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What Leaving No Child Behind Really Means
By
Lynda J. Katz
As the federal government seeks input on the
reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, educators
need to emphasize the critical importance of arming teachers not only with
the freedom to support each child’s individual learning style, but also
with the knowledge to properly educate those with learning disabilities.
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Cyber Education: Achieving Obama’s Vision
by Michael Kaiser
President Barack Obama has said that America faces
“few more urgent challenges than preparing our children to compete in a
global economy.” Being able to understand and make use of the world’s vast
telecommunications infrastructure is certainly part of that preparation.
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E-Learning Hits Barriers to Expansion
by Constance Gustke
Many countries are ratcheting up
their K-12 e-learning programs. China has digitized its entire system of
K-12 courses and so has Mexico. Turkey’s online courses now educate 15
million students, compared with 1 million in the United States. And
similar pushes are under way in Australia, Europe, India, New Zealand, and
South America. Read
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The Proficiency Delusion
by Mark Schneider
The No Child Left Behind Act of
2001 set as a national goal that all children would be proficient in
reading and math by 2014. But perhaps reflecting bruising battles over
President Bill Clinton’s proposed “voluntary national test” in the late
1990s, the law left both the design of the tests and the setting of “cut
scores” to the states. The dubious outcome of this choice is well
documented: States set their cut scores so low that large numbers of
students were judged proficient even though they lacked basic skills.
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E-Curriculum Builders Seek a Personalized Approach
by Michelle R. Davis
With a wealth of online courses for school
districts to choose from, plus an abundance of interactive activities,
videos, and digital information to sift through to design such courses,
school leaders are embracing a variety of approaches to build online
curricula.Districts are buying online classes from nonprofit and
for-profit providers, making their own from scratch, accessing open-source
options, or combining all three approaches. Despite often being considered
a “new” avenue of education, online-course providers say they’re tapping
years of experience to determine the leading methods of appealing to
students and getting them to interact with online material.
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STLHE2010 - Creative Teaching and Learning:
Exploring.Shaping.Knowing
Toronto, Ontario, Canada : 23 to 26 June 2010
Overview:
STLHE is a national
association of academics interested in the improvement of teaching and
learning in higher education. Its members comprise faculty and teaching
and learning resource professionals from institutions of post-secondary
education across Canada and beyond. Founded in 1981, the bilingual STLHE
is home to the Council of 3M Teaching Fellows and the Educational
Developers Caucus. This year’s conference,Creative Teaching and Learning:
Exploring.Shaping.Knowing, is expected to attract more than 600
individuals from Canada, the United States and abroad. Each year, the
STLHE conference participants exchange ideas, communicate research
findings, and connect with old and new colleagues.
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ConnectED2010 - 2nd
International Conference on Design Education
Sydney, Australia : 28 June 2010 to 1 July
2010
Overview :
ConnectED 2010 will be in association
with the Design Educators Forum of South Africa (DEFSA). Our association
with DEFSA is aimed at introducing a major stream of papers from Africa,
India and Asia addressing design in relation to development and a truly
globalize design economy.
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Retention in Online Education: Return on Investment in Four Steps
Thursday, June 24th and
Thursday, July 15th ~ 3:00-4:30 EDT
During the first part of this
work-part workshop, participants will measure the cost of lost tuition at
their institution due to their online student drop rates. We will review
key reasons an online student leaves school. |
"Respect
your efforts, respect yourself.
Self-respect leads to self-discipline.
When you have both firmly
under your belt, that's real power."
-- Clint Eastwood |