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TEN VERY IMPORTANT BACK TO SCHOOL POEMS
Monday, August 30, 2010
Kalli Dakos, a best-selling author and poet, has placed Ten Very Important Back to School Poems on her website. She encourages parents and teachers to prepare children for a successful school year by reading the poems together.
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A Book of Interviews with Great Teachers
Monday, August 16, 2010
In the spirit of Studs Terkel's Working, Bill Smoot interviews master teachers in fields ranging from K-12 and higher education to the arts, trades and professions, sports, and politics. The result suggests a dinner party where the most fascinating teachers in America discuss their various styles as well as what makes their work meaningful to them.
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Colleges Enlist Military-Helpful Net Price Calculators To Show Education Is Affordable
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Student Aid Services Integrates Post 9/11 GI Bill Benefits for Seven Colleges
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Go Behind the Scenes of L.A. Times' Teacher-Performance Project
Join EWA at 1 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday, Sept. 2, for a telephone conference call with journalists from the Los Angeles Times to discuss their groundbreaking series based on the "value-added" method of measuring teacher effectiveness. Reporters Jason Felch and Jason Song, along with education editor Beth Shuster, will take questions from reporters both on the project itself and the response it has generated. Working education journalists are invited to send an e-mail to publications@ewa.org for information on how to join the call.
Tracking Education Stimulus Spending District by District
EdMoney.org, a project of the Education Writers Association with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, now lets you track spending on K-12 education from the federal economic-stimulus law in states and school districts nationwide. The site currently features data on $62.1 billion in grants from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, including 39,594 grants to 12,408 school districts and other education agencies across the country.
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EWA Introduces New Blog
EWA is pleased to introduce Ed Beat, a new staff-written blog that will take note of developments on the education beat and suggest angles for reporters covering them. We'll highlight interesting stories, point out obstacles to good reporting, and draw attention to useful sources of information. Got ideas for coverage? E-mail us at edbeat@ewa.org.
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Examining the Evidence
Participants were "Examining the Evidence" at EWA's 63rd annual meeting in San Francisco.  . The conference examined issues supporting the US Department of Education's "Race to the Top," as well as focused on how colleges are taking responsibility for student success. Reporters blogged about the conference for EWA and you can see reporting on the sessions and other materials from the meeting here. Boston Globe reporter Bob Hohler won the top prize in the National Awards for Education Reporting for his seven – part series “Failing Our Athletes: The Sad State of Sports in Boston Public Schools.” You can also see other contest winners who were honored at this year's meeting.
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U.S. Secretary of Education Duncan Announces Winners of Competition to Improve Student Assessments
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded two groups of
states grants to develop a new generation of tests. The tests will assess
students' knowledge of mathematics and English language arts from third grade
through high school. The grants total $330 million and are part of the Race to
the Top competition. U.S. Department of Education, Sept. 2, 2010
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University Attendance Scanners Make Some Uneasy
When classes begin on Monday, some students at Northern Arizona University will have a little extra incentive to roll out of bed for that 8 a.m. calculus class.The school is installing electronic scanners outside some large lecture halls to track attendance. NAU may be the first American educational institution to try the technology. Daniel Kraker, National Public Radio, Sept. 1, 2010
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More options than buying books
University of Florida finance major Thomas Spoto, 21, joined the ranks of students declaring they're just not going to take it anymore, finding a way around the always-increasing cost of college textbooks. Renting college textbooks is now all the rage at campus bookstores and online, with students saving at least half off the new cover price. And they don't run the risk of a bookstore not buying back the book if a professor decides not to use it the following semester or the publisher issues a new edition. Kimberly C. Moore, The Gainesville Sun, August 31, 2010
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Los Angeles Teacher Ratings
The Los Angeles Times releases the value added database that rates teachers. You can read the first article in this ground-breaking series here
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