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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan released the draft grant guidelines for $3.5 billion in stimulus funding that will be used to turn around the country's worst-performing low-income schools over the next three years.
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan released the draft grant guidelines for $3.5 billion in stimulus funding that will be used to turn around the country's worst-performing low-income schools over the next three years.
Student mobility in Milwaukee could hamper the state's latest attempt to evaluate voucher schools, warns a report from the Legislative Audit Bureau released Wednesday.
"Neuroscientist Adele Diamond is helping to bring unfolding knowledge about the brain into classrooms and educational systems, and in the process she's challenging fundamental modern notions about ...
Tagged: educational-power-of-play-m...
Started by Anna Billings in Learners, learning, and learning styles. Last reply by Connie Weber 22 hours ago.
Universal Design for Learning; texts in entirely new forms. CAST You've got to see this. Check out the CAST website. This is what I'm looking at in a lecture now at Learning and the Brain (confere...
Tagged: digital+texts, texts, UDL
Started by Connie Weber in Learners, learning, and learning styles 23 hours ago.
Sean Nash's blogpost: "Tinkering: A 'Boys Only' Club?" No one says it like Sean. Wow--what a great personal reflection on the edweek article, "Teaching Girls to Tinker." What did Sean find out fro...
Tagged: tinkering, gender+differences, Nash
Started by Connie Weber in Learners, learning, and learning styles. Last reply by Ellen Pham 1 day ago.
Hi All... hope this finds everyone well. Those of you who have read some of my other posts on the subject of school integration may be seeing a theme in my thinking on public school transfromation ...
Tagged: obama, integration, SES
Started by Mike in UNCATEGORIZED 1 day ago.
I am trying to plan such an event with game developers, teachers and educators and students. Aimed at exploring the different perspectives on this topic. Even if you can't participate (thought it's...
Tagged: education, event, networking, social, online
Started by Or-Tal Kiriati in Educational technology Nov 20.
This class will focus on ways the bricks and mortar teacher can get started with online tools such as a wiki, blog or You Tube. Effective Online Teaching - 2 by Don W. Brown Get your own Virtual...
Tagged: teaching, teacher, successful, online
Started by Sukhpreet Kaur in UNCATEGORIZED Nov 18.
"Teachers at Work: Improving Teacher Quality Through School Design" --by Elena Silva In Education Sector, Silva talks about how we need to "...fundamentally overhaul the way the work of teachers i...
Tagged: school+design, teacher+quality, education+sector, silva
Started by Connie Weber in Journal articles and education in the news. Last reply by Connie Weber Nov 17.
Hi all, I caught an Meet the Press segment on Sunday in which Arne Duncan Newt Gingrich and Al Sharpton+ were interviewed about education reform and the "Race to the top" The interview is here ; ...
Started by scott smith in School organization and education reform Nov 17.
"Best Practices" --by Nicholas Meier Here's a great essay on how one size truly does not fit all. From Nicholas Meier's blog entry: "Let’s consider an analogy. Let us say I want to find the "bes...
Tagged: Best+practices
Started by Connie Weber in Learners, learning, and learning styles Nov 14.
"It isn't difficult to teach those under the right 40% or so of the Gaussian how science works. What's more, it it far more important to teach how it works than it is to try and stuff a bunch of da...
Tagged: methods, facts, science_education
Started by Ian Carmichael in Journal articles and education in the news. Last reply by Ed Hitchcock Nov 13.
"The one reason Duncan's 'Race to the Top' will fail" --Washington Post "When 'Race to the Top' fails, as it will, the main reason won’t be any of those currently being advanced by the corporate i...
Tagged: reform, stimulus, brady, Duncan, Race+to+the+top
Started by Connie Weber in Journal articles and education in the news. Last reply by Connie Weber Nov 13.
People often ask me, "What do you want to 'do' with your life." I don't always know how to answer that question. I know that I want to teach, but beyond that what do I really want to do? There is ...
Tagged: standards, history, curriculum, concept-based
Started by Daniel Kam in Class activities and teaching practices. Last reply by Mike Nov 11.
"As part of the University’s centenary celebrations, and in association with the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology’s Annual Meeting, David Attenborough came to Bristol to deliver an illustrated ta...
Tagged: Wallace, Darwin, evolution, Attenborough
Started by Connie Weber in UNCATEGORIZED. Last reply by Ian Carmichael Nov 11.
"Googling Fights Dimentia, Study Suggests" --Ker Than, in National Geographic News "Using search engines may help stave off dementia and memory loss, a new brain-scan study suggests. Scientists...
Tagged: elders, senior+citizens, google, dementia
Started by Connie Weber in Journal articles and education in the news. Last reply by Or-Tal Kiriati Nov 8.
Massive Online Open Courses now have their own acronym (MOOC) and are drawing some research. Here's a 'paper' investigating the technological components of such courses based one on case study - an...
Tagged: technological_tools, social_networking, online_learning
Started by Ian Carmichael in Journal articles and education in the news Nov 7.
What do you think? What can you tell?
Tagged: classroom, program, technology
Started by Or-Tal Kiriati in Educational technology. Last reply by Laura Gibbs Nov 6.
Here's a fascinating story about the difference one person can make in the world. In what began as a protest to a large oil spill in the San Francisco Bay (1971), John Francis, the Planet Walker, s...
Tagged: Making-a-difference-without..., John-Francis, The-Planet-Walker
Started by Anna Billings in Worldchanging and the good people who do it. Last reply by Connie Weber Nov 5.
Last year for one of my college courses I took a class in teaching reading to elementary school children. For this class we needed to do atleast 15 hours of tutoring in reading that semester. I was...
Started by Sarah Summey in UNCATEGORIZED. Last reply by Connie Weber Nov 5.
A recent experiment conducted by the Haifa University claims it's possible. I invite you to share your opinion: http://www.math4mobile.com/ Read more here.
Tagged: learning, techniques, tools, teaching, phones
Started by Or-Tal Kiriati in Educational technology. Last reply by Ian Carmichael Nov 5.
Always a thrill to witness full-out, high-spirited expression from a performer. This is a first audition on a UK talent show (the X Factor). His profession? Teacher! Wonderful that he gets a big ch...
Tagged: teacher-performs-in-UK-tale..., inspiring-performance, Danyl-Johnson
Started by Anna Billings in Worldchanging and the good people who do it. Last reply by Or-Tal Kiriati Nov 1.
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