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• Funding research: concentration needed?

  
  University Blog — Authority: 429
  Right now in Britain an argument is raging between different parts of the higher education as to how university research should be funded: should it be concentrated in a small number of leading research universities (and allocated strategically on that basis), or should it be directed to those demonstrating ...
  3 days ago

• Departed with Memories – Part 2

  
  Musings — Authority: 131
  There are little observations I’ve made too throughout my 9 day stay. Service standards are incredible . I never met a single customer service person who failed to display the highest levels of courtesy, whether that person is a taxi driver (whom I nearly had to wrestle against just to let me carry my own ...
  3 days ago

• Departed with Memories – Part 1

  
  Musings — Authority: 131
  Matt and I were having an MSN chat the other day while I was still in Kumamoto, and one part of it went like this: Matt : “It is a shame you won’t get to see Nagasaki, though.” Me : “Yeah. But Ling is now determined to visit Hokkaido. I think she feels it’s crazily unfair I’m in Japan and she’s ...
  3 days ago

• QUICK Hits

  
  The Quick and the Ed — Authority: 558
  While U.S. college students stay up late playing “Modern Warfare,” what are international students doing? Maybe homework? (Boston Globe) As states work to link K-12 with postsecondary data, what problems lie ahead? (Education Week) With more kids using computers every day, wouldn’t you think that more kids ...
  3 days ago

• Santa packs heat, robs Nashville bank at gunpoint

  
  Business Blog — Authority: 174
  He may have been dressed all in fur from his head to his foot, but this Santa was no saint. According to Metropolitan Nashville Police, a man wearing a Santa Claus suit _ including hat, beard and mustache _ and dark sunglasses robbed a SunTrust Bank on… Santa [...]
  3 days ago

• Snow day

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 598
  It’s hard to imagine that there’s much educating—or education policymaking—going on along the Eastern seaboard today, as those of us in the Northeast dig out from the Great Blizzard. But while snow is on your mind, don’t forget to read this great Education Next research article about how much ground kids ...
  4 days ago

• Talis Angel Fund Deadline Extended

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 139
  Chris Clarke at Talis Education is announcing that the deadline for funding proposals has been extended to Jan. 31. From the post: If you’ve already submitted, and would have benefited from more time, don’t worry – you can resubmit at any time up to the new deadline – just resend your proposal to ...
  6 days ago

• Home-Schooling: Socialization Not A Problem

  
  One Man's Thoughts — Authority: 135
  One of the most persistent criticisms of home-schooling is the accusation that home-schoolers will not be able to fully participate in society because they lack “socialization.” It’s a challenge that reaches right to the heart of home-schooling, because if a child isn’t properly socialized, how will that child ...
  6 days ago

• Center gets grant for Latino/a education issues

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 166
  The Ford Foundation has awarded the Texas Center for Education Policy (TCEP) $300,000 for the 15-month planning phase of the Teacher Education Institute initiative to be conducted by the National Latino Education Research Agenda Project (NLERAP). The Teacher Education Institute is a national initiative that will ...
  1 week ago

• Center gets grant for Latino/a education issues

  
  News from The University of Texas at Austin — Authority: 471
  The Ford Foundation has awarded the Texas Center for Education Policy (TCEP) $300,000 for the 15-month planning phase of the Teacher Education Institute initiative to be conducted by the National Latino Education Research Agenda Project (NLERAP).The Teacher Education Institute is a national initiative that will result ...
  1 week ago

• AECT 2009 – Catching Up

  
  Virtual High School Meanderings — Authority: 137
  Okay, so the Association for Educational Communications and Technology held their annual conference back around the end of October – and while I did some blogging during the event, there were some sessions that I just didn’t get to or participated in and because of that I didn’t get around to blogging about them ...
  1 week ago

• End of Term

  
  Musings — Authority: 131
  It was my last day guest lecturing at the college today. The lectures and workshops I did with my Japanese students covered a lot of material. And when there’s such high content density, so much memories have been created during the last five days that even though it’s just been five (intensive) days, each day ...
  1 week ago

• Oishi… and snow…?!

  
  Musings — Authority: 131
  There were ten of us at the dinner event hosted by the staff of the college; five Japanese, and five Singaporeans, four of us who are guest lecturing in various subjects and disciplines at the college this week, with several Japanese guests coming from other parts of Japan who came to listen to our presentations ...
  1 week ago

• “The research on [insert preferred policy choice here] is as clear as anything in the field of education.”

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 598
  Here’s a general rule: when you see sentences like the one above, know to be very, very skeptical. This particular one comes from Kevin Welner, a longtime foe of tracking, in a recent National Journal article  about our new Tom Loveless report . Here’s the full quote: “The research on tracking is as ...
  1 week ago

• Oishi!! – Part 3

  
  Musings — Authority: 131
  Boy – am both I exhausted but glad too that my toughest day of lecturing completed this evening. There’re still two more days of lectures to deliver, but the two topics today were the hardest to teach in compressed mode. Fortunately, my Japanese students took to the lessons gamely and it was a unreserved delight ...
  1 week ago

• Nature & Child Development, 1

  
  Passport to Texas — Authority: 124
  This is passport to Texas Could spending more time in nature help kids with attention-deficit hyperactive disorder? The research so far suggests that there’s a relationship between contact with nature or playing in green space and improvements in attentional functioning. Dr. Andrea Faber Taylor researches ...
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• Academics blogging anonymously? Are we being academics, then?

  
  The Professor's Notes — Authority: 112
  My brother has extended the ongoing discussion about anonymous and pseudonymous blogging yet again in his recent blog entry . His conclusion got me thinking that perhaps there is more here than simply academics hiding behind anonymity or pseudonimity.  He wrote: This is leading me to the growing conviction that ...
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• Home education: Socialization not a problem

  
  Aspie Home-Education — Authority: 129
  Since the re-emergence of the home-school movement in the late 1970s, critics of home-schooling have perpetuated two myths. The first concerns the ability of parents to adequately teach their own children at home; the second is whether home-schooled children will be well-adjusted socially. A new study should cause ...
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• Failing to learn from failure

  
  Clayton Christensen — Authority: 91
  There is a compelling commentary in the September 23, 2009 Education Week titled “ Failing to Learn from Failure .” Written by Craig D. Hochbein & Daniel L. Duke, the authors make the point that in education, unlike in many other fields, we don’t do rigorous post-mortems on failures. As they write, ...
  2 weeks ago

• NY Times: Charter schools are the new chic?

  
  EarlyStories: On Journalism, Children and Learning — Authority: 416
  EarlyStories found it fascinating to read the New York Times style piece Sunday, entitled, "Scholarly Investments. First thought: What on earth is a story about charter schools doing on the style page? The answer of course, can be seen in the picture of Ravenel Boykin Curry IV, who helped found two Girls ...
  2 weeks ago

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