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Learning via laptop takes off

Learning via laptop takes off in Orange Co.
News & Observer
The laptops are a tool for teachers to enter a world familiar to students and engage them in learning – often without students realizing it. Teachers do not have to ask students to take notes anymore, Johnson said. They just open their laptops and go ...

News & Observer

Western Pa. school districts hit Web to lure students, save money
Tribune-Review
In addition to their daily work teaching in front of rooms full of students, Norwin School Districtteachers Peggy Bryan and Brian Fleckenstein have adopted online classrooms. They're two of many local educators who are teaching ... Every school ...

Online no substitute for teachers
The Australian
"We don't want to oversell the idea (of online learning) that you don't need teachers, you just use the NBN," said Adrian Vickers, professor of Southeast Asian studies at the University of Sydney. The Asian Century ... "Instead of having someone in ...

Leaving School Doesn't Mean That You Should Stop Learning
Business 2 Community
If anything, learning new things becomes easier once you have left the education system as you have free rein over what you want to learn about. This idea ... This is because there are a wide range of online learning programs that are easy for you to ...

The Global Search for Education: The Education Debate 2012 -- Linda Darling ...
Huffington Post
Linda Darling-Hammond is Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University where she launched the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education and the SchoolRedesign Network and served as faculty sponsor for the Stanford Teacher ...

Wisconsin's new school accountability system: school report cards
Hudson Star Observer
This new School Report Card will be posted online and have significant differences from the previous state accountability system. As part of the state initiative to increase student learning expectations in reading and math, the state standardized test ...

Learning Curve: Bullying effort aims to 'End the Hate'
Santa Fe New Mexican.com
Learning Curve: Bullying effort aims to 'End the Hate'. The New Mexican ... Clara Evans, vice principal at Capshaw Middle School, was bullied, too, while growing up in Los Angeles. I suspect it's... “I don't think the public school people are doing ...

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