Education Connection Launches Video Contest for Scholarships and Cash Prizes

Education Connection Launches Video Contest for Scholarships and Cash Prizes

ACE Resources for Lifelong Learning Professionals

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

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’

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Mainers keep school district consolidation law

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

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

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

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

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Mixed results as confidence in schools appears to erode

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

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ZaidLearn--a New Blog about Open Learning Resources

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

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University of California intends to increase financial aid

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

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

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

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.