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Education experts disagree on importance of school class size

Education experts disagree on importance of school class size
Denver Post
US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan not only emphasizes teacher effectiveness, but takes it a step further. He proposes not just putting more kids with the best teachers, but also paying thoseteachers more. "So if you have a good teacher with higher ...

Physical Education Is Good for Kids' Grades, Study Finds
U.S. News & World Report
SUNDAY, May 27 (HealthDay News) -- Boosting students' levels of physical education improves their grades, a new, small study says. Swedish researchers followed more than 200 schoolchildren, starting from first through third grade, for nine years.

Potential teacher shortage developing in California's public schools
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
California's teaching population is growing increasingly old, even as fewer young people choose to enter the profession, according to the report, "The Status of the Teaching Profession 2011" by the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning at ...

Education's revolving door
Janesville Gazette
They'd climb the ladder from teacher to principal and then stick around in that role until they retired. No more. Today, principals routinely step into the thorny spot between education and administration after only a few years in the classroom, ...

Hard Lessons Follow Rocky Start For Chicago Teacher
NPR
Tyrese Graham is a second-year science teacher at John Marshall Metropolitan High School on the West Side of Chicago. When he started teaching there, Marshall was among the worst public schools in the city. When Graham walked into his first class, ...

Education, enforcement boost boater safety in NH
The Union Leader
State safety officials are crediting the state's mandatory Boating Safety Education law. Passed in 2000 and phased in among age groups until 2007, the law requires that people 16 or older who operate a boat over 25 horsepower on state waters have a ...

FCAT failures show test-obsessed teaching falls short
Orlando Sentinel
To fully appreciate how deeply flawed Tallahassee's approach to public education is, you must look beyond the recent news of abysmal FCAT scores — and look at how we got here. You see, FCAT was supposed to be a simple fix for a complicated problem.

Gifted education funding falling short on high achievers
Milford Daily News
Often misunderstood because of its name, gifted and talented education is essentially a kind of special education for students who fall on the opposite end of the learning spectrum. Like specialeducation students, gifted learners have different needs ...

Chinese teacher visa controversy resolved
China Daily
By Tan Yingzi in Washington (China Daily) Within 24 hours of consultations between officials from the Chinese embassy and the US State Department, a revised policy directive was sent out on Friday to clarify the visa status of Chinese-language teachers ...

Questions on NY teacher evaluations answered
Wall Street Journal
The state, to qualify for $700 million in federal Race to the Top funding, promised to develop a standard, objective teacher and principal evaluation system. The Cuomo administration and New York State United Teachers, the state's largest teachers ...

Education notes, May 27
The Sheboygan Press
Three Oostburg Christian School teachers were honored by the school's association for reaching career milestones. The recognitions were announced at the annual meeting on May 15. Elaine Kappers was honored for 25 years of teaching in the Resource Room.

US amends order directing Chinese teachers to return
Zee News
Beijing/Washington: Amid an uproar in China over the planned American move to send home dozens of Chinese teachers, the US has withdrawn its "sloppy and incomplete" order directing 80 Confucius Institutes teaching Mandarin to seek reaccreditations.

Increasingly, teachers rely on volunteers to fill gaps
San Bernardino Sun
Third-grade teacher Rebecca Hollis works with students during class at Trapp Elementary School in Rialto on May 8, 2012. Hollis welcomes parent volunteer Curtis Winton to work with her students. (Gabriel Luis Acosta / Staff Photographer ) Eye on ballot ...

Education leaders meet to discuss TAFE funding cuts
ABC Online
By Rhiana Whitson (ABC Gippsland) More than 30 people from Gippsland's education, training and apprentice sector met at GippsTAFE Waratah Restaurant to discuss the funding crisis facing the sector. The Gippsland Trades and Labour Council convened ...

StudyDog Recommends Six Shows to Keep Children Engaged in Education through ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Television programs like 'Sid the Science Kid,' 'Cyberchase' and 'Word Girl' take a fun approach toteaching children about reading, math, science and art. Los Altos Hills, Calif. (PRWEB) May 27, 2012 School is out in just a few short weeks, ...

Is Excessive Daytime Sleepiness the Cause of Learning and Behavior Problems in ...
Huffington Post (blog)
On May 1, the results of a study by Penn State researchers was published showing that children who have learning, attention and/or behavior problems may be suffering from a condition known as excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) -- even if tests indicate ...

La. gives 315 vouchers to Ruston school with no room, computers or teachers ...
Alexandria Town Talk
New Living Word School in Ruston has been approved by the Louisiana Department of Education to accept 315 students as part of the state's voucher program, but the school doesn't have the facilities, computers or teachers in place to accommodate that ...

Big cuts expected in education
Peoria Journal Star
By Anonymous General state aid to public school districts is being cut by $211 million under a kindergarten through high school education budget approved by a House committee Saturday. The bill now goes to the full House, which will consider education ...

'Classpad' set to make learning fun and interactive in schools
Economic Times
NEW DELHI: As educational innovations transcend the boundary of classroom teaching, learningis no longer destined to be a monotonous task within the four walls of a classroom but a fun and interactive activity. Marking a remarkable shift in education, ...

EDUCATION: Concerns growing over remedial education at community colleges
North County Times
Remedial education at California's community colleges is riddled with flaws, including a placement system that sends large numbers of students to corrective classes they may not need and course schedules that lead to large numbers of dropouts, ...

'She wasn't just a teacher' : Lambert retires after 43 years at Berea
Richmond Register
By Crystal Wylie Register News Writer BEREA — Scroll to the bottom of the story to read "Love for Lambert: Berea graduates share memories of their teacher," as well as a list of other Berea retirees this year. Writer's Note: Brenda Lambert is the ...

Overcoming Bias : Teacher Remembered
By Robin Hanson
... best third-grade teacher ever.” So I paused to recall memorable teachers from my childhood. ...This is a story both about the difference a teacher can make, but also about how teaching may not matter much. If you want to learn to write, well, ...
Overcoming Bias

Mitt Romney's Education Muddle | The Moderate Voice
By PRAIRIE WEATHER
Finally, he vowed to encourage teacher evaluation and accountability. This is something the Obama administration has been doing through its Race to the Top initiatives, much to the dismay of someteachers' unions. Romney then ... Big deal on education reform! I don't know why he hasn't looked at the clips. Rod Paige is tainted goods at this point in time. … [from a rough transcript]. ___. Michael Petrilli, writing at HuffPo, thinks Romney's education policy is a “good start.” There's a lot ...
The Moderate Voice

Quebec students & Obama partisans prove some teachers indoctrinate
By Sandy
Sandy Crux's blog about the role of politics on education, autism & our daily lives. HOME · About Info · Contact Form ... For example, check out this column by Mark Tapson from FrontPageMag.com and its link to a nine minute video of an unidentified female teacher and her students in a North Carolina high school classroom. (H/T bluecanada.ca). As a former ... My point here though is that teachersare teaching the message rather than the reality. I just got a comment on a thread from ...
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A Researcher's Dilemma: Changes in Teaching Practice–Whose ...
By larrycuban
A Researcher's Dilemma: Changes in Teaching Practice–Whose Judgment Matters? The issue of change as perceived by individual teachers and by a researcher poses a dilemma for the researcher. I was a researcher at Las Montanas high ...
Larry Cuban on School Reform...

Active Learning & Teaching
By Dr. Nellie Muller Deutsch
What is active learning? Isn't all learning active? According to Ackoff & Greenberg, teachers have become experts at learning because they teach. They authors advocate teaching as a way to learn. I recently discovered their book and have ...
WizIQ Blog

The in box. An Illinois teacher's message to Obama. « Fred Klonsky
By Fred Klonsky
If I stopped in any teachers lounge in Illinois in 2012 and asked them to join me and work again for Barack – and the Democratic Party — I don't think I'd make it out alive! I think every teacher in Illinois should make copies of your post and ...
Fred Klonsky

Michigan State: GOP pushing tax cuts over education and other needs
By LindaMBeale
Michigan is run by the Republican Party, and it looks like the state's government is set to continue policies that cut taxes for busineses and cut income taxes--all of which primarily benefits the better off--while drastically cutting back on things ...
ataxingmatter

OUPblog » Blog Archive » Learning not to curse in Arizona
By Alice
Arizona's Superintendent of Public Instruction recently sent monitors into the schools to root outteachers with strong accents and poor grammar, a practice the state reluctantly abandoned when the U.S. Department of Education suggested it might be ... The bill applies to anyone in the state who gives instruction at any level from preschool to university, and it's framed broadly enough to include anything a teacher says that's X-rated, both in the classroom and out of school as well.
OUPblog

Physical Education Is Good for Kids' Grades, Study Finds | Yahoo ...
SUNDAY, May 27 (HealthDay News) -- Boosting students' levels of physical education improves their grades, a new, small study says. Swedish researchers ...
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Indian High Commission slams Education Ministry over stranded ...
Indian High Commission slams Education Ministry over stranded expatriate teachers thumbnail. The Indian High Commission in the Maldives has claimed ...
minivannews.com/.../indian-high-commission-slams-education...

Kids with Cell Phones: Record Your Socialist Teachers! « CITIZEN ...
This week audio surfaced of a North Carolina teacher, Tanya Dixon-Neely ... is she doesn't know what the hell she's talking about and is teaching your children. ... PUBLIC EDUCATION: NC student on pro-Obama teacher who berated him: ...
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Love Teaching
Letter to Teacher...so sweet! ... Neat Teacher appreciation gift idea ... Wall - aligned with common core- {freebie} Teachers Pay Teachers Go Back inShare Super ...
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