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Profits and Questions at Online Charter Schools

Profits and Questions at Online Charter Schools
New York Times
“These folks are fundamentally trying to do to public education what the banks did with home mortgages.” The online companies can tailor their programs by reducing curriculum and teachers. During a presentation at the Virginia legislature this year, ...
Online Learning? Choice, Yes. But a Good One?
New York Times
Sounds like a winning formula for transforming public education and achieving success in children with nontraditional means. Not so much. As Stephanie Saul reports in The New York Times on Tuesday, there are serious questions about whether online ...
Teachscape's Professional Learning Suite Wins ComputED Gazette's 16th Annual ...
Sacramento Bee
The online Professional Learning Suite helps teachers and instructional leaders deepen their understanding of academic content and strengthen effective teaching strategies. The EDDIE Awards target innovative and content-rich programs and websites that ...
Teaching Channel Starts Search for Chief Development Officer
PR Newswire (press release)
"The person who fills this position must be energized by our start-up environment, and passionate about inspiring teachers, advancing education, and ultimately improving student learning in the classroom." For this position, Tch is looking for a ...
State unveils education accountability model
Rapid City Journal
The South Dakota Department of Education newly proposed accountability model for schools and teachers is available online at http://doe.sd.gov/secretary/documents/ProposedAccountabilityModel.pdf. Public comments can be made. ...
Teaching in a Diverse America: It's the Relationships That Matter
Huffington Post (blog)
Culturally responsive teachers work with children and their families to discover the cultural "funds of knowledge" that might be used as the basis for all kinds of new learning. For example, a teacher in California's Central Valley impressed Teaching ...
Flexible education helps students go the distance
Sydney Morning Herald
Lessons are held online, over the telephone or by video conferencing with occasional face-to-face teaching days. Students submit work via email or post. Some create MP3 files so teachers can listen to their pronunciation. ''It's not easy for kids and ...
Time to revalue teaching
The Australian
The problem is not just that we lack comparable metrics for teaching performance or studentlearning that could be used to target redundancies. But this was the rationale offered by TertiaryEducation Minister Chris Evans for the $240 million cut in ...
Florida graduation rates soar, but there's a catch
Tampabay.com
By Ron Matus, Times Staff Writer The Florida Department of Education announced a record-high graduation rate of 80.1 percent Monday, prompting school districts around the state to celebrate. But experts say take the numbers with a grain of salt. ...
New Teaching With Brian Selznick Website Launches With a Virtual Field Trip to ...
Sacramento Bee
Paired with the virtual field trip are activities for each stop on the tour to help students and teachers further explore the subject matter through science, language arts, social studies and art resources and activities. Additionally, the new Teaching ...
Vt. teachers union files complaint over $300000
Boston.com
BENNINGTON, Vt.—A month after teachers in a Vermont school district ratified a new contract following a strike, their union has filed a complaint with the state saying the school board is taking too long to make $300000 in adjustments to their ...
Learning Tree International Expands IT And Management Training To Houston And ...
TheStreet.com (press release)
Those attending management and IT training in Houston and Dallas will experience the same high-quality learning environment offered at other Learning Tree Education Centers, including state-of-the-art hardware and software, expert instructors, ...
Madrasa Education- What's the Reality Behind It?
The News International (blog)
Now, what curriculum and syllabi is being followed in these centers of education, and the credibility and qualifications of the teachers hired to teach there has a dubious identity However, whether the curriculum is in synchronization with the running ...
Local teachers' union leaders said they're encouraged by preliminary ...
Oshkosh Northwestern
Several education unions, including those in Oshkosh and Omro, won't vote to recertify until next fall because they successfully negotiated one-year contract extensions last spring. But, “I personally think it's encouraging. ...
Gov. Herbert's budget plan gives education boost
St. George Daily Spectrum
Education was a particular focus in Herbert's budget, as he recommended $111 million in new money for public education, including $40.6 million for an anticipated 12500 new students and a 1 percent pay raise for teachers - the first pay increase they ...
PolitiFact NJ: Weekend rulings take on unemployment benefits, teachers' work ...
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
By Star-Ledger Staff The Truth-O-Meter stuck to the True end of the dial this past weekend with a pair of rulings about unemployment benefits and teachers' work schedules. On Sunday, PolitiFact New Jersey gave a True to Assemblyman Jay Webber ...
5 DeSoto teachers gain National Board Certification
Memphis Commercial Appeal
By Chris Van Tuyl The newest class of more than 6000 national board-certified teachers includes five from DeSoto County Schools. Recently attaining National Board Certification, considered the gold standard for teaching excellence, were Southaven ...
Sheldon Kennedy tells US Senators more education needed to fight abuse
Vancouver Sun
He cited the need for tougher legislation, minimum sentences for perpetrators and a federal approach to prevention education. "We have learned that social change takes time and has to occur at both the grassroots level and from the government on down," ...
Education Needs - Talking Stories on iPhone and iPad With Pictello
Sacramento Bee
Teachers, parents and kids can use it to create talking picture books and develop literacy and narrative skills. Kids with special needs can use it to communicate, teachers and parents to facilitate comprehension or develop learning supports. ...
Appleton teachers question handbook language
Appleton Post Crescent
The proposal would allow administrators to consider past teaching experience, practical background, additional training and other factors when picking the best candidate. Teachers hoping to move to another assignment would have to go through an ...
Santa Claus Gives Children a Love for Math, Says Whizz Education Expert
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Getting kids excited about learning math is a gift that will last long after the holidays are over and Santa Claus can help, according to Kevin Judd, Vice President of Whizz Education, creator of the award-winning, online math tutor, Math-Whizz. ...
Has the Baltimore Teachers Union contract lived up to its promises?
Baltimore Sun (blog)
Other teachers said that the ultimate impact the contract will have is worth the wait. District and union officials maintain that the contract will still revolutionize the teaching profession in Baltimore city, encouraging teachers to do and earn more. ...
YouTube launches education-only site, won't teach evolution of ...
By James Trew
YouTube launches education-only site, won't teach evolution of dance (video). By James Trew posted Dec 12th 2011 10:12PM ... Well, in the VHS era teachers had control, but now it's a minefield. With its wealth of knowledge, YouTube is an ...
Engadget
Teaching Law - NYTimes.com
By By STANLEY FISH
Stanley Fish on education, law and society. ... But learning the tricks would not amount to much and might well be impossible for someone who did not know — in a deep sense of know — what the trade is and why it is important to practice it. ...
Opinionator
Turnstyle: Will More Latino Teachers Solve The Latino Achievement ...
By Turnstyle
We cannot just match Latino teachers up with Latino students, but we have to help them be critical about their own ideologies." Alfredo Rodriguez, Alumni Affairs Coordinator at Teach for America in the Bay Area, who went through the teaching ...
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
SPECIAL REPORT: The Future Of Learning
By Dan Frommer
The Future Of Learning, Transformed By Software. The education and learning industries, like most, should be profoundly transformed by software and technology over the next decade. It may happen slower than some fields, such as media, ...
SAI
YouTube for Schools versus Schools' Web Filters | Hack Education
By Audrey Watters
Google's philanthropic arm has helped fund Khan Academy and the company has embraced the idea of educational video production, kicking off another YouTube endeavor earlier this year called YouTube for Teachers. That program helps teachers learn to make ... Codecademy and the Future of (Not) Learning to Code 28. Oct, 2011. universityofphoenix150 University of ... Code Academy:Teaching Chicago How to Build Web Apps 10. Dec, 2011. Ed-Tech Weekly News Roundup: ...
Hack Education
Fashola's war on education
But today politics is having a reversed role with education. And today the Area Boys syndrome has waxed so strong that they are even a threat to the ruling “godfathers”. A case in point is the current court case involving Lagos State and the ...
Vanguard News
Learning not brands - Pontydysgu – Bridge to Learning ...
By Graham Attwell
“Open Educational Resources: A guide for teachers” is a web, PDF, and print guide focused on OER for teachers at the basic education level. It was created to fill a gap in ... Our Wikispace for teachingand learning. Sounds of the Bazaar Radio ...
Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning
The Best Comic Strips For Students & Teachers In 2011 | Larry ...
By Larry Ferlazzo
…For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL ... Another strip reformers who have little (if any) direct experience in education but have unhelpful ideas — and the power to push them. A little information can be dangerous. The difference, of course, is that ...
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Instapundit » Blog Archive » HIGHER EDUCATION ...
By Glenn Reynolds
HIGHER EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENT TRIES TO REFORM ITSELF: But, in general, the visions of innovation offered up by panelists—more online learning, greater engagement with public schools, new forms of financial aid—were far from ...
Instapundit

Teachers present 'controversial' ideas for longer school day
Chicago Sun-Times
Under the current Pioneer Longer School Day pilot, teachers generally are teaching a longer school day in exchange for the equivalent of a two-percent pay raise. The VIVA staggered schedule idea might be cheaper, Graves said. ...

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