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Renaissance Learning Gets Second Boosted Bid From Plato Learning Wall Street Journal Plato, an education technology company owned by private-equity firm Thoma Bravo LLC, last month offered the equivalent of $16.01 a share, up from $15.50 initially offered earlier this year. Renaissance said its board will consider the sweetened bid yet ... | ||
Is education software failing our schools? Bend Bulletin Founded in 1998 by cognitive and computer scientists along with math teachers, Carnegie Learning is proud of its academic heritage, and many education researchers consider it a model of rigor and transparency. One founder, John Anderson, received the ... | ||
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Why teaching must be rated The Age The Times Higher Education rankings include a "learning environment" component, but are mostly about research performance. The research bias reflects a lack of internationally comparable teaching indicators, not a decision that research is more ... | ||
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Capella Education Company Names Mary Miller Chief Marketing Officer; Jason Van ... MarketWatch (press release) Capella Education Company is also an investor in an innovative startup company called Sophia (http://www.sophia.org ) - a social teaching and learning platform that integrates education with technology. *Capella University is accredited by The Higher ... | ||
Learning.com's Award-Winning Aha!Math Now With Full Response to Intervention ... MarketWatch (press release) PORTLAND, OR, Oct 10, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Math teachers now have even better tools to help students succeed with Learning.com's Aha!Math. The new Aha!Math integrates all the essential components of a comprehensive Response to Intervention ... | ||
Group Urges More Money to Aid Poor in School New York Times By WINNIE HU New York State already outspends the rest of the nation on education, and a group of education experts at Teachers College at Columbia University is calling for it to spend even more. A new Web venture featuring news, data and conversation ... | ||
ChinaCast Education Corporation Provides Business Update Summary and ... PR Newswire (press release) Established in 1999, ChinaCast Education Corporation is a leading for-profit, post-secondaryeducation and e-learning services provider in China. The Company provides post-secondary degree and diploma programs through its three fully accredited ... | ||
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Teacher ratings linked to tests for first time The News Journal (Delaware) The state Department of Education and the state's largest union representative for teachers have come to an agreement on how to rate teachers for the current school year. For the first time, student test score data will be used as one measure for ... | ||
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Discipline policy tweak worries teachers Daily Mail - Charleston Some educators worry proposed changes to the state's student code of conduct will make it harder for teachers to discipline students and run orderly classrooms. The West Virginia Department of Education proposed the new code of conduct in September. ... | ||
PCI Education Celebrates 20th Year of Enhancing Special Education MarketWatch (press release) In 2010, the company acquired five intervention programs from Kaplan K12 Learning Services, expanding its services to students in general education who struggle to keep up with peers at their grade level. "Beyond the national recognition and business ... | ||
Conn. Teachers lose pay over cheating FireEngineering.com Waterbury officials are asking state education leaders not to revoke the 12 teachers' credentials, saying they consider the matter closed. | ||
Fast-thinking teachers revive girl, 12, after collapse msnbc.com what happened to kylee shea's parents wouldn't think was possible. walking through the hall she quickly collapsed. without the life saving efforts of two teachers she may not be alive. until september 26th kylee shea seemed to be a perfectly healthy ... | ||
Baltimore Co. average teacher salary is lowest among large systems Baltimore Sun Peccia said the largest percentage of county teachers have been in the school system a long time or are young, new teachers. The county has had a wealth of candidates for teaching positions; in one case this year the county had 1000 teachers for four ... | ||
ECSI, Leader in the Education Industry, Expands Operations in Pittsburgh, PA MarketWatch (press release) Outfitted with leading technology and top-level talent from across the higher education industry, the new facility will host all ECSI call center representatives and training teams. As part of the expansion, ECSI has implemented state-of-the-art call ... | ||
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Comedy Improv Combines Learning and Laughs in the Classroom MarketWatch (press release) In addition to the live performances, teachers and students are provided with educational materials such as teacher guides and workbooks containing home and on-line assignments. "Young people today are faced with a complex array of financial products ... | ||
McGraw-Hill Education Partners With Other Educational Services Providers to ... MarketWatch (press release) CCSI brings together all of McGraw-Hill's educational expertise and resources to develop effective, customized solutions that transform teaching and learning. The partnerships allow CCSI to provide hands-on training and coaching in areas such as ... | ||
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School district launches $11 million learning plan Napa Valley Register New Technology High School and McPherson Elementary School are two of the district's leaders in having implemented project-based learning. Teachers from both schools will be taking on roles as mentors, trainers and coaches to other teachers in the ... | ||
Shaun Johnson: The American Ambivalence Towards Education By Shaun Johnson The teachers union say we need more money, of course (thats worked in the past--look at our rankings) and parents are ambivalent at best cause they are worried about themselves that they don't have time for "their"kids education- thats the ... The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com | ||
Gov Dankwambo laments dearth of graduate maths teachers in ... (Nigeria)The governor said: ''From the report I got from the committee we set up to evaluate the situation ineducation sector, I think we have only one Mathematics teacher in Gombe State. ... Professor Ale later made a presentation of various Mathematics teaching materials including textbooks to the state government even as he also pledged to organize a training session for the Mathematics teachers in each of the senatorial districts in the state to enable the teachers to be in tune with the ... Vanguard News | ||
Against Merit Pay for Teachers, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of ... By Arnold Kling Grading the Four Faces of Progressive Education. September 30 ... As a result, it would do little or nothing to improve accountability or to reward better teachers. I think that ... They have almost no direct contact with teachers teaching. Assistant ... EconLog | ||
New Higher Education's Demographic Tipping Point – Stephen's ... By admin “The most significant shift is probably the massive growth in the adult student population in higher education. Thirty-eight percent of those enrolled in higher education are over the age of 25 and one-fourth are over the age of 30. The share of ... Stephen's Lighthouse | ||
Learning MIT Calculus in 5 Days « Scott H Young By Scott Young For learning computer science, for example, calculus allows you to run machine learning algorithms in artificial intelligence, render 3D computer graphics and create physics engines for video games. Calculus may seem a little daunting or dry ... Scott H Young | ||
Online education needs connection | Daily Trojan By rpflores Why not look at it as a means by which we can strengthen and innovate education by blending digital and traditional elements? Online education began mostly as distance-learning programs for graduate degrees that lend themselves to the ... Daily Trojan | ||
Education Recoded: Why the Title | Education Recoded | Big Think By Justin Bathon Everything in education needs to be recoded. Perhaps even the term “education” as a description of the formal learning system, needs reconsideration. We must put everything back on the table and build a learning system that works for the ... Big Think | ||
3 days of massive learning in London « commonspace By msurman But it is also very much about teaching and building things with the people I call the web makers: people making films, news, games, courses and art on the web. As I've said elsewhere, the emerging Mozilla learning model is a mash up of P2P ... commonspace | ||
Poor recruiting hurts quality of teachers (Thailand) "Therefore, there are shortages of physics, chemistry, biology and English-teaching teachers in remote areas. Underprivileged students in those areas receive a worse quality of education," said Sirichai. Thousands of teachers lecturing in ... NationMultimedia.com - National | ||
DPS Laying Off Teachers During Start Of MEAP Testing « CBS Detroit By tlee Dozens of Detroit Public Schools teachers are being laid off -- and it's happening during the important start of the crucial MEAP testing period. DFT President Keith Johnson says the layoffs could not come at a worse time. CBS Detroit | ||
HoCo Connect: Education Nation Report Card By duanestclair I couldn't help but notice that in last week's report on job hiring the country had over 100000 new hires in the month of August but that there had been over 27000 layoffs in the education field, many of them teachers. As states and .... HoCo Connect | ||
ISDs Lining Up To Sue Over Education Funding « CBS Dallas / Fort ... By ktvtdeborah More Texas school districts are lining up to fight the state in court over the way public education is being paid for. Dealing with some $4 billion in cuts from public schools, nearly 150 school districts have signed up to sue the state. CBS Dallas / Fort Worth | ||
PCI Education Celebrates 20th Year of Enhancing Special ... By PCI Education SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 10, 2011 — After two decades of developing products and services for learners with special needs, PCI Education is looking ahead to the trends that will shape the next 20 years in special education. Since 1991, PCI ... The company's founders, Janie Haugen-McLane, Jeff McLane and Larry Felder, sought to teach individuals basic life skills through engaging, peer-based learninggames and programs designed to nurture personal growth. As a result, the first Life ... eReleases Press Release Headlines | ||
School Parent Groups Empower Push For Education Reform By The Huffington Post News Team San Diego mother Teresa Drew founded United Parents for Education after her daughter's reading and math scores fell below grade level for two years. The district is not doing enough to ensure teachersare effective and weed out bad ... Video on Huffington Post | ||
PASCO partners with NSTA to Award STEM Education Grants ... By eSchool News For nearly 50 years, PASCO has focused exclusively on science education–designing, developing and supporting better ways of teaching and learning science. Teachers and students in more than 100 countries throughout the world use ... eSchool News | ||
The Indypendent » Colombian Students Mobilise Against Education Reforms ... By The Indypendent Their sense of duty has come upon them following the potential education reforms, which would allow for profit making universities to be created. Following nationwide student protests ... “In the sociology department there are only two teachers when there should be six, those two have to cover the other classes,” he says, providing an example. University National, considered to ... “They love teaching, so they work outside of the university so they can afford to. It should not be like that. ... The Indypendent | ||
NJCTY Education Forum: How Do We Fairly Assess Teachers ... By Georgette Gilmore The topic is one that is currently being discussed at the NJ Department of Education as it tries to come up with a new system to evaluate and assess teachers in regards to tenure reform. The NJCTY was ... I've been told that teaching is somehow ineffably different, parents have too much influence, there's too much politics, it's not fair to measure rich smart kids against poor dumb ones, and it's impossible to explain to anyone who doesn't have teaching experience. (Have I missed any?) ... Barista Kids
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