors: one to a stronger economy and the other to a fairer society ...

We need new way to evaluate teachers
San Francisco Chronicle
The system largely is based on singular "drive-by" observations by a principal or administrator that provide incomplete portrayals of a teacher's skills and do very little to advance a teacher'sinstructional practice. AB5, legislation introduced by ...

elearnspace › Openness in Education
By gsiemens
learning, networks, knowledge, technology, community. Skip to content. Home · About ... I'm alsoteaching an open online course with Rory McGreal on Openness in Education (if interested, register here). See the course schedule for more ...
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Teaching Excellence « American Anthropological Association
By Oona and Emilia
Is good teaching like pornography in that we know it when we experience it, but we struggle to define it? This post considers teaching evaluation and prods (well, maybe more like fumbles around) the topic of classroom excellence. ... article on “ Teaching Evaluation”) and the undergraduate student, as done by Michael Moffatt in Coming of Age in New Jersey and Peter Magolda in “Life as I Don't Know It.” These anthropologists describe how students view learning and campus life and ...
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Md. teachers finding hungry kids in their classes ...
By Len Lazarick
Md. teachers finding hungry kids in their classes. August 23, 2012 at 10:12 pm. U.S. EducationSecretary Arne Duncan, left, and Tom Nelson, president of Share Our Strength. By Tricia McCarter-Joseph For MarylandReporter.com ...
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Cisco Blog » Blog Archive » Education Fast Forward – Debate 5 ...
Education Fast Forward – Debate 5 – From Learner Voice to Global Peace ... The event was moderated by education and technology advisor, Gavin Dykes.
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Instapundit » Blog Archive » HIGHER EDUCATION UPDATE: Ex ...
HIGHER EDUCATION UPDATE: Ex-Professor Indicted Over Fake Doctoral Degree. “A former professor at Richard J. Daley College was indicted Wednesday on ...
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Penn amps up role in Coursera online-education effort
Penn amps up role in Coursera online-education effort ... are now signed up to offer free classes over the online learning platform Coursera (www.coursera.org), ...
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