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What a Tech Start-Up's Data Say About What Works in Classroom

What a Tech Start-Up's Data Say About What Works in Classroom ...
By Jeffrey R. Young
Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were the most likely to use the cloak of anonymity when participating in online discussions for their courses, with 36 percent of comments in courses using Piazza coming anonymously.
Wired Campus

Romney's education plans target of new Obama ad
CNN (blog)
As president, Mitt Romney will pursue genuine education reform that puts parents and students ahead of special interests and gives every child a chance to succeed.” – Check out the CNN ... Well if you think logically... if there is a small class size a ...

Teachers tell parents how to help their kids be better students
Washington Post
Karen Stamp, a kindergarten teacher at Marshall Elementary School in Prince William County, said parents need to remember “that they are their child's first teacher and their lifetime teacher.” Part of being a lifetime teacher, she said, is teaching ...

H. Edward Hanway: From tenacious CEO to Catholic education champion
Philadelphia Inquirer
"I've had the good fortune to be very successful in my career," said Hanway, and his Catholic school education played a big part in making that success possible. Hanway graduated in 1970 from Cardinal O'Hara High School in Marple Township, Delaware ...

Philadelphia Inquirer

DeMorning Links: A 'different model' of education
Washington Post (blog)
By Mike DeBonis. Teacher Tom Davison opens class this month at BASIS, a highly regarded new charter school. (Jabin Botsford - For The Washington Post). Charter schools are well on their way to serving half of the D.C. public school student population ...

Clovis Unified district sued over abstinence-only sex education
Los Angeles Times
Kelly Avants, Clovis Unified spokeswoman, said the district fully complies with state education law that promotes abstinence as "the only 100% surefire way to prevent pregnancy" and STDs. Asked about allegations that the district omits ... But they won ...

Ex-teacher pleads no contest to molesting students
Sacramento Bee
LOS ANGELES -- A former teacher has pleaded no contest to molesting young girls at a Southern California elementary school. Prosecutors ... Hoppe was a teacher at Compton's Foster Elementary School. The plea ... He's also banned from teaching children.

Esther Cepeda: Learning by example -- what an idea
Lincoln Journal Star
How could it be possible for new instructors to graduate from college teacher preparation programs without knowing the intricacies of student engagement, effective classroom management and dynamic methods of teaching different subjects? ... As the ...

Pennsylvania Education Secretary Highlights Need for Education and ...
Sacramento Bee
21, 2012 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Secretary of Education Ron Tomalis today visited McClarin Plastics in Hanover to highlight the education recommendations contained in a report issued by Governor Tom Corbett's Manufacturing Advisory Council ...

Teacher makes tearful apology for sex crimes
TVNZ
A teacher who sexually assaulted young boys at a Northland school while he was the deputy principal says "he wishes he could fix the damage" he has caused. James Parker, 37, pleaded guilty in Kaitaia District Court this morning to all 49 charges ...

Education data startup Clever hits big milestone, makes new hire ...
By Ki Mae Heussner
Y Combinator ed tech startup Clever, which helps education-focused developers more easily integrate with school data, has reached 1000 schools barely three months after launching. The company is part of the startup accelerator's most ...
GigaOM

North Highlands Teacher Gets Creative To Fight Budget Cuts « CBS ...
By snelsonkovr
A local teacher fed up with budget cuts decided to take matters into her own hands. ... Erin saysteaching is her passion and it's usually a lot more fun when you have the right amount of books and supplies. She had more than enough several ...
CBS Sacramento

Ex-Compton teacher pleads no contest to molesting 2 girls - latimes ...
By Robert Lopez
A former Compton elementary school teacher pleaded no contest Tuesday to molesting two girls who were students at the school. ... Los Angeles Times Local News. More in: Crime and courts,Education, Southeast. increase text size decrease ...
L.A. NOW

Edwardsville Teachers Approve Tentative Contract « CBS St. Louis
By Bill Reker
Board of Education votes Monday. ... (KMOX) - Edwardsville teachers, in a vote tonight, approved a tentative contract agreement with the board. The Edwardsville board will voted on the agreement on Monday. Terms of the agreement were not ...
CBS St. Louis

South Carolina Education Head Opposes ACLU's Religious - Patheos
The State Superintendent of Education Mick Zais spoke to the Wall Street Journal ... Beyond Belief and a high school math teacher in the suburbs of Chicago.
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Gallup Poll: Americans Support Teachers, Call for More Education ...
The National Education Association online news and information resource. ... On teacherpreparation, 57 percent of Americans support more rigorous entrance ... Just like teachersthemselves, Americans want to see schools and the teaching ... Teachers High Marks · New Poll: Most Americans Can't Identify a Learning ...
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New Teacher Evaluation Analysis From Bellwether ... bill jones on In VA NAACP Jumps In! In New York More New Teachers Jump Out. ... Joe Williams, fallen journalist, Executive Director, Democrats for Education Reform. "...one of .... Michael and Susan Dell Foundation · Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning ...
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