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 10:37:00 CST 2012 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.mathetude.com:80/ There is no way of knowing if programs aimed at improving the literacy and numeracy skills of struggling students have worked, the state government says. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14576.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14576.html Mathetude nitajo 06/02/2012 Joanne Yatvin -- A good school is a place where children learn enough worthwhile things to make a strong start in life, where a foundation is laid that supports later learning, and where children develop the desire to learn more. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14575.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14575.html Mathetude nitajo 06/02/2012 The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation provided The Washington Post with this spreadsheet of its grants since January 2008 related to elementary and secondary education. Recipients include schools, state agencies, nonprofit organizations, advocacy groups and others with a stake in public education. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14530.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14530.html Mathetude nitajo 01/02/2012 Diane Ravitch -- I am growing convinced that President Barack Obama doesn't know what Race to the Top is. I don't think he really understands what his own administration is doing to education. In his State of the Union address last week, he said that he wanted teachers to "stop teaching to the test." He also said that teachers should teach with "creativity and passion." http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14529.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14529.html Mathetude nitajo 01/02/2012 Richard Rothstein -- Education “reformers” have a common playbook. First, assert without evidence that regular public schools are “failing” and that large numbers of regular (unionized) public school teachers are incompetent. Provide no documentation for this claim other than that the test score gap between minority and white children remains large. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14459.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14459.html Mathetude nitajo 24/01/2012 Former Mayor Kathy Taylor will not be seeking the University of Tulsa presidency because she is participating in a fellowship program at Harvard University's Institute of Politics this spring. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14443.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14443.html Mathetude PiGuy 22/01/2012 Nicholas Kristof -- Teachers have the most important job in America. To understand why, listen to the story of Olly Neal, whose life was turned around by an English teacher. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14442.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14442.html Mathetude nitajo 22/01/2012 With the entire city school system moving to a longer school day next year, parents and community members are questioning how the cash-strapped district plans to pay for the extended time. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14441.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14441.html Mathetude nitajo 22/01/2012 Valerie Strauss -- California’s Jerry Brown, who has gone further than any other governor in blasting modern test-based school reform, said Wednesday that he wants to reduce the number of standardized tests students take, give more authority to local school boards and design a system to measure education performance that is less test-centric than the one now in use. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14410.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14410.html Mathetude PiGuy 20/01/2012 Valerie Strauss -- Here are some writings of Martin Luther King Jr.’s on education that are as relevant today as they were when he wrote them decades ago. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14379.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14379.html Mathetude nitajo 16/01/2012