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 18:43:55 CST 2012 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.mathetude.com:80/ LAKELAND | As if high school and middle school teachers didn't have enough on their plate. Next school year, they face teaching an extra class period per day, a move by the Polk County School District expected to save $16 million by eliminating 276 positions. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/4567.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/4567.html Mathetude Starla 01/07/2008 Education policy in England is leading to the "cultural and intellectual impoverishment" of a generation of school children, a leading headmistress has warned. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/4566.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/4566.html Mathetude Starla 01/07/2008 WASHINGTON (AP) — Skeptical states are shoving aside millions of federal dollars for abstinence education, walking away from the program the Bush administration touts for slowing teen sexual activity. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/4565.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/4565.html Mathetude Starla 01/07/2008 Craig Stevenson and some of his schoolmates at the University of Missouri almost never go in the campus bookstore anymore. Textbooks there are too expensive, they say, so they buy and sell their books online at Amazon.com. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/4564.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/4564.html Mathetude Starla 01/07/2008 WASHINGTON (AP) — For kids to do better in math, their teachers might have to go back to school. Elementary-school teachers are poorly prepared by education schools to teach math, finds a study being released Thursday by the National Council on Teacher Quality. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/4563.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/4563.html Mathetude Starla 01/07/2008 ATLANTA — The neighborhood around Georgia State University was for years a maze of boarded up storefronts, aging buildings and parking lots that emptied at the close of each day. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/4562.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/4562.html Mathetude Starla 01/07/2008 In a sign of continued commitment to early education despite state budget woes, more than 100 public officials and business leaders from 14 states have gathered here this week to learn how to apply the most up-to-date knowledge on child development to the challenges facing pre-K programs. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/4561.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/4561.html Mathetude Starla 01/07/2008 School officials in Terrebonne Parish in Louisiana are considering barring students from speaking a foreign language during commencement speeches, according to an Associated Press article published today in The New York Times. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/4560.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/4560.html Mathetude Starla 01/07/2008 Youths who take the exam multiple times can choose just the best results. Some people see a reduction in stress, but others say the move will mostly help the affluent because of the test's cost. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/4559.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/4559.html Mathetude Starla 01/07/2008 Phil Holmes has taught English for decades, first to the privileged but lately to the disadvantaged. His method and his intensity make a solid connection with both extremes. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/4558.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/4558.html Mathetude Starla 01/07/2008