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Education Connection Launches Video Contest for Scholarships and Cash Prizes

2009-11-06T16:01:00.001-08:00

Education Connection Launches Video Contest for Scholarships and Cash Prizes

ACE Resources for Lifelong Learning Professionals

2009-11-06T08:01:00.001-08:00

ACE Resources for Lifelong Learning Professionals

The American Council for Education maintains a useful set of pages for academics who work with adult learners. Included at the ACE site is information about Military Evaluation Programs, Government Relations, and Public Policy. (Of course not very many years ago, most students involved in distance education were included in the "adult learner" category, but today distance education is appealing to more and more younger students.) ___JH

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"For more than 60 years, ACE has helped adults gain access to a postsecondary education. We invite you to find out more about our programs and services."

Editorial Roundup: Excerpts From Recent Editorials

2009-11-06T00:02:00.001-08:00

Editorial Roundup: Excerpts From Recent Editorials
Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: Nov. 3

Robert Rines, 87, composer, professor, founder of law center, seeker of ‘Nessie’

2009-11-05T18:01:00.001-08:00

Robert Rines, 87, composer, professor, founder of law center, seeker of ‘Nessie’
Even if Robert H. Rines had never seen what he believed was the hulking hump of a creature break the surface of Scotland’s Loch Ness, his life would have captured imaginations and filled a lengthy resume.

Stimulus saved, created 16,000 Ga. education jobs

2009-11-05T12:01:00.001-08:00

A new federal report shows that more than 16,000 Georgia education jobs were saved or created through stimulus funding.

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Mainers keep school district consolidation law

2009-11-05T04:01:00.001-08:00

Mainers have voted against scuttling the state's school district consolidation law. Critics of the law said consolidation should not be mandatory because it doesn't make sense for many small school districts. They also say the law hasn't delivered on promised savings. Read the rest ...

Revere keeps school contraception policy

2009-11-04T22:01:00.001-08:00

Revere keeps school contraception policy
REVERE - Revere voters turned down a controversial ballot initiative yesterday that would have ended the practice of allowing high school students to get contraception, including condoms and the morning-after pill, at the school’s health clinic.

Mainers keep school district consolidation law

2009-11-04T14:01:00.001-08:00

Mainers keep school district consolidation law

2009-11-04T08:01:00.001-08:00

Mainers keep school district consolidation law
Mainers have voted against scuttling the state's school district consolidation law. Critics of the law said consolidation should not be mandatory because it doesn't make sense for many small school districts. They also say the law hasn't delivered on promised savings.

Stick to education principles

2009-11-04T03:01:00.001-08:00

Stick to education principles

Concern is rising nationwide over the government s education policies. A few days ago, Lee Ki-su, president of Korea University and chairman of the Korean Association of Private University Presidents, criticized the current education system, saying, The Lee Myung-bak administration s education measures started out emphasizing competitiveness and ...

Med, nursing schools teaching alternative remedies

2009-11-03T21:01:00.001-08:00

EDITOR'S NOTE: Ten years and $2.5 billion in research have found no cures from alternative medicine. Yet these mostly unproven treatments are now mainstream and used by more than a third of all Americans. This is one in an occasional Associated Press series on their use and potential risks. Read the rest ...

USC President Steven Sample to Step Down in August

2009-11-03T13:01:00.001-08:00

USC President Steven Sample to Step Down in August

USC President Steven B. Sample, who dramatically boosted the university's academic prestige, financial resources and civic engagement during nearly 19 years as its leader, says he will step down from the post next summer.

Education Center Online Celebrates Black History Month - Offering Online Education for People of All Races

2009-11-03T06:01:00.001-08:00

Mixed results as confidence in schools appears to erode

2009-11-03T00:01:00.001-08:00

City Councilor Michael F. Flaherty Jr., in his quest to unseat Mayor Thomas M. Menino, often rattles off an array of disparaging statistics about the state of the Boston public schools: high dropout rates, too few graduates who finish college, and far too many underperforming schools. Read the rest ...

Education Center Online Celebrates Black History Month - Offering Online Education for People of All Races

2009-11-02T17:01:00.001-08:00

ZaidLearn--a New Blog about Open Learning Resources

2009-11-02T09:01:00.001-08:00

ZaidLearn--a New Blog about Open Learning Resources

This promising new weblog by Zaid Ali Alsagoff is devoted to open learning resources around the world; Zaid is located in Malaysia. His blog is especially valuable for its extensive listing of links to bloggers who write about eLearning and its multiple links to Learning Tools, eLearning sites, OpenCourseWare sites, University Podcasts, and Learning Repositories. Zaid is currently at work on a book about effective learning and teaching that is scheduled for release in June 2008. ____ JH

Education Connection Launches Video Contest for Scholarships and Cash Prizes

2009-11-02T02:01:00.001-08:00

University of California intends to increase financial aid

2009-11-01T20:01:00.001-08:00

University of California intends to increase financial aid
President Mark G. Yudof announces plans to raise $1 billion in private funds over the next four years and to expand an existing aid program to more middle-income families.

As the University of California seeks to sharply increase student fees, its president, Mark G. Yudof, announced plans today to soften the impact with an ambitious campaign to raise $1 billion for financial aid and a policy change widening aid eligibility for more middle-income families.

David Wiley's Open Course on Open Education

2009-11-01T14:01:00.001-08:00

Here's the link the to wiki syllabus for David Wiley's Fall 2007 course about Open Education. There's still time to sign up for this online course. "The goals of the course are (1) to give you a firm grounding in the current state of the field of open education, including related topics like copyright, licensing, and sustainability, (2) to help you locate open education in the context of mainstream instructional technologies like learning objects, and (3) to get you thinking, writing, and dialoguing creatively and critically about current practices and possible alternative practices in open education." Those who don't want to participate in the course will still find value in the online readings and the links to OER sites. ____JH Continue reading ...

Dom Shambra dies at 70; championed Belmont Learning Complex

2009-11-01T08:01:00.001-08:00

Dom Shambra dies at 70; championed Belmont Learning Complex
Los Angeles school district insider was known for relishing challenges that would have daunted others. The long-beleaguered Belmont site finally opened last year under a different name.

Dom Shambra, a consummate school district insider who sacrificed a distinguished career in Los Angeles to champion the Belmont Learning Complex, the nation's most notorious high school construction project, has died. He was 70.

Participation in AP exams up 40 percent in five years

2009-11-01T03:01:00.001-08:00

Participation in AP exams up 40 percent in five years

Since 2005, the number of students at Howard County public high schools taking Advanced Placement examinations has increased by 40 percent, while the number of exams, in various subjects, taken by those students also has increased by 52 percent, according to data released by school officials last week.

Job Interview Preparedness

2009-10-31T20:01:00.001-07:00

Job Interview Preparedness
Knowing at least fifty of the questions an interviewer might throw at me, as well as solid advice on how I should go about answering them intelligently, reduces my stress level significantly.

Smooth Harold, Blake Snow’s alter ego/blog, has an outstanding list of the 50-Most-Common-Interview-Questions-and-Answers. It’s so good, having access to it makes me feel like a naughty little cheater. Knowing at least fifty of the questions an interviewer might throw at me, as well as solid advice on how I should go about answering them intelligently, reduces my stress level significantly (I prefer not to be caught off guard in situations where everyone is watching me and scoring how well I jump through hoops, climb vertical rock faces, and leap over nether-region-clenching chasms).

I’m not currently on the job hunt, but the Gen-Xers (my people, dude) were cursed several years back when some think-tanker told everyone that we would change jobs and careers a stupid number of times throughout our professional lives. Which basically means that by the time I’m in my sixties and will (hopefully) be a decade or so away from retirement, I’ll be able to interview my parents and my grandparents under the table.

Of course, they will either be already dead or nearly there, so some will argue that it’s not going to be a fair fight. Whatever. I’ll be so cranky about having to switch career paths and jobs every few years that I will no longer give a flying rat’s ass about the obsolete concept of “fairness.”

And what I meant by all that was: Woohoo! Interviews! Go out there and interview your asses off, people! Forward motion is good, and knowing you can nail several of the questions the suits in the tiny room will want you to answer with inimitable aplomb and captivating perfection is such a chest-swellingly marvelous feeling. It’s so good, it’s probably addictive. It’s also totally legal, so go nuts.

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Ted Sizer dies at 77; educator built enduring reform movement

2009-10-31T12:01:00.001-07:00

His progressive ideas about how schools should be organized and what students should learn helped drive the debates that rattled parents, government officials and educators in the 1980s and '90s.

Ted Sizer, a former prep school headmaster and Harvard University dean who built an education reform movement that has endured for two decades despite its unfashionable opposition to government- imposed standards and emphasis on deep learning over memorization and regurgitation, has died. He was 77.

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State of education: Poor

2009-10-31T07:01:00.001-07:00

State of education: Poor

One year ago, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell anticipated having $18 billion more to spend on students in the state than his department has today.

Education Consulting Firm To Become Leading Expert in Charter Schools and For-Profit Education Industry

2009-10-31T00:01:00.001-07:00

Education Consulting Firm To Become Leading Expert in Charter Schools and For-Profit Education Industry

Cal State Fullerton ghost town is its own lesson

2009-10-30T17:01:00.001-07:00

A three-day state-mandated class furlough at the campus graphically illustrates the effects of California's budget crisis on higher education.

The busload of future college students from Whittier High School who took a field trip Wednesday to Cal State Fullerton got less -- and more -- than they were expecting.

Eye on Entertainment

2009-10-30T11:01:00.001-07:00

Many states set low bar on student proficiency

2009-10-30T04:01:00.001-07:00

Many states declare students to have grade-level mastery of reading and math when they do not, the Education Department reported yesterday. Continue reading ...

Apperson Education Products Partners with Northrop Grumman

2009-10-29T19:01:00.001-07:00

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ACT Recognizes Outstanding Education and Workforce Achievements

2009-10-29T13:01:00.001-07:00

ACT Recognizes Outstanding Education and Workforce Achievements

Iowa City, IA-To celebrate 50 years of helping students achieve education and workforce success, ACT today presented awards to seven recipients who have demonstrated a strong commitment to college and career readiness at the "Recognizing Exemplary Achievement in College and Career Readiness" ceremony in Washington, D.C. "ACT could think of no ...

Teacher sounds off on education reform

2009-10-29T08:01:00.001-07:00

Teacher sounds off on education reform

Fellow citizens, taxpayers, government leaders: I am a teacher. After 30 years in the field of education, I can't yet envision the day I will retire from the opportunity, and incredible responsibility, to be in the presence of children each morning.

College Loan Corporation and Regent Form Strategic Alliance

2009-10-29T02:01:00.001-07:00

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Mich. gov, GOP leader still far apart on revenue

2009-10-28T20:01:00.001-07:00

Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm remains optimistic that some Senate Republicans will support more money for schools, but GOP Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop said Tuesday he won't alter the Senate's only proposal for raising some extra cash. Read the rest ...

Pearson Education's OnMicrosoft Podcasts Provide New Learning Tool

2009-10-28T13:01:00.001-07:00

Eye on Entertainment

2009-10-28T07:01:00.001-07:00

Eye on Entertainment

Nashville schools study tying pay to scores

2009-10-28T02:01:00.001-07:00

Teachers' job security and pay should be partly determined by how well their students learn, according to a new report on how to improve education in Tennessee.

More on the Higher Education Bubble

2009-10-27T18:01:00.001-07:00

Victim says poisoning no accident

2009-10-27T11:01:00.001-07:00

Victim says poisoning no accident
One of six Harvard Medical School researchers sickened after drinking coffee laced with a toxic chemical said yesterday that he does not see how the poisoning could have been accidental, but has no idea who might be responsible.

Fairfield doctor has novel approach to concussions

2009-10-27T05:01:00.001-07:00

For 11 years, Charlie Snedacker was lucky. Though he loved sports, including lacrosse and skateboarding, Charlie, who lives in Norwalk, had never once gotten a concussion. But luck often runs out, and Charlie's did. In September of last year, Charlie, a student at Roton Middle School, was hit in the head with a soccer ball while at recess and, "it ... Read the rest ...

MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition

2009-10-26T23:01:00.001-07:00

Should be interesting to see what emerges from this new funding direction by the MacArthur Foundation. ____JH

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"Awards will be made in the two categories of Innovation and Knowledge-Networking. Innovation Awards ($100,000 and $250,000) will support learning pioneers, entrepreneurs, and builders of new digital learning environments for formal and informal learning. Knowledge-Networking Awards ($30,000 base award, to a total of $75,000 if budget warrants) will support communicators in connecting, mobilizing, circulating, or translating new ideas around digital media and learning. Entries to the Competition are due October 15, 2007.

Details and application requirements can be found at www.dmlcompetition.net. If you have comments or questions about the Competition that you would like to share publicly, we would love to hear from you via this Spotlight Blog."

Madoff associate had heart attack, drowned in pool

2009-10-26T16:01:00.001-07:00

A man accused of making more than $7 billion off the investment schemes of jailed financial manager Bernard Madoff drowned after having a heart attack, authorities said Monday. Continue reading ...

EduResources Portal Closed

2009-10-26T08:01:00.001-07:00

EduResources Portal Closed

The EduResources Portal was closed this month. The Portal, which was formerly at http://sage.eou.edu/SPT was shut down by Eastern Oregon University (EOU) when the server could no longer be maintained. Because of financial pressures, the University must focus on "supporting hardware and software that directly contribute to the central mission of the institution."

I began the EduResources Portal in 2003 while completing a sabbatical research project; the Portal was established to provide a starting point for instructors who sought to locate online instructional repositories. When I retired from EOU in June 2004, I continued to maintain the Portal from a distance with the assistance of the Computer Center at EOU. The Portal operated in conjunction with this EduResources Weblog; the Portal provided organized links to sites that contain instructional resources for higher education and the Weblog provided commentary about news related to online instructional resources.

I intend to continue the EduResources Weblog for at least another year. I recommend that users who relied on the EduResources Portal make use of the TLT Group's Collection of Collections to guide their searches for online resources: "Exploration Guide: Collections, Repositories, Referatories of Instructional Resources on the Web."

Calorie limits for school lunches are recommended

2009-10-26T01:01:00.001-07:00

Calorie limits for school lunches are recommended
An Institute of Medicine panel also urges lower sodium content under proposed guidelines for the National School Lunch Program, whose nutritional standards have not been updated since 1995.

Children would get fewer French fries and more dark green vegetables in school cafeterias under recommendations being issued today by an Institute of Medicine panel.

At elite colleges, new aid for the middle

2009-10-25T17:01:00.001-07:00

At elite colleges, new aid for the middle
Some of the nation's most elite colleges, trying to ward off perceptions that they've become unaffordable to even high-income families, are bolstering their financial aid packages by offering grants to students whose parents earn as much as $180,000 a year.

Open Thread - Taxing the Wealthy

2009-10-25T09:01:00.001-07:00

Open Thread - Taxing the Wealthy
Finally, we hear something reasonable from the wealthy on how to recover from the financial crisis: Simply donating money to deal with the problems is not enough, they want a change in the whole approach. "The path out of the crisis must be paved with massive investment in ecology, education and social justice," they say in the petition. Those who had "made a fortune through inheritance, hard work, hard-working, successful entrepreneurship, or investment" should contribute by paying more

More on the Higher Education Bubble

2009-10-25T02:01:00.001-07:00

UL System adopts higher admission, transfer standards

2009-10-24T18:01:00.001-07:00

UL System adopts higher admission, transfer standards

Students seeking to enter or transfer to University of Louisiana campuses in 2011 will have to meet a higher standard.

Blackboard Loses on Appeal

2009-10-24T13:01:00.001-07:00

Blackboard Loses on Appeal
Inside Higher Ed reports on Blackboard's latest loss, which is good news for universities and colleges who use open source software because we can be sure that despite their disclaimers, Blackboard would certainly move against open source courseware if they succeed against Desire2Learn and other private companies. Blackboard's loss is also an affirmation of common sense since anyone with long-time experience in course management software knew that Blackboard's patent claims were simply assertions, not valid original contributions to courseware delivery methods. ____JH

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"Both companies appealed the parts of the case they'd lost to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which has nationwide jurisdiction over U.S. patent claims. Its highly technical decision upheld the lower court's conclusion that Blackboard's claims 1-35 were invalid. But the three-judge panel rejected the lower court's finding that Blackboard's patented learning system had originated the approach of giving a single user with a single log-in multiple roles, such as being a teacher in one course and a student in another."

"The appeals panel embraced Desire2Learn's argument that such technology existed in 'prior art,' in this case previously existing course management systems such as Serf and CourseInfo 1.5. The appeals court essentially ruled that the lower court judge had framed Blackboard's claim incorrectly for the jury, said Bruce T. Wieder, a lawyer for the Washington firm of Dow Lohnes who was not involved in the case. Having done so, the Federal Circuit court "could have said, 'This is how you should have interpreted it, you go look at it again,' " Wieder said. "But instead, the court said, 'Since we've seen what was argued, we now can say that the district court wouldn't have come to any conclusion,' and declared those claims invalid."

Khazei unveils education plan in Mass. Senate bid

2009-10-24T07:01:00.001-07:00

City Year co-founder Alan Khazei (KAY'-zee) is pushing for improvements in public education as he campaigns for the Senate seat left vacant by the death of Edward Kennedy. Read more ...

Boston pilot school wins $100,000

2009-10-23T21:01:00.001-07:00

A Boston pilot school has won $100,000 for its dramatic improvement in academic performance, school officials said. Read more ...

Method challenges some education myths

2009-10-23T15:01:00.001-07:00

Method challenges some education myths
Districts and states that use the 'value-added' approach have had some surprising results: Class size, student background and schools' funding appear to be less critical than has long been believed.

For years, schools and students have been judged on raw standardized test scores. Experts say this approach is flawed because they tend to reflect socioeconomic levels more than learning.

BIG APPLE MORE DANGEROUS THAN SPACE

2009-10-23T10:01:00.001-07:00

BIG APPLE MORE DANGEROUS THAN SPACE
Transcript of Astronaut Mike Massimino's visit to New York City If you follow Astronaut Mike Massimino on Twitter (Astro_Mike), then you are well aware of his exploits in space and back here on Earth. Of course, 147 characters don't quite do justice to his recent trip to his home town of New York City. In between taxi rides that achieved more Gs than liftoff, Astronaut Mike met with many enthusiastic fans at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, the New York City Fire Museum a

Friday Funnies

2009-10-23T05:01:00.001-07:00

Friday Funnies
As always, the weekly funnies feature courtesy of Darren at Teaching and Developing Online.Come CloserMiss RightThree Kinds of PeopleHumbleChemistry ClassStress isAnd one that isn’t a cartoon:H1N1 Paranoia …Tensions RiseUntil next week…

State disputes report on cuts to prekindergarten spending

2009-10-22T22:01:00.001-07:00

Massachusetts is one of 10 states this year to cut the amount of money it spends on prekindergarten education, reducing such spending by a greater percentage than all but one other state, according to a report by a national advocacy group that tracks money spent on early childhood education. Read more ...

Fire that destroyed D.C. mansion and art ruled accidental

2009-10-22T17:01:00.001-07:00

Investigators say the July fire that destroyed the home of Peggy Cooper Cafritz might have been caused by oily rags left on a porch.

List of Learning Object Repositories

2009-10-22T12:01:00.001-07:00

List of Learning Object Repositories

This is a useful list of the major learning object repositories, divided into general and discipline-specific listings. The web pages are hosted by the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee at the Center for International Education. ____JH

CCES Swimmers Break Records and more...

2009-10-22T06:01:00.001-07:00

At the 3A State Championship on Oct. 11 at Clemson University's Fike Aquatic Center, several Christ Church Episcopal School swimmers broke school records.

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HDA Deliver Financial Sector Talent Coaching Case Studies

2009-10-22T01:01:00.001-07:00

Coaching schedules typically span 3 to 6 months, consisting of a series of face-to-face meetings, in-between telephone and online support and a 360° assessment London, England, October 22, 2009 — HDA, who deliver a broad range of human capital solutions, note that coaching benefits both company and individual – in HDA’s 2008 Executive Coaching Survey 82% [...] Continue reading ...

College tuition is up sharply amid recession

2009-10-21T17:01:00.001-07:00

College tuition is up sharply amid recession
With the economy struggling, parents and students dared to hope this year might offer a break from rising college costs. Instead, they got another sharp increase.

Missouri lawmakers listen to pros/cons of open enrollment

2009-10-21T09:01:00.001-07:00

Missouri lawmakers listen to pros/cons of open enrollment
JEFFERSON CITY — Superintendents from small districts bordering Iowa and Arkansas told similar stories Tuesday about the possibility of Missouri school districts adopting an open enrollment policy. There are good and bad elements of the philosophy of letting parents enroll children in schools outside the district where they live, but if Missouri lawmakers adopt such a plan, be prepared to change it on the fly.The General Assembly agreed to study open enrollment this year as a compromise in the e

Aid restored to low-income Ill. college students

2009-10-21T01:01:00.001-07:00

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has signed legislation to restore college financial aid to nearly 140,000 low-income students. Read more ...

Science, tech initiative targeting Mass. 6th-graders

2009-10-20T19:02:00.001-07:00

A new nonprofit initiative will dispatch professionals from the worlds of science, engineering, and technology to sixth-grade classrooms around the state. The volunteer visitors’ goal: to persuade students to consider careers in the fields. Continue reading ...

Breast Augmentation Risk Reduced With Keller Funnel

2009-10-20T13:01:00.001-07:00

Breast Augmentation Risk Reduced With Keller Funnel
Breast augmentation surgery may be less risky using the Keller Funnel, to be unveiled at the annual meeting of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons later this week. Surgery of any kind comes with risks. But, with a new device that has recently come on to the market, breast augmentation may be facing a huge revolution. The [...]

UConn mourns stabbing death of football player

2009-10-20T02:01:00.001-07:00

UConn mourns stabbing death of football player
A Connecticut football player who was an expectant father was stabbed to death early Sunday after an on-campus dance, just hours after helping his team to a homecoming victory.

ZaidLearn--a New Blog about Open Learning Resources

2009-10-19T21:01:00.001-07:00

ZaidLearn--a New Blog about Open Learning Resources

ACE Resources for Lifelong Learning Professionals

2009-10-19T14:01:00.001-07:00

ACE Resources for Lifelong Learning Professionals

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"For more than 60 years, ACE has helped adults gain access to a postsecondary education. We invite you to find out more about our programs and services."

College Loan Corporation and Regent Form Strategic Alliance

2009-10-19T06:01:00.001-07:00

College Loan Corporation and Regent Form Strategic Alliance

Update On Arch Criminal Zach Christie.

2009-10-19T00:01:00.001-07:00

I wrote yesterday about the dangerous terrorist and arch-villain Zachary Christie, age 6, who committed the unpardonable sin of taking a Boy-Scout combination eating implement to school.

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Ex-Boston EMS chief being sworn as FEMA deputy

2009-10-18T16:01:00.001-07:00

Ex-Boston EMS chief being sworn as FEMA deputy
Former Boston Emergency Medical Services chief Richard Serino is being sworn in as deputy administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Youth face uphill struggle amid Detroit's troubles

2009-10-18T11:01:00.001-07:00

Youth face uphill struggle amid Detroit's troubles
Like the rundown houses and shuttered storefronts in his Detroit neighborhood, bleakness abounds in LeRoy Taylor's future.

Healthy Ways to Socialize

2009-10-18T06:01:00.001-07:00

Probably the biggest concern for parents who choose to home school their children is providing ways for them to interact, in a healthy way, with their peers. This article is about activities, Alternative education, education, Education in the United States, establishments, fun, Healthy, Homeschool, homeschooling, interact, interaction, peers, resources, socialize, Swimming, ways. Before I learned [...] Related Articles: How Many Hours a Day Should You Home School It’s hard to determine Read the rest ...

What Makes a Kids’ Movie Scary

2009-10-17T23:01:00.001-07:00

What Makes a Kids’ Movie Scary
Warner Brothers PicturesA scene from “Where The Wild Things Are.”“Where the Wild Things Are,” a film based on Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book, hit theaters on Friday. The book is loved by 4- and 5-year-olds, but this PG-rated movie is probably too scary for them. Child development experts debate whether, when it comes to the big screen, live-action films are easier for preschoolers to identify with and enjoy than complex animation. But the live-action G-rated movie seems increasingly ra

Galluccio’s enablers on the Hill

2009-10-17T17:01:00.001-07:00

Until elected officials stop thinking of themselves as something other than ordinary citizens, bound by the same laws and consequences as everyone else, Beacon Hill's shield of arrogance remains unscathed. Read the rest ...

College Loan Corporation and Regent Form Strategic Alliance

2009-10-17T09:01:00.001-07:00

College Loan Corporation and Regent Form Strategic Alliance

L.A. schools construction chief resigns

2009-10-17T03:01:00.001-07:00

Guy Mehula, 56, who had been with the program since 2002, quit after an apparent power struggle with district leadership. James Sohn is named interim facilities chief.

Guy Mehula, the highly regarded head of the Los Angeles Unified School District's massive school construction program, has resigned after an apparent power struggle with district leadership.

Education Center Online Celebrates Black History Month - Offering Online Education for People of All Races

2009-10-16T21:01:00.001-07:00

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ACE Resources for Lifelong Learning Professionals

2009-10-16T14:01:00.001-07:00

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"For more than 60 years, ACE has helped adults gain access to a postsecondary education. We invite you to find out more about our programs and services."

A poor time for a law school at UMass-Dartmouth

2009-10-16T04:01:00.001-07:00

While proponents argue that no state money will be required, a closer look at the planned tuition level and the services offered by the school suggest there's a good chance the school could eventually come to rely on taxpayers for funding. Continue reading ...

McGuinty's education talk put to the test

2009-10-15T23:01:00.001-07:00

Adam Radwanski Last updated on Tuesday, Oct. 06, 2009 10:35AM EDT D alton McGuinty would really, really like to talk to you about early childhood education.

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Mark O'Neill's Sunshine Girl

2009-10-15T18:01:00.001-07:00

Mark O'Neill's Sunshine Girl

SUNshine Girl Shannon is 23 and has been studying for her LSAT. A good grade will get her into law school.

Retiring in Maine: Healthy Mind

2009-10-15T13:01:00.001-07:00

Retiring in Maine: Healthy Mind

SMART THINKING Keeping your mind active is a key to healthy living in Maine. By Joshua F. Moore ALWAYS LEARNING Residents of an independent and assisted living community in Scarborough are making learning a lifelong affair.

In the public of Job nowadays we full require to be successful and hold that success for a really easy time.

2009-10-15T05:01:00.001-07:00

In the public of Job nowadays we full require to be successful and hold that success for a really easy time.
In the world of Business nowadays we all require to be successful and maintain that succeeder for a real easy meter. A Business (also named a firm, or enterprise) is a legally known organization designed to allow goods and/or helps to customers so therefore we all require the best of the best goods/and or helps to allow to our customers or clients in which always case. Im offering alot of im remarkable to Business e-books in sub-categories such as Education, Management, New Products, Promotio

Retiring in Maine: Healthy Mind

2009-10-14T23:01:00.001-07:00

Retiring in Maine: Healthy Mind

The long road back

2009-10-14T15:01:00.001-07:00

The English High School, a historic icon and once one of Boston's premier learning institutions, has become one of the city's worst schools. This year, it must improve or face closure. This story is the first of several about the students, teachers, and headmaster at English as they try to reverse the school's troubled course. Read the rest ...

Education Department official acknowledges error in counseling teen

2009-10-14T09:01:00.001-07:00

Education Department official acknowledges error in counseling teen
Kevin Jennings, under fire from conservatives, says he erred as a teacher 21 years ago when he failed to notify authorities that a student told him he had sexual relations with an adult.

A President Obama appointee in the Education Department acknowledged Wed- nesday that as a teacher 21 years ago he mishandled an incident in which he failed to notify authorities that a 15-year-old student had told him he had sexual relations with an adult.

Slain Yale student memorialized by university

2009-10-14T01:01:00.001-07:00

Slain Yale student memorialized by university
The Yale University graduate student who was found murdered a month ago on what was to be her wedding day was remember Monday as a "model student" at a memorial service for the university community.

Open Education Search Project

2009-10-13T20:01:00.001-07:00

Open Education Search Project

The O'Reilly Radar blog reports that ccLearn, Google, and the Hewlett Foundation are working together to build a search portal focused on open educational resources. Everyone interested in the OER field will certainly be following this new OE Search project closely. ____JH

"ccLearn is working with the Hewlett Foundation and Google to build an 'open education web-scale search,' part of a larger effort to offer web users simple, overarching mechanisms for discovering OERs. This tool aims to direct search engine traffic to the incredible diversity of OER repositories and communities. While such a tool would not replace the more specialized and sophisticated search sites and portals that the community already uses, we believe it would expose a much wider public to our community’s materials. This is also an opportunity to encourage OER adoption and specify legal and technical conditions for making educational resources openly available. We see this project as an important step for achieving large-scale access to and use of open educational resources. "

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ZaidLearn--a New Blog about Open Learning Resources

2009-10-13T14:01:00.001-07:00

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Insurance dispute takes center stage in auditorium drama

2009-10-13T09:01:00.001-07:00

Garfield High is left with a burned-out shell as L.A. Unified and insurers argue over whether the remaining walls should be demolished after 2007 arson fire.

Garfield High School has not hosted a play, a musical performance or an assembly in its historic auditorium since an arson fire gutted it nearly 2 1/2 years ago.

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Radio program eases transition for Vietnamese parents in Garden Grove

2009-10-13T03:01:00.001-07:00

Radio program eases transition for Vietnamese parents in Garden Grove
'Youth and Education' aims to bridge a cultural divide by providing tips on helping students on a wide range of questions.

Annie Mai knows what it's like to be the only Vietnamese student in class. She understands what it is to have parents who work long hours and are unable to help their children with schoolwork. And she can relate when a child must translate for her parents during teacher conferences.

A Quantum Leap in Education -- Fast, Free and Personalized

2009-10-12T21:01:00.001-07:00

Castaic's a high school short of completion

2009-10-12T15:01:00.001-07:00

Castaic's a high school short of completion
The northern L.A. County suburb has waited for more than a decade. But a variety of factors have stymied the hopes of residents.

When David Huffaker moved to Castaic in 1985, he was certain that one day his children would graduate from a brand new high school that the community had been promised for so long.

Educomics

2009-10-12T07:01:00.001-07:00

Educomics
Via Dean Groom on Posterous, a resource for creating educational comics, Our Educomics . The focus is on the education of children but there are some that appear to have some value for the workplace. Educational Comics Design | 4 Learning – Side Track | Dean Groom | 11 October 2009

Berklee music school reaches out to Latin America

2009-10-11T23:01:00.001-07:00

Mariachi music has been Adrian Longoria's passion since he was a child. The Houston-born 21-year-old has performed for packed wedding receptions, private business parties and in dark corners of Mexican restaurants. Read more ...

The long road back

2009-10-11T18:01:00.001-07:00

WorldWideScience

2009-10-11T10:01:00.001-07:00

Science students and instructors will want to put this web address in their bookmarks because WWS provides a federated search of science sites around the world. By combining WWS with Scirus--plus a discipline-specific search and a general search in Google--a searcher will have made a serious first-pass at finding information. ____JH (Via the Development Gateway's E-Learning distribution.)

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"WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway—accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases. Subsequent versions of WorldWideScience.org will offer access to additional sources as well as enhanced features"

Idaho State University Rupp debate team ranked 18th in nation

2009-10-11T03:01:00.001-07:00

Idaho State University Rupp debate team ranked 18th in nation
The season's first Cross Examine Debate Association/National Debate Tournament coach's poll is out and Idaho State University's James M. and Sharon E. Rupp debate team is ranked 18th in the nation. The team started the season several weeks ago with strong showings at its first two tournaments. "We're excited about the coaches' poll," said Sarah Partlow ...

Graphical/Clustering Searches for LO/OER Information

2009-10-10T19:01:00.001-07:00

Every now and then I like to do graphical searches related to Learning Objects and Open Educational Resources because I find that these searches sometimes yield different frameworks for understanding the information and sites that emerge than I get from my regular reading of rss feeds and blog entries. Recently I tried the new WikiMindMap and was pleased to see that the entry for "Learning Objects" is very good; the entry in Wikipedia for "Open Educational Resources" is a bit sparse, but not bad for starters. If you try "OER" alone as the search term you'll get not only Open Educational Resources but Oregon Electric Railway, Odaku Electric Railway, Offense Efficiency Rating, and Oxygen Efficiency Ratio.

Getting outside Wikipedia. I used my favorite graphical search engine, Kartoo. The Kartoo search for "Open Educational Searches" put the fairly new OER Commons right at the center of the display which I thought was accurate and timely.

A colleague, Dr. Russ Poulin from WCET, recently recommended the clustering search engine Clusty, so I tried it for both "Open Educational Resources" and "Learning Objects." Ten times as many results were returned for the second search term than for the first, indicating (I suppose) that Learning Objects have been discussed longer in the professional literature than Open Educational Resources. I liked the way Clusty ordered and outlined the results.

Finally, I did a search in Google for "Graphical Search Engines" and discovered a kind of meta search engine tool called, appropriately, the Graphical Search Engine Comparison Tool from SEO Tools. This handy tool permits the user to select two from among five popular search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, Vista, and AlltheWeb) and then enter search terms for the two different search engines (e.g., Google and Yahoo) to compare their results. The resulting display shows which links are at the top, middle, and bottom of one search vs the other and what percentage of the sites overlap in the searches (in this example, 46% for "Learning Objects," 36% for "Open Educational Resources"). Using this tool will convince searchers how important it is to NOT rely on a single search engine. Highly recommended. ____JH

WideOpenEducation

2009-10-10T11:01:00.001-07:00

WideOpenEducation is a promising new blog that focuses on resources for higher education. The weblog is sponsored by the same creator who developed the excellent Open Education Datatbase (OEDb). The WOE site will include an rss feed for subscribers and will be searchable by key words. It will be interesting to see how this site develops. _____JH Continue reading ...

OpenEd

2009-10-10T05:01:00.001-07:00

OpenEd
I've added the OpenEd community site to my navigator links for Recommended Websites about OER. The Creative Commons review of the site commented, "There are so many great educational materials out there—some already openly licensed and a great deal more in the public domain—and the problem is that a lot of people still don’t know about them or how to use them. Similarly, the open education movement has produced some really exciting projects and programs in recent years, but there is no global landing space for these inspiring movers and shakers to really connect as a coherent community. Open Ed, the new Open Education Community site, is the result of brainstorming with other initiatives in the movement on how to provide such a space. We designed the site for open education community members, but also for teachers, learners, and those who just want to get involved. We were able to build it thanks to the strong support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation." View the video on the front page for an orientation to the many resources and services available at OpenEd.