Department of Education

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• Way to go, Ariel

  
  JD2718 — Authority: 116
  The MSM loves when teachers attack teachers unions and other teachers … and I hate it. The Daily News ran an anti-union opinion piece by a teacher (Matt Polazzo) a week and a half ago. (Maintaining their recent pattern of good education reporting and awful, anti-teacher, anti-experience editorials and opinions) ...
  21 hours ago

• The Bulletin Board Paradox

  
  Education On The Plate — Authority: 405
  Image via Wikipedia Some teachers look at a blank bulletin board and imagine a dazzling educational display. They revel in cutting, pasting, crimping and primping; glory in getting everything placed-just-so, and otherwise happily go about making eye-catching, colorful, creative and highly attractive displays. I ...
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• Fisk University Awarded $3 Million Historically Black Colleges and Universities Grant

  
  Fisk University's Official Weblog — Authority: 110
  Fisk University has been selected to receive the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Master’s Degree Grant (Title VII) Award for $3 million from the United States Department of Education to assist Fisk graduate students in obtaining advanced degrees in the natural and physical sciences in disciplines ...
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• Trip’s morning reading

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 597
  States, including New Mexico, are competing for $4 billion in federal funding for innovative education programs, reports the New York Times. As the story says: “The $4 billion is the most money Washington has ever given to overhaul schools. It is to be awarded in two rounds, in April and September, to about a ...
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• Survey: Iowa LGBT students still unsafe

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 657
  There’s some good news, but there is also bad news in the way some students perceive their safety at Iowa schools. The Iowa Pride Network has released the finding from its 2009 School Climate Survey. Click to access the full report. The Iowa Pride Network , a statewide organization that works to support ...
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• New K-12 academic standards are almost here

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 671
  For the first time in 10 years, Colorado will adopt new K-12 academic standards this December. “These standards are not like the old ones,” the Colorado Department of Education website warns. “They are not a curriculum or an exhaustive detail of each lesson or fact. They are the few, crucial concepts and ...
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• Children with learning disabilities out in the cold in Montague

  
  NJN Network — Authority: 489
  Home and School president says school lacking resource teachers By Andrew Brown andrew@peicanada.com Eastern Graphic Nadine Williams is frustrated. She is president of the Home and School Association in Montague, and she is concerned that students with learning disabilities at Montague Consolidated are not ...
  2 days ago

• Senator Berke Sounds Off on Recruiting and Retaining Quality Teachers

  
  Chattarati, Chattanooga news and opinion — Authority: 473
  State Senator Andy Berke (D-Chattanooga) is a politician who loves to talk about education. And he has a lot to say—from ensuring that “90 percent of all education dollars are spent in the classroom” to advocating “new and innovative strategies to raise the quality of instruction.” In a recent op-ed in ...
  2 days ago

• New Action leader makes statement on negotiations

  
  JD2718 — Authority: 116
  Mike Shulman, co-chair of New Action, discusses money, givebacks and ATRs on the New Action blog. We’ll be working over the next days and weeks to bring more current content to the website.
  3 days ago

• Lugar, Bennett launch education award

  
  The AroundFortWayne Blog — Authority: 445
  Press release from the Indiana Department of Education:Lugar, Bennett launch education awardU.S. Sen. Dick Lugar and Superintendent of Public Instruction Dr. Tony Bennett today launched the Lugar Education Patriot Award.
  3 days ago

• One Small Step For Teacher Merit Pay

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 140
  The Chicago Tribune’s John Keilman reports that the Chicago northern suburb of Evanston has started a system of merit pay for teachers. For the first time ever in any Illinois school district, teachers will be evaluated by the individual test scores of their students. This judgment will then combine with more ...
  3 days ago

• A Verdict on Local Schools

  
  Chattarati, Chattanooga news and opinion — Authority: 473
  Written by Jim Drexler. The verdict is in: mediocre and heading in the wrong direction. Numbers from the Tennessee Department of Education Report Card on the overall condition of Hamilton County Schools are mixed. If you happen to live in Hixson or on Signal Mountain, chances are your local school scored higher ...
  3 days ago

• New Age Hypnotherapist Guru William Howatt Cost DoE $374K in Teaching Ability to Adapt by Meredith Kolodner - NY Daily News

  
  Lost in the Ozone... — Authority: 506
  Read original... The Education Department blew almost $375,000 on a New Age management consultant who brags about being a master hypnotherapist and earning a degree from an online university. William Howatt was hired to boost productivity and improve morale among the departments middle managers - but the ...
  3 days ago

• Arroyo’s revenue chief resigns due to ’stress’

  
  Pinoy News and Blogosphere Buzz — Authority: 131
  MANILA - The chief of the Philippine Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) announced his sudden resignation, citing health reasons, including stress, as well as his apparent failure to meet the agencys tax collection target imposed by the government for 2009.    
  5 days ago

• Joel Klein on his way out?

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 583
  From the Gotham Gazette : Following his narrow victory last night, Michael Bloomberg may make changes — Ben Smith reports in Politico that he has “already promised a major shakeup of his senior aides.” So who’s headed out the door? David Bloomfield, an education professor at Brooklyn College, bets on ...
  5 days ago

• Quirky Blogger Helps Kids Learn about College

  
  State of Ohio Education Blog — Authority: 126
  Have you heard of the Ohio College Access Network ? OCAN (of course, another education acronym) has launched an inventive new blog that helps kids learn about college. Kinda cute - Eve, a quirky blogster and her sidekick, a bull called Noble (No-bull). The blog is geared towards eight grade - twelfth grade ...
  6 days ago

• student and college loan : the introduction

  
  CariHaL.com | Blog of Handphone Mobile Phone Adsense — Authority: 119
  student and college loan : the introduction – Its crunch time for college students trying to secure the money they need for the fall semester. But with lenders continuing to suspend their student loan programs the count now stands at 131 federal loan lenders and 30 private loan lenders students may find themselves ...
  1 week ago

• Deaf Awareness Week, November 8-14, 2009

  
  Filipino Deaf from the Eyes of a Hearing Person — Authority: 110
  This entry is to shout out the yearly celebration of Deaf Awareness Week in the Philippines. The Department of Education issued a memorandum to all Bureau Directors, Regional Directors Schools Division/City Superintendents, Heads, Public and Private Elementary and Secondary Schools Special Education Centers and ...
  1 week ago

• Tell Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein That You Oppose the Plan to Expand Standardized Testing to Students in Kindergarten through Second Grade...

  
  Lost in the Ozone... — Authority: 506
  Tell Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein that you oppose their plan to expand standardized testing to students in kindergarten through second grade. Standardized tests do not appropriately measure the complexity of a young child’s growth and development... This is a campaign by Time Out From Testing to Stop ...
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• DOE Caught Cheating On Test Results

  
  Smart City Memphis — Authority: 466
  Before yesterday is dubbed "Black Tuesday" for the sobering announcement that Memphis City Schools is doing a dismal job educating our students, lets see it for what it is: a day to celebrate. We have a friend who says that Memphians love to pay people to lie to us - were doing great in economic development, downtown ...
  1 week ago

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