Common Standards Set for Federal Education Research
Source: Education Week
East Lansing :: MI :: USA | updated 2013-05-07 12:57:27 -0700 | education-news
Sparks San Francisco As part of an effort to improve the quality of educational research and make it less balkanized, the National Science Foundation and the Institute of Education Sciences have introduced a common set of evidence standards for federally...
Alternative Proposed to IEP Due Process System
Source: Education Week
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-07 12:57:25 -0700 | education-news
Due process hearings involving students with disabilities are adversarial, expensive, and distracting, says the American Association of School Administrators. Now, the group is proposing a fix: a new process that would bring in an outside consultant who would create an...
Battle Over Evaluations Continues in Buffalo
Source: Education Week
Buffalo :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-07 12:57:25 -0700 | education-news
Battle Over Evaluations Continues in Buffalo The Buffalo, N.Y., school system says it will no longer honor a deal it had made with its teachers' union not to dismiss educators based on new evaluationsbut the union is pledging to fight...
Louisiana Ends Data-Storage Arrangement with inBloom
Source: Education Week
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-07 12:57:24 -0700 | education-news
Schools superintendent John White decided last month to withdraw student data from the Atlanta-based nonprofit organization inBloom, which had been storing it for the state, and to have discussions with parents about concerns for the confidentiality of data that included...
Number of Rural Schoolhouses is on the Decline in America
Source: Education News
Montana City :: MT :: USA | updated 2013-05-07 09:40:56 -0700 | education-news
According to John Hill, the executive [...] Anyone who read Anne of Green Gables, the Little House on the Prairie series or even Tom Sawyer is familiar with the country school house where kids of many ages come together to...
Texas Plan for Virtual School Expansion Hits Financial Snag
Source: Education News
San Antonio :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-07 09:40:55 -0700 | education-news
Currently a measure is pending in front of state Senate that would increase the number of students who are currently enrolled in online courses in lieu of traditional ones but the efforts to get [...] Texas lawmakers' efforts to expand...
Why America's 'hacker generation' can thrive as teachers
Source: Education News
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-07 08:51:22 -0700 | education-news
More From Today marks Teacher Appreciation Day in the United States , but it's fair to say many teachers veterans and newcomers alike aren't feeling much appreciation lately. Nearly half of all teachers leave the profession within the first five...
University Tech Leaders Talk Impact of MOOCs
Source: Education News
Amherst :: MA :: USA | updated 2013-05-07 07:53:56 -0700 | education-news
Chief Information Officers from over 40 colleges and universities around the country gathered for a panel during The Higher Education Technology Forum in San Diego last weekend to talk about the impact massive online open courses are likely to have...
Transgender student may wear boy's graduation gown
Source: Education Week
Red Lion :: PA :: USA | updated 2013-05-07 06:36:14 -0700 | education-news
Pa. (AP) A transgender student in central Pennsylvania will be allowed to wear a boy's colors to next month's graduation ceremony but will be identified by his female name, a resolution the American Civil Liberties Union said Monday doesn't go...
US education chief, governor read to children
Source: Education Week
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-07 06:36:09 -0700 | education-news
Pre-kindergartners at a Detroit school received a visit Monday from President Barack Obama's education secretary and Gov. Rick Snyder, who read to them from the book "The Rainbow Fish." Secretary Arne Duncan and Snyder also talked with fifth graders during...
Coalition Focusing on Boys of Color Honors Outstanding Public Schools
Source: Education News
Merrillville :: IN :: USA | updated 2013-05-07 06:16:25 -0700 | education-news
Academy in Minneapolis as one of the nation's most effective schools with African American boys? What are some common characteristics among the schools selected? Here's some of what I learned in talking with officials at three of the five schools...
Rifts Deepen Over Direction of Ed. Policy in U.S.
Source: Education Week
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-07 05:47:38 -0700 | education-news
In statehouses and cities across the country, battles are raging over the direction of education policyfrom the standards that will shape what students learn to how test results will be used to judge a teacher's performance. Students and teachers, in...
Quinn Offers Plan to Add Slots for Gifted in City Schools
Source: NY Times
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-06 21:42:33 -0700 | education-news
May 7, 2013 Seeking to address pervasive racial disparities at the top echelons of New York City schools, Christine C. Quinn , the City Council speaker, plans on Tuesday to propose a significant overhaul of gifted and talented programs that...
The Chancellor's Lament
Source: NY Times
Charlotte :: NC :: USA | updated 2013-05-06 20:18:07 -0700 | education-news
Conrad/The New York Times Joe Nocera But you won't find a lot of people giving Thorp, 48, a pat on the back. For the last three years, North Carolina was mired in an athletic scandal . And the fact that...
Teacher Pay Hurt by Recession, Report Says
Source: NY Times
Milwaukee :: WI :: USA | updated 2013-05-06 20:18:06 -0700 | education-news
That showed up in shrinking employment, but also in teacher salaries. According to a report being released Tuesday, the vast majority of teachers in the nation's largest school districts took a pay cut or saw their pay frozen at least...
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