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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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More Than 10 Million Under-Educated Adults in Region Could Benefit from Improved Adult Learning Programs, SREB Finds
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Rising unemployment and the tough economy have created an urgent demand for high-quality adult learning programs in Souther Regional Education Board states -- yet the region had fewer working-age adults enrolled in these programs in 2008 than in 2005.
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Don't Stalk the Admissions Officer
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Risa Lewak's new book, "Don't Stalk the Admissions Officer: How to SURVIVE the College Admissions Process WITHOUT LOSING YOUR MIND," gets students and parents to laugh at the absurdity of applying to college.
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States Can Improve Students' College Readiness by Adopting More Coherent Policies Linking K-12 Schools, Higher Education
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
A new SREB report describes the steps states can take to increase degree completion.
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SREB States Make Progress on Education Goals; Need to Improve on College Readiness, Degree Completion
Monday, July 5, 2010
The 16 member states of the Southern Regional Education Board are making progress on the region's education goals, new state-by-state reports show. But there's plenty of work to be done.
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IMS announces TutorIT availability
Friday, July 2, 2010
A fundamentally new approach to automation in education
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New Jobs Forecast Predicts Millions of Workers at Risk of Being Left Behind
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
A new forecast shows that as the economy struggles to recover, and jobs slowly return, there will be a growing disconnect between the types of jobs employers need to fill and numbers of Americans who have the education and training to fill those jobs.
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Attendance Counts Launches Website
Monday, June 14, 2010
Nationwide, one in 10 kindergarten and 1st grade students misses a month of school each year. Attendance Counts, a national and state initiative working to reducing chronic absence, launches attendancecounts.org today with news, research and solutions.
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NCTE Speaks Out on Arizona Department of Education Ruling on Teacher Speech
Monday, June 7, 2010
Evaluate Teachers on Their Competence, Not on Their Accents
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NYC Mayor Bloomberg Bestows Medals to Frontline Educators
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Public school teachers and administrators to receive awards at 9 am June 3 at the Harvard Club in NYC
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Colleges Adopt Net Price Calculators to Attract Students Worried about Affordability
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
42 Institutions Outsource Calculator Development to Gain Competitive Edge
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Cutting Summer Learning is Bad Policy
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Summer Programs Are Missing Ingredient In Education Reform
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Success Starts With Reading
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
The Annie E. Casey Foundation is focusing attention on the critical importance of achieving grade-level reading proficiency for all children by the end of third grade. This call for a renewed emphasis on reading success is introduced by a special KIDS COUNT report.
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Success Starts With Reading
Monday, May 17, 2010
Annie E. Casey Foundation: Make Reading by the End of Third Grade a National Priority
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Young Latino Children Show Strong Classroom Skills, Despite Many Growing Up in Poverty
Monday, May 3, 2010
But For Teens, Peer Pressure, Mediocre Schools Undercut Initial Gains
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U-Oregon Journalism Students Take Aim at the iPad
Monday, April 26, 2010
New class challenges students to design content for iPads, iPods and other mobile devices
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KnowledgeWorks Grant Enables Expansion of New Tech High Schools in Indiana
Friday, April 23, 2010
Incentive recognizes state's national leadership, support of innovative high school model as an academic, economic driver
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THE THIRD TEACHER: Design Thinking Inspires Change in Education
Friday, April 23, 2010
New book shows 79 ways design can transform teaching and learning
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