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Channel: Teacher Magazine: News and Information for Teacher Leaders
Channel: NYT > Education
- Board?s Decision to Close 28 Kansas City Schools Follows Years of Inaction
The decision to shutter 28 of its 61 schools reveals the depth of dysfunction in the chaotic, almost nonfunctioning Kansas City School Board.
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- Top Obama Priorities Collide as Student Loan Legislation May Be Attached to Health Care
The deal would bundle a bill on student loan overhaul into an expedited budget package along with the Democratic health care legislation.
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- Chicago News Cooperative: Budget Woes Have Schools Expecting the Worst
Uncertainty about the amount of state aid in the 2009-10 school year has school districts across Illinois in a bind over staffing and planning for the coming year.
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- FAME School Gets Extension of Its Charter Despite Audit
Despite a highly critical state audit, the FAME school won renewal of its charter for another five years in a vote by the Alameda County Board of Education.
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- Sports Briefing | Football: Woman Hired as Coach
Calvin Coolidge High School in Washington made the rare move of hiring a woman, Natalie Randolph, to coach its football team.
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- Texas Hearing Considers Deeper Conservative Stamp on Textbooks
Proposed changes to the state?s social studies curriculum would portray conservatives in a more positive light.
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- Obama?s Student Loan Overhaul Endangered
House Democrats were desperately trying to prevent an ambitious overhaul of student loan programs from becoming a casualty of the health care battle.
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- Kansas City to Close Nearly Half Its Schools
The Board of Education in Kansas City, Mo., accepted a sweeping and contentious plan to shrink its school system in the face of dwindling enrollment, budget cuts and a $50 million deficit.
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- Panel Proposes Single Standard for All Schools
The new standards, which experts said could well be adopted by a majority of states, would replace the nation?s checkerboard of locally written standards.
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- Pressed by Charters, Harlem Public Schools Turn to Marketing
Principals in Harlem are using firms to help lure students with Web sites, brochures and open houses.
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Channel: U.S. Department of Education
- Low-Performing Schools
West Virginia will receive $21.9 million to turn around its lowest achieving schools through the School Improvement Grants program. More
- Recovery Act Funds for States
Florida, Iowa, Michigan, New Mexico, Ohio, and Utah are among the states to receive additional Recovery Act funds to help support education jobs. More
- ED Announces Civil Rights Review
ED will examine the academic opportunities and access of English Learner students in the Los Angeles Unified School District to assess whether they are being denied equal educational opportunities. More
- Investing in Innovation
The grant application and final priorities for the $650 million Investing in Innovation Fund (i3) are now available. More
- Education Stakeholders Forum
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act is the focus of our next Education Stakeholders Forum on March 19. More
- High School Commencement Challenge
The White House and ED announced the Race to the Top High School Commencement Challenge, inviting public schools to compete to have President Obama speak at their graduation this spring. More
- Detroit Discusses Turnaround Efforts
More than 250 community leaders, educators, parents, and students gathered to discuss turning around the Detroit area's lowest-achieving schools. More
- WNET.org Celebration of Teaching and Learning
Secretary Arne Duncan participated in the Celebration of Teaching and Learning in New York City, where over 8,500 educators across the nation took part in discussions about the future of our schools. More
- WhiteHouse.gov Features Education
Each day this week WhiteHouse.gov will highlight ED efforts to help reach the President's goal of having the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by 2020. More
- Child Nutrition Act
Agriculture Secretary Vilsack's priorities for reauthorizing the Child Nutrition Act "would be a major step in the right direction for the health and well-being of our school children," Secretary Duncan said. More
Channel: Teacher Magazine: News and Information for Teacher Leaders
Channel: Techlearning
- Bronx Cheer by Christine Weiser, Managing Editor
I?ve been reporting on education for a long time. I?ve been to countless education conferences, reviewed thousands of press releases, and talked to hundreds of educators about how they are changing the lives of young people through the effective use More
- New online, affordable SAT prep
Archipelago Learning has announced the
introduction of Study Island SAT, an affordable web-based SAT review
program.
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- All about flight
Toby the wizard wants to fly. Learn how three items can help him accomplish this goal. Real world information and video can be found on this site helping to further explain the properties of flight.courtesy of netTrekker More
- New version of database software
- Web filter monitors and reports also
M86 Security has
introduced a single appliance which
provides filtering, monitoring and reporting capabilities to protect
students from inappropriate Web and Instant Messenger use.
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- Interactive, collaborative digital learning environment
Follett Software Company
has introduced Cognite™, a digital learning environment that integrates
discovery tools, retrieval and communications. More
- Network management software upgrades
Netop™ has released an update to Netop ProtectOn Pro™, a comprehensive solution for managing networked computers. More
- Gather and save classroom data while offline
Teachscape has released Teachscape
Instruction | Desktop, which allows users to gather instruction data
through classroom walkthroughs on a netbook, laptop or tablet PC, with
or without an Internet connection. More
- Students' numerical prize program expanded
- Achievement Academy
The Academy of Achievement offers biographical sketches of hundreds of modern "leaders, visionaries, and pioneers" from around the world and from the fields of the arts, business, public service, science and exploration, and sports. Learn both what makes these men More
Channel: NPR Topics: Education
- Charges Of 'Re-Segregation' At N.C. High School
A high school in Wayne County, N.C., has a student population that is poor and 99 percent black. That's not the case at other public high schools in the same county. The disparity has prompted a civil rights inquiry — and complaints about what one leader calls "re-segregation." More
- Schools Across U.S. Grapple With Closures
Kansas City, Mo., has just approved one of the largest school closures in the nation's history. All over the U.S., the number of districts shutting schools is growing rapidly in the face of declines in both revenue and enrollment. More
- Mass School Closures Approved In Kansas City, Mo.
Facing potential bankruptcy, the board that governs the once flush-with-cash Kansas City school district is taking the unusual and contentious step of shuttering almost half its schools. More
- L.A.'s Inner City Schools Struggle With Layoffs
Teacher layoff's in the Los Angeles school system have hit inner city schools especially hard, and more layoff notices are being sent out this week. Markham Middle School in Watts has lost at least half its faculty since the last round of layoffs. In many cases, school officials haven't been able to find new full-time teachers and have to rely on subs. More
- Draft National Education Standards Unveiled
Schools took another big step toward an elusive goal: establishing basic education standards that could apply to nearly every student in the US. The draft proposal released Wednesday tries to unify what students need to know about English and math at each grade level. But supporters of the effort still face skepticism. More
- Chicago Tries Management-Style On Schools
Some urban school systems are turning to the tough tactics businesses and law enforcement use to improve employee performance. The sometimes-contentious approach, known as performance management, has yielded promising results in Houston, New York and some other districts. In Chicago, it's forcing city educators to embrace a cultural revolution in how they go about their work. More
- Good Teaching Is About Hard Work, Not A Halo
Doug Lemov, a teacher himself, believes passionately that champion teachers are made, not born. He studied successful teachers, and describes specific classroom management techniques that could help all teachers be more effective educators. More
- Proposed Set Of U.S. Academic Standards Unveiled
The blueprint released by a group of governors and school superintendents lays out what students should be learning in math and English every year from kindergarten through high school. The plan is part of a push to iron out the jumble of state standards and raise expectations for American schools. More
- Global University Eliminates Barriers To Education
At University of the People, students from across the globe have access to free online classes in business administration and computer science. The school has attracted about 380 students from 81 countries. But in order to survive, the university needs more to enroll, its founder says. More
- Cost Of Medical School Rises In Recession
A New Jersey family is struggling to pay for their daughter's medical school education. They know that the average doctor graduates with about $150,000 of student loans, and wonder how they're ever going to pay it. More
Channel: 21st Century Collaborative
- More Reflection On TedxNYED - Learner First
Would love your comments on these ideas — let’s have a conversation.
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- Lessig on Openness
Lawrence Lessig, at a talk given at TEDxNYED March 6, 2010, does a wonderful job of modeling how we can work together to accomplish copyright policy change that is in the best interest of freedom and our kids’ future, rather than reinforcing the polarizing type of rhetoric heard from both conservatives and liberals alike. He [...] More
- TedxNYED: Learner First
I am driving home from NYC and while I know I should be devoting my time to the PLP communities, I couldn’t help myself- I had to come here first and reflect.
It is such a rare thing when I have a chance to attend an event as a learner only and at TEDxNYED I was [...] More
- Dream Catcher and Value Adder
I had an epiphany today. For most of you who lead change, run a company or ministry this is probably obvious. But for me– not so much. I was listening to John Maxwell on TV today and he shared something I had never considered. My mission, my purpose in all the work I do, whether [...] More
- The Notion of Leadership is Shifting
What do you think of when you try and define the concept leadership? I surveyed my Twitter community recently and was struck with the diversity represented as they grappled with the idea. Most of the definitions spoke to leadership belonging to a group broader than individual leaders. Which is a shift from the dictionary definition:
lead?er?ship
1.
the [...] More
- Smarter- for being at Educon
Definitions of smart on the Web:
showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness
chic: elegant and stylish; “chic elegance”; “a smart new dress”; “a suit of voguish cut”
bright: characterized by quickness and ease in learning; “some children are brighter in one subject than another”; “smart children talk earlier than the average”
fresh: improperly forward or bold; “don’t be [...] More
- Fruits of Labor
In education we do not get to see the fruit of our labor until many years have gone past. But when it happens it always makes a profound impact. Today was just such a day. As many of you know I worked with the Alabama Best Practices Center for four years in Alabama with schools [...] More
- Leadership is?
Lately, I have been thinking quite a bit about the shift in educational leadership that has occurred or has to occur in these changing times. What aspects of leadership works in this new era and what needs to shift in order to help school remain relevant in the lives of the students we serve.
I turned [...] More
- Why Are We Here?
Photo credit: http://thenewpostliterate.blogspot.com/2009/01/dr-john-m-bennetts-solo-and.html
In the PLPNetbooks community (Australia work) this blog post surfaced after my interview with Steve Hargadon on The Future of Education
The Title of the post is the same as mine.. Why Are We Here? It follows:
Ok … Now I’ve got your attention
I’ve just finished listening to the lastest episode of the [...] More
- PLP Described in Under a Minute.
Ever wondered what PLP is all about?
Susan Carter Morgan shares about her PLP experience.
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