Florida has dropped from No. 1 in the annual count of new National Board certified teachers to No. 5, with only about one-third the number of educators completing the program as a year ago.
The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards reports today that just 651 Florida teachers successfully completed [...]
The Carnival of Educators is up at Free Home Education.
The Common Room is hosting this week’s Carnival of Homeschooling.
Angered by worst-in-the-nation math scores for fourth- and eighth-graders, a Detroit parents group wants jail time for teachers and administrators, reports the Detroit News.
Sharlonda Buckman, CEO of the Detroit Parent Network, called for jailing and civil lawsuits against anyone in the city’s educational system that is not [...]
Jones's cynicism is evident in this title: here come the indicators, wait for the task corruption. The context is a discussion of the Australian government's new plan for higher education focusing on results-based funding, performance, targets and quality. David T. Jones argues that we need "quite" [...] ON THE RISE: The One Florida plan to increase minority enrollment in Florida's universitieshas succeeded, mostly because of rising Hispanic numbers. (Times photo, Atoyia Deans)
MORE TIME: A growing list of Florida educators support keeping kids in school longer, but many say it's not likely [...]
U.S. visa and immigration laws and policies need major changes for American universities to continue to attract top talent from abroad, according to a report being released today by NAFSA: Association of International Educators. Among the reforms the report endorses: expedited reviews for "low risk" visa applicants, new procedures [...]
SPECIAL DEAL? Should former Florida House speaker Marco Rubio, now a US Senate candidate, have received a professor job at Florida International University? Some critics question the relationship.
DIPLOMA DILEMMA: Land O'Lakes High in Pasco exemplifies concerns some Florida educators have with new grad rate' [...]
Connecticut's Saint Joseph College is home to a rare program aimed at teaching educators about autism.
[...]These days pretty much every nonprofit and schoolhouse has at least one hipster (or wannabe hipster).
But hipsters can be hard to recognize -- and even harder to deal with.
So now there's the blog "Stuff Hipsters Hate" to help with identification' [...]
Rebecca Hatherley, photo taken by Kim Cofino during a similar meeting at a different time.
A few weeks ago, I was teaching a workshop to a large group of tech-savvy educators here in Wake County (Raleigh) North Carolina. During the workshop, I was surprised to learn that Skype [...]
SHORT-CHANGED: When Florida education commissioner Eric J. Smith talked to Pasco educators about the importance of funding, he notably didn't say anything about adequate funding, columnist C.T. Bowen writes.
MAKE IT RIGHT: St. Petersburg College needs to end the practice of overcharging students for books,' [...]
Take a closer look at this Guest Columnist Denise Herrenbruck.As more students turn to Oregon virtual charter schools, there's a brewing conflict between educators and parents in the K-12 community.Photo: Dreamstime
Those who are inexperienced with online learning often guess it means only one thing: [...]Florida education commissioner Eric J. Smith and K-12 chancellor Frances Haithcock positively effused over Pasco schools during a Thursday visit to Oakstead Elementary and Sunlake High.
They listened to students, parents and educators talk about how they're implementing Response to Intervention strategies and learned that some' [...]
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