Top Education Blogs
Share the Top Education Blogs on
PrincipalsPage The Blog
How is it possible that January is gone? Where did it go? I need more than 31 days to get used to writing 2010 on my checks. Never mind, I don’t use checks anymore… it’s 2010. It’s been 67 days since Thanksgiving. 37 days since Christmas. This amazes me. And saddens me. It’s been 164...
It’s possible I’m not going to win the Father of the Year Award anytime soon. Or ever. Actually it’s not just possible, it’s pretty much a mortal lock. It’s not because I call my daughter “The Evil Spawn” in a moderately well-read blog (although that certainly doesn’t help my cause). It’s because I coach...
200th Subscriber. Am I Better For It?
It’s official. And a little sad. The PrincipalsPage.com Blog just got it’s 200th subscriber (actually it was the 202nd, but I’ve been busy… with my day job and all). This means two things. One, 200 people receive the newest blog entries via email as soon as I slop them down and hit the...
When schools face financial difficulties it’s easy to get bogged down. How? By complaining (I mean complaining more than usual… not that this ever happens in the teacher’s lounge or at administrators’ meetings). It’s easy to blame politicians for our troubles in education (I personally enjoy this a LOT). Constant complaining seldom makes things...
Schools in America are in trouble. And I’m not talking about academically. At least not in this blog. I’m talking about financially. We could argue about what has caused this gigantic monetary mess, but I don’t have that kind of time. Ahh, who am I kidding. I’ve got nothing but time (as these endless...
We Need to Stop Teaching Our Students How to Write.
Why does it take schools so long to change? Why do I feel the need to write so many blogs about change? The answer to the first question is we’ve been allowed to rest on our laurels. Question number two, I’m either obsessive compulsive or just weird. Could go either way. Whatever it...
Schoolfamily.com blog entries
A Simple Card Game to Promote National Math Standards
“Roll for a Card” is a fun game that I have played with my own children and students to sharpen early learning skills. It's fun, easy, and takes about 15-20 minutes to play. Items Needed: One die from a pair of dice, and a deck of playing cards....
Improve Your Young Child's Drawing and Handwriting Skills
In my last post I shared some simple activities that can help your young child improve cutting skills. Today's games are very effective in improving your child's drawing and handwriting skills. Fill a shirt-sized cardboard box top with sand or salt. (Don’t use sugar because...
Healthy School Lunches: an Oxymoron?
Just came across this blog called "Fed-up: School Lunch Project" and was very intrigued. I've read with great interest countless articles about what parents are doing to reform school lunches, and how to have healthy school kids, but thought that this blog was unique. For starters, it's written by a teacher. &n Read more......
Simple Activities Can Improve Fine Motor Skills
Early school success is often based on the mechanics of a young child’s fine motor skills. These skills are needed for cutting, coloring, pasting and printing.In these next few weeks I’ll share some tips and activities that can help your child develop and streamline the fine motor skills needed to...
How to Make Math Fun for your Child
Math facts + word problems + graphing ... does this add up to math anxiety for you and your child or does it equal fun? If you said anxiety you are not alone. I must confess that I was once in that camp as well. Math was never my favorite...
Grandparents Can Play an Important Role In Educating Young Children
Research confirms the importance of grandparents in a child’s life. The time that grandparents spend, their patience, and their full-life experiences are invaluable to grandchildren. Grandparents are a wonderful resource of knowledge and unconditional love. The recent loss of my mother-in-law, Read more......
Moving at the Speed of Creativity
IMPACT Oklahoma Grant Workshop 2010 Notes
These are my notes from the February 4, 2010, informational meeting held by IMPACT Oklahoma at the Oklahoma City Community Foundation. I’m here on behalf of our Storychasers nonprofit and the Celebrate Oklahoma Voices oral history / digital storytelling project. MY COMMENTS AND REFLECTIONS DURING THIS WORKSHOP ARE IN ALL...
A case study on why team blog MODERATION is essential in schools
Yesterday in a full-day workshop I facilitated for CASTLE with Minnesota K-12 principals in Rochester, one of the participants told me about a very negative situation which took place in November 2009 involving a class blog in Owatonna, Minnesota. According to Curt Brown’s November 20, 2009 article for the Minneapolis / St...
Blog comment moderation: How and Why?
I posted the following as an entry on my “Technology 4 Teachers” Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) blog for Spring 2010. Question: How can I turn on comment moderation on my Blogger blog? Why is this recommended? Answer: I recommend all educators turn on comment moderation for ALL blog posts and other social media websites...
Crescent Public Schools: The Eyes of Oklahoma Are Upon You!
Tomorrow on Thursday, February 4, 2010, the Oklahoma State Board of Education will hold it’s monthly meeting at Crescent Public Schools. This is a BIG deal. Crescent Public Schools is one of only FIVE public school districts in Oklahoma (out of 530+) which is currently implementing a 1:1 learning initiative....
Present at OSSBA in August 2010
I received the following via email today from Terri Silver, Director of Board Development for the Oklahoma State School Boards Association: With the beginning of the New Year, the annual OSSBA/CCOSA Conference and Exposition will soon be here! This year’s conference will be August 27-29th at the Cox Convention Center in...
eDiscovery requirements and archiving student email
Kevin Jarrett tweeted me the following question today: If you happen to be reading this post at a school or in another location which currently blocks access to Flickr, here’s the text version: Hey @wfryer looking for the 411 on eDiscovery: http://bit.ly/9hcxe9 (your wiki) Bottom line: do schools have to archive STUDENT...
2tor, Inc.
Race to the Top Competition Inspires much needed Education Reform
Think this is a bad time to become a teacher? Think again. America is seeing an unprecedented amount of energy being put into nationwide education reform. Through President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment act, billions of dollars are being poured into our public schools in an attempt to revamp and...
My Teacher, My Hero Hits the Red Carpet
On Tuesday, October 20th, “My Teacher, My Hero” hit the red carpet at the 2009 Angel Ball. In it’s the sixth go-around, the Angel Ball drew a number of celebrities, attending to show support for Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation for Cancer Research and to participate in a night of entertainment and...
My Teacher, My Hero: Honoring the Teachers that Have Changed Our Lives
My Teacher, My Hero today announced the launch of MyTeacherMyHero.com, its new user-generated video sharing website that allows users to share stories with the rest of the world about teachers that have changed their lives. MyTeacherMyHero.com is the first web site dedicated to allowing anyone with an internet connection to...
Along with its updated design that offers ease of navigation with a contemporary style, the new MAT@USC Master of Arts in Teaching website has several new features to offer prospective and current students. Included in these new features is a virtual tour of the MAT@USC program. The tour takes you from...
Welch Bets Education Will Thrive Online
According to the Wall Street Journal former GE CEO, Jack Welch, is paying $2 million for a 12% share in the Chancellor university System LLC, which will convert the formerly bankrupt Meyer University of Cleveland into Chancellor University. Chancellor University aims to exploit a rising interest in online education by...
USC Goes Beyond Text with its Innovative Online Graduate Education Program
Click here for the article....
apophenia
Upcoming Mary Gray talk on on "Out in the Country: Youth, Media & Queer Visibility in Rural America"
It used to be the case that all of the queer youth living in rural America ran away to the city to find others like them. The Internet has dramatically changed this. More and more, rural queer youth are building out networks of other queer rural youth, helping generate a......
Public by Default, Private when Necessary
This post was originally written for the DML Central Blog. If you're interested in Digital Media and Learning, you definitely want to check this blog out. With Facebook systematically dismantling its revered privacy infrastructure, I think it's important to drill down on the issue of privacy as it relates to......
whose voice do you hear? gender issues and success
Growing up, I loved to debate. With anyone. My debating tone used to drive my mother batty because she thought I was yelling at her. Exasperated, I would often bark back that I was simply debating. Over the years, I realized that my debating tone is one of such confidence......
Facebook's move ain't about changes in privacy norms
When I learned that Mark Zuckerberg effectively argued that 'the age of privacy is over' (read: ReadWriteWeb), I wanted to scream. Actually, I did. And still am. The logic goes something like this: People I knew didn't used to like to be public. Now "everyone" is being public. Ergo, privacy......
Race and Social Network Sites: Putting Facebook's Data in Context
A few weeks ago, Facebook's data team released a set of data addressing a simple but complex question: How Diverse is Facebook? Given my own work over the last two years concerning the intersection of race/ethnicity/class and social network sites, I feel the need to respond. And, with pleasure, I'm......
"Do you See What I See?: Visibility of Practices through Social Media"
Knowing that I was going to speak at two different events within a week of one another to distinctly different audiences needing to hear a similar message, I decided to craft one talk for both Supernova and Le Web. This talk is one of my more serious talks, looking at......
O'DonnellWeb
I took advantage of being snowed in to finish up a site for my neighborhood home owners association. As usual, if you see the lurking typos that I’m missing please let me know in the comments....
This is why we can’t have good health care
One of my prescriptions, usually $10 for a 30 day supply (generic) was $30 today with my new insurance. In looking at the prescription closely I realized the pharmacy gave me the name brand, not the generic. When I went back and questioned, they told me that my insurance company...
We interrupt this post free month to acknowledge the unfortunately reality that my daughter is 14 years old today. Only 10 more years until she is allowed to date!...
I’m have a blast at the new job, but really, that is about the only thing that has my interest these days. Blogging will resume when I get inspired. It could be tomorrow, it could be never....
OMG! You’re the same age as my mom!
Me: I’d like a Guinness please. Waitress: Can I see your ID. Me as I hand over ID: Those two are mine, (pointing at kids) it’s not biologically possible for me to be under 21. Waitress: OMG! You’re the same age as my mom. Me: That is not going to help your tip. This...
It’s like UPS has never seen snow before
Yes, we got 2 feet of snow around these parts over the weekend. It didn’t stop the USPS and Fed Ex from delivering every day this week though. It’s a feat UPS has not managed not once. Monday: 3 packages out for delivery for Michelle. I also have one I’m expecting,...
GlobalHigherEd
Source: AHELO slideshow (see below) as translated by Wordle ...
OECD launches first global assessment of higher education learning outcomes
Editor’s note: the slideshow below about the Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO) initiative, and the associated press release, were kindly provided to GlobalHigherEd by Richard Yelland, Head of the Education Management and Infrastructure Division (Directorate for Education), OECD. Coverage of the AHELO launch yesterday, at the Council for...
TUNING USA: Echoes and translations of the Bologna Process in the US higher education landscape
As noted in two earlier GlobalHigherEd entries (‘Bologna: beyond 2010 and over the Ocean – but where to? On new Bologna reports and C. Adelman’s last essay‘ by Pavel Zgaga; ‘Tuning USA’: reforming higher education in the US, Europe style‘ by Susan Robertson) the US-based Lumina Foundation is sponsoring an action-oriented project...
Amidst a discursive struggle this week over the state of finances for higher education and research in the UK, which reached a crescendo two days ago (e.g., see ‘Universities face meltdown – and all of Britain will suffer‘; ‘Higher education will be ‘on its knees’ after cuts‘), I could not...
Graphic feed: Cultivating regenerative medicine innovation in China
Source: McMahon, D.S., Thorsteinsdóttir, H., Singer, P.A., and Daar, A.S. (2010) ‘Cultivating regenerative medicine innovation in China’, Regenerative Medicine, 5(1): 35-44. ...
‘Generation crunch’ (or, what is happening to graduate jobs and the ‘graduate premium’ in the UK)
Early this week, the Centre for Enterprise (CFE) in the UK released their report Generation Crunch: the demand for recent graduates on SME. The report is essentially concerned with the employment prospects for university graduates in Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and makes for particularly interesting reading. Focusing on SME’s as...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub
Typewriter of the moment: Sylvia Plath
Filed under: Books, Literature, Poetry, Technology, Typewriters Tagged: Books, Literature, Poetry, Sylvia Plath, Technology, Typewriters ...
Oh, but the conservatives will say it’s unfair . . .
Filed under: Economics, Humor, Politics Tagged: Economics, Humor, Politics, Reaganomics, Trickle Down Economics ...
Colorado legislature says ‘bring the USS Pueblo home’
It’s a story about a series of the grandest and bravest hoaxes by U.S. soldiers held in extremely hostile enemy prisons. Coloradans, especially those from the city of Pueblo, the namesake of the ship, have not forgotten. Spurred by its members from Pueblo, the Colorado state legislature passed a resolution on...
Just in case you thought any climate contrarian remains sane . . .
Which of these would be accurate in showing the insanity, but not so sharp as to raise the hackles of the climate contrarians? “Contrarians think Antarctic unworthy of protection” “Denialists criticize efforts to keep Antarctic clean” “Climate change critics’ brains have left the building” Read these stories, and tell me. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
This is the video version of the how-to-post-an-incendiary-blog-post piece I noted earlier. The elder son of the Bathtubs brought it to our attention a couple of days ago: And then, just as I was posting, I got a note about this post at Tome of the Unknown Blogger. Yeah, this has already...
Encore post: Lunch and civil rights
Today is the 50th anniversary of the Greensboro sit-in. Be sure to read Howell Raines’ criticism of news media coverage of civil rights issues in today’s New York Times: “What I am suggesting is that the one thing the South should have learned in the past 50 years is that...
elearnspace
Time to Know: Changing classrooms
Right after I posted a rant on how systems reduce innovation, I came across this article on an a start up called Time to Know. If you’re ever asked to criticize today’s education system, say something like “industrial paradigm” or “if you took a teacher from 100 years ago, he/she...
The Economist’s article on Privacy 2.0 (Woo hoo! Someone has come up with the brilliant idea of adding “2.0″ to privacy! This is terrific. I wouldn’t be surprised if the 2.0 meme spread to enterprise, the web, learning, etc. What revolutionary times), argues that privacy could stop the spread of...
About five years ago, if you wanted to get attention for consulting or speaking engagements, frequent use of “web 2.0″ was required. Today, you can get the same mileage from “social media”. In fact, add “social” to anything and you’ll get attention. But language is like that – we sacrifice...
The iPad: Content lives to see another day
The real story of Apple’s iPad is not the device itself. Rather, the long-term impact is that many of the information structures of the physical world – books and newspapers – now have a place in the digital world, as well as a revenue model online. Apple possesses the mystical...
I signed up for Twitter in November 2006 (I think). And did nothing with it for a fairly long time. Alan “so cool that I’m coming to a conference near you soon” Levine posted his Twitter life cycle, capturing perfectly my experience with the service. From “this is dumb” to...
Social media is changing the Grammys: “Social media introduces an entire paradigm shift into how the Academy can both connect with music lovers and with how its message is consumed and presented.” Hardly a surprise. Any field that is concerned with a) information creation and sharing and/or b) connecting people to...
FactCheckED.org
Franking is the privilege that allows members of Congress to send official mail for free, using their signature instead of normal postage....
Ever notice how political speeches and ads always mention “the worst,” “the best,” “the largest,” “the most”? It’s effective to use superlatives, but it isn’t always accurate. For instance, President Barack Obama has said that “we import more oil today than ever before” – but do we? How can you...
Topical Lesson: Oil Exaggerations
Ever notice how political speeches and ads always mention “the worst,” “the best,” “the largest,” “the most”? It’s effective to use superlatives, but it isn’t always accurate. For instance, President Barack Obama has said that “we import more oil today than ever before” – but do we? How can you...
New Lesson: Seeing is Believing
You’ve heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but which words? What are the images we see daily – in magazines, on billboards, on TV – really trying to tell us? Pictures and other visual elements can pack a lot of rhetorical punch, enhancing verbal arguments or making...
New Lesson: Building a Better Argument
Whether it’s an ad for burger chains, the closing scene of a “Law & Order” spinoff, a discussion with the parents about your social life or a coach disputing a close call, arguments are an inescapable part of our lives. In this lesson, students will learn to create good arguments...
New Lesson: Monty Python and the Quest for the Perfect Fallacy
If you weigh the same as a duck, then, logically, you’re made of wood and must be a witch. Or so goes the reasoning of Monty Python’s Sir Bedevere. Obviously something has gone wrong with the knight’s reasoning – and by the end of this lesson, you’ll know exactly what...
The Student Affairs Collaborative
Professional Staff Development Strategies – #SACHAT Recap
How do you and your staff handle professional development in this economic climate? Are conferences still the best form? Today's #SAchat covers these and others surrounding best practices for professional development!...
I wrote last about our campus initiative that is going to push us toward a “comprehensive” leadership program. We’re really building this from the middle, as there are many leadership efforts around campus that already exist. A move in this strategic direction is still without a lot of focus and...
TuesTally: What % of your day is spent on student discipline?
If you cannot view this poll click here. And here are the results from the last poll....
Digital Storytelling: Adventures in the First-Year Experience
Like many institutions, my university participates in the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) to measure programs and activities that enhance student learning and personal development. The purpose of NSSE is to help identify areas to improve the undergraduate experience in and out of the classroom.The scholarship program...
5 Tips for Conquering the Student Affairs Placement Conference
In this post I hope to share a few tips for all you Higher Education/Student Affairs job searchers out there who are attending a placement conference this season....
Connecting With Students on Facebook – #SACHAT Recap
With both the DAYTIME #sachat and EVENING #sachat in full swing yesterday, it’s safe to declare Thursday as #sachat day! The topic yesterday was Connecting with Students on Facebook, and once again we set new records for conversing and learning. The conversation produced 581 comments from 87 student affairs professionals! In...
OUPblog
Friday Procrastination: Link Love
What Kirsty in Oxford has been reading this week....
Waiting for the Supreme Court to Decide Bilski
Recommended interim steps to be implemented in patent prosecution involving business-related and computer-related inventions in order to minimize risk for the future and increase the likelihood of a patent issuing and ultimately being enforceable down the road....
Geisha – Podictionary Word of the Day
The podictionary word of the week is "geisha"....
Reasons to Believe that there is a God
Professor Richard Swinburne examines the philosophical argument to believe in God....
An excerpt about Ursula von Rydingsvard....
Dross, Dregs, Trash, and Other Important Substances Part 3: Trash
Anatoly Liberman looks at the word "trash"....
Empowered High Schools
Empowered High School Model Level 5 from Illinois Principals Association on Vimeo....
Empowered High School Model Level 3 - “Summative Assessments” from Illinois Principals Association on Vimeo....
Empowered High School Model Level 4 - “Formative Assessments” from Illinois Principals Association on Vimeo....
The Empowered High School Model for 21st Century Schools Level 2 - Standards and Benchmarks from Illinois Principals Association on Vimeo....
Nine Levels Overview, #1 (IPA Webinar)
The Empowered High School Model for 21st Century Schools Level 1 - Model Overview: Managing Continuous Program Improvement from Illinois Principals Association on Vimeo....
For those who enjoyed the ACT workshop, Howard and I are presenting for the Midwest Principals Center on January 28, in Wheeling. That’s close by for most people. We know that districts are getting nervous about money right now. This is a workshop packed with valuable information that you can...
Borderland
Howard Zinn died today of a heart attack. He was 87. The AP published a short biography in memorium. Published in 1980 with little promotion and a first printing of 5,000, “A People’s History” was, fittingly, a people’s best-seller, attracting a wide audience through word of mouth and reaching 1...
The Corporation – A Legal “Person”
Maybe you’ve heard that the Supreme Court ruled there should be no limits on corporate campaign contributions, finding that “the government has no business regulating political speech.” This follows from the corporation’s status as a person, and money’s ability to talk, legally speaking. Consequently, a movement to legalize democracy is...
The Public School in Los Angeles is a school with no curriculum. Someone proposes a class, and when enough interest builds, a teacher is found to teach whoever signed up. The school isn’t accredited; there are no degree programs. It’s a project of Telic Arts Exchange, an organization that “emphasizes...
Night Visions: Celebrations in Failing Light
There’s not much sunlight in the interior of Alaska these days. Today is the winter solstice, and we have just about three and a half hours of daylight to work with. At this latitude the sun barely climbs above the horizon at mid-day, and it has virtually no warmth. Bit...
Reading Wendell Berry’s Citizenship Papers, I see that Berry’s “agrarian argument” might also serve to counter the corporate ethos which has dominated the rhetoric of education reform for several decades, and which is now being carried forward by the Obama administration. The agrarian argument asserts the responsibility everyone has to...
MBA Admissions Blog by MBA Game Plan
Top Ten MBA Admissions Myths from Chicago Booth
A little while ago Chicago Booth’s MBA admissions office created a Top 10 Myths page, inspired by all of the myths that the school’s admissions officers frequently read in online communities and hear from prospective applicants at events. Their page covers it all pretty well, but we’ve reprinted it here...
Is the MBA Job Market Finally Thawing?
A recent Reuters article described the job outlook for a bunch of MIT Sloan students as they returned from their annual “Tech Treck” job trips, in which they visit employers all over the United States. It sounds as though companies — especially the more tech-oriented ones that Sloan students visit...
Financial Times MBA Rankings for 2010
The Financial Times has just released its 2010 business school rankings, with London Business School holding on to the #1 spot. LBS and Wharton actually shared the #1 position in last year’s rankings, but :BS has pulled ahead of its American rival. The Financial Times’ top ten MBA programs in 2010...
Edward Snyder to Take Over at Yale SOM
Today the Yale School of Management announced that Edward A. Snyder, currently Dean and George Shultz Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, has agreed to become the next Dean of the Yale School of Management. Snyder, who last fall announced his decision to step...
More Women Are Pursuing MBAs Than Ever Before
A new article in the Financial Times reports that the typical MBA classroom now has more women in it than ever before. The article cites a study by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, which shows that women now make up about 37% of the student body at...
Education Perspectives
The Power of Career Technical Education
As you know, I’m a big proponent of career and technical education. I’ve worked in it for over 34 years, and have seen and experienced the benefits of vocational education. People involved in career education will tell you that it does not have the recognition in society it deserves. Many...
The article in the newspaper about GM Corp. initiating cultural change is significant. It tells me that US corporations finally "get it"! The old top-down, heirarchical slow-moving american corporate culture is breaking down and being replaced by a customer-centered culture where plausible risk-taking is embraced. This is the change we...
I just watched a wonderful TED Talk by Italy Talgam. A former conductor, Mr. Talgam has reinvented himself as a conductor of people in business. While viewing it, I began thinking about the ultimate facilitators and leaders of the world, teachers! With good leadership skills, teachers can become masters of...
Effective School Administrators
As some of you may know, I’m Chief Financial Officer at a local career school. As far as school administrators go, the CFO/Business Manager is considered in a separate category from educational school administrators. Generally, my job requires business acumen and a degree in accounting, business or management. Educational administrators,...
I place a great deal of importance on one word; credibility. Because when you think about it, almost everything we do in our business, educational and personal lives revolve around seeking and attaining interpersonal credibility. Credibility is important to people, whether they are choosing a physician or choosing a spouse....
Hands-On Learning with Video Games
Here is a great video about hands-on learning through video games. Thanks to Dan Pink for this great piece....
This Week In Education
Television: Don Draper, High School Drama Teacher
"Before he was a Mad man stealing the hearts of women viewers everywhere, he was just Mr. Jon Hamm of St. Louis teaching drama at John Burroughs High School. "He was a heartthrob! All the girls would sign up for his class…for a good reason! In addition to being really...
NPR: Veteran Reporters Talk Race, Edu-Blogosphere
Kudos to NPR's Larry Ambramson for giving an on air shout-out to the existence edu-blogosophere during a half-hour discussion with Claudio Sanchez and Neil Conan about the pros and cons of the latest NCLB reform proposals. Thanks, Larry, for acknowledging our existence! Substantively, the best parts of the conversations were...
Advanced Placement: Participation Rising, Pass Rates Falling
The number of students taking Advanced Placement tests hit a record high last year, but the portion who fail the exams — particularly in the South — is rising as well, a USA TODAY analysis finds. (Failure rate for AP tests climbing)...
Millot: Arrogance and Idiocy in Massachusetts Chartering Policy
I wont belabor the point: the Gloucester charter approval process was a joke, and it's almost certainly not the only joke in the nation....
Quote: Temple Grandin On Autism Vs. Common Sense
"Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior." -- Autistic icon Temple Grandin at a recent event about the Claire Danes movie HBO has made about Grandin's life ("A Bunch Of Social 'Yak Yaks'" )...
Thompson:"RttT Morphs into Title I!"
Frederick Hess' words fired up the National Journal Experts discussion "the old saying goes: ‘people are policy.’" In the case of the RttT, "that’s truer than ever. The reviewers are judging brand-new criteria recently cooked up by the Department of Education; employing a novel, convoluted 500-point rating system to judge...
ASCD SmartBrief
More students struggling with AP exams nationwide
More students are taking Advanced Placement exams, but the percentage who fail the exams has also increased -- leading some t -More- ...
N.C. considers focus on more recent U.S. history in high schools
U.S. -More- Invest in the success of all your students and teachers with an integrated complete learning system – Pinnacle Suite. Based on research by Dr. Robert Marzano, Pinnacle Suite features a full complement of instructional, assessment, and data tools to support standards-based learning. Increased teacher effectiveness delivers greater student achievement....
Penalty called: State tells Indianapolis no on 2-hour school delay after Super Bowl
-More- ...
Award-winning math educator is tutor, mentor to students
A Florida math teacher and athletics coach helps his students succeed by providing on-the-spot tutoring after class wherever -More- Are your teachers successfully integrating technology into classroom instruction? Pearson can help your teachers plug in to 21st century skills, power up their use of technology as a bridge to learning...
Proposed change to education-technology funding prompts concern
Education-technology groups are concerned about changes in the federal budget proposed by President Barack Obama that discont -More- Scientifically proven math results — The U.S. Dept. of Education recognizes Carnegie Learning® Algebra I as the only math curricula that's scientifically proven to have significant positive effect on student learning. See how Carnegie...
Ballots are cast in advisory vote on control of Los Angeles schools
Parents, teachers, students and members of the community cast ballots in a nonbinding election to provide input on which grou -More- ...
Education Futures
Fab Lab: Build ‘almost anything’
“The Fab Lab program has strong connections with the technical outreach activities of a number of partner organizations, around the emerging possibility for ordinary people to not just learn about science and engineering but actually design machines and make measurements that are relevant to improving the quality of their lives.”...
Noel Sharkey on the inexorable rise of robots
From Silicon.com: In this video interview, Noel Sharkey, professor of robotics and AI at the University of Sheffield, discusses developments in robotics – from the proliferation of robots in Japan’s automotive industry to the stair-climbing dexterity of Honda’s Asimo robot and beyond. He also discusses ethical issues, and in which countries we...
Next Horizon Forum roundtable: Education and the Technological Singularity
An invitation to the next Horizon Forum meeting at the University of Minnesota: Education and the Technological Singularity January 27, 2010 11:30am – 1:30pm 250 Wulling Hall (U of M East Bank) At the next Horizon Forum, you are invited to join the discussion, moderated by Arthur Harkins and John Moravec, with special guests, as...
This short set of slides provides a great background on what is “invisible learning” and how we can all contribute to the discussion at www.invisiblelearning.com. Again, the conversation continues at www.invisiblelearning.com!...
Obama: Education is a national security issue
In this video from The UpTake forwarded to Education Futures from Bring Me the News, President Obama speaks on the relationship between education and national competitiveness (you can skip the introductions and jump to his talk which begins around 6:20 into the video): President Obama: “So make no mistake: Our future...
The Bank of Common Knowledge: A mutual education network
The Bank of Common Knowledge (Banco Común de Conocimientos) is a pilot experience dedicated to the research of social mechanisms for the collective production of contents, mutual education, and citizen participation. It is a laboratory platform where we explore new ways of enhancing the distribution channels for practical and informal...