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So what is Common Core? (story, video)
Appleton Post Crescent
27, 2012: Third grade students at Janet Berry Elementary School in Appleton type their reading goals for the year and post them on Edmodo, an educational social media website for teachers and students. ... Setting clear, consistent guidelines for what ...

How Online Education is Changing School in Ohio
StateImpact Ohio
Last year, a Cleveland Plain Dealer examination found that students from each of the 97 schooldistricts in Northeast Ohio had enrolled in online charter schools. The numbers ranged from a handful in some districts to more than 1,000 in ... The Ohio ...

State board erred on charter school moratorium
Seacoastonline.com
Some charter schools appeal to disengaged learners and offer a chance to re-spark the love oflearning by offering individualized learning plans, project-based learning, and the opportunity to work in small collaborative groups. There is not a one-size ...

Apodaca: Digital education finally finds foothold
Daily Pilot
Nationwide, critics see strictly online learning as a soulless enterprise that robs students andteachers of the personal interaction they consider crucial to quality education. Also, many publishers have been resistant because of uncertainty over how ...

Florida Districts Fight K12′s Plan for Virtual Charter Schools
FCIR
K12′s online charter school network, called the Florida Virtual Academies, has applied to open in at least nine Florida school districts. By John ... Thousands of Florida students already are taking classes from Virginia-based K12, Inc., the nation's...

FCIR

From Website to iPad, K-12 Education Evolves...Again Thanks to American High ...
Equities.com
The school has released its Android and iPad enabled learning platform just in time for the fall semester, and is also rolling it out as the default learning platform for all of its hybrid 'online-in-person' public charter schools in Florida. The ...

Coursera to offer courses in Chinese
University World News
Coursera, the online education platform that offers free courses from universities worldwide, is aiming to net some of the biggest consumers of overseas higher learning – Chinese – write Su Zhou and Lin Jing for China Daily. The company, founded by ...

Matthew Tully: Early-learning efforts are investments in Indy's future
Indianapolis Star
In this 2011 file photo, Maxwell Ober (left) and Jonael Semexant (right) make pieces for a mural entitled "World Avenue" at Fox Hill Elementary school. / (Danese Kenon/The ... A leading advocate of early learning programs in the city, McClelland ...

UVA Names First Vice Provost for Academic Outreach
NBC 29 News
It was created to develop strategies to reach new students off-grounds and expand UVA's distance-learning programs. Cannaday is the dean of UVA's School of Continuing and Professional Studies and will continue in that role as well as his new job.

Online teaching bears scrutiny; Congressional entitlements; Available spay ...
The Huntsville Times - al.com (blog)
Replacing hard copy textbooks with digital versions can help kids lighten their backpacks, but impacting learning is not easy. The change to digital can impede and interfere with learning. I'm not sure teachers can keep track of precisely what the kids...

The Huntsville Times - al.com (blog)

How Technology Is Empowering Teachers, Minting Millionaires, And Improving ...
TechCrunch
Startups, entrepreneurs, businesses (and the rest) need to remember that technology doesn't have to put teachers in jeopardy; it can help them lead the education evolution, even if their traditional role in the classroom becomes obsolete. Today, in ...

Odds stacked against high school dropouts finding success
Worcester Telegram
Mr. McDermott said more everyday factors also contribute to students' disengagement. Educationpolicy in general, he said, is making schools “operate more like a factory than a community oflearning.” He saw far too many kids “bored out of their mind ...

Education Notes: Orientation for CLICK volunteer tutors is Oct. 3
Newnan Times-Herald
Orientation will give an overview of CLICK and adult education as well as information about working with adult learners. A full day of volunteer tutor training with Literacy Volunteers of Atlanta will be offered on Saturday, Oct. 20 at the Powell ...

Looking Back: Nurses bond after learning together
Freeport Journal-Standard
That was obvious when five of them gathered to reminisce on their days as students of the former St. Francis Hospital School of Nursing. As Ilene Hill Lamm of rural Stockton said, “When we get together the talk always turns to reminiscing. It always ...

At this Twin Cities school, hockey is THE reason to be there (w/ video)
Pioneer Press
Meanwhile, upstairs in a sparse room partitioned into classrooms, "learning coaches" such as Patsy Sprague work with younger students who are hunched over laptops, studying their lessons. After lunch, which is catered in, the young students are on the ...

Gow Visitation Day is Oct. 8: School Welcomes Prospective Day Students and ...
East Aurora Advertiser
That's to be expected, a month into its 86th year of leading the country and the world in theeducation of students with dyslexia and related language-based learning difficulties. It will be an affirming scene when you arrive: 151 well-dressed students ...

Building international links and partnerships: top tips from schools
The Guardian (blog)
... and ideas. Here are some of the highlights and tips shared by our panel ofeducation professionals. ... that we do. Also, build it into learning for whole school(as simple as through lessons which will be taught again)- this raises its importance ...

The Guardian (blog)

Dear Abby: Senioritis is contracted by younger sister
LubbockOnline.com
I understand boys and men. Having daughters now is a very steep learning curve. I need suggestions on how to help their mom parent them through this rough period. I love our children deeply and want to be the kind of stepdad God wants me to be for them.

J-S Letter: Learning from the success of others
Freeport Journal-Standard
We invite Mr. Tolbert to visit YouTube online and view only the first of a three-part video titled “Mayor Buol of Dubuque Interview.wmv.” We invite him to listen ... Job opportunities for our kids coming out of school each year are scary scarce. Our ...

Scituate: Forum focuses on educational shifts in 21st Century
95.9 WATD-FM (blog)
Connolly also explained that a lot of learning is taking place via the World Wide Web. “We're looking at globalization, where we're now communicating and in touch with teachers or kids or people from other parts of the world. We're problem solving ...

Security on school standardized tests inconsistent among states
Denver Post
The newspaper surveyed the 50 state education departments and found that many states do not use basic test-security measures designed to prevent cheating. ... story that appeared onlineSaturday. Evidence of ... "Educators are happy when test scores go ...

School News 9/29/12
TriValley Central
Casa Grande Middle School students, teachers and staff are dedicated to making this a successful year of growing and learning. Here at CGMS, our Wildcats ROAR! Continued ... PTSO is also collecting Box Tops for Education, Labels for Education and Coca ...

MPS overhauls federally financed tutoring program
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"We believe with this redesign and realignment, we'll start to see more gains in student learning," Sandy Schroeder, director of extended learning opportunities in Milwaukee Public Schools, said in an interview. As part of a ... The tutors from each ...

University of Wisconsin-Madison considers expanding summer school
77Square.com
"Part of this is starting to think what it may mean to have a 12-month calendar because a lot of our thinking now is around a nine-month calendar," said Jeff Russell, vice provost for lifelong learningand dean of continuing studies. Katherine Duren ...

Bartlett Yancey: Old school, new way of teaching
GoDanRiver.com
The show profiled the Kahn Academy, a non-profit providing free instructional videos for studentsonline that was wildly successful. “It got our ... According to the Buchanan's, all of the students have Internet at home in the honors classes — and the ...

A distance education revolution
University World News
MIT, Harvard, Coursera and others promise to deliver high quality higher education content to massive global audiences via massive open online courses – MOOCs – and, in some respects, these are the higher education broadcast platform for the internet ...

Learn about Capacitar, sports nutrition and more at classes in Plymouth
The Sheboygan Press
Plymouth School District Community Education and Recreation is offering new courses called Capacitar, Great Grains, and Sports Nutrition, as well as another session of Take N Bake. These classes begin the third week of October. Register by Oct. 5 and ...

Summer school was busy in district
Vernon Morning Star
The online summer session had four teachers in place who combined to offer 17 courses, with 96 students taking advantage of the offerings, and 66 of those students achieving a successful completion and credit in those courses, resulting in a 69 per ...

Community News: Band competition, jazz festival & more
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
“Holiday Plant Care” is the subject of First Friday in the Garden, 11 a.m. Friday at Glencairn GardenLearning Center, 835 Edgemont Ave., Rock Hill. Paul Thompson, Clemson Extension Service agent, will discuss techniques to get your poinsettia to bloom ...

Better World by Design: Day One
Core77.com (blog)
The Institute of Play takes a unique approach to K-12 education. Connectingteachers with game designers, the institute combines a school with an in-house design studio to work collaboratively on designing games and crafting experiences to engage ...

Core77.com (blog)

Ollie and the Train: The Digital Learning/Online Education - YouTube
Like many students, Ollie is frustrated with school. Math is too easy and his teacher doesn't ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W_MuIqVYHQ

Abbott Advisor Group - Blog - Digital, Online and Blended Learning ...
Over the past several years, digital, online and now blended learning have been garnering much attention. This excites me on many levels as I started one of the ...
www.abbottadvisorgroup.com/.../digital-online-and-blended-l...

Amphitheater School District Home Page - Online Learning Academy
She served as computer coach for seven years at a previous school, attended the Honeywell Space Camp for Educators and is the Blended Learning Teacher at ...
www.amphi.com/schools/.../online-learning-academy.aspx

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