A Virginia Tech student who was charged Saturday with the murder and abduction of a 13-year-old girl was profiled by ABC 2 in Baltimore as its “Student Athlete of the Week” last March. A cross country and track star at Wilde Lake High School in Columbia, Maryland, David Eisenhauer came off looking like a perfectionist […]
The implementation of the Common Core State Standards is one of the most important issues in education policy today. Here in California, we have struggled to figure out the best way to put these important ideas into action. I’d like to share with you an interesting piece by a high school teacher from Los Angeles […]
Staff at the Open University suspend strike action planned for Tuesday. read more >>> Source : BBC
Baltimore Ravens offensive lineman John Urschel announced on Twitter this week his plan to start his Ph.D. in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this year. The 24-year-old, 305-pound lineman has a well-documented aptitude for math. He earned his bachelor’s degree in three years at Penn State and spent his senior year working on […]
On January 20, 2016, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution carried a story about the possibility that the GED Testing Service would retroactively lower the cut score for passage of its revised GED. That same day, EdWeek picked up the story, and on January 26, 2016, GED Testing Service confirmed that the GED cut score would indeed be […]
All CEOs want sustained, long-term growth and an improved bottom line. But how can these leaders reach their goals — and keep their companies on the right track? The answer is to make employee engagement a top priority. In a study of 83 small to midsize US credit unions conducted by the Department of Management […]
Waitlists have the most movement in April and July. read more >>> Source : USNews.Com
I want to tell you a secret: America really doesn’t care what happens to poor people and most black people. There I said it. In my position as a Teacher of the Year and a teacher leader (an ambiguous term at best), I am supposed to be a voice and hold positions on a host […]
Avoid topics that are beyond a student tour guide’s knowledge, such as financial aid policies. read more >>> Source : USNews.Com
Pupils return to two secondary schools in Edinburgh which were evacuated after threatening phone calls were received. read more >>> Source : BBC
It may call itself “a private university in the public service,” but NYU is a multi-national big business and New York City real estate mogul whose previous president earned $1.5 million a year. Its latest “offering” puts NYU on the list of bottom-feeders trying to make a fast-buck with online teacher education programs that supposedly […]
Several students at a Minnesota high school are facing suspension for wearing costumes that some say looked too much like the hood and robes of the Ku Klux Klan. Seven boys at Mound Westonka High School in Minnetrista wore white shirts and white bandanas on their heads that were folded to come to a point […]
How e-books are making a difference to children read more >>> Source : BBC
ONE of Scotland’s leading universities has been named and shamed over the number of animals tested in their laboratories in 2014. read more >>> Source : HeraldScotland.Com
Missouri lawmakers believe reporters should be able to do their jobs — unless they’re trying to do them at the state Senate. On Monday, Republican lawmakers in Missouri made public a letter demanding that the University of Missouri fire Melissa Click, an assistant professor in the school’s communication department who became notorious last year after […]
Some of the most awaited sequels, prequels, and original novels are set for publication this year, which means 2016 is a great year to make “read more” one of your New Year’s resolutions. Our friends at book recommendation sharing website Goodreads have come up with a list of the most-anticipated reads of 2016. Goodreads looked […]
“I have invested years into this. Not just wonderful, easy, ‘my life is so great’ years, but hard, intense, rewarding years. Now, the next natural step is to move forward. After four years, it’s time. But if moving forward is the right thing to do, why do I feel so uneasy? Why do I lie […]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A foundation run by the heirs of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton said Thursday it will spend $1 billion over the next five years to improve public education by backing new charter schools and helping programs already up and running. The foundation has spent more than $1 billion on K-12 education […]
As student-loan debt in the US has grown to staggering levels, many policymakers refer to the seemingly inexorable levels of mounting debt as a crisis. They have suggested plans to provide college for free, or at minimal cost. US Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), a Democratic presidential candidate, unveiled his ambitious College For All Act in […]
I want to wish all of my readers a very happy New Year. The events of 2015, particularly the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), gives us reason to hope that evidence may finally become a basis for educational decisions. The appointment of John King, clearly the most evidence-oriented and evidence informed Secretary […]
The Real Work It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that […]
Labour says independent schools should be required to provide more support for local state schools as a condition of their charitable status. read more >>> Source : BBC
An organisation of mosques says it “unequivocally” rejects plans to require madrassas in England to be registered and inspected. read more >>> Source : BBC
In three years, an accountant can become a nurse practitioner with the right accelerated program. read more >>> Source : USNews.Com
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — After three basketball players were charged with raping a teammate in an apparent hazing incident, a Tennessee high school has taken the unusual step of canceling the rest of the season, officials say. The Ooltewah High School season has been called off “so that the criminal justice system can work the way […]
Chicago attorney Holly Carnell discusses how she got a job for a major law firm that handles health care issues. read more >>> Source : USNews.Com
Chancellor Merryl Tisch and Vice-Chancellor Anthony Bottar are both resigning from the New York State Board of Regents, the governing body for education in New York State. Bottar represents a region in upstate New York and Tisch holds an out-large position. With this blog I officially declare my active candidacy for the Tisch slot. There […]
FIRST Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been accused of a “significant climbdown” over plans to introduce standardised national tests for Scottish primary and secondary pupils after it emerged they will not be compulsory and results will not be published. read more >>> Source : HeraldScotland.Com
Academics at Oxford University are using Voltaire and other historical defenders of free speech to mark the first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris. read more >>> Source : BBC
With election season well underway, education is sure to come up as a hot topic. Politicians make big promises but come up with nothing more than empty bromides. Who can argue with a policy called No Child Left Behind or Every Student Succeeds? But it takes more than political promises to truly inspire children, show […]
The charter school industry — consisting of schools that are funded partly by tax dollars but run independently — may be heading toward a bubble similar to that of the subprime mortgage crisis, according to a study published by four education researchers. The study, “Are charter schools the new subprime loans?,” warns of a number […]
In some jobs, you have to wait until you’ve got some experience under your belt before you begin to see a substantial payday — but when it comes, you’ll be thankful you paid your dues. PayScale recently looked at salary data from this year’s College Salary Report and analyzed the difference between starting (less than […]
According to recent and widespread media coverage, the college bubble is bigger than ever. Colleges, claim the media, have been churning out a generation of graduates with worthless degrees. Worse, students are coddled, privileged, wholly lacking in resilience, and driving their campuses off the cliff of political correctness. What are we supposed to do about […]
Growing up and attending school in northern Georgia, Valentina Garcia Gonzalez, now 19, exuded confidence in the academic arena. She was accepted into gifted classes and took more than two dozen advanced-placement (AP) courses at Berkmar High School, a public school in Lilburn, Georgia, right outside of Atlanta. But that confidence began to waiver when […]
In part one of this Leroy Moore, Jr.’s new book Q: You already discussed the problems of students with special needs being funneled into prisons at an alarming rate. Let’s talk about the solutions. Do you see any immediate solutions? Leroy: The prison-to-pipeline problem won’t be solved overnight, but there are strategies parents, schools, advocacy […]
In welcoming its freshman class to campus last fall, the University of Michigan did something that it has been incapable of achieving over the past decade. It increased the minority students in its 2015 freshman class by almost 20% — its highest since 2005, The New York Times reported. After 2005, there was a steep […]
The recent extension could be good news for some student loan borrowers. read more >>> Source : USNews.Com
I’m the kind of person who doesn’t like playing games on their iPhone. I’m not much for Candy Crush or Angry Birds or Words with Friends, and I don’t play Solitaire. I know there are more sophisticated games out there too, like Framed. But I already spend enough time scrolling through Twitter, checking up on […]
A Pyrrhic Victory in Education Reform – by Jerry Jasinowski During our tragic conflict in Vietnam that seemed to have no end, Senator George Aiken (R-VT) suggested we should unilaterally declare victory and pull out. Eventually, we did pull out but by that time no one had the chutzpah to declare victory. But at last […]
Exams boards timetable key A-levels and GCSEs to take into account the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. read more >>> Source : BBC
U.S. News Education Twitter followers share their education goals for 2016. read more >>> Source : USNews.Com
Pupils in a primary school in Yorkshire have to travel to another school because of difficulties finding teachers. read more >>> Source : BBC
THE results of new national tests for Scottish primary and secondary pupils will not be published, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said. read more >>> Source : HeraldScotland.Com
Why do black students do worse in school when they are taught by white educators? The answer might be because these teachers are more likely to suspend them, and under these teachers, black students are more likely to miss class. A recent study from researchers at American University looked at the attendance and suspension rates […]
A group of friends applying to U.S. colleges at the same time can help keep each other on track. read more >>> Source : USNews.Com