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 Sat May 19 18:43:05 CST 2012 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.mathetude.com:80/ For hundreds of years, textbooks have put a world of knowledge in the hands of students. But while the way people learn has changed dramatically, the traditional textbook has stayed the same. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15376.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15376.html Mathetude Sculb 05/05/2012 Some 25 percent of public school students live in homes where English is not the primary language. That statistic alone seems sufficient reason to expect that all teachers will at some point have students who need support in learning English. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15325.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15325.html Mathetude Sculb 30/04/2012 Catherine Gewertz -- Sparked by the Common Core State Standards, teachers and literacy experts are arguing about the role of a time-honored pillar of English/language arts instruction: classroom activities designed to help students understand what they are about to read. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15324.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15324.html Mathetude Sculb 30/04/2012 Erik W. Robelen -- Across the nation, big shifts are afoot as 45 states and thousands of school districts gear up to implement the Common Core State Standards in mathematics. The standards will change the grade levels at which some content is introduced, push aside other topics altogether to achieve greater depth, and ask students to engage in eight "mathematical practices" to show their understanding, from making sense of problems to reasoning abstractly and constructing viable arguments. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15323.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15323.html Mathetude Sculb 30/04/2012 Oakland Raiders fans have the reputation of being loud, well-costumed, and sometimes even obnoxious. Now, they will also be known as supporters of education. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15322.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15322.html Mathetude Sculb 30/04/2012 Both parents and students in Tulsa Public Schools are part of a new lobbying campaign to boost school funding. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15306.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15306.html Mathetude Sculb 28/04/2012 Thursday morning, the State School board voted to remove Sante Fe South Charter school from the list of C3 schools. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15305.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15305.html Mathetude Sculb 28/04/2012 The fight to pass a law that would require all Oklahoma schools to be ranked on an A through F grading system intensifies. The State Board of Education adopted the rules last month. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15304.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15304.html Mathetude Sculb 28/04/2012 Professors from University of Melbourne respond to Gonski Review of school funding in Australia. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15179.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15179.html Mathetude Sculb 14/04/2012 Education ministers have agreed to develop a road map to reform school funding but have not settled on a final dollar amount. Ministers from all states and territories met with federal Schools Minister Peter Garrett today today to discuss overhauling the school funding system. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15178.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15178.html Mathetude Sculb 14/04/2012