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Education predictions for 2012

10 education predictions for 2012
Washington Post (blog)
Strategies to use technology as a transformative tool in education will take a backseat as for-profit online learning charlatans and the Khan Academy take up the tech money and the media space. 10. As I did last year, I'm borrowing this last one from ...

The Year in Education: Seven Innovations Changing the Way the ...
This year's education innovations focused on technology, leadership, and creative thinking. From the expansion of free college courses to teachers becoming entrepreneurially minded leaders, these are the .... City Year: Learning to Read ...
www.good.is/.../the-year-in-education-seven-innovations-chan...

Teachers trump Coalition under pay rise loophole
The Age
The pay rise will affect the state's 45000 government teachers and teachers in the Catholic system, which has 16420 teaching and non-teaching staff. Ms Bluett said all other terms and conditions in the expiring agreement would remain until a new deal ...

The Age

Parliament fails to approve even a single education bill
Hindustan Times
Not just the Lokpal bill, many important government legislations including education bills piloted by HRD minister Kapil Sibal and pending for over six months failed to get clearance of Parliament. of Technology and Education Tribunal --- that were ...

Just 17 teachers struck off for incompetence in 10 years
ParentDish UK
The sanction from the General Teaching Council for England prevents failing teachers from applying for another job in education after being asked to leave a school because of poor performance. The Coalition has proposed overhauling the system by ...

NEWSMAKERS: Teachers recertify union in wake of Budget Repair Bill
Fond du Lac Reporter
Fond du Lac Education Association President Hedy Eischeid, a fifth grade teacher at Evans Elementary School, works with student Collin Kurtz in her classroom. / Aileen Andrews/The Reporter This is the 11th — and final — in a series of year-end ...

Chile Education Minister Felipe Bulnes resigns
BBC News
Mr Bulnes is the second education minister to resign since President Pinera took office in March 2010. His predecessor Joaquin Lavin stepped down in July in the face of massive protests by students and teachers that closed many schools and universities...

BBC News

Medical teachers resume agitation over pay issues
Times of India
These scales are much higher than those given to medical teachers despite the fact that they work for public health in addition to their teaching duties. The doctors have also raised the issue that the pay ceiling applicable to central government ...

Education Roundup: Teachers Should Tread Lightly When Teaching Politics
U.S. News & World Report (blog)
By US News Staff Welcome to the new High School Notes weekly roundup of education news. Every Friday, you'll find out what's making headlines around the Web. With the Republican presidential campaign in full swing, history and government teachers have ...

Callista Gingrich debuts music education video
Washington Post (blog)
By Amy Gardner MASON CITY, Iowa — Callista Gingrich, the wife of presidential contender Newt Gingrich, is debuting a video this week in which she pushes an issue near and dear to her heart: musical education. But the video does more than reveal a ...

TAL Education Group to Announce Third Quarter of Fiscal Year 2012 Financial ...
Sacramento Bee
TAL Education Group, which operates under the brand "Xueersi," is a leading K-12 after-school tutoring service provider in China associated with high teaching quality and outstanding student academic performance. Its tutoring services cover the core ...

Local teachers receive national certification
Parkersburg News
Mary Blaker, Connie Bowers, Lisa Coleman, Corinne Full and James Stewart all received the certification, which is the highest credentials available in the teaching profession. The names of this year's National Board Certified teachers were announced by ...

Virtual Teachers Provide Lessons on the Go
Sci-Tech Today
"The presentation of workflow is the real strength of video-oriented teaching." For example, Video2brain offers an app that is not just for use underway, but for practicing new or learning a programming language at one's desk. ...

In education, it's all about dollars and cents
Chicago Sun-Times
We've also learned that no matter how much self-styled education “reformers” claim otherwise, the always-demonized teachers unions are not holding our education system back. As the New York Times recently noted: “If unions are the primary cause of bad ...

Inside Education: 2011 School News
Leesburg Today
Teachers, administrators, students and local representatives gathered for a dedication ceremony in October. They honored the school's namesake J. Michael Lunsford, who worked for the school division for 41 years before he passed away from a stroke in ...

Survey Finds Education Grantmakers Getting More Strategic in 2011
Education Week News
based WK Kellogg Foundation has found this year, said Alandra Washington, the foundation's deputy director of education and learning. One of the larger members of the association, the Kellogg Foundation finances education and other community ...

Arts education: preparing today's students for creative thinking and evolving ...
Pomerado Newspaper Group
By Kevin Yaley, Head of Francis Parker School In his best-selling work entitled A Whole New Mind, writer Dan Pink explains that today's educators must change their approach to arts in education in order to effectively prepare students for life in the ...

New Year's Eve: Education about designated drivers has helped
Quincy Herald Whig
"There's more education now about designated drivers," said Slough, a registered nurse who for more than 20 years has been the director of emergency services at Hannibal (Mo.) Regional Hospital. Unfortunately, New Year's Eve is hardly without incident ...

MIT's new learning platform points to future of higher ed
The Boston Globe
Meanwhile, MITx also represents an important milestone for distance learning, an idea once seen mainly as a mere substitute for face-to-face education but has promise all its own. To its great benefit, Boston has been deeply invested in a model of ...


New Teachers Reflect on Teaching in 2011
Huffington Post (blog)
To wind down 2011, we asked some first-year public school teachers to tell us what they've learned now that they have some experience in the classroom. Some of them are traditionally trained with advanced degrees in education. ...


Rwanda: Recruitment of Teachers of English Is Welcome
AllAfrica.com
The Government bid to recruit teachers from the East African Member states, to teach English Language and Literature is welcome. The development of English teaching is critical at this time of the country's regional integration in the East African ...

Domestic policy chief starts, leaves amid crises
Chicago Sun-Times
She tops that list with the early work to stabilize the economy, 21 months of consistent job growth and the president's long-term investments in education overhaul, an area that became her specialty. “Our work on education reform, it'll be part of this ...

Artist enjoys teaching, and continues learning
Gulf Coast Newspapers
Jan Vining can be seen flitting about the gallery, answering questions or teaching art classes. The petite brunette said she enjoys helping and learning from other artists while she immerses herself in her first love, and second career. ...

Santorum for Higher-Education Czar
National Review Online (blog)
By Jay Schalin It seems one of the Republican presidential candidates is going after the higher-education-reform vote. Rick Santorum didn't hold anything back with these comments at an Iowa speech: “Let's look at colleges and universities,” Santorum ...

MERCER: Three ideas for education
Daily Republic
From those examples, programs and plans can be built for South Dakota teachers and schools . K-12 teachers could head to the university campuses in the summer, and video-conferencing could be used to link the university centers and schools throughout ...

St. Michael-Albertville Teachers Recognized by TIES
Patch.com
Ryan is always willing to be a technology resource and leader for the staff in his building. Histeaching is a great example of how the tools of technology can have a positive impact on studentlearning at the middle level.

Schools marred by testing scandals in 2011
USA TODAY
His investigation eventually persuaded the state Education Department to take up the matter. Its 44-page report, issued in September, found "sufficient credible evidence" of cheating, finding that teachers got test questions ahead of time, ...

USA TODAY

State of Education: Reviewing 2011 and looking ahead to 2012
YNN
We caught up with state Education Commissioner John King for a little insight. First on the list of discussion: funding of the January state regents exams. For the past year, they were funded through private donations, but this year it's a little ...

Larry Ferlazzo: Education-Related Predictions for 2012
By Larry Ferlazzo
As the 2012 presidential election nears, and the polls show a Romney/Obama contest as a nail-biter, the Obama Administration will offer a "fall surprise" to teachers by offering states waivers to No Child Left Behind requirements that don't have the "poison pills" of rules and costs that their ... Strategies to use technology as a transformative tool in education will take a backseat as for-profit onlinelearning charlatans and the Khan Academy take up the tech money and the media space. ...
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Chile Protests: Education Minister Felipe Bulnes Steps Down
By The Huffington Post News Editors
SANTIAGO, Chile -- Chile's student protest movement claimed its second education minister on Thursday as Felipe Bulnes stepped down, citing personal reasons, and conservative President Sebastian Pinera named a replacement. Chile's ...
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed

Wrong on Education
By Downes
Nor, in the case of bizarre approaches to teaching math, is it just that those in charge of oureducation system are themselves intellectually incapable of understanding basic principles of math (i.e. 'division' in math doesn't involve conflict and doesn't need to be called 'sharing,' which is a different .... Perhaps he should view this video about 21st century learning in New Brunswick (from his comments we have to judge that he has never seen it). ... Sure - depend on the teachers, he says. ...
Half an Hour

On-demand learning | Onlignment
By Clive Shepherd
We move on to look at the third element in the contextual model, on-demand learning. To refresh our memories, on-demand learning is a form of 'learning to'. It occurs because we don't know how to perform a particular task and therefore need ...
Onlignment

Profile of a learning architect: Dick Moore | Clive on Learning
By Clive Shepherd
In this final profile, we look at the work of a learning architect who has worked within what is very much a top-down learning environment and on a very large scale. Dick's work at learndirect helped ....Dick Moore has worked as an educational technologist for 30 years and now runs his own company Moore Answers Ltd, an IT interim/consultancy and change management house that is particularly keen on charities, education systems and infrastructure. Dick was until May 2010 Director ...
Clive on Learning

Pay Teachers More, Get Better Outcomes? Seriously? : Lawyers ...
By Dave Brockington
The second mechanism is more subtle – namely that improving teachers' pay improves their standing in a country's income distribution and hence the national status of teaching as a profession. As a result of this higher status .... The way this works today is that if you have 20 years experience in business, even if that includes 10 years in as a courseroom teacher in that business, you have to start at the bottom of the pay scale when you move to public education. This has two really bad ...
Lawyers, Guns & Money

FUNcube at Science Education Conference | Southgate Amateur ...
AMSAT-UK will be demonstrating the potential of the FUNcube satellite as a teaching tool at the Association of Science Education Conference, January 5-7, 2012. The ASE exists to provide support and ideas for school science teachers in the ...
Southgate Amateur Radio News RSS Feed

USA Today June 2012 Report – Distance Learning: From the Margin ...
By mkbnl
In collaboration with the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA), Mediaplanet Publishing is producing a 12-page report dedicated to introducing and promoting online education to current and new learners to be distributed via ...
Virtual School Meanderings

MIT to Offer Free Online Education | Kansas City News | fox4kc.com ...
By Sarah Clark
Education for free? From M.I.T? Yes. The Massachusets Institute of Technology announced it will offer a free online learning initiative called MITx. The program offers online interactive learningopportunities to anyone in the world -- all free of ...
Kansas City News | fox4kc.com | FOX 4

2011 Lesson #4 Mixed Mode learning – the way ahead | Connected ...
By sharris
Blended learning should not be reduced to an efficiency drive to deliver education via rotated methods, even if it allows for teachers to move to a preferred coach or mentor mode. It could be so much more. I have decided that I am not about to ...
Connected Principals

PM calls for increase in public health education | Dominica News ...
By admin
Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit is calling for an increase in public health education. In an end of year Government Information Service interview, he said a national plan to address chronic non communicable diseases (CNCDS) must place ...
Dominica News Online

Education CEO urges speedy implementation of policies : Kaieteur ...
By KNews
Minister Manickchand also made reference to the delayed availability of lab chemicals and other materials, which according to some teachers have been hindering their teaching efforts. This dilemma, she assured, will become a thing of the ...
Kaieteur News

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