Education News and Bookmarking for Mathetude community http://www.mathetude.com:80/rss/stories/upcoming.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/images/logo.png http://www.mathetude.com:80/ vi-vn Copyright (c) 2007 Mathetude.com javacola@gmail.com Wed Feb 08 10:25:58 CST 2012 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.mathetude.com:80/ Michael Hiltzik -- Something sounded familiar last week when I heard U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski make a huge pitch for infusing digital technology into America's classrooms. Every schoolchild should have a laptop, they said. Because in the near future, textbooks will be a thing of the past. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14570.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14570.html Mathetude nitajo 05/02/2012 Anthony Cody -- As state after state rewrites their education laws in line with the mandates from Race to the Top and the NCLB waiver process, the teaching profession is being redefined. Teachers will now pay the price - be declared successes or failures, depending on the rise or fall of their students' test scores. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14495.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14495.html Mathetude nitajo 28/01/2012 Lesli A. Maxwell -- Now that every state has the tools to track individual students' academic performance over time, the hard work of actually making the hordes of data usable to teachers and policymakers must get moving. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14411.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14411.html Mathetude PiGuy 20/01/2012 Michele McNeil -- I sat down with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan recently for a wide-ranging interview on the hot education topics of the day: waivers, Race to the Top, reauthorization, and the election. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14409.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14409.html Mathetude PiGuy 20/01/2012 Valerie Strauss -- Amassing and using data to assess schools and principals and students and teachers and school districts and states is, of course, at the heart of the education accountability movement championed by Duncan and Rhee. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14395.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14395.html Mathetude nitajo 18/01/2012 Gov. Cuomo may be ready to put the state’s money where his mouth is when it comes to education. The self-proclaimed chief student lobbyist is seriously considering linking a portion of state school funding to implementation of a new teacher grading system, three nonadministration sources with knowledge of the situation said. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14384.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14384.html Mathetude MrGreen 16/01/2012 So what do folks inside the Beltway think of Rep. John Kline, R-Minn.'s draft bills the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (aka No Child Left Behind)? That depends on whom you talk to. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14323.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14323.html Mathetude eduK8 11/01/2012 Montana is formally rejecting the U.S. Department of Education's offer for more flexibility under the No Child Left Behind Act, declaring that it doesn't make "educational or financial" sense to apply for a waiver. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14189.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14189.html Mathetude nitajo 31/12/2011 The nation's now unpopular key education policy saw more action in Washington this year than it did since it passed in 2001. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14173.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14173.html Mathetude Newman 29/12/2011 Seven states won a share of $200 million in federal "Race to the Top" money to improve K-12 education programs, the Education Department announced Thursday. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14119.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14119.html Mathetude nitajo 23/12/2011