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 Thu Sep 09 11:23:47 CST 2010 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.mathetude.com:80/ Sarah D. Sparks asks: "The Department of Education just handed out $330 million in grants to two state coalitions to design the "next-generation" tests of students' readiness for college and careers. It's gotten me thinking: What would a perfect test look like? Would "teaching to the test" be kosher if schools had fantastic assessments of higher-order thinking, problem-solving and the like?" http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/10861.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/10861.html Mathetude nitajo 06/09/2010 Jed Wallace -- "Charter school operators are receiving separate but unequal treatment from the L.A. school district." http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/10855.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/10855.html Mathetude nitajo 05/09/2010 The group, including the presidents of the L.A. Area Chamber of Commerce and United Way of Greater L.A., urges the use of student test score data and more access to information about instructors for families. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/10854.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/10854.html Mathetude nitajo 05/09/2010 Through a federal grant, California will join 43 other states in replacing oft-maligned standardized exams. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/10853.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/10853.html Mathetude nitajo 05/09/2010 The Los Angeles Times and an education economist set out to create a consumer guide to education. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/10849.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/10849.html Mathetude nitajo 05/09/2010 Could the bubble be on the way out? In the near future, students may take their tests on computers. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/10843.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/10843.html Mathetude nitajo 03/09/2010 A+ Academics and Foundations Tutoring will no longer provide tutoring services to Oklahoma City Public Schools children as an investigation into allegations of fraud continues. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/10842.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/10842.html Mathetude nitajo 03/09/2010 Arne Duncan’s bus tour from New York to Maine is billed as a way to honor teachers. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/10839.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/10839.html Mathetude nitajo 02/09/2010 Mainstream educators and commentators are warning that the United States, once in the forefront among advanced capitalist societies in graduation rates, has fallen to 12th place and is still tumbling. Many are concerned that education has become a national security issue. Others point out that the engines of the global economy are math and science and this country is turning out fewer trained physicists, chemists, biologists, mathematicians and computer scientists. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/10832.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/10832.html Mathetude Sculb 30/08/2010 Education Secretary Arne Duncan is on a campaign to cheer on America's teachers at a time when a sizeable number are skeptical of President Obama's education agenda. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/10831.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/10831.html Mathetude Newman 30/08/2010