SFBay
Those smart guys and gals down on The Farm know a thing or two about teaching. (And about raising money, but that's a different story.) The latest innovation unfurled at Stanford University is a redoubled commitment to online learning. Stanford ...
SFBay
Stanford appoints online-learning vice provost
Palo Alto Online
Stanford University has appointed computer scientist John Mitchell its first vice provost for online learning. The appointment is part of a larger Stanford Online initiative that the university said would restructure learning and better position it as ...
Virtual schools and real profits: Industry shapes state policies
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
But as passed and signed by the governor, the law says districts have to makeonline courses available to their students and increase options for online learning. The law states: The State Board of Education shall establish rules and regulations to ...
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
Locals enjoy online school option
Santa Maria Times
Douglas is joining a growing number of families, locally and across the nation, who turn toonline learning instead of the traditional brick and mortar public school setting. CAVA has grown from 250 students when it opened in 2002 to about 13,500 today.
Online education firm Desire2Learn lands $80M
Upstart (blog)
Online education firm Desire2Learn lands $80M. Enlarge Image » · Desire2Learn lands $80 million in funding. Desire2Learn landed $80 million in its first round of funding, underscoring the appeal of online learning. Rate this story. More from Loot ...
Penn names new head for online learning
The Daily Pennsylvanian
Rock's main responsibility will be to oversee Penn's ongoing partnership with Coursera, anonline learning platform that offers free, non-credit classes. Penn first announced its partnership with Coursera in April, and has since increased its ...
Online class at U of Illinois attracts 32000
WTOV Steubenville
Professor Jonathan Tomkin is teaching "Introduction to Sustainability" through the online learning platform Coursera. The Urbana-Champaign campus is offering seven free online classes this fall, joining Princeton, Stanford, the University of Michigan ...
Learning to Create Lasting Social Change Online
Huffington Post
It's a late summer day and I gather my things for the afternoon group intern meeting. Today our summer cohort members will facilitate the agenda, each sharing a skill, topic, or strategy with their peers from their summer projects and research. I log ...
Learning Games Network Launches Quandary to Develop Ethical Thinking ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 5, 2012 — Free, online game poses challenging dilemmas as players shape the future of a new civilization. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Learning Games Network, a non-profit spin-off of the ...
VMworld 2012: VMware Hopes to Revolutionize Online Learning with
By Jeff James
VMware's new Project NEE training platform has the potential to significantly improve onlineeducation.
Petri IT Knowledgebase
Essential Elements of an Effective Online Learning Experience ...
By Danielle Hathcock
An online course is like walking into a foreign land with an entire map laid out, but having no sense of the land's origin or how to navigate the terrain. How the instructor formats and interacts with the class will ultimately determine the student's ...
Faculty Focus
3 Reasons why Students Don't Participate in Online Discussions ...
'Why don't my students participate in online discussion forums?' I've received numerous comments [questions] like this one, about the lack of student ...
onlinelearninginsights.wordpress.com/.../3-reasons-why-stude...
Ditching private schools
Los Angeles Times
And private school parents tend to have more education and more money that they might use to help out at their schools, helping all students there. They might also become involved in lobbying for more funding for education, which would be good for ...
What Democratic platform says on education
Washington Post (blog)
This requires excellence at every level of our education system, from early learning through post-secondary education. It means we must close the ... This includes raising standards for the programs that prepare our teachers, recognizing and rewarding ...
Angry teachers pledge to continue striking
The Age
... to the steps of Parliament. Photo: Michael Clayton-Jones. A resolution to begin the next stage of the protracted industrial campaign was passed at a mass rally attended by more than 15,000 striking teachers, principals and education support staff ...
Revealed: The Chicago teachers pact
Chicago Tribune
We also hope teachers will think seriously about the new City Colleges contract. That pact's provision for "student success pay" means that when student outcomes improve — as measured by metrics from the Illinois Board of Higher Education — union ...
Why I Quit Teaching
Huffington Post
Are teachers certified experts? No: you need no licensure to begin teaching. Alternative certification programs, such as Teach for America, suggest that education schools are empty, facile and meaningless, at least for the classroom teacher. I don't ...
Florida Schools In Session, But Teachers Absent
NPR
Schools have been open for a couple of weeks across much of Florida, but not all of the students know who their teachers are yet. There's typically a lot of teacher turnover during the summer break, and schools can't always get vacant teaching ...
NPR
Spain's New Math: More Students, Fewer Teachers
Wall Street Journal
“We are mortgaging the future of generations of youth that now more than ever need education,” José Campos Trujillo, the secretary-general of the teacherfederation of Spain's largest union, wrote recently. “All the supposed savings ...Spain needs “a ...
Wall Street Journal
More teachers green in the classroom
USA TODAY
Reprints & Permissions. WASHINGTON – With three years of teaching under her belt, Allison Frieze nearly qualifies as a grizzled veteran. The 28-year-old specialeducation teacher at E.L. Haynes Public Charter School here already has more experience ...
USA TODAY
Teaching in Atlanta and Korea: Students are students, no matter geography or ...
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
Here is a great essay by former APS teacher Cindy Lou Howe, who is now an education and diversity consultant in Atlanta. She taught in Atlanta Public ... Two of us are former Atlanta Public School teachers and two of us are currently teaching. I am a ...
Online Education Platform Desire2Learn Raises Massive $80M ...
By Frederic Lardinois
Desire2Learn, a Canadian online education startup that offers an increasingly popular cloudlearning platform for higher education, K-12 and Fortune 1000 companies, just announced that it has raised a $80 million Series A round led by New ...
TechCrunch
By Frederic Lardinois
Desire2Learn, a Canadian online education startup that offers an increasingly popular cloudlearning platform for higher education, K-12 and Fortune 1000 companies, just announced that it has raised a $80 million Series A round led by New ...
TechCrunch
College Students Discuss Higher Education Affordability with ...
By Guest Blogger
To continue its transparency efforts and ensure students have a seat at the table, the Obama Administration has engaged youth, parents, and higher education leaders regarding college affordability and accessibility through roundtables, ...
ED.gov Blog
Higher education prices are too high
By Tyler Cowen
Given that prices have been rising steadily for decades, and the relatively paltry concomitant rise in supply, we are left with little choice than to accept that higher education bundle of goods is something terribly difficult to supply. Inputs into production higher education, expertise, suffer from ..... 35 years ago, when I started teaching, I used some texts from Dryden Press that were short and just covered the basic theory. I supplemented these with current readings. Those texts would never ...
Marginal Revolution
12 Ways to Use The Learning Network Blog This School Year ...
By By KATHERINE SCHULTEN
Happy academic year 2012-13! Here's what our blog has and how you can use it, whether you're a teacher, student (of any age) or parent. ... Our Teaching Topics page is a living index to collections we've made on topics we know teachers teach often — from immigration to “To Kill a Mockingbird” to global warming to bullying to learning with infographics. Check back frequently: we keep adding! .... Other Education Resources at The Times. Education Life · Make anEducation ...
The Learning Network
Erica DePalo, former 'Teacher of the Year,' accused of having sex ...
By James Eng
A woman who was named Essex County, N.J.'s “Teacher of the Year” in 2011 has been suspended from her job after being accused of having sex with a 15-year-old student.
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Kenya's education dividend | End Poverty
Therefore, what matters most is to make sure that the education system ... in school is only a first step: they also need to be learning something (useful) there. ... Kenya has some 250,000teachers, which is not enough: while class sizes are ...
blogs.worldbank.org/africacan/kenya-s-education-dividend
Kenya: 2012 Exam Candidates Worry Over Teachers' Strike - AfricaThe paralysis in the public education sector in Kenya entered day two as ...He stressed the ...
allafrica.com/stories/201209050069.html?utm_medium...
Boston schools offer counter proposal in teacher talks - Metro - The ...
In an effort to wrap up contentious teacher contract talks, the Boston School Department ... By agreeing to the union's compromise on teacher evaluations, the School ... Richard Stutman, theteachers union president, said that union officials will look at the ... for absent classroom aides who work with special education students.
www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/09/04/.../story.html
Education Credits
Education tax credits can help offset the costs of education. The American Opportunity (Hope Credit extended) and the Lifetime Learning Credit are education ...
www.irs.gov/Individuals/Education-Credits
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