PUBLIC SCHEDULE OF U.S. EDUCATION SECRETARY ARNE DUNCAN
THE WEEKS AHEAD: Sunday, Dec. 20, 2009-Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010
No public events scheduled.
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PUBLIC SCHEDULE OF U.S. EDUCATION SECRETARY ARNE DUNCAN
THE WEEKS AHEAD: Sunday, Dec. 20, 2009-Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010
No public events scheduled.
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LEARNING WITH PURPOSE: Health career academy students at Pasco's Marchman education center say their program helps them prepare for a world after high school. (Times photo, Brendan Fitterer)
SLOW GROWING: Enrollment is on the rise in Florida's voluntary pre-k program, but space still remains for [...]
Seeing as how it’s Saturday and DC is currently buried under a once-per-decade snowfall, this seems like a good time to abandon education entirely and talk about television.
I’m reading Chuck Klosterman’s new book, Eating the Dinosaur, which is not as sharp and wide-ranging as Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs but [...]
SING A SONG: Prekindergartners in Pasco's deaf and hard of hearing class make so much progress in a year that they're able to carol their parents for the holidays. (Times photo, Brendan Fitterer)
AN ACCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN: A 17-year-old Pinellas Park High girl is
No evidence supports the idea that children learn more if teachers teach to their “learning styles,” concludes a study by a team of cognitive scientists published in Psychological Science in the Public Interest.
Education Week summarizes:
Some children, for instance, may be visual learners, while others best absorb information by [...]
Despite a wild week, the vast majority of Florida school districts aren't slamming the door on Florida's Race to the Top application. At least not yet. All but four of Florida's 67 districts turned in their letters of intent to participate by today's deadline, prompting this statement tonight from Education' [...]
The concepts expressed here are important for software use in education – Publish/Subscribe Matrix Could Explode Into Glass-Smooth Platform: “Publish once and your content is everywhere, immediately. Open your browser and it will show you just the kind of content you need, from all around the web, targeting your [...]
Regulatory heat. Loan default worries. Bad publicity.
That's the storyline about for-profit colleges lately, but here's some other news: They just keep gobbling up the online-education market.
According to new [...]
TALLAHASSEE -- State Democratic leaders are adding their voices to the controversy surrounding Florida's bid for federal Race to the Top stimulus funds.
In a letter released Friday, the ranking members of House education committees asked Education Commissioner Eric J. Smith to "urgently revise" the application which teachers' unions have said they' [...]
Earlier this year, while in Rome, I was interviewed by Robin Good on a wide range of topics. He’s been posting the interview in small (5-10 min) recordings. The most recent recording is on the future of education – i.e. is deschooling society possible? Short answer: not likely – [...]
For years, for-profit colleges have pointed to the fact that they are accredited by independent agencies recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as proof that they provide a quality education. Why [...]
Go onto Facebook (you're probably on there already). Pick an education person who's got a Facebook page but is for whatever reason not your FB friend. Now, click on his or her profile picture. What do you see? In all likelihood, you'll be able to see [...]
Being the federal education policy nerd that I am, I'm wading through a 367-page transcript of the technical assistance planning seminar the U.S. Department of Education held in Denver to help states understand the Race to the Top competition.
Since I attended a similar seminar in Baltimore, many of' [...]
When asked by the Chronicle of Higher Education why the chain of for-profit schools he oversees had such a high three-year cohort default rate, Arthur Benjamin, the chief executive of ATI Career Training Center, cited the fact that his institutions did not provide loan counseling after two [...]
UNIONS BALK: The Florida Education Association and many of its locals reject the state's effort to Race to the Top. Meanwhile, several local districts are opting in to the grant proposal, the Stuart News reports.
SHORT TIMER? One of Hernando's seven superintendent finalists is [...]
Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Thursday named his six appointments to the reconstituted National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity, which advises the secretary on issues related to accreditation. The previous incarnation of the panel was disbanded by Congress as part of last year's renewal of the Higher [...]
Mississippi's state higher education board has given initial approval to a plan to make it easier to dismiss tenured faculty members, the Associated Press reported. Among the changes: shortening the notice time that must be given to tenured professors, and including lack of funds as a reason for terminating [...]
Unhappy with regional agency's judgment in one university's case, inspector general urges Education Department to consider revoking its recognition.
[...]Florida education commissioner Eric J. Smith isn't thrilled with the Florida Education Association's decision to urge local teacher unions to boycott the state's Race to the Top application.
In a response to the FEA's open letter to him, Smith calls FEA president Andy Ford's position' [...]
Detroit Press covers the action on the legislation moving in MI to position the state for Race to the Top.* Money quote from Democratic House education chairman Tim Melton:
“What’s been terrible for me the last few years is watching the communities that are most affected by this, that are Democratic [...]
With the Race to the Top deadline just around the corner, education policy wonks are already sizing up the competition to figure out who's already in the lead, and who isn't.
Vegas odds probably aren't favoring these 14 states, which didn't meet the Gates Foundation's litmus test' [...]
"I will not hide the teacher’s Prozac" Bart's Blackboard
Season 8, Episode 13
Is Our Education Reporters Learning?
Casey Lartigue
Journalists
don't like to go places they have been invited. They want to go places
where they must go undercover.
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Kids growing up in chaotic homes with no clear rules or routines have lower IQs and more behavior problems, concludes a study analyzed by Daniel Willingham on The Answer Sheet.
Rsearchers factored out “the parents’ education level, parent’s IQ, a measure of the literacy environment in the home (number of [...]
