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10 states given waiver on No Child Left Behind learning laws

Official: 10 states given waiver on No Child Left Behind learning laws
msnbc.com
President Obama will free 10 states from the strict and sweeping requirements of the No Child Left Behind laws on education standards. By BEN FELLER, KIMBERLY HEFLING WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Thursday will free 10 states from the strict ...

School sex-abuse scandal: Teachers say LAUSD 'failed to do its job'
Los Angeles Times
The union representing teachers at scandal-rocked Miramonte Elementary School blasted Los Angeles Unified School District officials Thursday morning, accusing them of a "cheap media stunt" to deflect from their own failures. United Teachers Los Angeles ...

Chicago Teachers Union accuses CPS of discriminating against African-American ...
Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Teachers Union has filed a complaint with the Equal Opportunity… (R. MICHAEL STUCKEY PHOTO) The Chicago Teachers Union filed a complaint with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Wednesday alleging that layoffs last ...

Chicago Tribune

Revamping Connecticut's Education System
Wall Street Journal
To that end, the Connecticut Council for Education Reform and Mr. Simmons, of Greenwich, have put up $250000 to create a documentary to call attention to the state's own struggling public school system. "People have this misconception that Connecticut ...

Wall Street Journal

'Outstanding' schools to be re-examined
BBC News
By Angela Harrison BBC News correspondent A quarter of schools rated "outstanding" are to be re-examined because their teaching did not reach the highest standard, says the new chief inspector of schools in England. Schools will only be "outstanding" ...

BBC News

Corbett's Budget Cuts Education Funding
Patch.com
Aid to local school districts would increase about 3%, but most of that increase would go toward funding pension obligations. In effect, aid would remain at last year's levels. By Karl Smith and Joe Hart Governor Tom Corbett presented his budget ...

APNewsBreak: Governor wants to tie portion of Mich. education funding to ...
Washington Post
To get a share of the 1 percent increase being offered to K-12 schools in the budget year that starts Oct. 1, school districts would have to show through standardized tests that students are learning a full year's worth of material as they move from ...

Education & Careers Expo Opens with Mainland Spotlight
MarketWatch (press release)
This year, 720 exhibitors from 14 countries and regions are taking part in the event, which features the latest information on education and continual learning, as well as a wealth of opportunities for career advancement and new business.

Education Growth Advisors Announces Involvement in Sale of Pubget, Inc. to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"Assisting dynamic, innovative companies and executives in achieving their objectives and maximizing impact is the cornerstone of our efforts," said Adam Newman, Managing Partner atEducation Growth Advisors. "The quality of the management team, ...

ChinaCast Education Terminates Stockholder Rights Plan and Appointment of New ...
Sacramento Bee
9, 2012 -- /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- ChinaCast Education ("ChinaCast" or the "Company", Nasdaq GS: CAST), a leading post-secondary education and e-learning services provider in China, today announced that the Board of Directors of ChinaCast has ...

Chester Community Charter School: Parents' Message to PA Department of Education
Sacramento Bee
To determine whether the State's schools are doing a good job of teaching their students, the Commonwealth administers testing of those students, every single year. If a school meets and exceeds the federal standard, they say the school has achieved ...

Christie dismembers the teachers' union president
Washington Post (blog)
Watch this speech concerning the state's teachers' union president: It is a bit dispiriting that none of the GOP presidential candidates can hold a room and impress voters and opinion makers alike in that fashion. But perhaps the winner will go to him ...

Education Department Extends Teacher Evaluation Pilot to as Many as 30 More ...
NJ Spotlight
Schools will also be required to set up a local advisory committee, to train teachers and administrators on the new system, and to report on their progress in January and July 2013. Justin Barra, the education department's communications director, ...

Governor's education reform bill approved by House panel
Sioux Falls Argus Leader
School districts could use the governor's plan, refuse to participate or come up with their own plan to financially reward teachers — even with schoolwide bonuses — for improved student achievement, as long as the state education secretary approves.

Greek teachers find work in South Africa
CNN
Koukliati is quick to add, however, that many of her friends and family are inquiring about South Africa, where three weeks ago she started a new job teaching Greek at a private school in the city of Pretoria. Koukliati is in South Africa as part of an ...

Westford school committee, teachers hit impasse in contract talks
Wicked Local
1, ending negotiations mid-stream with union leaders of the Westford Education Association, according to the teachers. Town officials say the teachers are not realistic about the town's upcoming fiscal woes. Town Manager Jodi Ross is projecting a ...

LoudCloud Systems Introduces First Fully Adaptive and Configurable Learning ...
Sacramento Bee
9, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- LoudCloud Systems, providers of the LoudCloud Learning Management Ecosystems for Higher Education and K12, believes that "One Size Does Not Fit All" when it comes to providing solutions faced by 21st century administrators, ...

Teachers take protests to superintendent's office
Las Vegas Sun
Don't let our teachers go,” members of the local teachers union again sought attention to their prolonged contract fight with the district, now going on seven months. In recent weeks, the Clark County Education Association has packed School Board ...

Las Vegas Sun

ROZUM: Education ideas flowing freely at Capitol
Daily Republic
Contrary to what you hear or read, the majority of conversation centers around education in Pierre. The end goal is student achievement, and the current focus is on teachers. A committee composed of three representatives and three senators (Sly, ...

Christie calls on union head to quit
Politico
Chris Christie is demanding the resignation of the executive director of New Jersey's largest teachers union, after the official said of poor people, “Life's not always fair, and I'm sorry about that.” Vincent Giordano, of the New Jersey Education ...

Politico

Jordan public teachers ignore call to halt strike
AFP
"I urge the teachers to go back to work because the strike harms the schoolchildren," EducationMinister Eid Dhayyat told a parliament meeting on Wednesday. Teachers in the past have received a 100-percent increase in their annual bonus, ...

Teachers Safe In Parkway School District Budget Cuts
FOX2now.com
Employees who help teachers fix computer problems, or help teachers work computer technology into their classrooms will also be cut. Teaching assistants, some secretaries, and part time employees who monitor students during lunch and recess are also ...

City to Vote on School Closings After Weeks of Hearings
New York Times
Chelsia Rose Marcius for SchoolBookA parent makes a plea at the closing hearing for Samuel Gompers Career and Technical Education High School on Feb. 2. By Maria Newman After weeks of hearings, many of them emotionally wrenching, the Panel for ...

Poll shows voters like Bloomberg -- but trust teachers more
SILive.com
By Jillian Jorgensen Just a day before the final decision on whether to close 23 schools citywide, a new poll shows New York City voters like many of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's education proposals -- but they trust the city teachers' union more.

SILive.com

Princeton teachers, school board settle on new three-year contract
The Times of Trenton - NJ.com
The Princeton Regional Education Association and the Princeton Regional School District have reached agreement on a new three-year contract that calls for teachers to receive a cash payment starting at $1250 the first year. The contract calls for the ...

The Times of Trenton - NJ.com

Bretford Launches EDU 2.0(TM) Education Furniture System for Connected ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"Technology keeps changing the way ideas are shared -- it allows for learning to happen anywhere," explained Chris Petrick, CEO for Bretford Manufacturing, Inc. "The integration of mobility devices into schools has evolved the way teaching and learning ...

Union: CPS Layoffs Unfairly Affected African-American Teachers ...
By Adam Harrington
The union said in its complaint, filed Wednesday with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that 29 percent of the teachers the board employed by the Chicago Board ofEducation in 2011 were black. But it said blacks ...
CBS Chicago

Malloy Hits The Road To Promote Education Reform Ideas « CBS ...
By ebindelglass
How do we know that those who are teaching our children are doing the jobs that they're supposed to and that our children are learning.” What do you have to say about education in Connecticut? Sound off in the comments section below!
CBS New York

John Lott's Website: NJ Public Teachers Union Chief makes ...
By John Lott
Chris Christie called Wednesday for a state teachers union chief to resign, after the union boss said in an interview that "life's not always fair" while arguing against vouchers to send poor students to private schools. Christie, who has clashed repeatedly with the union over his education proposals, called the remark "outrageous" at a town hall meeting. The call from the governor was the latest fallout for New Jersey Education Association Executive Director Vincent Giordano, whose own ...
John Lott's Website

A conversation about innovation in education - KVNO News - KVNO ...
By Robyn Wisch, KVNO News
Omaha, NE - This week's edition of The Reader profiles four Omaha colleges and universities – to examine how each is working to transform education through innovation. ... The person I interviewed there pointed out: we don't live in a “siloed” world anymore, where I'm just going to do accounting, and you're just going to do philosophy, and you're just going to do teaching, it just doesn't happen like that. Boundaries are collapsing all the time, all around us in business, in education ...
KVNO News

Launch of Arabic e-learning portal for business education
By Tony Bates
... Khayyat says: “We have a problem in this part of the world with a lack of continuous learning. People do not typically continue to invest in learning, for several reasons- education is expensive, they don't have a lot of time after they graduate, and there simply aren't great resources in Arabic.” For more information, click here. Filed Under: Bibliography, business, subject areas, Teaching andlearning, Technology, video Tagged With: 2012, Arab, business, c, Curley, Nibras, video ...
Tony Bates

Teachers confuse diligence, achievement — Joanne Jacobs
By Joanne
Teachers who base grades on homework confuse obedience with academic achievement, writesEducation Realist. Boosting hardworking students' grades just a bit (say from one grade's “+” to another grade's “-”) is fine. While some may raise ...
Joanne Jacobs

Fitzhugh: 5300 Teaching Jobs Lose State Funding Under Haslam ...
By Tom Humphrey
Bill Haslam would permit public school districts in Tennessee to create classes with larger numbers of children and, as a result, would decrease the individual attention our children receive from theirteachers. The plan could also result in thousands of teacher layoffs, unbearable ... increase in taxes or lay off teachers. The same is true for other school systems across Tennessee, as nearly 5300teaching jobs would be cut from state education dollars. Our local governments should not ...
Humphrey on the Hill

Saudi Ministry of Education holds 'International Exhibition and ...
Qatar University opts for Arabic teaching medium » · PolyVision to ... Some countries were keen to adopt new technologies considered to be a gateway to the future, while others focused on improvingteachers' potentials and providing training courses in all fields of knowledge. Some countries ... The International Exhibition and Forum for Education comes within the strategy of the Ministry of Education aiming at learning and benefiting from the Arab and foreign countries' experiences.

In Defense of an Architecture Education | ArchDaily
By Karen Cilento
When the statistics showed architecture as the field of study where recent graduates had the highest unemployment rate, some suggested that future.
ArchDaily

Teachers Protest Classroom Sizes
By Henry Takai
Teachers are protesting outside the offices of the Clark County School District, demanding smaller class sizes. The district says it's a tactic to divert attention away from the real issue -- negotiat.
Las Vegas News from 8NewsNow.com

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