Chart: Getting Kids Seated / Tracking Locational Impact
Here's a chart Classroom seating habits via FlowingData presenting an interesting visualization of seating habits of students (graduate students in this case). Check it out, tell us what you're favorite/best seating setup is. Airlines keep trying new seating schemes to make getting onto planes easier and faster but what about educators tracking how students enter classes and where they sit and how much time that takes and whether there are any academic
AM News: Dems Pushing For Obama Jobs / Education Bill
Middle-Class schools miss the mark WSJ: Middle-class public schools educate the majority of U.S. students but pay lower teacher salaries, have larger class sizes and spend less per pupil than low-income and wealthy schools, according to a report to be issued Monday.
Key House Democrat Wants Hearings on Obama Jobs Plan Right Away EdWeek: But Kline and other committee Republicans are clearly skeptical about the plan, which they essentially argue is throwing good money after bad (aka the stimulus).
Race to Top Runners-Up: Favorites and Underdogs EdWeek: In addition to Colorado and Louisiana, it seems sensible to add Illinois to the favorites category.
Study: Minorities underrepresented in STEM jobs Washington Post: Hispanics and non-Hispanic blacks have over the past decade been underrepresented in U.S. jobs in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in large part because of a lack of equality in educational opportunity, according to a new report being released today.
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Generation goes from Sept. 11 classrooms to war AP: The attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 shaped a swathe of young Americans who were on their way to their middle or elementary schools or were already there when the first reports, bewildering and then horrifying, filtered into classrooms across the United States. They lived their adolescence in a nation at war, and now they are in the midst of the combat.
Teaching students abotu 9/11 presents challenges LA Times: Many California teachers say the focus on state testing gives them little time to really explore the topic. Some say educators are hesitant because of sensitivities over religion, war and politics.
More Baltimore grads attending two-year colleges, are less likely to get degrees Baltimore Sun: The Baltimore Education Research Consortium at Johns Hopkins University found the percentage of city public school graduates heading to two-year-institutions rose 12 percentage points over four years to 52 percent in 2010, while the percentage of students enrolled in four-year-colleges declined 12 percentage points to 49 percent.
New Groups Giving Teachers Alternative Voice EdWeek: Over the past few years, a number of new efforts have sprung up purporting to give teachers a say in policy, and their emergence is extending discussions about "teacher voice" in unexpected ways.
States scramble to pay for healthier school food Stateline: Better nutrition for low-income kids is a cause that’s hard to oppose. Funding it and signing up more needy families are the big challenges.