Higher-Ed Bubble, End of the University As We Know It

"The universities that are in trouble are those that are stuck in the middle. We're seeing this 'hollowing out of the middle' in industry after industry."-Andy Hines, assistant professor and program coordinator at the University of Houston's Graduate Program in Foresight (source infra)

A higher-ed bubble even bigger than student loans: "There are growing concerns that the benefits of a college degree are on the decline, while costs continue to rise. This so-called bubble in U.S. higher education is focused on the mounting debt load of college students and their difficulty in finding a degree or job that economically justifies the cost. But in the next 25 years, some futurists say the bigger issue—and the one that could likely cause this bubble to burst—will be the inevitable collapse of many colleges and universities as learning goes virtual. Clayton Christensen, a professor at Harvard Business School and the father of disruptive innovation theory, famously predicted in 2008 that half of high school classes will be online by 2019. With the expansion of the digital campus, many mid-level institutions of higher education could become obsolete, and the new landscape may be largely unrecognizable. "Half of the colleges and universities that exist in the United States will cease to exist," said author and futurist Nathan Harden, echoing Christensen's famous comment. Harden predicts new technologies could eventually lead to "the end of the university as we know it." The reason for the demise? Many institutions of higher learning, including some of the nation's most prestigious universities, such as Harvard and MIT, have started to open up their classes to the world through massive open online courses (MOOCS), in many cases for free, though how EdX ultimately plans to generate revenue remains a major topic of much speculation and debate....." (read more at the link above)


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Minerva vs Harvard

The Weekend Interview With Ben Nelson: The Man Who Would Overthrow Harvard - WSJ.com: " . . . Any education startup must also brave a regulatory swamp. By opting out of government-backed student-loan programs, Minerva won't have to abide by many of the federal rules for so-called Title IV (of the relevant 1965 law) schools. Americans won't have an edge in admissions and Minerva expects most students will come from abroad. But Mr. Nelson wants to be part of the club whose price of entry is accreditation. A cartel sanctioned by Congress places a high barrier to entry for newcomers, stifling educational innovation. Startups face a long slog to get accredited. So last month Minerva chose to partner with the Keck Graduate Institute, or KGI, a small school founded in 1997 that is part of the Claremont consortium of colleges near Los Angeles. Minerva degrees will now have, pending the regulatory OK, an accreditor's seal of approval. . . ."

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More Top Universities to Offer Free Online Courses

More Top Universities to Offer Free Online Courses - ABC News: "More top universities outside the United States are joining the rush to offer "massive open online courses" that are broadening access to higher education. Coursera and edX, two leading providers of so-called MOOCs, on Thursday announced major expansions that will roughly double the number of university partners offering free online classes through their websites. Mountain View, Calif.-based Coursera said it will add 29 institutions, including 16 outside the U.S. Over the next several months, they will offer about 90 new courses, including some taught in French, Spanish, Italian and Chinese. . . Coursera currently offers 220 courses from 33 institutions and has nearly 2.8 million registered users who have signed up for nearly 10 million courses, Ng said. The new partners include Chinese University of Hong Kong, Technical University of Denmark, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico as well as the universities of Copenhagen, Geneva and Toyko. Cambridge, Mass.-based edX said it's adding six new institutions, including five outside the U.S., which will provide at least 25 courses. EdX, which was launched in May by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, currently offers 25 courses from six universities and has 700,000 registered students. The new partners are Australian National University, Delft University of Technology, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, McGill University, Rice University and the University of Toronto. Delft University in the Netherlands will be the first edX partner to provide courses as "open content," which means other universities are free to incorporate the materials into their classes, said edX President Anant Agarwal. . . ."

New Guide to Starting Online Schools | Pioneer Institute: " . . . “The mission and student body will determine the appropriate academic content, teachers and technology,” said Pioneer Institute Executive Director Jim Stergios. “On the practical side, they also help founders create cost estimates.” For “Online Learning 101,” author Bill Donovan interviewed researchers, academics and educators to develop a guide for those seeking to start a school in which students access instructional materials and interact with teachers via the Internet. The paper features a preface, “The Lessons We Learned,” by Julie Young, co-founder of Florida Virtual School, which is the largest and among the highest-quality virtual schools in the country. According to one estimate, 1.5 million students had an online learning experience in 2010, up 50 percent from 2007. There were about 275,000 full-time students in online schools during the 2011-12 school year. Thirty-one states and the District of Columbia now have at least one full-time online school operating statewide. Taking at least one online course is now a high school graduation requirement in four states. . . . "

World class: a superschool for the global age - Telegraph: " . . . All 5,000 digital devices in the school are controlled from a room on the top floor nicknamed 'the laptop garage’. Children can take their iPads and laptops there to be mended (pupils are allowed to take their appliances home from the age of nine, and every device will be upgraded by Apple after two years). The school can also locate lost equipment from a GPS tracking system on the wall. 'All the children’s devices are tracked,’ Whittle beams. 'This screen will tell you where a laptop is, whether it’s in the Starbucks on 14th Street or anywhere else in the US. And because the school is run in the “cloud”, the systems didn’t even go down during Hurricane Sandy.’ This all sounds eerily efficient, but how does the school protect its pupils from the dangers of the internet? 'Oh, we can see what’s going on on every iPad,’ Whittle tells me. 'It might sound Big Brother-like,’ he laughingly pre-empts, 'but this is a school. And what we didn’t want to do is turn off the internet, because if you do that you’re turning off this enormous resource.’. . . "

Proposed charter school would offer 'blended learning' | charter, proposed, school - Colorado Springs Gazette, CO: "James Irwin Charter STEM Academy would be a “blended learning” school, where students attend classes two days a week and work online, either at home or in the school’s library, the rest of the time. Courses would be “flipped” so students would learn new content online, then come to class for experiments, dialogue and collaboration."

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Colleges Caught in Value Trap

In other words, the college and university hyper-inflated, government student-loan financed, exorbitant costs may be coming to an end--

Colleges Caught in Value Trap, Study Finds - WSJ.com: "Moody's also attributed the enrollment decline at some public universities to a "heightened scrutiny of the value of higher education" after years of tuition increases and stagnating family income. The credit-rating firm said in its report that more students are "increasingly attending more affordable community colleges, studying part time, or electing to enter the workforce without the benefit of a college education." Private universities and colleges with lower credit ratings, as well as smaller public universities, reported the most enrollment pressure, according to Moody's.
"We have a more informed class of college consumers," said Bonnie Snyder, founder of Kerrigan College Planning in Lancaster, Pa. "Everyone today knows someone who went to college and ended up with a career that didn't justify the cost. They see college as a more risky investment.""


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UK students switch to US universities

BBC News - UK students switch to US universities: "Students wanting to apply to US universities can take the SAT common entrance test in the UK - and the College Board which runs the test reported a 30% increase in such UK candidates. The introduction of higher tuition fees at UK universities, up to £9,000 per year, is pushing students to think much harder about their options. It's also changing the balance of what is affordable. Dr Seldon says that universities in the UK are going to have to take more care about what they're offering in terms of contact hours, subject options and pastoral care. The competition is now global. He says that for the price of UK fees, students are being offered courses in Hong Kong, with change for the air fares home. There are also pupils looking at universities in Canada, Australia, China, South Africa and in continental Europe, he says. . . ."


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Can US Universities Stay on Top?

Can U.S. Universities Stay on Top? - WSJ.com: " . . . Both India and China have intense national testing programs to find the brightest students for their elite universities. The competition, the preparation and the national anxiety about the outcomes make the SAT testing programs in the U.S. seem like the minor leagues. The stakes are higher in China and India. The "chosen ones"—those who rank in the top 1%—get their choice of university, putting them on a path to fast-track careers, higher incomes and all the benefits of an upper-middle-class life. The system doesn't work so well for the other 99%. There are nearly 40 million university students in China and India. Most attend institutions that churn out students at low cost. . . . "

NoNameSite Announces SoCo Online Learning Program
Sacramento Bee
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Wiley Makes $220 Million Acquisition of Online Education Company Deltak.edu
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Princeton extends learning through online Coursera classes
Princeton University
Adelman is among seven professors debuting classes on the educational website Coursera as the University explores online technology to enhance learning at Princeton and extend its educationalresources beyond campus. "We can learn a lot from ... "My ...

Online Schools Becoming More Popular, Despite Union Resistance
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Online schools, and other forms of digital learning, are an inevitable and promising form ofeducation for the 21st Century, unless special interest forces are able to keep technology from becoming more integrated into everyday education. Professor ...

'A new way of learning'; Jackson Christian School integrates iPads into ...
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Coursera's Global Education Ambition
Duke University
Durham, NC - The question to Daphne Koller, co-founder of the new online educationplatform Coursera, was this: Are you providing free college courses to lift people from poverty or to provide a comprehensive, far-reaching education to the masses?

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Two Stories on the Profits of Online Education
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We are expected to pay for digital access to something that fails to improve the learning experience.… The future will only hold more cost for “updating” and “accessing” online features that can be done the same way they have at the university for ...

What should kids be learning in school?
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James Madison Creates Online Community for Online High School Students
Equities.com
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University of Mexico sees increase in online learning enrolment
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HIVE advances virtual learning to next level
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More Universities Offer Free Classes Online
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Reading, 'riting, RAM
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Voyager Learning Kicks Off 2012-2013 Math Mania Competition Today!
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Parents agree: School choice works
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Online challenge to campus life
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ClevrU partners with Schulich School of Business Professors to target online ...
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Educational 'climate change' and SMART education
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The Governor General Launches Eduzone, an Online Educational Tool on the ...
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Fort Worth School Adopts Online Classes
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The Woodlands LearningRx voted Best Learning Center Second Year in a Row
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Md. company offers college courses online
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Red Comet's Core Courses for High School Online Learning Receives Approval ...
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Coursera makes Penn courses more accessible
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Where charters run the neighborhood schools
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Hebrew Class Uses iPads For Teaching, Learning
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When do students and teachers cross the line through social media?
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Robotics program growing at BHS
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Students are learning to enjoy rigorous academic content areas and gaining experience in a rapidly growing job field. Subscription Required. An online service is needed to view this article in its entirety. You need an online service to view this ...

MRUniversity.com Launches Revolution in Online Learning
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Another Kind of Climate Change
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Learn the Fundamentals: Paid Search Optimization
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The Doors Are Open to Free Online Math Tutoring for Ontario Students
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Survey: Three-Quarters of K-12 Publishers Will Go Belly up Unless They Go ...
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MOOCs offer options as quest for knowledge evolves
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MOOC Brigade: With Free Online Classes, Guilt Is Part of the Bargain
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Elementary School Teacher Becomes a Millionaire
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The Future of Public Higher Education

TheFuture of Public Higher Education (video)

Bill Gates was the keynote speaker at an event to mark the upcoming 150th anniversary of the Morrill Land Grant Act. He spoke about funding universities, college admissions, and the costs of higher education. President Lincoln signed the Morrill Act into law on July 2, 1862. The law established funding for public colleges and universities through federal land grants. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/GatesonP

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Teachers Cautioned Against Planned Strike
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Plan for teacher evaluations may need review
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Special investigators question APS teachers' reinstatements
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Educators say Michigan Merit Exams, ACT tests reveal 'shameful' achievement ...
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Education Trust-Midwest: While white student achievement has risen slightly over five years, scores for black and Hispanic students and students in poverty “remain grim,”

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NJ teacher tenure changes born of compromise
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Grassley: Department of Education oversteps authority
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Pasadena Unified 's cuts will include layoffs
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Chatham Education Foundation distributes $66000 in grants
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Learning to Lead
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Rebuilding education from the ruins: Afghan minister
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Teaching by example
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Brooklyn Teacher Caught on Tape Beating 15-Year-Old Student, Mother Sues ...
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Education Notes: Scott serves as Orientation Leader at Huntingdon
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From ABC to PHD
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Giving up control of education
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Student Loan Deal Pales Against Other Education Cuts
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Standardized tests are now the fashion for holding a struggling public education system “accountable” for the work being done in the nation's classrooms, but when veteran teacherMarion Brady spoke with graduates of the class of '61 last fall, ... Teachers (at least the ones the public should hope their taxes are supporting) oppose the tests because they focus so narrowly on reading and math that the young are learning to hate reading, math, and school; because they measure only ...
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New Orleans Teachers Get Justice, but Schools Still Under Attack ...
By Michelle Chen
Often, he added, the charters that many have hailed as an emblem of progress “are run like private schools by self-appointed boards without any parent, community, or teacherrepresentation… ... In lieu of a fully credentialed teaching workforce, students could geteducation a la carte with “a new catalogue of courses offered by universities, private companies, or individual teachers that high school students will be able to pay for using tax dollars that would otherwise flow to their school.
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Daily Kos: Political Rhetoric (3): "Education reform?" STOP IT ...
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Free Technology for Teachers: The Teacher-Librarian is Your Best ...
By Mr. Byrne
skip to main | skip to sidebar. Free Technology for Teachers. Free Resources and Lesson Plans for Teaching with Technology ... in the last two decades than any other teaching position. If you are a K12 educator, you are aware of the term " technology integration", but did you know that perhaps your greatest assistance can come from the school media specialist (or teacher-librarian)? ... Trying to keep up-to-date on all things related to technology in education? It's a daunting task for ...
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5 More States Get Waivers From Education Law Rules
New York Times
In exchange for relief from conditions of the No Child Left Behind law, states agreed to enact new standards and evaluate schools and teachers based on students' academic progress. ... The department's approval of requests from Arkansas, Missouri ...

How Google is teaching computers to see” — Inductively | Larry ...
It appears that Google using “inductive learning” in this process, a process which I use extensively in my classes and which I've written about a lot in my books.
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Subprime college educations

George Will: Subprime college educations - The Washington Post: "Many parents and the children they send to college are paying rapidly rising prices for something of declining quality. This is because “quality” is not synonymous with “value.” Glenn Harlan Reynolds, a University of Tennessee law professor, believes that college has become, for many, merely a “status marker,” signaling membership in the educated caste, and a place to meet spouses of similar status — “associative mating.” Since 1961, the time students spend reading, writing and otherwise studying has fallen from 24 hours a week to about 15 — enough for a degree often desired only as an expensive signifier of rudimentary qualities (e.g., the ability to follow instructions). Employers value this signifier as an alternative to aptitude tests when evaluating potential employees because such tests can provoke lawsuits by having a “disparate impact” on this or that racial or ethnic group. . . . "

 

CARPE DIEM: George Will on Subprime College Education
"In his book “The Higher Education Bubble,” Reynolds writes that this bubble exists for the same reasons the housing bubble did. The government decided that ...
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'Higher Education Bubble' is about to burst
Boston Herald
In his Encounter Books Broadside “The Higher Education Bubble,” Reynolds says this bubble exists for the same reasons the housing bubble did. The government decided that too few people owned homes/went to college, so government money was poured into ...

Primary school children to be expected to learn and recite poetry
The Guardian
The education secretary, Michael Gove, will promise a new focus on the traditional virtues of spelling and grammar when he sets out his plans for the teaching of English in primary schools later this week. At the same time, Gove will put forward ...
 
The Guardian

Teachers not 'doing fine': Can Obama find his footing on recovery?
Christian Science Monitor
By Patrik Jonsson, Staff writer / June 9, 2012 While downplaying a remark Friday that the US private sector is “doing fine,” President Obama nevertheless focused on stalwarts of the public sector – teachers – for his weekly Saturday address, ...

Christian Science Monitor

Los Angeles teachers and school district reach pact to spare jobs
Los Angeles Times
Under the accord, teachers would lose pay for five instructional days plus four holidays and one training day, equivalent to about a 5% salary cut. The deal must by ratified by teachers and approved by the LA Board of Education.

Should children have to learn poetry by heart?
The Guardian (blog)
Surely education is about learning skills (ie. analysing the poems), not just a simple memory test? And no doubt Gove would also have us all memorise his shiny new bibles, if he could get away with it! Best way to put children off poetry for life, ...

The Guardian (blog)

Creationism's Expansion in Science Education Will Level the Playing Field
Huffington Post (blog)
I predict that within the near future the achievement gap in student science learning between the United States and South Korea will be narrowing significantly. As of right now, the gap is huge. Let me explain. Beginning in 1995 and every four years ...

Second teacher union will sue over Jindal's education reform plan
Houma Courier
AP BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana Association of Educators says it, too, will file a lawsuit to throw out a set of education changes pushed by Gov. Bobby Jindal and passed by lawmakers. Directors of the teachers union have also endorsed an effort to ...

Microsoft launches teaching tools for schools
Times of India
KOLKATA: Though teaching kids through multimedia teaching is the order of the day, schools are still not being able to implement it properly and capture the attention of the entire class. The age old ratio of 5% of the class being brilliant, ...

The Education Report: Attendance boundary angst in Oakland
San Jose Mercury News
This is a sampling of The Education Report, Katy Murphy's Oakland schools blog. Read more atwww.IBAbuzz.com/education. Follow her at Twitter.com/KatyMurphy. June 7 The Oakland school district might study its school attendance boundaries once again, ...

New national curriculum 'to focus on English skills'
BBC News
An overhaul of the national curriculum in primary schools in England will put a new focus on spelling and grammar, the education secretary is to announce. Michael Gove is also due to propose making it compulsory to learn a foreign language from the age ...

BBC News

IIT campus to come up in Rajiv Gandhi education city in Haryana
Times of India
The education city spread over 2000 acres land close to the national capital on NH one would have campuses of various institutes of higher learning. Initially, first set of ten educational institutes started their respective projects.

No-Nonsense Practical Guide to Moodle 2 for Teaching 7-1 4 Year Olds Is Released
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Birmingham, UK (PRWEB) June 10, 2012 Packt Publishing's latest release, Moodle 2 for Teaching7 -14 Year Olds Beginner's Guide, makes learning how to use the world's most popular VLE not only easy, but also fun and inspiring. Written by a teacher with ...

Teacher Network newsletter: the problem of teacher bullying and the final ...
The Guardian (blog)
Around 90 per cent of respondents to our GTN survey last autumn had been and this Tuesday Education Guardian has a disturbing story about NQTs being bullied out of their jobs after getting insufficient support to develop during their induction year.

The Guardian (blog)

Class sizes irrelevant - education expert
Stuff.co.nz
The government was forced into a humiliating u-turn last week after public backlash over plans to cut teachers. Education minister Hekia Parata had argued increasing pupil-to-teacher ratios would save $174 million over four years and $60m would be used ...

For some, teaching not a fun job anymore
St. Augustine Record
“I definitely feel it's having an effect on incoming teachers but it's also affecting veteran teachers,” said educator Bill Mignon. He sees the changes in his role supervising interns in the educationdepartment at Flagler College and as a member of ...

Queens Birthday honours list for higher education
The Australian
Higher education was well served in the companion in the general division (AC). ANU chancellor and former politican Gareth Evans was awarded the top honour, as was Adelaide University chancellor and former politician, Robert Hill.

'Right To Education came as divine intervention'
Times of India
His daughter's pre-primary education expenses were about Rs 700 per month and Charde sacrificed many things for that. "It was OK to cut back on other expenses because I wanted her to study, but primary education costs were almost touching Rs 1500 per ...

Civics classes written off with an 'F'
Sydney Morning Herald
A LACK of enthusiasm among young Australians for democracy shows civics education in schools has failed, according to Liberty Victoria, the state's peak civil rights organisation. The group's president, Professor Spencer Zifcak, says a national poll ...

Sydney Morning Herald

Reviewing teaching practice
Times of Malta
Bezzina and Colin Calleja state that there is limited or no contact between professional, matureteachers and student-teachers and make various suggestions to remedy the situation and improve the education of teacher-students. From personal experience ...

Five-year-olds will be made to recite poetry in front of classmates as Michael ...
Daily Mail
Education Secretary Michael Gove has spelled out the overhaul, which includes a list of words pupils should know at the end of each year, and even instructions on how to correctly hold a pencil. Children will also have to be taught a foreign language ...

Daily Mail

New national curriculum 'to make languages compulsory from seven'
BBC News
Learning a foreign language will be compulsory from the age of seven in England's primary schools, in an overhaul of the national curriculum to be unveiled by theeducation secretary. Michael Gove will also say that children as young as five will be...

BBC News

Education lobby gets the grease
Worcester Telegram
The fact that the Worcester Public Schools will be able to hire more teachers and school nurses for the next school year is a textbook example of how the squeaky wheel gets the oil at City Hall. Make no mistake about it, had it not been for the ...

Education: Rs4b for missing facilities in schools, Rs4b for laptops
The Express Tribune
Another Rs4.484 billion has been allocated for other new schemes for the SchoolsEducation Department, which has been given a total development budget of Rs15 billion. The new projects include Rs500 million for the rehabilitation of schools in 13 ...

The Express Tribune

Obama pushes Congress to help states hire teachers
CBS News
(CBS News) In his weekly address, President Obama urged Congress to pass aid for states to hire more public sector workers, including teachers. "When states struggle, it's up to Congress to step in and help out," the president said, referring to ...

2012 Cavite Education Summit Set
Manila Bulletin
By ANTHONY GIRON GENERAL TRIAS, Cavite – The controversial K to 12 program, basic teaching situation, school problems, and other concerns are set to be discussed in the Education Summit 2012 that is slated Wednesday in this town.

Other voices on the higher education reorganization plan
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog)
By Jim Namiotka/The Star-Ledger Our work, deliberation and debate over the current highereducation reform efforts must remain focused — not on simply parochial interests, but on what will make an already strong Rutgers even stronger.

Obama tries to hit Romney on teachers, cops. Mitt pounces. « Hot Air
By Jazz Shaw
Speaking of, “it didn't work then,” we are reminded that we already tried dealing with the issue of employment for teachers and first responders by pumping federal dollars down a rat hole. We called it the stimulus. And it was so badly crafted that the money ..... Scott Walker saved teacher jobs and balanced the budget saving firefighter and police jobs as well by reinging in the high spending ways of the Government Unions. Instead of money all we really need to do Nationwide is what ...
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Baltimore Launches Program To Promote Learning, Prevent ...
By mrichards9889
BALTIMORE (WJZ)– They call it the Summer Slide– a learning slump when school's out for summer break. Gigi Barnett reports how a program in Baltimore could help students stay sharp. The neighborhood maps are all drawn, and volunteers ...
CBS Baltimore

Obama: Teachers not 'doing fine' | The Raw Story
By The Christian Science Monitor
While downplaying a remark Friday that the US private sector is “doing fine,” President Obama nevertheless focused on stalwarts of the public sector – teachers – for his weekly Saturday address, saying Washington has to spend more to help ...
The Raw Story

Ruben Rosario: St. Paul teacher's biggest impact is outside the ...
By By Ruben Rosario
Then the dying man turned to Kelli Porthan, a veteran St. Paul teacher who established a weekend mentoring program three years earlier for low-income Latino students such as Julio. Also present was Eric ... Nationwide, only 21 percent of Latinos hold an associate degree or higher, compared with 44 percent of whites, 57 percent of Asians and 30 percent of blacks, according to a report by Excelencia in Education, a Latino higher-education advocacy group. The breakdown for ...
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Blue Jersey:: Education Reform
By deciminyan
There's a lot written here about what we don't like about the right wing education "reform" agenda - the attack on unions, privatization, etc. I'm at an education panel ... Blue Jersey teachers and readers in general weigh in... What is the positive ...
Blue Jersey - Front Page

Merit Pay for Teachers? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Bribe! « Diary of ...
By Oldschoolteach
Tagged: Arne Duncan, Education, educators, K through 12, Merit pay, Standardized test, teacher, unfairness of merit pay. 1 Comment ... Noun :extra pay awarded to an employee on the basis of merit (especially to school teachers). What “think ...
Diary of a Public School Teacher!

Illinois Teachers Beware: Your Pensions Aren't Safe | Via Meadia
By Walter Russell Mead
Specifically, the Illinois Teachers Retirement Fund is one of the country's worst funded pension funds. According to accountants — who use softer methods to measure the health of public funds than they do of private pensions — teacher ...
Via Meadia

Advocates Today, Doctors Tomorrow Fight for Sex Education ...
By khorton
Growing up in Alabama, I never received any kind of comprehensive sex education. I was told that abstinence was the way to go because I'm “worth it.” ... In just one semester, students have become more comfortable with talking about sex and learning more about how to protect themselves against unwanted STDs and pregnancies. Abstinence-only education is simply not enough. Although it is the only way you can be 100 percent sure that you will not contract an STD or have an ...
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EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative | EDUCAUSE.edu
EDUCAUSE is the foremost community of higher education IT leaders and professionals ... and practices that have significant potential for teaching and learning.
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