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Bill Gates to billionaires: Donate, donate, donate!
Bill and Melinda Gates (photo by Kjetil Ree) Bill and Melinda Gates, together with Warren Buffet, were on the Charlie Rose show last night to make a big annoucement: they’ve asked America’s...
View ArticleRecess round-up: July 29, 2010
A daily dose of education news around the nation – just in time for a little mid-day break! ARRA: The U.S. Department of Education urges states and school districts to spend money to alleviate the...
View ArticleRecess round-up: August 3, 2010
A daily dose of education news around the nation – just in time for a little mid-day break! For-profit colleges: Listen to Liz Willen of The Hechinger Report explain why Congress and the White House...
View ArticleRecess round-up: August 4, 2010
A daily dose of education news around the nation – just in time for a little mid-day break! Class size: Forty-five students in a fifth-grade class in Lodi, Calif. But in Central Florida, core classes...
View ArticleRecess round-up: August 5, 2010
A daily dose of education news around the nation – just in time for a little mid-day break! Evaluating teachers: Aaron Pallas of The Hechinger Report‘s EyeOnEd blog looks at a D.C. teacher’s evaluation...
View ArticleSpending $10 billion to save jobs, sooner or later
The $26 billion bill signed by President Barack Obama earlier this week is intended to preserve jobs, and $10 billion of it is earmarked for saving teachers’ jobs — but how soon it will do so remains...
View ArticleRecess round-up: August 23, 2010
A daily dose of education news around the nation – just in time for a little mid-day break! Charter schools: A mainstay in New Jersey’s poorest cities, charter schools are competing for funds against...
View ArticleRecess round-up: August 25,2010
A daily dose of education news around the nation – just in time for a little mid-day break! Politics K-12: Follow-up and raised eyebrows after yesterday’s Race to the Top Round 2 announcement and why...
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Why teachers need more training in reading skills
Teachers may need more help teaching reading skills As the U.S. pushes hard to reform its education system, it’s troubling to learn that three in 10 teachers failed a licensing exam in Connecticut on...
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Ed in the election: Is the Chicago teachers strike hurting Obama?
The Chicago teachers strike, which entered its fifth day on Friday, could hurt Obama’s chances for re-election, analysts said this week. (Photo by Sarah-Ji) Chicago teachers went on strike Monday,...
View ArticleBlend, flip, disrupt
When she introduced Khan Academy videos and quizzes to her sixth-grade math students, Suney Park had to “give up control,” she said at a Blended Learning in K-12 conference at Stanford’s Hoover...
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Learning future
Our education system is like “a giant canoe with 50 million students,” says Brian Greenberg of Silicon Schools Fund, which funds blended-learning schools. ”We talk about what the canoe is made of and...
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