Obama Rolls Out New Higher Education Initiatives
Education Week Teacher: News and Information for Teacher Leaders 28 Jan 2012, 12:17 am CET
President Barack Obama takes aim at an issue that resonates with a constituency likely to be important to his re-election campaign: college students struggling to pay off their student loans.
Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 01/27/2012
Cool Cat Teacher Blog 27 Jan 2012, 8:31 pm CET
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5 Ways Teachers Can Raise Standardized Test Scores | Education Is My Life
This teacher reflects on the practices he feels have raised test scores in his classroom. Test scores are a fact and until it is changed at the top, teachers in the classroom have to work within that environment.
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Mergers Seen on the Rise in the K-12 Marketplace
Education Week Teacher: News and Information for Teacher Leaders 27 Jan 2012, 2:55 pm CET
The flurry of transactions in the education industry is driven largely by deals in the educational technology sector.
Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 01/27/2012
Cool Cat Teacher Blog 27 Jan 2012, 11:32 am CET
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The Press Association: Brown wants global education fund
Move to global education fund but funding is hard to come by. This article implies it is easier to raise money for diseases than to educate people. That is sad. "All 193 United Nations member states are signed up to a Global Millennium Goal for primary school education to be accessed by every child by 2015, agreed at the New York Millennium Summit in 2000. In the current funding set-up, countries with the biggest out-of-school populations, such as Afghanistan, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, are not eligible for grants from the World Bank's Global Partnership for Education (GPE). Despite being the leading worldwide education fund, the GPE recently failed to raise a pledges target of 2.5 billion US dollars (£1.6 billion) over three years and has been criticised for a lack of flexibility in allocating grants.".
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Anonymous Goes After World Governments in Wake of Anti-SOPA Protests | Threat Level | Wired.com
Conversation has moved from SOPA to ACTA, an international treaty supposedly supported by the enetertainment industry. Hackers are targeting governments and businesses in opposition to SOPA and now are targeting those in support of this new treaty which does not require legislative approval in most countries.
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Expanding ICT in sub-Saharan Africa is a great thing. How far will $1million go when the Internet is so expensive in many parts of Africa. But it is a start for this joint partnership announced at Microsoft's partners in learning conference in DC this past November.
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Integrating text to speech is great but it should be in every e textbook for every student. At least this is a start. ".HMH is proud to be the first to offer text-to-speech functionality with every online social studies student edition for grades 6-12,” to said Melissa Counihan, Vice President, K-12 Literacy and Social Studies Segment Management, HMH"
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India Shining - Bharat Drowning | GroundReport
India is upset over a recent international test that put their 15 year olds second from the bottom in test scores. ".Comparing scores, it’s estimated that an Indian eighth grader is at the level of a South Korean third grader in math abilities or a second-year student from Shanghai when it comes to reading skills."
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MPAA chairman Chris Dodd expresses regret over pro-SOPA strategy, calls for compromise | The Verge
Understand one of the leaders behind SOPA and you'll know that this is not going away any time soon. "Dodd blames the bills' reduced support on a slow timeline that allowed opposition to mobilize, but also on a strategy that ended up making the anti-piracy effort seem specifically about helping Hollywood. His own efforts were also limited by a law that prevents him from lobbying Congress directly within two years of leaving office."
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Philadelphia School District Must Cut $400K Per Day, City Controller Says
Education Week Teacher: News and Information for Teacher Leaders 26 Jan 2012, 10:28 pm CET
City Controller Alan Butkovitz estimated Wednesday that $400,000 per day would need to be cut from the Philadelphia School District everyday until June 30 because of its financial troubles.
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