Texas Conservatives Win Curriculum Change
3.13.10 - AUSTIN, Tex. — After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American capitalism, questioning the Founding Fathers’ commitment to a purely secular government and presenting Republican political philosophies in a more positive light
Federal Panel Finds Bias in Ouster of Principal
A federal commission has determined that the Department of Education discriminated against the principal of an Arabic-language public school in Brooklyn.Bill Maher: New Rule: Let's Not Fire the Teachers When Students Don't Learn -- Let's Fire the Parents
3.13.10 - Last week, President Obama defended the firing of every single teacher in a struggling high school in a poor Rhode Island neighborhood. But according to all the studies, it doesn't matter what teachers do. What matters is what parents do.Inching Toward a Multiple Life Cycles Education Policy
3.10.10 - Tom Sticht - In the book I learned that Diane Ravitch, advocate of standards, testing, accountability, and school choice, had changed her mind. In her new book (The Death and Life of the Great American School System, Basic Books, 2010), she says she was wrong about all that. Instead- DRAFT K-12 COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS AVAILABLE FOR COMMENT
- Should the Austin, TX, school system invalidate its 2009 NAEP test scores?
- The Rationale for Preparing Mature Adults as Teachers of Diverse Children in Urban Poverty
- Raine ADHD Study: Long-term outcomes associated with stimulant medication in the treatment of ADHD in children
Arizona House moves to improve tuition tax credit program
3.10.10 - Through the magic of public access television, I recently watched debate before the state House of Representatives on bills to reform the tuition scholarship tax credit program. I'm happy to report that legislators engaged in a substantive discussion and adopted amendments from both parties.An Interview with Glenn Scoggins: Teaching at an International School
3.11.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - I teach at Saint Maur International School, a small private co-educational school in Yokohama, Japan. I came here in 1977 and have been teaching History ever since. I have taught all grades in middle and high school,“Inferior National Standards: English Language Arts” -- by Donna Garner
3.12.10 - U. S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan waited until the state contracts were signed before he made the rest of the plan clear. He also waited until just a couple of weeks ago to reveal that the states must use 100% of the national standards and not just the 85% they had been told early-on.The Standards Themselves Are, Frankly, Irrelevant
3.12.10 - Neal McCluskey - Three days ago I reported that draft, grade-by-grade, national curricular standards would soon be released by the Common Core State Standards Initiative. Yesterday, they were. (If you want to get a sense for what the proposed standards are follow the link to them. Don’t bother with the appendices, though, unless you really want to get into the weeds.)Women Making Gains on Faculty at Harvard
The president of Harvard said the university has seen a culture shift since it was suggested there in 2005 that women were unsuited to careers in math and science.Bullied teenager gets $290,000 in settlement
THE state government has been forced to pay almost $300,000 in compensation to a teenage girl who endured months of bullying.Public Education: The Real Fix
3.13.10 - Peter Stern - I have a simpler solution. It will save a ton of tax dollars and achieve better learning outcomes. Teach children the basic needs in learning and life: reading, writing, math along with some basic science and core history.Democrats Link Student Loan Overhaul To Health Care Reform Bill
3.13.10 - WASHINGTON — Under White House pressure to act swiftly, House and Senate Democratic leaders reached for agreement Friday on President Barack Obama's health care bill, sweetened suddenly by fresh billions for student aid and a sense that breakthroughs are at hand.House Republicans, besting Democrats, will ban all earmarks
House Republicans said Thursday they will adopt a unilateral, one-year ban on funding requests for all member projects, or earmarks. House Democrats put forward a partial ban the day before.Banished! City forbids Bible studies in homes
3.13.10 - The city of Gilbert, Ariz., has ordered a group of seven adults to stop gathering for Bible studies in a private home because such meetings are forbidden by the city's zoning codes.The End of an Era in Finance
CAMBRIDGE - In the world of economics and finance, revolutions occur rarely and are often detected only in hindsight. But what happened on February 19 can safely be called the end of an era in global finance. On that day, the International Monetary F...Peter Berkowitz: Climategate Was an Academic Disaster Waiting to Happen
Last fall, emails revealed that scientists at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England and colleagues in the U.S. and around the globe deliberately distorted data to support dire global warming scenarios and sought to block scholarsGeorge W. Bush Institute Presents the Conference on Educating and Empowering the Women and Girls of Afghanistan
DALLAS—The George W. Bush Institute, the U.S.-Afghan Women’s Council, and the SMU Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development will host a Conference on Education and Literacy on Friday, March 19, 2010, from 10:30 a.m. – 1:15 p.m.- Teachscape’s Free ‘TEACHER AS HERO’ Program Offers Local Opportunities for Motivating Educators
- 22 TEXAS STUDENTS SELECTED FOR 2010 YOUNG MASTERS CLASS
- Rouen Business School professor finds that employer work-life initiatives generally create employee loyalty
- Reims Management School establishes thirteen new partnerships with institutions around the world