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Channel: Teacher Magazine: News and Information for Teacher Leaders
Channel: U.S. Department of Education
- Enrolling Uninsured Kids in Health Care
Secretaries Sebelius and Duncan announced a national coalition to enroll five million children in Medicaid and CHIP within five years. More
- Support for Education Jobs
Alabama, Maine, and Tennessee are among the states that will receive funding to support education jobs. More
- Beyond the Bubble Tests
Read Secretary Duncan's remarks to state leaders about Race to the Top Assessment winners and the next generation of assessments. More
- Joint Agreement for New Orleans Recovery
Secretary Duncan and other Obama administration officials announced a $1.8 billion agreement to help renovate and rebuild schools in New Orleans. More
- Back to School Tour
Secretary Duncan is taking a bus tour to visit schools, honor and listen to teachers, meet with parents and students, and highlight success. See video, photos, and stories in the blog. More
- Remarks in Little Rock
Secretary Duncan discussed his Back to School Tour and the Obama Administration's education agenda, and he thanked America's teachers -- "our unsung heroes" -- in Little Rock, AR. More
- Emergency Response Plans
ED grants will help 98 school districts strengthen their emergency response plans. More
- Charter School Grants
Charter school grants to state agencies in AR, CA, CO, DC, GA, IN, MI, MO, NH, RI, SC, and TX will help increase public school options. More
- Additional Recovery Funds for California
New York and California are among the states that will receive additional Recovery Act funds to support jobs and drive education reforms. More
- Gainful Employment Analysis
Read the analysis that helped inform ED's proposed regulation that provides a standard for occupational and for-profit postsecondary programs to demonstrate that they prepare students for gainful employment. More
Channel: Teacher Magazine: News and Information for Teacher Leaders
Channel: Techlearning
- Two new mini notebook PCs
HP today enhanced its portfolio of mini notebook PCs with new products that span consumer, business and education markets More
- Understanding Remix by Dean Shareski
While I spent a great deal of time online, even more than my own kids, they always seem to keep me in touch with the latest YouTube phenomenas.
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- Accidental Scientist: Music
Learn about the science of music at this clever site. Activities include writing, mixing, and experimenting with music, videos that explain tuning, stepping (or rhythmic movement), instrument building, and the changes music makes when played in different kinds of spaces and More
- Update to speech app
AssistiveWare® today announced the release of Proloquo2Go™ 1.4 for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
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- Navigating the teen brain
Brain mapping and other
ultra-specialized technologies are answering long-held questions and
dispelling persistent myths about how teenagers learn. More
- Field Trip Earth
Take a fascinating look at the Atlantic Sea Turtles (Green, Leatherback, Loggerhead, and Kemp's ridley), all of which are threatened or endangered. Join researchers as they track migration, investigate nesting behaviors, or rehabilitate stranded or injured turtles. courtesy of netTrekker More
- New affordable PSAT prep can be fundraiser, too
- E-learning company names new CEO
DreamBox Learning today named Ms. Jessie Woolley-Wilson to serve as the company?s Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. More
- Video contest for educators and students opens
AVerMedia Information, Inc. announced today the launch of the 2010 AVerMedia Interactive Classroom Video Contest More
- Math app + many users = success
Independent developer Aki Yokosuna today announces the commercial success of his math-oriented mobile utility myCalc. More
Channel: NPR Topics: Education
- Students Quiz Education Sec. Arne Duncan
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has spent much of the back-to-school season talking with teachers and parents. His department recently oversaw the awarding of more than $4 billion to public schools in select states. While he's addressed countless teachers in recent weeks, now, he tackles students' questions. More
- Women's Salaries Back On Top For Younger Set
Unmarried women between the ages of 22 and 30 are making 8 percent more than men in the same demographic, according to a new analysis of government data by a private research firm. It's partly because more women are college educated. But overall, women still make less than men. More
- BYU Going Independent In Football
BYU says it is leaving the Mountain West Conference and will go independent in football while joining the West Coast Conference in all other sports in the 2011-2012 school year. More
- 'L.A. Times' Database Angers Teachers, Union
The Los Angeles Times has published a controversial database giving ratings for individual teachers in the huge L.A. Unified School District. Teachers and their union are outraged, and claim the ratings are a false measure of classroom performance. More
- Parents Push For Diversity In New Orleans' Schools
In the city's public schools, test scores are climbing, charter schools are opening all the time, and facilities are being upgraded. But the population of the schools is overwhelmingly African-American. The head of one charter school network says it takes a long time to break old patterns. More
- One School District's Use Of Value-Added Analysis
NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Donald Martin, superintendent of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School District in North Carolina, which has been using value-added analysis in evaluating its teachers for the past three years. Martin says the method is only one part of teacher evaluations, and that data collected is for internal use only. More
- Teacher Performance Data Stirs Evaluation Debate
Everyone agrees teacher performance is crucial to student achievement, but there is no consensus on how best to evaluate educators. The Los Angeles Times has fanned the heated debate by publishing the names of 6,000 L.A. teachers, along with data showing their students' test performance. More
- University Attendance Scanners Make Some Uneasy
Northern Arizona University has installed electronic devices that record student attendance in an effort to boost freshmen grades and lift lagging graduation rates. But some students say the monitoring makes them feel less independent. More
- 'L.A. Times' Teacher Ratings Database Stirs Debate
The Los Angeles Times has promised to release the names of elementary teachers in Los Angeles, along with data showing how much their students improved on standardized tests. Reporters say the intent is to help parents measure teacher effectiveness, but the database has sparked a national debate on how to evaluate teachers. More
- How To Make College-Bound Students Financial Pros
New college students will have to master tough personal finance lessons early. Fahiya Rashid, a student at the University of California, Irvine, says her dad warned her of the problems he had. Rashid says her dad had more than a dozen credit cards and took out students loans. She says he's still paying the money back. More
Channel: 21st Century Collaborative
- Leadership Day- A Day Late
How ironic right? So typical of leadership today (crazed with busy) that I am writing my leadership day post a day late. Indicative for sure of why we are not moving along faster in our leading of transformational change.
We are so busy and overwhelmed with the work that who has time to change? For [...] More
- A Poem by Bill Schechter
?SO, DID THEY HAPPEN TO MENTION…??
- A Poem about ?Underperforming? Schools,
about Turning Around & Turning Out-
They say that the tests scores are too low,
Did they mention my students are hungry?
that the school is underperforming and must be
Did they say many have no fathers at home.
?turned around,? that all the teachers must be
that [...] More
- Reflective Leadership
Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
- William James
It is sometimes frightening to observe the success which comes even to the outlaw with a polished technique.
- Phillip D. Reed
If [...] More
- Repertoires of Collaborative Practice
Laura Varlas wrote an interesting piece in ASCD “Caught in the Middle” July 2010 | Volume 52 | Number 7
Called- Looking Within: Teachers Leading Their Own Learning
She had me at her opening line, “The most powerful and ample resource for change in education is teachers’ own expertise. Yet, teachers are regularly overstepped when it comes [...] More
- Matters of the Heart
A good friend told me that he heard another friend whining about how he wished educational bloggers would get back to blogging from the heart. It struck a cord with me. While I am anything but a Chicken Soup for the Soul kind of blogger? (more emotion than substance in posts) I do think there [...] More
- Learning with Leaders at ISTE Bootcamp
Yesterday was fun. I was asked to be one of the presenters at the TIE/ISTE Leadership Bootcamp. More importantly I was also allowed to be one of the learners.
During the facilitated round table discussions we had a process activity that I participated in as a learner.
It was a 4 step writing process. Which I think [...] More
- Sharing and Thinking at a Deeper Level
Alec Couros and I were talking the other day and I was reminded of a post I have been wanting to do about deep thinking, sharing and action. We originally connected to talk about a new project PLP is sponsoring, a virtual Institute for Higher Education, which Alec will lead, but it took us awhile [...] More
- Building Knowledge at 30,000 Feet
While I am becoming more and more dissatisfied with Delta as my preferred airline because of treatment by most (not all) gate folks and flight attendants, I am finding that I am enjoying the networking opportunities with the folks I meet there more and more.
I travel. A lot. Because of that I often get bumped [...] More
- Zombies, Balance and Kids
I am a big fan of my adult kids. I really am. If I wasn’t their parent I would surely want to be their friend as they turned out to be really fun, creative, decent people. (on a side note– I am really glad too since my mother constantly told me I would reap what [...] More
- PLP: We?re Expanding!
Powerful Learning Practice is expanding our offerings as we enter our fourth year of PLP. I can?t believe we?re finishing up our third year of this work already, and I can?t say enough about the amazing team of educators who have joined us in this work; we both feel very fortunate to work with all [...] More
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