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Education Advocates Enter the Climate Tempest

Education Advocates Enter the Climate Tempest
Science AAAS
Adds National Ocean Service education chief Peg Steffen, "If teachers feel pressure, it's from inquisitive students." McCaffrey says that NCSE's goal will be to serve as a "clearing-house" for climate teaching programs. He and Scott say that NCSE has ...

Helping Teachers Stand Up for Science - NYTimes.com
By By LESLIE KAUFMAN
Dr. Scott said national surveys of science teachers indicated that “one-third or more of their teachers have experienced some kind of push-back on the teaching of climate change” — everything from demands by education board members that ...
Green

Recession slows growth in public prekindergarten
Fox News
"They trust their teachers. They love their friends," Docal said. "They are invested in their educationand you can see that they own that classroom." Over the past decade, state dollars for prekindergarten more than doubled nationally to $5.1 billion, ...

The Nation: Teachers Matter. Now What?
NPR
by Dana Goldstein City officials, state lawmakers and union officials protest proposed cuts of the New York Department of Education on Oct. 4, 2011 in New York City. New research suggests thatteachers do matter in improving learning. ...

Academy protest primary school to be re-inspected
BBC News
By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent The education secretary has asked Ofsted to carry out another inspection of Downhills Primary School in Haringey - where parents have protested against plans to make the school an academy. ...

BBC News

Digital Learning Day Cometh
Forbes
The critical thing is to fashion a student-centric system powered by digital learning that allows each child to realize his or her fullest human potential. Technology in this vision becomes the backbone that helps us to customize an education for each ...

Education as a Civil Right? Interview With WNYC's Brian Lehrer on MLK Day ...
Huffington Post
Education was the theme of the jam-packed, sold-out, sixth annual MLK Day celebration at the Brooklyn Museum on January 15th, 2012, In MLK's Footsteps: Education as a Civil Right, moderated by WNYC's Peabody Award-winning radio interviewer, ...

Education commissioner rolls out new plan that he says puts learners first
Bangor Daily News
Teachers might also be given data on their students, if the state department is allowed to start tracking their learning through the years. “Ensuring that education policies and programs at both the state and local levels are effective requires a ...

ChinaCast Education Corporation Announces Results of Annual Meeting
MarketWatch (press release)
We have successfully grown the Company to one of the largest post-secondary education companies in China with now over 35000 on-campus students and 145000 distance learningstudents and have grown revenue and income spectacularly over the past four ...

Learning. Anywhere, Anytime.
University of Dayton - News Home
Master's degrees in engineering management and management science can be earned totally via distance learning. Close to 30 engineering courses are available in an online format. The School of Education and Allied Professions has offered online courses ...

University of Dayton - News Home

Education 'innovations' add to teachers' already heavy workload
Montreal Gazette
Another example of innovation cited as positive is the fact that English school boards are planning to "enlarge" teachers' jobs to include the teaching of other teachers. While facilitating greater peer-mentoring among teachers is a great idea, ...

Apple's education event is getting seriously over-hyped
Fortune
MacInnis does expect Apple to unveil new tools for creating iPad textbooks, along with a new content repository to make e-textbooks easily available to teachers. But the tools are not a "GarageBand for e-books." And according to MacInnis, ...

On trip to Mitchell, Daugaard touts his proposal for teachers, students
Daily Republic
South Dakota also needs to train teachers to work in math and science, he said. Last year, 179 elementary education teachers were trained in the state while two science teachers were trained. “We need to incent them to choose high school science and ...

The Global Search for Education: A Look at New York Public Schools
Huffington Post (blog)
He is currently Professor of Practice in Education Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University, from where he received a Master of Arts degree in 1973. I had the opportunity to chat with Professor Nadelstern about the issues that face the New ...

BSO announces new head of education and community engagment, with a $1million gift
Boston.com
By Geoff Edgers, Globe Staff Jessica Schmidt, until recently the senior director of public programs for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, reports to work today to become the Boston Symphony Orchestra's new director of education and community ...

Education finance expert: “State is systematically starving our schools.”
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
It is essential to have capable teachers, effective leaders, active parents, and sound policies, but these elements do not replace the need for adequate resources in meeting the challenges we face ineducation.

Cuomo Eyes Public Pensions, Education System In Second Budget Address
NY1
Governor Andrew Cuomo is expected to target the state's pension system andteachers union later this afternoon when he presents his $130 billion budget plan for the next fiscal year. The governor is expected to hold an especially hard line on a new...

NY1

Jindal education plan touches sensitive issues
The Daily Advertiser
He said “defenders of the status quo are only going to want more time and more money.” The plan also includes rewarding “highly effective teachers” and making it easier for school systems to fireteachers who are not effective.

Kno adds new education features before Apple event
Macworld
by Joel Mathis, Macworld.com With an apparent eye on Apple's Thursday educationevent in New York, e-textbook provider Kno on Tuesday announced two features designed to expand its capabilities in the increasingly competitive digital educationmarket. ...

Macworld

Jewish, Arab parents for equal education
Ynetnews
Some 120 Jewish and Arab parents, teachers, and community activists from low-income neighborhoods across Israel gathered together in the hills of Neve Shalom last month. Here, observant Jews in skullcaps sat beside men and women of Ethiopian descent, ...

SciQuest and SunGard Higher Education Expand Relationship to Help Serve ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"Our relationship with SunGard provides a seamless integration of our solutions, delivering an enhanced purchasing experience and helping create the optimal learning environment." SciQuest /quotes/zigman/120356/quotes/nls/sqi SQI +0.73% is a leading ...

California education cuts could hit young students the hardest
San Francisco Examiner
Kindergarten teachers and advocates for early education are protesting Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal to defund a kindergarten program that would serve children whose fifth birthdays come after a new cutoff date for entry. “It's balancing the budget on ...

San Francisco Examiner

Lil' Brainiac Accelerates Language Learning For Children Of All Ages
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
"By giving parents or teachers the ability to use their own voice and personal visuals we are seeing a stronger connection with the app and ultimately a deeper understanding for the material." says GetBonkers Founder, Charles Chase. "This learning ...

Department of Education report urges colleges to teach civics
Marquette Tribune
By Katie Doherty Universities must make civic engagement and knowledge a priority or face the consequences of a struggling democracy, according to a report commissioned by the US Department of Education. Civic learning includes knowledge of US history, ...

Education finance reform top priority for municipalities
TheDay.com
By JC Reindl Hartford - The Connecticut Conference of Municipalities released today its legislative agenda for the forthcoming General Assembly session, and education finance “reform” tops the priorities. Jim Finley, Jr., CCM's executive director and ...

South Dakota education plan would downplay graduation rate
Sioux Falls Argus Leader
Schultz recently held back a student with a learning disability because the student lacked the skills for life after high school. She said she'd have advocated for giving graduation rate more weight if all graduates were counted. ...

What to expect from Apple's education event: Digital textbooks ...
By Chris Rawson
Cengage Learning, a major player in textbooks for higher education, has worked with Apple in the past and will also attend the event. Reportedly the event will focus on a new type of digital textbook providing a greater degree of interactivity ...
TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Book review: Learning Theory and Online Technologies
By Tony Bates
In a sense though that is an issue for professors of education. What is valuable for practicingteachers is that Harasim offers an approach to teaching online that is distinctly different from moving a face-to-face classroom online, and is also ...
Tony Bates

Apple working with McGraw-Hill on education announcement slated ...
By Jordan Kahn
Cengage Learning, one of the biggest publishers of textbooks for higher education, will also be attending the event. With rumors that the announcement would revolve around iBooks, many have speculated Apple will unveil a textbook solution ...
9to5Mac

Report: Apple's Education News Could Be A Textbook Example Of ...
By Ingrid Lunden
As Thursday approaches, more details (or rumors) are leaking out about what Apple's educationannouncement will entail: opinion appears to be coalescing around a new interactive service for textbooks on Apple's iPad tablet device. ... As we noted last week when the event was formally announced, Apple has made a lot of inroads into educational services—not just with special discounts for students and teachers, but also in the form of iPad donations to special educational projects. ...
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Ars on Apple's Education Event
By Harry McCracken
Chris Foresman of Ars Technica says that Apple's education event--which I'll liveblog at 10am ET on Thursday--is about a "GarageBand for e-books."...
Technologizer

Violence against teachers raises concerns - ucanews.com
By johnb
Loreto Sister Tina Farias, a former college principal, pointed to a lack of inspirational teachers for students to follow. “The work ethic in many government-run colleges is bad, and teachers are not doing much justice to the noble task of teaching ...
ucanews.com

Education issues: so happy together?
By Mike Lear
Education issues: so happy together? January 17, 2012 By Mike Lear. House Speaker Steven Tilley (R-Perryville). State lawmakers are faced with several challenging education issues in the young legislative session. Facing them first is the ...
Missourinet

Can “education as signaling” models explain recent changes in ...
By Tyler Cowen
Acemoglu and Autor present a few non-controversial stylized facts about labor markets, including falling wages of low-skill workers, flattening of the wage premium for workers with less education than college completion, non-monotone shifts ...
Marginal Revolution

Apple's education event is getting seriously over-hyped - Apple 2.0 ...
By Philip Elmer-DeWitt
That's a former Apple (AAPL) executive talking about the media drumroll for the educationannouncement the company is scheduled to make Thursday at New York's Guggenheim Museum. Case in point: The 20 headlines that topped Techmeme's news ... MacInnis does expect Apple to unveil new tools for creating iPad textbooks, along with a new content repository to make e-textbooks easily available to teachers. But the tools are not a "GarageBand for e-books." And according to ...
Fortune Tech: Technology blogs,...

Apple to launch e-texbooks at education event? | Ubergizmo
By George Wong
Last week we reported about Apple sending out invitations to an “education event” in New York this Thursday, and while there has been speculations about what the event will be about – the Wall Street Journal and Ars Tecnicha seem [...] ... Apparently Apple has been working together with textbook publishers, McGraw-Hill and Cengage Learning, on this platform for quite some time now. In addition to the launch of its textbook platform, Ars Technica reported that Apple will also be ...
Ubergizmo

Mid-January flotsam: teaching edition | (R news & tutorials)
By Luis
I was thinking about new material that I will use for teaching this coming semester (starting the third week of February) and suddenly compiled the following list of links: William Briggs writes It is time to stop teaching Frequentism to … Continue ...
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