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CTU President Karen Lewis Uncensored (video)



Teachers Union Leader's Speech Laced with Potty Talk, Cheap ...
By Kyle Olson
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis recently appeared before the Northwest Teaching for Social Justice group and laid it on thick. Lewis, who is also a vice president of the American Federation of Teachers, ...
Big Government

Candidates seek to limit federal role in education
CBS News
The law, however, has become increasingly unpopular with critics saying it's too rigid, led to schools being unfairly deemed as "failures" and to teachers teaching to the test. Many other Republicans went along — at least early on. ...
Teachers' quarters unoccupied because teachers not willing to forego housing ...
Sin Chew Jit Poh
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 14 (Bernama) -- The Dewan Rakyat was told today that among the reasons for teachers' quarters being left unoccupied was due to the unwillingness of teachers' to forego their housing allowance (ITP). Deputy Education Minister Datuk Dr ...
We shall shame schools that 'muddle through'
Telegraph.co.uk
New league tables will smash the complacency present in much of the education system, writes David Cameron. By David Cameron What makes a great school? Hard work, committed teachers, an inspiring head and parents who don't think education stops at the ...
Teachers moonlight: Should they have to supplement pay?
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
“In Texas, for example, the percentage of teachers who moonlight has increased from 22 percent in 1980 to 41 percent in 2010. …” “Rita Haecker, president of the Texas State Teachers Association, said cuts in education have forced many teachers to take ...
Proof there is no proof for education reforms
Washington Post (blog)
Research shows that of all of the IN-SCHOOL factors that affect learning, teachers contribute the most. In-school factors contribute about 20% of the variance of student scores — an equal amount is unexplained (error), which researchers often refer to ...
Career Education Corporation Board of Directors Authorizes Additional $100 ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The colleges, schools and universities that are part of the Career Education Corporation ("CEC") family offer high-quality education to a diverse student population of more than 100000 students across the world in a variety of career-oriented ...
Career Education Corporation Announces Sale of Istituto Marangoni
MarketWatch (press release)
Significant investments in the education sector include Study Group, Blackboard, EDMC, Archipelago Learning, Ascend Learning and Estro. Providence is headquartered in Providence, RI (USA) and has offices in New York, London, Los Angeles, Hong Kong and ...
Limeades for Learning® Reaches New Heights in Helping Classrooms
PR Newswire (press release)
It all comes as education budgets continue to be slashed across the country. Through Limeades forLearning, SONIC supports public school teachers who too often pay for much-needed classroom supplies out of their own pockets, supplies like sketchbooks ...
Education-Portal.com Launches Lowest-Cost Path to College Credit
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The courses, designed specifically for the online learner, are divided into short video lessons that allow students to structure their learning at their own pace. Each lesson includes multiple choice quiz questions that learners can use to assess their ...
Education costlier, funds fewer, future cloudy
Nashua Telegraph
Sister Paula Buley, president at Rivier College in Nashua, said higher education has to be flexible going forward, especially in location and time of degree completion. Online learning has to be a university asset, not an afterthought. ...
On Children's Day, NCPCR appeals to teachers
The Hindu
Evoking the spirit of the Children's Day — observed on November 14 — the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has appealed to the teachers to ensure full compliance with the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act ...
More to embrace lifelong learning
New Straits Times
Besides the national blueprint, he also launched a lifelong learning national website and the two-day International Conference on Lifelong Learning 2011. The meeting, co-organised by Open University Malaysia, the Higher Education Ministry and ...
Olive Garden Promotes Education in Local Communities Through its 16th-Annual ...
Sacramento Bee
14, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Educators across the country are continually looking for ways to enhance education with limited budgets and resources. This year's Olive Garden Pasta Tales national essay writing contest invites students to share their ideas ...
New Policy on Substitutes Leads to More in Permanent Slots
New York Times
According to the city's Department of Education, there are now 1126 teachers without any assignments. This is fewer than at any time during the last school year. The Bloomberg administration views this pool of teachers, known as the Absent Teacher ...
Teaching Mistakes, Learning Success (video)
Patch.com
Voicheck was nominated for his honor by district technology and engineering education department chair Bill Michael. The award is one of the highest honors given to technology and engineering education classroom teachers and is presented in recognition ...
TCI's Social Studies Wins 2011 "Tech & Learning" Magazine Award of Excellence ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
TCI's program helps teachers engage students in learning when teaching with an interactive whiteboard or in a one-computer classroom. The lessons use a variety of clever activities that target different learning styles to ensure that all students grasp ...
District 719: Teachers shifting roles to become lead learners
Savage Pacer
The learning is tangible, meaningful and puts the student at the very forefront of their own education. We pride ourselves at Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools in that we are a community of lifelong learners. Our teaching staff embraces the fact that even ...
New Report Finds the Best Education Pathways Out of Jobless Recovery
Sacramento Bee
By Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce The report entitled Career Clusters: Forecasting Demand for High School Through College Jobs, 2008-2018, identifies 16 career clusters which represent the full array of related occupational ...
Teachers union hosting event in Bloomington, will focus on '12 election
St. Cloud Times
Minnesota's teachers union is hosting a conference in November to prepare members for the coming election year. Education Minnesota's political conference will be Friday and Saturday in Bloomington. “I think we are in a critical time for public ...
National Education Day celebrated
The Hindu
The National Education Day was celebrated in Krishnagiri on Monday to mark the birth anniversary of the first Education Minister of Independent India, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. The celebration was organised jointly by the State Education Department and ...
UI celebrates International Education Week
UI The Daily Iowan
International Education Week is a combined effort of the US Departments of Education and State to encourage teaching about foreign cultures and create better dialogue between the United States and countries in other parts of the world. ...
Educators of the World, Unite!
MindShift
By Betsy Corcoran, EdSurge Demonstrating how technology is the connective tissue in education, thousands of teachers and students from around the world will meet up in cyberspace this week to share ideas about global collaboration in learning. ...
Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC) Selects eIQnetworks' Unified ...
MarketWatch (press release)
MHEC contributes to the vitality of the Midwest by enhancing member states' ability to maximize higher education opportunity and performance through collaboration and resource sharing. They deliver this promise through programs and services in cost ...
Isaac Asimov on Education and Our Robot Overlords (Video ...
By Drake Martinet
When you look at all the prophecies about the future that have come true in the span of just 20 years — and now at the growing cadre of online education start-ups that have cropped up — it's time to check in with the legend behind it all: The ...
AllThingsD
UK schools: Teachers out, troops in — RT
By RT
The government is fast-tracking troops into teaching as a way, it says, to restore adult authority in the wake of last summer's riots. It wants to provide more male role models, even giving teachers new powers to use physical force as a way to ...
News RSS : Today
The Education Trap by Jeff Berwick
Johann Gottlieb Fichte, head of philosophy & psychology at Prussian University in Berlin, said it even more clearly, "Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of ...
LewRockwell.com
Teachers Complain JM Guerrero Principal Larimer, Often Absent
By Betsy Brown
The letter, written to Principal Darlene Larimer and copied to Interim Superintendent Taling Taitano and the Guam Federation of Teachers Union, lists concerns about Larimer's availability amongst other things. The faculty members claim that ...
From Broadcast To Broadband -...
American Education Week Focuses on Nation's Commitment to ...
By twalker
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and NEA President Dennis Van Roekel kicked off the week-long celebration this morning with a visit to T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Va. Joined by ... The visiting educator performs the duties of the regular educator in a normal day—teaching class, performing lunch and corridor duty, recess supervision, among other responsibilities. ... The professional substitute ensures that time is productive and furthers the student's learning. ...
NEA Today
Oshiomhole's education policy: Three years in perspectives
By alexsamade
... early childhood care and developmental education. In the case of primary school, children under this age must have easy access too; there must be teaching aids and learning materials, motivatedteachers and that government would create ...
Vanguard News
GOP Hopefuls Would Limit Federal Role In Education « CBS Dallas ...
By KTVTPhil
The law, however, has become increasingly unpopular with critics saying it's too rigid, led to schools being unfairly deemed as “failures” and to teachers teaching to the test. Many other Republicans went along — at least early on. Santorum ...
CBS Dallas / Fort Worth
Teachers, facing low salaries, opt to moonlight | eSchool News
By staff and wire services reports
Online learning caucus coming to Congress ... Brosz took the three-night a week job at the gym after his teaching salary was frozen, summer school was reduced drastically, and the state bonus for board certified teachers was cut. He figures that he and his wife, also a teacher, are making about $20000 less ... Rita Haecker, president of the Texas State Teachers Association, said cuts ineducation have forced many teachers to take furlough days. It's an extra strain because, unlike in ...
eSchool News
First pilot program at Churchville Schoolhouse is learning ...
By Annemarie Mannion
For instance, she said the words used in the spelling bee were words that the students are actuallylearning in their regular classroom. She said their regular teachers appreciated having the children continue to work on those words. ...
TribLocal - Elmhurst

LTE: Solutions That Work for Public Education
Gant Daily
The week of November 12-19 is the 90 th anniversary of American Education Week- a time designated to recognize and celebrate the contributions of public education employees and public schools to our democracy. For public education employees in ...

More Selective For-Profits
Inside Higher Ed
Kaplan, Phoenix and a few others who have seen plummeting numbers of new students, like Corinthian College (23 percent) and Capella Education (36 percent), may soon find their way to the "new normal," Kinser said. "They are probably relatively close to ...

The Education Technologies That Educators Believe Can Have The ...
By K. Walsh
Survey results indicate several specific technologies as those that we should be investing in and focusing on if we want to effectively leverage technology in.
Emerging Education Technology

Teaching Blog Addict: I'm a TBA Contributor!
By She-Homeschools
What little ole' me has been invited to contribute to the Teaching Blog Addict? I am so honored & excited ... business consultant. Earlier this year my love for addiction to stalking teaching blogs prompted me to start my own homeschooling blog. ...
Teaching Blog Addict



Crosstalk: The Race for Education Tech; Problems With Google+ ...
By Josh Keller
Crosstalk: The Race for Education Tech; Problems With Google+. November 11, 2011, 3:45 pm. By Josh Keller. Start-ups in Control: Knewton's partnership with Pearson to add its adaptive-learningtechnology to the publisher's online courses ...Wired Campus

European report on the future of learning
By Tony Bates
To determine how education and training policy can adequately prepare learners for life in the future society, there is a need to envisage what competences will be relevant and how these will be acquired in 2020-2030. ... With the evolution of ICT, personalised learning and individual mentoring will become a reality and teachers/trainers will need to be trained to exploit the available resources and tools to support tailor-made learning pathways and experiences which are motivating ...
Tony Bates

G20: Bill Gates Misses Opportunity to Discuss Education | Education ...
As access to education is such a formidable barrier to global poverty reduction efforts, the G20 summit missed out on putting it as a top priority. ... Departments of Education and Defense are to launch a research project set to share learning. ...
Education News

Microsoft Partners in Learning Aims to Inspire Teachers
Wired News
Secretary Duncan's full remarks can be read at the ed.gov website. This is an interesting move by the Department of Education. Teach.gov launched a little over a year ago and aimed to help show people what teaching was really like. ...

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