by Valerie StraussPearson, the world’s largest education company, the one that testing critics love to hate, wants to get much, much bigger. It is selling other investments so that it can focus entirely on its education business. Read the rest of the story at The Washington Post.
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24 July 2015 – With intensive bombardments and street fighting in Yemen forcing more than 3,600 schools across the country to close and disrupting education for some 1.8 million children, the top United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) official there appealed today to the warring parties to respect the safety of schools. Read the rest of the story at the UN News Centre.
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Photo Credit: Patrickneilby Goldie BlumenstykThe U.S. Department of Education has retreated from its controversial plan to create a giant college-ratings system, top officials revealed on Wednesday. Read the rest of the story at The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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Ben Levy, co-founder of eduCanon, talks about the power of video and how placing control in the hands of teachers ignites learning for students. Levy and eduCanon have been named named Forbes 30 under 30 in education and to the AT&T Aspire Program respectively.eduCanon is an online learning environment to build and share interactive video lessons. Teachers begin with any YouTube, Vimeo, or TeacherTube video content (screencasts, Khan Academy, Minute Physics, TED, NOVA, etc.) and transform what is traditionally passive content into an active experience for students. By time-linking activities that students engage with as the video progresses the content is segmented into digestible components – increasing student engagement and, through our real-time monitoring, informing the next day’s lesson planning.*Front Page Image: by Sander van der Wel on Flickr
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by Ainsley O’ConnellSchool leaders and industry partners are reinventing vocational education for low-income students. Can the new model work?Read the rest of the story at Fast Company.
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The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, headed by one of the most visible critics of teacher-education programs, is creating its own graduate school and research center in the field in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Read the rest of the story at The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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by Alan J. BorsukAmid the many education issues now in flux, the future of charter schools seems to attract a high degree of heat and, frequently, misunderstanding. So I thought it might be good to offer a Charter Schools 101 primer.Read the rest of the story at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
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Photo credit Lesley Showby T. Rees ShapiroKimberley Asselin sits in a rocking chair in front of her 22 kindergartners, a glistening smile across her face as she greets them for the morning. Even at 9 a.m., she is effervescent and charismatic.Read the rest of the story at the Washington Post.
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by Katherine ManganStudents deserve to be educated in an environment free from sexual harassment, and professors, to speak and write freely about sensitive topics. But what happens when federal laws designed to protect those rights “butt heads,” as some say occurred during the fallout over a Northwestern University professor’s essays on what she termed “sexual paranoia” on college campuses?Read the rest of the story at The Chronicle of Higher Education.
