For Romney to beat Obama on education could be tricky

For Romney, beating Obama on education could be tricky
Los Angeles Times
Along with touting his own education record as governor of Massachusetts, the presumptive Republican nominee attacked Obama for, among other things, being a tool of the teachers unions. Not everyone is willing to give Romney credit, but there's no ...

Why Romney, Obama are education twins
Washington Post
He appoints a splendid group of education policy advisers, smart people with great ideas. Then he learns that he has to give a speech explaining how he differs from President Obama on schools when those same advisers have spent their careers making ... 

Teachers' unions threaten strike action
The Independent
The Government is facing the threat of co-ordinated strikes by the two biggest teachers' unions in the autumn after being accused of plunging education into a state of “crisis.” The National Union ofTeachers and the NASUWT announced a "historic ...

Teachers threaten strike action in autumn
Telegraph.co.uk
The National Union of Teachers and the NASUWT announced a ''historic agreement'', in response to the serious concerns teachers have about the way the Government is ''undermining'' the education system. The two unions, which represent 85 per cent of...

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Teachers threaten fresh wave of strikes
BBC News
By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent The two biggest teachers' unions are threatening co-ordinated strikes in the autumn in England and Wales over jobs, pensions, workload and pay. The National Union of Teachers and the NASUWT announced a ...

BBC News

Michael Gove v the teacher unions
The Guardian
The teaching unions are the opponents Michael Gove most relishes. The educationsecretary likes to present them as an obstacle to reform – "those in trade unions who put adults' interests before children's …" – in the words of a recent speech.

The Guardian

Teaching unions unite to fight cuts
Financial Times
By Chris Cook, Education Correspondent The UK's two biggest teaching unions have set aside a historic rivalry to engage in a co-ordinated campaign to fight back against what they call an “unprecedented and sustained attack by the government on the ...

Unions condemn 'relentless assault' on teachers
ITV News
The unions today wrote to Education Secretary Michael Gove to seek urgent discussions about the "enormous threats" to teacher morale and the educationsystem itself. The head of the NASUWT teachers' union Chris Keates has condemned what she called the ...

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Teaching unions threaten autumn strikes
BBC News
The two biggest teachers' unions are threatening co-ordinated strikes in the autumn in England and Wales over jobs, pensions, workload and pay. The National Union ofTeachers and the NASUWT told a media conference that the profession was "in crisis".

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TN math teachers are in demand
The Tennessean
“It's always harder to find certain types of teachers, such as math, special education, foreign language, etc., but so far, we've been able to find good candidates,” he said. “For the past several years, we've hosted our own teacher recruitment fair in ...

ASUSS is a Fraud, Says NUT
AllAfrica.com
By Francis Okeke, 28 May 2012 Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools (ASUSS) is a fraudulent institution conceived by some self seeking individuals to mislead some teachers and the general public, the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has said.

Watching dissidents is a booming business in China
San Jose Mercury News
By day, Yao is kept in a room, not allowed to work and watched by fit, young gym teachers and other school staff. At dinner time or later, he is sent back to the apartment that he shares with his wife and 3-year-old daughter.

Ontario professors say online learning no substitute for on-campus learning
Toronto Star
Kristin Rushowy Education Reporter Online learning is no comparison to the on-campus experience, warn concerned Ontario professors in a province-wide survey obtained by the Star. “Online learning as is right now is a useful option for distance learning ...

Teaching unions join forces to 'defend education'
Public Finance
By Vivienne Russell | 28 May 2012 The two largest teaching unions in England and Wales have made a 'historic agreement' to work together to protect teachers' pay and conditions and defendeducation. The National Union of Teachers and the National ...

Ghanaian Teachers Deserve Better
GhanaWeb
This will demand absolute commitment to the course and attitude towards teachers as exemplified by this reported negotiation between the Head teacher of Nandom Senior High School and the Regional Education Directorate. This head teacher had gone to ...

Learning from the barber from Iraq
Washington Post
Henry Allen, who won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 2000, was a Post editor and reporter for 39 years. This guy was new. Dark skin, stubble, a wary economy of gesture, an accent. I've been going to this barber shop for years.

Teacher shortages impact basic education needs
Independent Online
By Shanti Aboobaker Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga said 6 641 schools across the country had fewer than six teachers, and more than 20 000 teachers were forced to practise “multi-grade teaching”, in some instances teaching as many as four ...

Give teachers a pay raise for the right reasons
Charleston Post Courier
It deprives teachers of the opportunity to be rewarded for exceptional work — and for schools to identify teachers whose work is not adequate. It is encouraging that the Senate has recognized thatteacher pay is in need of reform.

ESTRICH: The next education president
North County Times
Mitt Romney is right about one thing: Too many American children do receive what he last week called a "Third World education." A disproportionate number of them are children of color. It is indeed "the civil rights issue of our era.

Teachers oppose letting parents opt kids from classes
CBC.ca
The Manitoba Teachers' Society says parents should not be allowed to pull their children out of classes in the provincial curriculum, including sex education classes. A resolution that was passed at the society's general meeting over the weekend ...

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CBSE toppers euphoric, credit parents and teachers
IBNLive.com
New Delhi: The usually staid and quiet school administrative offices on Monday reverberated with squeals of delight and laughter and congratulatory remarks as the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) announced its Class 12 examinations results.

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Inside Higher Ed: Romney reveals higher education plans
Times Higher Education
By Libby A. Nelson for Inside Higher Ed Mitt Romney, the presumed Republican presidential nominee, pledged last week that, if elected, he would reshape or do away with two major Obama administration higher education policy initiatives: the overhaul of ...

Times Higher Education

NUT sues Ogun over salaries' deductions
Vanguard
By DAUD OLATUNJI ABEOKUTA – The Nigeria Union of Teachers, Ogun State Chapter, said it had got the leave from the National Industrial Court, NIC, to join the Accountant-General of the state in the suit against the state Teaching Service Commission and ...

South Africa: Limpopo Education explains "Selowe primary school" saga
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
According to the report, the school, which has no textbooks, stationery, chairs, desks or toilets, has about 165 learners who are being taught by 14 teachers who are not being compensated. The school was reportedly established after some parents ...

Quick Notes: Hindu Education, Pagan Alliance Festival, A - Patheos
By Jason Pitzl-Waters
To a certain extent, no matter how much infrastructure we end up building, we'll always embrace a hybrid of home-based grass-roots teaching alongside more formal attempts at religious education and collective worship. For more on ...
The Wild Hunt

NYC Educator: Sorely in Need of a Teacher
By NYC Educator
Unless he believes it's a good thing to have teachers fired for no reason, to make no progress in supposedly all-important test scores, or to be embroiled in scandal over their falsification, it's tough to see what makes Rhee a hero. ... As things stand right now, he's actively contributing toward crashing public education to the ground. Bookmark and Share. Posted by NYC Educator at 5:51 AM. Sorely in Need of a Teacher. Heroic captain "Sully" Sullengberger has written a new book, ...
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Instapundit » Blog Archive » HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE ...
By Glenn Reynolds
May 28, 2012. HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Today's Grade-Inflated, Lake Wobegon World; Letter Grade of A Now Most Common College Grade. Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 7:07 am. Tweet ...
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Teaching schools a business approach - The Nation
When these sources are not sufficient, schools must consider starting businesses and becoming more involved with companies to be able to continue providing education and a better future for these needy ones. Social organisers from other countries recently made a site ... ZOSS has a problem with its teachers' salaries as it has to hire 23 educators for its 600 students, an expense of around 900000 kyats (more than Bt33,000) a month. "The school funds a music concert once a year.
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“Australians lack education about Islam” — Winds Of Jihad By ...
By sheikyermami
The Latest From Winds Of Jihad: “Australians lack education about Islam” Dr Thilo Sarazzin: no 'respeck' for the soldiers of allah! Egypt: Mubro's win by promising hope'nchange and lots of government handouts The Yoots of Carcassonne ...
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Schools Matter: The States: More Bully Politics of Education Reform
By P. L. Thomas
From South Carolina to New Jersey to Wisconsin—and all across the U.S.—universal public education is under assault by the bully politics of education reform. In my home state of South Carolina, Governor Haley and Superintendent Zais, ...
Schools Matter

Portland, Oregon: Students, teachers march into downtown to ...
Once in the square, students, parents and teachers provided personal testimonies of how further cuts would have a negative impact on public education and other students sang songs and read poems. Don Gavitte, a history teacher at Grant ...
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Grimes: Growing CA's education welfare system
By Stephen Frank
California government education is not about education, it is about money for special interests (wants ideology taught, regardless of facts) and unions (they just want money from teachers and control of school boards and budgets. “AB 1500 ...
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Kids with Cell Phones: Record Your Socialist Teachers! | Right Wing ...
By Doug Giles
God bless cell phones. With them we can chat with our friends; we can watch the grossest zit since the dawn of time being popped via YouTube; and our kiddos can record their bat crap crazy teachersattempting to mitigate their First Amendment rights! This week audio surfaced of a North Carolinateacher, Tanya Dixon-Neely (black), berating 13-year-old Hunter Rogers (honky) for criticizing president Obama (hate crime). Neely said Rogers could be arrested for slandering Obama.
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Education Fireworks at PJ Media « Stately McDaniel Manor
By Mike McDaniel
If you have a few minutes, you might want to stop by PJ Media where the good folks there have been kind enough to publish one of my rants on education. Regular readers of the Tuesday educationcolumn will notice some similarity to an ...
Stately McDaniel Manor

Legal versus Medical Education and some blatant 'crowdsourcing'
By Dingo_Pug
Therefore, my purpose here is to blatently 'crowdsource' this information. I have a few questions (ok, a lot of questions) posted below for folks who have experiences with medical education (preferably first-hand, but second-hand is ok too).
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Media Literacy Education News from NAMLE
By Ethical Markets
... 2013 in Los Angeles! The theme: Intersections: Teaching and Learning Across. ... ScreenEducation Magazine Call for Papers Screen Education magazine is looking for industry practitioners,teachers, academics and experienced feature writers with a proven background in film/television/media. We also wish to hear from ... [learn more]. - Jaclyn Kahn. Focus and Historyteacher at Winston Preparatory School, a private school for students (grades 6-12) with LearningDisabilities ...
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Physical Education Is Good for Kids' Grades, Study Finds - Yahoo ...
"Physical education has been pared down from three lessons a week to one or two," ... speaks during a campaign rally at the Paul R. Knapp Animal learning ...
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VIDEO: Education should be a part of JEEP, says local scientist ...
Universal education, modern skills training, emboldened creativity, and justifiable rewards are ...
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A short description of education in England - Study Abroad - Blogs
In the United Kingdom, public education is finished when the child is ... If the average student has less life experience then, depending on the teacher, the course ...
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Obama and GOP governors share many views on education

Obama, GOP governors share many views on education
Wall Street Journal
The areas where they tend to agree include creating teacher evaluation systems with consequences, merit pay for teachers, holding schools more accountable for student learning, and the use of charter schools that use public dollars but are run by an ... 

BC teachers promised more money for big classes
Vancouver Sun
VANCOUVER -- Public-school teachers are being promised financial compensation next year if they have extra-large classes. A controversial bill now working its way through the legislature would give Grades 4-7 teachers an extra $2500 a year for every ...

BC teachers balk at minister's report card demands
CBC.ca
Report cards could be on the way to BC parents as soon as back to work legislation is passed in Victoria, according to Education Minister George Abbott. Abbott said Wednesday that Bill 22 stipulates teachers are required to give the evaluations.

CBC.ca

Teachers hold off on vote
The Province
By Jennifer Saltman, The Province March 9, 2012 3:01 AM BC teachers vowed Thursday that they will not produce report cards even though Education Minister George Abbott said in Victoria that he intends to force them to do so.

Bill to cut tenure for Virginia teachers is shelved
Washington Post
Virginia's Republican-led Senate on Thursday derailed an effort to eliminate tenure-style job protections for public school teachers, a key part of Gov. Robert F. McDonnell's education agenda. The move came after state senators delayed a decision on ...

Teachers: No strike next week
Castanet.net
by The Canadian Press - Story: 72151 Striking grade one teacher Karen Yu peers over a sign while demonstrating outside Lord Strathcona Elementary School where she teaches on the first day of a teachers' strike in Vancouver, BC, on Monday March 5, 2012.

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Meet the Republicans, Education Bashers
Wall Street Journal
Rick Santorum, for instance, insulted not only college graduates but the families who paid the steep bills for that education when he snickered at contemporary universities as "indoctrination mills" that "represent "a harm to our country.

Teachers not ruling out another work stoppage
Delta-Optimist
Teachers can also strike one day per week afterward, which appears a distinct possibility as Bill 22 wasn't expected to pass for at least another week. Following the LRB ruling, Education Minister George Abbott introduced the Education Improvement Act ...

Bill 22 doesn't solve long-standing problems
Victoria Times Colonist
By Geoff Johnson, Times Colonist March 9, 2012 3:03 AM Teachers who take the time to read Bill 22, the government's Education Improvement Act that will inevitably pass into law within days, must surely be wondering why they just gave up three days' pay ...

Gregoire signs teacher-evaluation measure
The Seattle Times
The governor on Thursday signed a measure that will add improvement in student test scores to the list of factors that principals use to evaluate teachers. The law also changes the way principals are evaluated, adding teacher feedback as an element of ...

Report cards ordered by Abbott
Victoria Times Colonist
By Rob Shaw And Lindsay Kines, Times Colonist March 9, 2012 3:03 AM Public school students will get their first report cards of the year soon after they return from spring break later this month, BC'seducation minister said Thursday.

State Senate shelves Bell's teacher-contract bill
Staunton News Leader
Bob McDonnell's education agenda Thursday, shelving for this year legislation that would make it easier to fire public school teachers. Senators voted 23-17 to send the bill back to the Educationand Health Committee and carry it over until the 2013 ...

Romney: Learning to like grits on Southern swing
USA TODAY
By Catalina Camia, USA TODAY "I am learning to say y'all and I like grits, and things," he joked with a Mississippi audience last night. "Strange things are happening to me." Romney, who campaigns today in Mississippi and Alabama ahead of primaries...

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Senate rejects teacher-contract bill backed by McDonnell
Richmond Times Dispatch
Bob McDonnell's proposed overhaul of public school teacher and principal contracts, sending it back to committee and likely dealing a fatal blow to a key piece of his K-12 education agenda for the session. With two days left before Saturday's scheduled ...

Teachers union defers vote on further protests to Bill 22 likely until April
The Province
By JENNIFER SALTMAN, The Province March 8, 2012 BC Teachers' Federation President Susan Lambert speaks to the crowd during a teachers rally at the Vancouver Art Gallery in Vancouver on March 7. A vote on further action in response to Bill 22 has been ...

'Retroactive' report cards latest battle ground
Globe and Mail
More sparks flew in BC's education battle Thursday, with the government insisting thatteachers would be required to complete report cards that reflect students' performance from the beginning of the year. Teachers shot back that they would not do ...

Globe and Mail

No action on teacher contracts this year
Roanoke Times
Evaluating teachers and school administrators is a good thing, he said, but the legislation isn't a panacea. He suggested it should be considered alongside other education reform initiatives. "Virginia has much work to do to make sure the best teachers ...

Teachers Warn of Mass Exodus
AllAfrica.com
By Nico Smit, 9 March 2012 THE Namibia National Teachers' Union (Nantu) has warned that keeping the salaries of teachers stagnant would result in a mass exodus of qualified teachers and a lowering of the quality of education in the country.

Teachers to plot their next move
MetroNews Canada
BC Teacher's Federation president Susan Lambert addresses striking teachers and other supporters during a rally on the final day of a three-day provincewide walkout in Vancouver on Wednesday. While kids are enjoying spring break, teachers will be ...

Senate OKs teacher bill
Times Daily
Members of both parties argued the other side was using the issue for political reasons and was trying to show how much they were doing for teachers. Reed said he had studied the state's finances and determined the education budget could afford $300 ...

Governor signs bill revamping teacher evaluations
Seattle Post Intelligencer
The president of the state's largest teacher's union, the Washington Education Association, expressed disappointment in the Legislature's current approach to education reform. Two years ago, lawmakers started a pilot project that had teachers, ...

Teacher school supply bill clears Senate
WSFA
By Samuel King - bio | email A bill giving Alabama teachers $300 for school supplies is one step closer to becoming law. The Senate passed the bill on Thursday, but not after a vigorous debate over Senate rules. Senate Republicans hoped to push the ...

Obama, GOP governors agree on education
Deseret News
Bobby Jindal publicly praised the administration's efforts on education, and Virginia Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell said there was a lot of room for "common agreement" on fixing schools. Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, another Republican, introduced Obama...

Deseret News

Duval teacher extols lifelong learning
Florida Times-Union
Rebecca Jane Austin-Datta was selected for a fellowship in the New Science Teacher Academy. By Teresa Stepzinski Rebecca Jane Austin-Datta followed her passion for teaching about 4000 miles — from England to Jacksonville — and is now inspiring a ...

On education Legislature fails children
Salt Lake Tribune
But most disheartening were the messages sent by the bills, both those passed and those killed, concerning public education. We fear the message is twofold: 1. Conservative legislators intend to continue micromanaging education according to their ...

10000 Teachers To Attend 'World's Fair of Teaching'
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
By Mary Frost BROOKLYN — Hundreds of Brooklyn teachers and school administrators will join their associates from across the country at the Seventh Annual Celebration of Teaching & Learning 2012, a massive education conference presented by Thirteen ...

Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Education empowers women
Columbus Dispatch
Better opportunities for women start with education. In Ohio, fewer than one in four women has a bachelor's degree. Ohio ranks 39th out of 50 states for the percentage of women with four or more years of college, according to the American Community ...

Columbus Dispatch

EIS survey suggests teachers 'concerned' about National exams
BBC News
A survey by Scotland's largest teaching union has suggested many of its members are not confident the new exam system can be implemented next year. The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) surveyed 10000 secondary teachers, of whom 2700 responded.

BBC News

Teaching Tomorrow's Economists - Robert P. Murphy - Mises Daily
I am happy to announce that the Teacher's Manual is now available for my introductory textbook, Lessons for the Young Economist. It can be used by classroom teachers, but is also ideally suited to homeschooling instruction by parents who ...
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Teacher porn video allegations generate little parent outrage ...
By Shelby Grad
As school officials in Oxnard investigated allegations that a middle-school teacher appeared in at least one pornographic video, the case appears to be generating little outrage among parents. Theteacher was placed on ... Administrators tried to verify the students' claims that one of the teacherswas a porn performer, but couldn't find any evidence that the rumors were true, the Ventura County Star reported. ... More in: Crime and courts, Tablet, Education, Ventura County. increase text ...
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Sen. Tom Harkin: Fixing Economy Starts With Early Education
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Tom Harkin asked a panel of education experts at a Thursday Senate committee hearing how they would improve the country's public schools, he was surprised by what they didn't say. A Harvard University ... Education Reform; Arne Duncan; Teachers; Michelle Rhee. Armchair ... She enrolled him in a Head Start after-school program, where he received hours of attention from a speech therapist and a special education teacher who he called his "buddy for the day." He started ...
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OECD educationtoday: How do we keep new teachers teaching?

By Cassandra Davis
Global perspectives on education ... The Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) at the OECD looked at the responses of new teachers (those with two years or less of teaching experience) from the TALIS 2008 survey and has produced a new report The Experience of New Teachers: Results from TALIS 2008. Teachers and their principals reported on the teaching and learningenvironment of their .... Making education reform happen. ► 2011 (22). ► December (7) ...
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The Birth of a Mexican Education Reform Movement?
By Israel Ortega
the-birth-of-a-mexican-education-reform-movement ... The answer, among other things, is a familiar one: little accountability, careless spending, little competition, and a powerful teachers union that is more concerned with protecting teachers than student educational achievement.
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Who let the blogs out? | Learning with 'e's
By Steve Wheeler
We need to start asking the questions that will cause our leaders to stop and rethink the constraints they are imposing upon the teaching profession. Teachers are doing their best, but with the best will in the world, how are they going to inspire ...
Learning with 'e's

MUT concerned at budget cuts in education - timesofmalta.com
The Malta Union of Teachers has written to Education Minister Dolores Cristina voicing concern at budget cuts made public this week in the educational field. It said this decision which contrasted with the minister's declarations in January that ...
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Teacher Reflections on the Value of Pre-Search and Presentation ...
By The Unquiet Librarian
Teacher Reflections on the Value of Pre-Search and Presentation Zen Style for Student Learning. Leave a comment. I'm excited to team up again this month with Deborah Frost, one of the most experienced and talented teachers here at ...
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California Teacher | Suspended | Pornography | The Daily Caller
By Taylor Bigler
Teacher suspended after students discover her porn past | Middle school science teacher has X-rated extracurricular activities. ... In a letter sent to parents, administrators are “asking teachers to discourage the children from searching for and/or visiting these inappropriate sites. We ask that you be particularly vigilant over the next few days with respect to the Internet content being accessed by your child on his or her telephone or other Internet-ready device.” Follow Taylor on Twitter ...
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Andrea Gabor: When Making a Great Teacher Is a Team Effort
By Andrea Gabor
He also was selected as one of six New York City teachers to be part of the Digital Teacher Corps, a Ford Foundation-funded collaboration among educators, technologists, and designers to develop interactive digital learning tools aimed at improving ... Teachers also collaborate to support the 28 percent of Global Tech students certified as needing special education; Global Tech has moved almost all of them into so-called CTT (Collaborative Team Teaching) classes, where teams of ...
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The Imaginative Conservative: Labor, Leisure, and Liberal Education
By Winston Elliott III
This distinction between the two reasons for learning carpentry is connected in my mind with the difference or distinction between liberal and vocational education. This carpentry is the same in both cases, but the first reason for learning ...
The Imaginative Conservative

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Teaching skill trumps tenure

Teaching skill trumps tenure
Chicago Tribune
In any school, no priority — such as employee tenure — should outweigh putting the most skilled teacher possible at the head of every classroom. You won't find that sentence in an important decision the Illinois Supreme Court handed down Friday. But that's the de facto impact of a big win for Chicago Public Schools at the expense of the Chicago Teachers Union. The broad context here is that, in too many U.S. school districts, labor contracts perversely give more weight to the interests of adult educators than to the needs of young students ...

Chicago Tribune

Struggling Teachers to Be Scored by Independent Observers
New York Times
By Winnie Hu The key element in the agreement reached between the New York City teachers' union and the city's Education Department last Thursday was given a closer look, as The New York Times and Gotham Schools examined the role to be played by ...

Obama pushes the question: What are students, taxpayers getting for their ...
Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Access to college has been the driving force in federal higher education policy for decades. But the Obama administration is pushing a fundamental agenda shift that aggressively brings a new question into the debate: What are people ...

Obama takes tougher stance on higher education
Chicago Sun-Times
By KIMBERLY HEFLING AP Education Writer February 20, 2012 10:36AM FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Va. Access to college has been the driving force in federal ... 

Maryland's higher education gains at risk
Baltimore Sun
By Laura Perna and Joni Finney In 2008, the higher education funding commission (known as the Bohanan Commission) developed a farsighted plan to boost the state's investment in highereducation, hold down tuition and increase state financial aid.

Education's big shake-up
Tasmania Mercury
Liberal education spokesman Michael Ferguson said the world's best performing educationsystems were not the biggest spenders. "It is their strong focus on teaching and learning, as well as what happens in the classroom, that sets them apart," he said.

Commentary: Learning lessons from Jeremy Lin
Kansas City Star
What can a Chinese-American Harvard graduate who's suddenly exploded as a National Basketball Association star with the New York Knicks teach us Mercedians? Jeremy Lin, who went to Palo Alto High, has become this year's Tim Tebow story, ...

Education funding would drop under Haley's budget
Aiken Standard
"It shows education is not a priority," said Kathy Maness of the Palmetto Teachers Association. With an additional $913 million to spend, "you'd think there would be some money for teachers," she said. "It's got to be increased.

Private education fears figures don't add up
Herald Sun
Opposition education spokesman Christopher Pyne yesterday predicted hip pocket pain for private school parents "to the tune of potentially thousands of dollars a year". Funding for independent and Catholic schools would fall under a "hit list", ...

Russell Group attacks university admissions targets
Telegraph.co.uk
Leading universities appeared to clash with the Government's new higher education access tsar today by criticising the imposition of controversial admissions targets. Prof Les Ebdon, vice-chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire, has been appointed ...

Telegraph.co.uk

Illawarra gives education funding model tentative tick
Illawarra Mercury
Mr Cooper, who is principal at Albion Park Public School, said findings show the existing funding model doesn't work and is causing Australian education standards to go backwards. He supported Gonski's recommendation of a $5billion injection for the ...

Gonski's $5bn blueprint to arrest student decline
The Australian
EDUCATION End of sidebar. Return to start of sidebar. Ms Gillard, who held the education portfolio before becoming Prime Minister, said the government still aimed to introduce legislation for a new funding model in parliament by the end of the year and ...

Gonski's $5b school fee
Sydney Morning Herald
But while Ms Gillard committed her government to fund all schools regardless of wealth or need, she refused to commit the money that the long-running review of school funding says is needed to restore Australia's ailing education system to health.

Sydney Morning Herald

Ebdon confirmed as university access chief
BBC News
By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent Les Ebdon has been formally announced as head of the university fair access body, despite the opposition of MPs on the committee examining his selection. Business Secretary Vince Cable rejected attempts ...

BBC News

Gonski review calls for school funding overhaul
ABC Online
EMMA ALBERICI, PRESENTER: The most comprehensive review of school funding in decades has called for a more transparent and open system of education spending. The report found the current arrangements are complex, confusing and have obscure goals and ...

Teachers let down by delayed action
The Australian
PRINCIPALS and teachers have welcomed the the recommendations for a new school funding model, but are disappointed by the Gillard government's decision to consult before responding. Associations representing government school teachers, the Catholic ...

Peter Garrett responds to Gonski review
ABC Online
The Minister for School Education responds to the Gonski review's findings about the funding of Australian schools. CHRIS UHLMANN, PRESENTER: I'm joined from Canberra by the SchoolEducation Minister Peter Garrett. CHRIS UHLMANN: Now this report does ...

Breastfeeding Counselling, Carnival Arts and Football Studies... the world of ...
Daily Mail
He will speak for the poor and the under-represented in the fight against those elitist institutions that bar the way to higher education for the disadvantaged. He has threatened to fine universities that do not co-operate.
 
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Why U.S. Secretary of Education says 'RESPECT Project' focused on teachers is ...
MLive.com
GRAND RAPIDS -The US Department of Education recently rolled out its proposal for the RESPECT Project (Recognizing Educational Success, Professional Excellence and Collaborative Teaching). The project is described as a national conversation led by...

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Gonski review delivers verdict on Australian schools
ABC Online
Extra loadings would be added for certain needs like teaching kids from poor backgrounds Indigenous areas and those with poor English skills. A school's size and its location could also attract an increase. ANGELO GAVRIELATOS, AUSTRALIAN EDUCATION ...

Billions needed to address tiered system
Sydney Morning Herald
David Gonski's take on Australia's education sector. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen AUSTRALIA'S education sector has become a two-tier system of advantage and disadvantage, the Gonski review into schools funding shows. The report argues that $5 billion in ...

Sydney Morning Herald

Gonski schools report calls for massive overhaul to bridge learning gap
Herald Sun
Education and school groups say federal, state and territory governments will need to move quickly to have the recommended new arrangements, released today, in place by the start of the next funding round in 2014. Prime Minister Julia Gillard hopes to ...

Govt under pressure to implement Gonski
ABC Online
MATT PEACOCK: While different parts of the education sector vary in their support for David Gonski's recommendations, they're united in wanting the Government to respond to his key proposals as quickly as possible. The teachers' union and parents ...

Cable questioned over appointment of Les Ebdon as university access tsar
The Guardian
Cable defended his choice of Ebdon by listing the professor's "vast experience, gained through a working lifetime in higher education". Ebdon would be equipped to deal even-handedly with all parts of the sector, Cable said. "We undertook two long, ...

The Guardian

Parents already carry a fairly high burden
Sydney Morning Herald
ANNETTE AKKARY considers her children's education a priority and would borrow money to pay school fees if necessary. But she knows not every Catholic school parent is in a position to do the same, and the sector - which educates one in five Australian ...

Sydney Morning Herald

Learning pathways
By noreply@blogger.com (Steve Wheeler)
The institutional learning platform - the VLE - is a classic case of decisions made about learningwithout consulting the learner. How can we reach a place in education where students find their own level and make their own pathways through ...
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Re-Engineering Engineering Education to Retain Students ...
By Josh Fischman
Patricia Campbell, a collaborator on the project who leads an education-consulting firm in Groton, Mass., said that the time to get an engineering degree was a major reason that undergraduates dropped the major. ... A less-radical approach would be to improve teaching techniques in existing courses, said another symposium participant, Susan S. Metz, executive director of the Lore-El Center for Women in Engineering and Science at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J. ...
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Tips for teaching English abroad without speaking the local ...
By Jessica Festa
teaching english When people hear I spent a summer teaching English in Thailand, they often assume I speak fluent Thai. The truth is, you don't need to be fluent in the local language to teach English abroad. I'm not saying that it doesn't help, however, it isn't ... Certain methods not only may not work, but can also be detrimental to the child's learning. ... If you're stuck on how to make a lesson plan effective and fun, utilize the myriad online resources there are for ESL teachers. Some of...
Gadling

Baltimore Students Speak About Importance Of Education In Oratory ...
By sbhagav
Celebrating Black History Month. Sunday, students spoke about the importance of education while competing in WJZ's Black History Oratory Contest.
CBS Baltimore

Blog Archive » Federal grants benefiting education consultants
By Associated Press
The money from the U.S. Department of Education is paying for instructional coaches for teachers, leadership coaches for principals, analysts to pore over test data and pricey three-day professional-development seminars on changing school ...
Colorado Springs Business Journal

My 17-Point Checklist For Teaching Good Writing and Blogging ...
By Scott Cowley
Image Credit One important lesson from The Checklist Manifesto is the idea of creating checklists to guard against failures in ...
Search Engine Journal

5 reasons UK higher education fundraising still lags behind the USA ...
By Stephen Tall
Last Friday's Guardian-hosted #HElivechat on the role of the philanthropy in universities, on which I was one of the virtual panellists, covered a range of issues. Inevitably at one stage the question turned to the difference in cultural attitudes ...
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Schools trim few teachers following Texas state budget cuts, sky not ...
By Texas Watchdog
Confirming what the Texas Education Agency says it has heard anecdotally across the state, relatively few teachers were actually laid off. Instead, these districts shed thousands of teaching and administrator positions through the usual attrition ...
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Obama seeks more education funds

Obama seeks more education funds
Washington Post (blog)
To date, the $4.3 billion program has awarded grants to states that have embraced the administration's favored education reforms, such as expanding charter schools, raising academic standards and evaluating teachers and principals based partly on ...

Parliamentary Committee to Review Teachers' Salaries as Strike Continues
Ammon News
By Wael Jaraysheh AMMONNEWS - A small ad-hoc parliamentary committee was formed on Monday to review teachers' salaries and benefits and the affect of the public sector salary restructuring plan on teachers' wages. The ad-hoc committee includes members ...

Ammon News

Bill aims to censor Ariz. teachers' speech
USA TODAY
By Alia Beard Rau, The Arizona Republic By Ross D. Franklin, AP By Ross D. Franklin, AP A group of Republican state lawmakers is backing legislation that would require teachers to limit their speech to words that comply with Federal Communications ...

USA TODAY

Pr. William teachers set to protest pay freeze
Washington Post
Some Prince William County teachers and staff members plan to protest the proposed pay freezes starting Monday. The protest would take the form of a “work to the rule” campaign, whereby teacherswould come in together and work just the hours stipulated ...

Estonian Teachers May Strike for Three Days Over Wages in March
Bloomberg
Estonian teachers and day-care workers will strike for as long as three days next month after talks with the government over wages broke down. The strike will start on March 7, with the duration to be set later, Sven Rondik, head of Estonia's Education ...

Late pupils, teachers face MEC's fury
Independent Online
By LEBOGANG SEALE Education MEC Barbara Creecy paid a surprise visit to Lavela Secondary School to discover eight teachers and over 700 pupils late. Photo: Dumisani Dube More than 700 pupils and eight teachers arrived late for school on Monday to find ...

Independent Online

McGraw-Hill Higher Education Partners with University of Nebraska-Lincoln to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Butters and Asarta are creating every element of the curriculum by learning objective, grouped by topic areas, enabling instructors to choose when, where and how they will teach each concept. With the all-digital teaching resources, instructors have ...

iNACOL Webinar to Highlight Teachers Use of Open Educational Resources
Sacramento Bee
The webinar, "Easy as 1,2,3: A Primer on Using Open Education Resources to Create Lessons, Activities and Courses," will address best practices in using OER, which are learning materials that are produced and vetted by experts to be made available ...

Education reform team hears from local experts
Pacific Daily News
•The School & Education System-wide Reform Action Team of the education task force plans to meet again on Thursday at 3:30 pm at Adelup. •The next task force meeting is scheduled for Feb. 23 at 3:30 pm at Adelup. Dismal reading scores aren't just ...

Fears reward scheme for teachers is being rushed
Sydney Morning Herald
PLANS for a national teacher bonus scheme are set to fail according to a leadingeducation authority who fears they are being rushed through without proper development. The federal government plans to provide one-off bonus payments to 8000teachers who ...

Sydney Morning Herald

Education and the Death of Creativity
AllAfrica.com
As an education activist who is aware of the realities of education in South Africa and the broader region, this day had a very special meaning for me. As I dressed my daughter in her beautiful light green and white uniform, I thought how lucky she is ...

Teachers demonstrate miracles and magic
Tbo.com
Yolanda Whitehead-Driskell teaching in her math class at Hillsborough High School. She is one of the five finalists for teacher of the year in Hillsborough County. JAY CONNER/STAFF Elisabeth Denisar - Babin uses her facial expressions to teach writing ...

Push to rein in tuition rolling out
Boston.com
Political analysts expect the eventual GOP nominee to cast the president's plan as an overreach of the federal government into the business of higher education. “It's a bit of a communication challenge for the president,'' Kelly said.

Boston.com

Education the New Trier way—Mayor Rahm can learn from his alma mater
Chicago Reader
I know that sounds like a strange place to get insights on public education in Chicago, but many of our educational policy makers hail from the greater New Trier community. Tim Cawley, the chief operating officer for CPS, lives in Winnetka.

Chicago Reader

Wanted in classrooms: More teachers of color
Bellingham Herald
All teachers must be trained in cultural competency, or understanding and interacting with diverse cultures, said Jeanne Harmon of the Center for Strengthening the Teaching Profession, a Washington state nonprofit. But if there are not even a few ...

DataFlux Expands Data Management Education with inSight E-learning Portal
MarketWatch (press release)
"The inSight Learning Cafe is a key piece of our multi-channel strategy to deliver tactical how-tos and industry best practices," said Jill Dyche, vice president of thought leadership and education at DataFlux. "We've heard what companies are looking ...

Charter school teachers fear IRS rules change
Washington Times
By Ben Wolfgang A little-noticed proposed change in Internal Revenue Service regulations could have devastating effects for charter school teachers by making them ineligible for state retirement plans, and they could stand to lose much of the money ...

Washington Times

Scientific Learning to Announce Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011 Financial ...
MarketWatch (press release)
OAKLAND, Calif., Feb 13, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- Scientific Learning Corporation /quotes/zigman/74119/quotes/nls/scil SCIL -1.84% today announced that it will issue its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31 ...

Lexia Learning Awarded Multi-Year Contract with Davenport Community Schools
MarketWatch (press release)
After teaching skills and strategies in whole and small group settings, our teachers appreciate how Lexia delivers the added practice each student needs to drive their individual progress forward. The program's functionality hones in on the specific ...

Public engagement and education excellence
Bellingham Herald
By WENDY D. PURIEFOY - The Baltimore Sun As a people, we recognize the economic value ofeducation, but we under-invest in our schools, both financially and in terms of civic capital. With America's students and schools facing unprecedented needs, ...

Class size, testing worry Middle TN teachers
The Tennessean
About 100 teachers from Metro Nashville and surrounding counties took part in a town hall at Nashville Public Television Sunday. The town hall will air Feb. 29 on NPT. / Courtesy of Shelley Justice Middle Tennessee teachers say changes to education ...

Can A Free Online Education Land You A Job? The Era Of Online Education Dawns
Singularity Hub
by David Hill February 13th, 2012 | Comments (0) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently announced an initiative to create a learning platform for online education. Preliminarily dubbed “MITx”, the initiative aims to take the MIT's ...

Singularity Hub

Confused About No Child Left Behind? A History of K-12 Education Regulation
Yahoo! Contributors Network
Proponents claim these performance standards help children by forcing districts to focus onteaching and curricula quality, while critics claim that the standards are too difficult to meet and harm educators' reputations and job security while creating ...

Va. House passes bill to phase in 3-year contracts for public school teachers
Washington Post
The House of Delegates has approved legislation to make it easier to remove public school teachers from their jobs. The House voted 55-43 Monday to pass the measure. It would gradually move teachers and principals from continuing contracts, ...

Fighting to preserve public education
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
In Petaluma, dozens of teachers have been laid off, class sizes have increased, teaching days decreased and numerous educational programs slashed or eliminated. With California now ranking a dismal 42nd among all states in per pupil spending for public ...

General Assembly should keep education affordable
N.C. State University Technician Online
Our opinion: Rather than raise the rate of the increase, like last year, the General Assembly should advocate for their constituents—the students—and keep their education affordable. The North Carolina Board of Governors approved an 8.8 percent ...

Teaching hospitals blast their poor patient safety scores
FierceHealthcare
Some of the leading teaching hospitals are taking issue with public Medicare data that points to such institutions, including Cleveland Clinic, Geisinger Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital, as poor patient safety performers, ...

Sex education
St. George Daily Spectrum
Utah has good safeguards in place when it comes to teaching this kind of sensitive material. Strict rules prohibit teachers from doing more than talking about contraception, and the rules correctly stress the importance of abstinence as a means of ...

Apple refreshes its education bundles, replaces white MacBook with ...
By Joe Pollicino
It was back in July that Apple quit selling the white MacBook to the general public, and recently the remaining stock -- only available through its.
Engadget

'Why Do Some Politicians Go After Teachers?'
By Liz Benjamin
'Why Do Some Politicians Go After Teachers?' The UFT is out with an ad that continues the latest trend: Shooting the message, but avoiding the messenger. The 30-second spot, which features a number of real-life educators lauding their ...
Capital Tonight

Bill aims to censor Arizona teachers' speech
By Alia Beard Rau
Bill aims to censor Arizona teachers' speech, A group of Republican state lawmakers is backing legislation that would require teachers to limit their speech to words that comply with Federal Communications Commission regulations on what ... "I don't find this to be such a significant issue that we would have to have a law," said Maza, who currently serves as president of both the Paradise Valley Education Association and the Washington Elementary School District Governing Board.
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Word of the Day | gainsay - The Learning Network - New York Times
By By THE LEARNING NETWORK
About The Learning Network. The Learning Network provides teaching and learning materials and ideas based on New York Times content. Teachers can use or adapt our lessons across subject areas and levels. Students can respond to our ...
The Learning Network

Can education afford the iPad?
By Tony Bates
Felix on Distance education for teacher training in Africa. What Clayton says is true. Distancelearning would have trianed more teachers than we have today as well as those... Posted Feb 09, 2012 ...
Tony Bates

Mark Shriver: Obama Shifts Forward as Education Gap Widens
By Mark Shriver
Teach Plus: Teachers At the Table With Secretary Duncan. "Teacher voice is needed in order for real reform to take place," U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told the inaugural cohort of Teach Plus D.C. Teaching Policy Fellows last ...
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Spike Lee talks black community, crack, education - [a+e] - The ...
By Collin Howard
He said many generations were wiped out when crack was introduced and many kids were left alone, forced to raise themselves, not learning the proper values or morals associated with life. Comedy was mixed intermittently throughout the ...
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Teaching Waste
By Jonathan
Teaching Waste. By Jonathan | Published: February 13, 2012. There's an increasing attention being paid to waste of all kinds. That's why a waste curriculum aimed at the most-important-to-reach Americans (from a waste-generating standpoint) is key. Anyone looking to teach elementary school students about waste should say 'Thanks ... Turn to page 144 for some handy composting educationmaterials. And the message of waste reduction is included, too. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm ...
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Quantity vs. quality education | Squall Lines
By Bob Smith
But they confuse spending with “quality” education. (link). StarNews editorials frequently proclaim a “world-class” UNC system and the myth of equating empire building with quality learning; expecting readers to believe that more public money ...
Squall Lines

HoCo Connect: Elite Education at a Community College Price ...
By duanestclair
With the cost of tuition reaching levels that have priced many young people out of a college educationor put them tens of thousands of dollars in debt, Howard County students have an opportunity to have an experience at the Howard Community ... participate in challenging honors course work, leadership development, projects involving community mentors, cultural and recreational activities, international travel opportunities and the many of benefits of an honors learning community.
HoCo Connect

Service Learning, Educating the Heart
By noreply@blogger.com (Lisa Nielsen)
From my grandmother who always said, “Count your many blessings, count them one by one” to my favorite counseling modality of “Solutioning” I have taught many students that focusing on what works, teaching yourself to see the good (or even ok) parts of each day (even your worst day), and ...Visits to elementary school special education classrooms are a great way to see how much academic progress has been made. ... We found that asking teachers to select kids is difficult.
The Innovative Educator

Teachers, not politicians, are the subject of UFT's latest TV ad ...
By Philissa Cramer
An ad that aired late last month took aim at the mayor's education record, and last week, Bloomberg blamed the attack for his low public approval on education. The ad ... Friday, March 16. 8:00 amCelebration of Teaching & Learning ...
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