Educate Online Launches, Dedicated to Improving Student Achievement, Building Academic Confidence

Educate Online Launches, Dedicated to Improving Student Achievement, Building Academic Confidence

Brookings on regional economic performance

Brookings has developed a really cool MetroMonitor that will track the recession and recovery (likely a year after the recession ends) across America's 100 largest metropolitan areas. Here are some of their findings to date: A few metropolitan areas are beginning to showing signs of economic recovery, although none has completely recovered . McAllen is the only metropolitan area that saw growth in both employment and output during the first quarter of 2009. Employment also rose in New Hav Continue reading ...

Annenberg Broadband Media Resources

The Annenberg Foundation has provided instructional media to schools, colleges, and to public television for many years. Some of the Annenberg Media productions are now freely available online. Registration is required. The Teacher Resources are organized by discipline and age group and are searchable with key words. Some examples include "A World of Art," "The Constitution,"  "Human Geography," "In Search of the Novel," and "Seasons of Life." Although the materials are directed at teachers for use as supplements to classes, they will also be useful for students and adult learners.____JH

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"Annenberg Media is a unit of The Annenberg Foundation. Our mission is to advance excellent teaching in all disciplines throughout American K-12 schools. Former names of Annenberg Media are: Annenberg/CPB, The Annenberg/CPB Project, and The Annenberg/CPB Math and Science Project.

We pursue this mission by funding and broadly distributing multimedia resources for teachers to help them improve their own teaching practice and understanding of their subject. Annenberg Media makes use of telecommunications technologies—the Internet, including broadband video streaming, and satellite television broadcast—as well as hard copy media to disseminate these multimedia resources, ensuring that they reach as many teachers as possible."

 

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High school students compete for auto repair crown

High school students compete for auto repair crown
For Matthew Ludwig and Justin Dwyer, their future in the auto industry is a bright one, unmarred by a slumping auto sales market and Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings.