Education Week News (blog)
"Assessment influences instruction," said Hewlett Education Director Barbara Chow. ... With limited resources, the only way to help more kids reach higher standards is to extend the reach of talentteachers by blending the best of online and onsite ...
World's biggest book fair studies classroom of future | The Raw Story
By Agence France-Presse
Visitors scroll through e-books for children at the 64th Frankfurt Book Fair in Frankfurt. Topics: interactive content ♢ technology in the classroom. The digital world is knocking at the classroom ...But children, who are one of the central themes of the Frankfurt Book Fair this year, paradoxically tend to be more savvy at handling the devices and are sometimes viewed as intuitively digital. The fair, which attracts publishers, authors, translators and multimedia companies from more than 100 ...
The Raw Story
PA Cyber Charter School opens Allentown office
Sacramento Bee
Families in the Lehigh Valley and northeastern Pennsylvania interested in learning about cybercharter school are invited to attend the office's grand opening on Thursday, Oct. 18, from 6 to 8 p.m.. The office location is 974 Marcon Blvd., Suite 200 ...
Eppler '13: Do you support Brown's online learning venture? No
The Brown Daily Herald
It's understandable why Brown would want to participate in Coursera. ... Distance learningtechnologies have demonstrated a historical inability to replace in-person university education, and there's no reason to believe that MOOCs will be any different.
Voyager Learning Launches Voyager Connection E-magazine
Equities.com
DALLAS, Oct. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Voyager Learning, the nation's most comprehensive provider of preK–12 intervention learning solutions and education services, announced today the launch of the digital version of its acclaimed Voyager Connection ...
Charter school community meetings planned
Glenwood Springs Post Independent
An online comment board will also be set up on the district website, at www.rfsd.k12.co.us. The website will have information about the charter proposal as well, Sirko said. In addition ...Homestake operates as a charter school with the Eagle County ...
Enrollment has more than doubled at Jackson Learning Lab, plans to seek ...
The Jackson Citizen Patriot - MLive.com
JACKSON, MI – The Jackson Learning Lab is abandoning its efforts to become acharter school and is instead focusing on its growing student population, according to Roxana Hopkins, its director. JSP_LearningLab.JPG ... All can receive help from four ...
The Jackson Citizen Patriot - MLive.com
Barnard forms committee to expand online presence
CU Columbia Spectator
... Barnard, Debora Spar, online education · Barnard, following a growing number of universities' leads, has formed a committee to determine what steps the school should take to venture into theonline education movement. Barnard President Debora Spar ...
Would changing a mascot really disrupt learning at Allen Middle?
Greensboro News & Record (blog)
But I'll say this: I find it interesting that people assume that the process of changing the mascot would hinder, rather than enhance student learning. As an education reporter, I often hear criticisms from various stakeholders that students spend too ...
Future of higher education lies in distance learning
Red and Black
And higher education will continue to go further online. “The University of Georgia is starting to ramp up a bit on online learning, and we have some graduate programs that are online now,” Morris said. “We have some other courses that are online, and ...
Online school provides path to success
ABC NEWS 4
Many online high schools are popping up, and students are logging on and learning. Tesha Byrne, community outreach coordinator for Provost Academy, said there are many reasons students opt foronline education. They see students that have been bullied ...
Watkins: When educators make house calls, a new WAY of learning
The Detroit News
The return to school reinforces the need for a quality education — and it's never been more important than in our 21st centuryworld where knowledge, talent and skills rule. A child without a quality education ... and the development of 21st century ...
Three Washington, DC biology teachers create online video lessons for MIT ...
MIT News
Bergman is science department chair in the School Without Walls of the DCPS. Her lesson, "The Case of the Stolen Painting: A Forensic Mystery," was conceived around the idea that students are excited and motivated to learn when they see practical ...
AJC uses Open Records to see value-added scores for APS. Some surprises ...
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
The value-added scores quantify how much learning students gain from attending the school, presented in terms of months. On average, students learn nine months worth of material. In Atlanta, the highest value-added was found at Early College High ...
Demopolis BOE members attend leadership conference
Demopolis Times
The session is a 6-hour core course of the AASB School Board Member Academy. The course was followed by a 3-hour workshop on Online Education and Virtual Learning that looked at virtualeducation trends and challenges as well as implications for ...
NUS to re-design key classes to promote active learning
Channel News Asia
SINGAPORE : The National University of Singapore (NUS) will re-design its key classes to promote active learning. It will do this through integrating on-line programmes and introducing changes to face-to-face learning in the classroom. NUS president ...
Stanford medical faculty member Kristin Sainani launches an online science ...
India Education Diary
Sainani's journey to the world of lights and cameras began in the summer when she received a seed grant from the office of the Vice Provost for Online Learning. She knew she wanted to reach more students than had been able to follow her classes in the ...
India Education Diary
School climate surveys show changes from year to year
Harvard Press
Last spring, Hildreth Elementary School teachers took part in the TELL (Teaching, Empowering, Leading, and Learning) survey with 42,000 educators statewide. A little later, a local survey asked the opinions of both faculty and staff on a range of issues.
Spring ISD Virtual School Registration Now Open for 2013 Spring Semester and ...
The Paper Magazine
The Spring ISD Virtual School is an online program that offers core-subject and elective courses taught by certified Spring ISD teachers in a monitored online learning environment. The program uses technology to provide individual, small-group and ...
Digital Chameleon launches Luminate
MuMbrella
Sydney 12 October, 2012: Following on from the launch of Accelerate: Brand Publishing in June,Digital Chameleon announces the launch of its new e-learning course on data and analytics. The Luminate course is composed of an overview module and three ...
Oak Brook students take foreign language online
The Doings Oak Brook
OAK BROOK — Online learning has taken on a new twist for a half-dozen students at Butler Junior High. As part of the school's elective program, students are able to take one of five foreign languages in an online offering of Illinois Virtual School ...
Vilonia schools awarded with $750000 grant
Log Cabin Democrat
In addition to focusing on literacy as a district goal, he said, where there has been a drop, the educators will focus more intently on improving learning for special education students. ... said, that are being implemented as a part of the 2012-13 ...
Looking for Pearls: Savannah learning center helps people of all ages make ...
Savannah Morning News
That's how David Green starts his story of how the ACE Program (Adult and Community Education) at Royce Learning Center opened the door to a new future for him. He told it to other students at one of ... It couldn't have tasted better, and now we have ...
High school students in Alaska invited to compete in national poetry ...
Seward Phoenix Log
These materials include print and online poetry anthologies, a Teacher's Guide with sample lesson plans to help instructors teach recitation and performance, a Learning Recitation DVD, and an audio CD featuring well-known actors and writers such as ...
Teachers make money selling materials online
The Associated Press
SEATTLE (AP) — Kristine Nannini spent her summer creating wall charts and student data sheets for her fifth grade class — and making $24,000 online by selling those same materials to otherteachers. Teachers like Nannini are making extra money ...
University Eyes Tech Expansion
Georgetown University The Hoya
But the nursing program — which has grown to an enrollment of over 600 since it was launched in March 2011 — is only the first in a series of efforts to integrate technology into the Georgetowneducation. Building off the success of this early foray ...
Adoption Rates of New K-12 Learning Styles [Infographic]
Technapex
A new infographic from a survey conducted among K-12 educators reveals current teaching methods,learning styles and their adoption rates. As U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan calls for a national move to digital textbooks, only about 37 percent ...
The Joy of Learning
Huffington Post (blog)
I do not attend temple; I do not attend church, but I do frequently visit the remaining local independent bookstores and when I am unable to locate a particular book, I will cheat and buy it online. I have always loved learning new things, and actually ...
Connecting to empower strong public school advocates
Twin Cities Planet
In Minneapolis, Cecconi said, 94 percent of white kids are kindergarten-ready versus 36 percent of Latinos, meaning that the gap in learning and achievement starts early. How well students perform in school and how far they advance with their education ...
Twin Cities Planet
Why Some Schools Are Considering A Move To Competency-Based Education
StateImpact Indiana
Stories about educators: How are those responsible for implementing education policy in schools − from classroom teachers, to district administrators, to school board members − affected by changes at the top? And how ... Stories about school assessment ...
UMD Smith School of Business Honors Amazon.com's Supply Chain Head
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
In addition to offering a range of academic courses, the school is home to the Supply Chain Management Center, which provides research, consulting services and education highlighting the latest advances in e-supply chain management. About the Robert H ...
Will MOOCs open elite universities to excessive corporate influence? (essay)
Inside Higher Ed
What will happen when universities form partnerships with companies like Coursera? How will the coupling of the university with an online distribution company affect the kind of teaching that we do and the kind of learning that students can expect?
The latest technology comes to schools
YourGV.com
The school system has purchased new Dell computers to use toward online Standards of Learningtesting for grades 3-12 using the grant that offers a two-time payment of $284,000, according to Supervisor of Instructional Technology Jeanie Hawks. The ...
SW Kan. students use iPads in the classroom
San Francisco Chronicle
The device in her hand made it possible to work on both her high school classes and colleges classes simultaneously, without going into a computer lab or pulling out different notes and books. The iPad device, which went into the hands of all GCHS ...
What's Worth Investing In? Criteria for Choosing Technology for Learning
KQED (blog)
“The question is, how will technology allow students and teachers to network their learning, to collaborate with each other, to extend the reach of what kids can learn beyond the walls of theschool,” he said. “How can technology be used to unlock what ...
Follett Challenge Announces Judges for $200K Contest
Sacramento Bee
Andrew Miller, who has taught both in the brick-and-mortar classroom and online. He currently serves on the National Faculty for the Buck Institute for Education and ASCD. Paul R. Sanfrancesco, who is director ... as well as pre-owned textbooks ...
Boarding school: how does it work?
Telegraph.co.uk
Boys and girls who have just started at boarding school are learning to adapt to their surroundings. Many are away from home for the first time and getting used to a longerschool day. They generally find the first weeks exhausting and need a good ...
Telegraph.co.uk
Online Bookstore Teams with Kno on E-Textbooks for Private Schools
T.H.E. Journal
A company that sets up online bookstores for schools is teaming up with another company that develops content-related educational technology to deliver digital textbooks on multiple platforms to 200 private high schools. ClassBook.com is working with ...
Vacaville-area schools reach target Academic Performance Index scores
TheReporter.com
Vacaville-area public school districts surpassed their targets for academic achievement on the 2012 Academic Performance Index (API), reflecting countywide and statewide trends that mark a decade of steady growth. ... "What the research tells you is ...
Poet sounds warning over funding cuts to education
The Voice Online
In an interview, out today (October 12) in the magazine published by East London youth charity, Futureversity, Zephaniah said support was needed to ensure schools better understand dyslexia and help those who have the learning disability. “To meschool ...
The Voice Online
Parents not schools boost exam success, study suggests
BBC News
The researchers found that pupils whose families were supportive of their educationand involved in school life but attended weaker schools performed better academically than students who attended effective schools but whose families were disengaged ...
BBC News
William Bowen, president emeritus of Princeton, sounds the alarm, says the ...
India Education Diary
The respondents were two individuals well versed in the world of educationaltransformation: Stanford President John Hennessy and Howard Gardner, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Gardner's ... Hire teachers who want to teach ...
India Education Diary
Grades and upgrades: Flickinger students get to show off improvements
Muscatine Journal
MUSCATINE, Iowa — Muscatine's Flickinger Learning Center is always a busy place after schoolgets out in Muscatine. But it was especially crowded Thursday from 4-5:30 p.m., when more than 100 people came to an open house at the Center at ...
Learning Coach Secrets: 5 Ways to Socialize Virtual School Students
By Dan Reiner
Although the opportunities may not be as automatic as in a traditional school, most virtual schools do provide ways for classmates to connect, both in person and online. The following tips from experienced Learning Coaches can help you ...
Virtual Learning Connections
Plugged In | 10.11.12 | (powered by iNACOL) « Virtual School ...
By mkbnl
The State Board of Education put a price tag on the state's share of a transition to digital learningmaterials for public school students across Florida — $441 million — while signaling that it also supports school districts having more freedom to select their textbooks. The digital learning figure is... A network of online charter schools tied to a company under investigation by the Florida Department of Education won a split decision from Florida school districts Tuesday. School boards in...
Virtual School Meanderings
Red Comet Approved as “Online School Program Provider” by the ...
Red Comet Announced Today that its Online Program has now Received Approval as an “Online School Program Provider” by OSPI-DLD of Washington State.
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