LAUSD's big test

LAUSD's big test
Los Angeles Times
The L.A. school district and United Teachers Los Angeles need to find a ... The teachers union that's failing California · The National Teacher of the Year on what ... L.A. Unified graduates: Diplomas, yes; learning, maybe To fire a teacherHow to ...

Extra cash offered for trainee teachers
BBC News
By Angela Harrison Education correspondent, BBC News ... more school-basedlearning will see a loss of expertise in teacher training from universities and the ...

BBC News

Teachers group unveils its proposal for new evaluations
Los Angeles Times
A group of Los Angeles teachers Wednesday unveiled their own proposal for a ... othereducation groups came forward June 1 with proposals for new teacher ...

Quebec teacher suspended for showing grisly video
7Online.com
The teacher, whom one student described as being in his 20s, had been under contract to teach a 10th-grade history and citizenship education class through the...
 
7Online.com

Teachers, students protest proposed school cuts at Pa. capital
Philadelphia Inquirer
... the state education budget, hundreds of parents, children, and laid-off teachers staged protests over proposed school ... Birds' Eye View: Eagles learning roles ...

New teachers to get extra cash to train in poor schools
The Independent
Would-be teachers are to receive extra cash to train in poorer schools, ministers announced today. ... The plans are part of a revamp which ministers said will boost the quality of teachertraining in England. ... The Department for Education (DfE ...

Pa. teachers rally amid budget talks, layoffs
BusinessWeek
... year of large-scale layoffs looming, hundreds of educators, let-go teachers and parents packed the rotunda Wednesday at a raucous union rally to protest Gov.

eLogic Learning Expands its Business Library Courseware Selection
San Francisco Chronicle
eLogic Learning has expanded its selection of engaging courseware to a total of 520 courses covering 50 topics from Microsoft Office, Sales and Marketing, ...

Inslee releases plan for higher education
The Seattle Times
To improve higher education, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jay Inslee wants to cap a state-backed student loan at a 3 percent interest rate, expand online ...

Former teacher, coach gets 50 years for SC abuse
Seattle Post Intelligencer
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Former teacher and coach Louis "Skip" ReVille was sentenced to 50 years in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to nearly two ...

Former teacher Louis 'Skip' ReVille pleads guilty to molesting 23 ...
Charleston Post Courier
That seems like a reprieve to the former teacher at face value, but it really ... his technique at Pinewood Preparatory School, where he held his first teaching job. ... One of ReVille's friends then brought home a sex-education pamphlet, and the ...

Luka Rocca Magnotta case: Criminal charges possible for Montreal ...
Edmonton Journal
The teacher, who has a temporary teaching licence, showed the video to students in the History and Citizenship Education course on June 4. A school ...

Fun for Spanish Teachers Blog features Noyo Tablet Learning App
San Francisco Chronicle
Fun for Spanish Teachers Blog features Noyo Tablet Learning App ... She described the Noyo Spanish teaching tool as "a very colorful app that has vocabulary ...

Montreal teacher suspended for airing alleged Lin Jun gore video in ...
Globe and Mail
A high school teacher in Montreal was suspended after showing his students a ... a professor in the Queen's University faculty of education, said that “clearly we ...

Career Education falls on accreditation worries
BusinessWeek
Career Education Corp. shares tumbled to their lowest price in more than a decade on Wednesday, on worries that the for-profit vocational school chain might ...

Cuomo's High-Powered Education Committee Gets to Work
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The committee charged with making education-policy recommendations to Gov. ... from Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers union, ... topics that touches on nearly every major issue in education: teacher quality; ...

Horndog High teacher Erin Sayar is hit with statutory rape charge
New York Daily News
A HORNDOG High teacher was indicted on statutory rape charges ... family also is pursuing a $10 million lawsuit against the city Education Department. “This is ...

New York Daily News

Montreal teacher suspended for showing students alleged body ...
Fox News
MONTREAL – A teacher has been suspended by a Montreal school for showing high school students a video that police believe shows the slaying and ...

Ekiti - Juju, Fear of Humiliation Keep Teachers Away From Govt Test
AllAfrica.com
Ado-Ekiti — Education is one of the eight-point agenda of the Dr. Kayode ... but no teacherturned up for the examination as the NUT, in a communiqué after a ... Professional Development Programme (CPDP) to enhance their teaching skills.

Turkey: Assessing Ankara's New Kurdish Education Move ...
By yschleifer
Kurdish teaching has been banned so far in Turkish schools, despite the country's millions of Kurds, some of whom only speak different Kurdish dialects. Children in Turkey's predominantly Kurdish southeast provinces are taught in Turkish ...
EurasiaNet.org

Continuous learning instead of "lifelong learning" - Casting Out ...
By Robert Talbert
One of the threads that has really resonated with me here is the necessity of lifelong learning in STEM education. I sort of dislike that term, “lifelong learning”, because I don't feel like it conveys sufficient urgency. When you hear engineers talk about this, ... This entry was posted inEducation, Engineering education, Inverted classroom, Peer instruction, Teaching and tagged #flipclass, Education, Engineering education, Flipped classroom, Inverted classroom. Bookmark the permalink.
Casting Out Nines

Black Students: Do They Need Black Teachers?
By Jenée Desmond-Harris
Do black students need black teachers to be successful? Does it help, as conventional wisdom suggests? Not necessarily, according to new research by Walter Hunt, a recent graduate of the University of Houston's Executive Education ...
THEROOT.COM

Black Teachers Don't Make a Difference for Black Students ...
By Henry Wolff
Hunt examined eighth-graders and teacher diversity in 198 Title I Texas schools because Title I is part of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act which provides additional funding for campuses serving children from low-income families.
American Renaissance

Doug Ross @ Journal: Good Times: Chicago Teachers Union ...
By directorblue
The average teacher in Chicago Public Schools—a district facing a $700 million deficit—makes $71000 per year before benefits are included. If the district meets union demands and rewards teachers with the requested salary increase, ...
Doug Ross @ Journal

English teacher behind viral video: 'Kids have to stumble' - U.S. News
The English teacher behind a viral video defended his speech to Wellesley High School seniors, saying it was not meant to belittle students, but to exhort the ...
usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_.../12171953-english-teacher-behind...

Defunding Public Education in Texas « Diane Ravitch's blog
A site to discuss better education for all. « I'm Convinced ... In April, the district laid off artsteachers, counselors, and nurses. ... Categories Education Reform ...
dianeravitch.net/2012/.../defunding-public-education-in-texas/

Jane's Extracts: From “learning technologies” to “social technologies”
But one thing is clear, existing learning platforms are not appropriate to underpin the entire Social Workplace Learning Continuum – since they...
janeknight.typepad.com/.../from-learning-technologies-to-soci...

Parents Mad Elementary School Sex Education Class Went Too Far ...
Parents Mad Elementary School Sex Education Class Went Too Far They are teaching 5th graders in Washington how to motorboat and dirty sanchez: June 12 , ...
bossip.com/.../parents-mad-elementary-school-sex-education-c...

Officials say new teachers' contract will develop new strategies ...
The new teachers' contract ratified by the Rochester school board last week ... EducationAssociation, the union that represents Rochester's 1160 teachers. ... In talks about onlinelearning, the teacher's contract was cited as a barrier by a ...
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