A Master’s for Science Professionals Sweeps U.S. Schools - NYTimes.com

A Master’s for Science Professionals Sweeps U.S. Schools - NYTimes.com

A Master’s for Science Professionals Sweeps U.S. Schools

By JOSEPH ROSENBLOOM

Published: December 26, 2010

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BOSTON — A curiosity tucked away in a handful of university catalogs a decade ago, the professional science master’s degree is emerging from the shadows at a number of college campuses.

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Erik Jacobs for the International Herald Tribune

Aayush Pandey, 23, is pursuing a professional science master’s degree, or P.S.M., at Northeastern University in Boston.

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The degree, which a few universities quietly pioneered in the mid-1990s, combines graduate studies in science or mathematics and business management courses. In 2008, 58 universities were offering the professional science master’s degree, or P.S.M., according to the Council of Graduate Schools in Washington. By the start of this academic year, the number had nearly doubled

Briefly: Education: Summit Takes Global Turn to Strengthen Education

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The first International Summit on the Teaching Profession is to be held in March in New York.

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Published: December 26, 2010

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The U.S. Department of Education has announced plans for the first International Summit on the Teaching Profession, to be held in March in New York.

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Organizers say the aim of the meeting is to share strategies with the international education community. To that end, in addition to U.S. teachers and administrators, the meeting’s organizers have invited top educators, education ministers and leaders of education organizations from a number of countries.

The international scope of the meeting is a first for U.S. education leaders. “This summit is a tremendous opportunity to learn from one another the best methods worldwide to

DFER in CA « DFER Watch

DFER in CA « DFER Watch

DFER IN CA

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From the Sacramento Bee:

Romero is busy raising money to get the group’s California chapter started this spring. Just last week, she said, she was in Silicon Valley meeting with potential donors during a luncheon organized by Powell Jobs. “This was a roomful of people saying, ‘Count me in,’ ” Romero said.

The growing anti-union movement among Democrats could make the next few years “a pretty gory battle” in the Capitol, said Bruce Fuller, an education professor at UC Berkeley.

Romero, DFER’s CA director and the September 2009 DFER Reformer of the Month, received contributions from three DFER board members during her run for Superintendent of Public Instruction: Charles Ledley gave

NYC Public School Parents: Joel Klein's holiday card

NYC Public School Parents: Joel Klein's holiday card

Joel Klein's holiday card

by Leonie Haimson

Thanks to all of you who suggested a caption for the (real) NYC Department of Education holiday card from Joel Klein.
In the end, I made up my own.


In the same vein, be sure to check out theWaPost Answer Sheet for the censored play by Jamaica High School students

My Anti-Creativity Checklist - The Educator's PLN

My Anti-Creativity Checklist - The Educator's PLN

My Anti-Creativity Checklist

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• My Anti-Creativity Checklist from Youngme Moon on Vimeo.

  Here’s a question for you: If you had to come up with an “anti-creativity checklist” for your organization... a checklist guaranteed to stifle imagination, innovation, and out-of-box thinking... a checklist designed specifically for people who want nothing to do with disruptive change... what would your checklist look like? With a wink toward the irreverent, here’s mine. (www.youngmemoon.com)

NYC Public School Parents: Poor misunderstood Joel Klein

NYC Public School Parents: Poor misunderstood Joel Klein

Poor misunderstood Joel Klein

by Leonie Haimson

In Joel Klein's exit interview in the NY Times he portrays himself as misunderstood. Or is it he himself who continually misses the point?

In response to a question about whether he regrets not paying attention to public school parents and teachers who grew angry at him for his neglect, Klein pulls out a card from a third grader at a Harlem charter school, thanking the Chancellor for being his "advocate." Not only was this clearly orchestrated by a charter school operator, but unmentioned is the apparent

Admitting Mistakes in Applying Technology in Schools: The Virtue of Saying Oops! | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Admitting Mistakes in Applying Technology in Schools: The Virtue of Saying Oops! | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Admitting Mistakes in Applying Technology in Schools: The Virtue of Saying Oops!

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“I absolutely think we learn from failure, but getting people to talk about it honestly is not so easy,” said an organizer of FailFaire held last summer in New York.

Bringing together World Bank specialists and nonprofit groups advocating technology to improve the lives of the poor, FailFaire thinks the way to build success is to talk openly about what went belly up, crashed–pick your metaphor for going kaput. The prize for the rendering of the worst case of failure: “a garish green-and-white child’s computer nicknamed the O.L.P.C.–for One Laptop Per Child,” a program regarded by some as a failure to achieve the changes promised by its promoters.

Technologies that crashed are well known. Time magazine in 2009 listed the top ten failures of the decade. Others might have their favorites: video phones, Apple’s NeXT Cube in 1989, Segway in 2002, and Microsoft’s VISTA in 2007.

Sonoran Alliance: Arizona Politics for Conservatives » A Dismal Picture For Higher Education in Arizona

Sonoran Alliance: Arizona Politics for Conservatives » A Dismal Picture For Higher Education in Arizona

A Dismal Picture For Higher Education in Arizona

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The Center for College Affordability and Productivity (CCAP) has concluded a study that paints a dismal picture for higher education.

[A]pproximately 60 percent of the increase in the number of college graduates from 1992 to 2008 worked in jobs that the BLS considers relatively low skilled—occupations where many participants have only high school diplomas and often even less. Only a minority of the increment in our nation’s stock of college graduates is filling jobs historically considered as requiring a bachelor’s degree or more.

Today, I received a nice color mailer from ASU asking me for money. I graduated in 2009 and ASU has been relentless in their alumni fundraising efforts. My gmail spam filter has twenty email addresses that are automatically blocked. Fourteen of the email addresses are from Arizona State University asking me for money. If you want to know how I feel, read

Radical Education Legislation: A Heated Debate

Radical Education Legislation: A Heated Debate

Education reform is taking a front seat in Indiana with Gov. Mitch Daniels. Similar to the Q comp program in Minnesota, Daniels has proposed “linking teacher pay to student performance,” with the added benefit of awarding students a scholarship if they finish high school a year early. The controversial aspect to the reform, however, is Daniel’s proposal to open state funds to help parents defray the cost of sending their children to private school. This would be the ultimate “true school choice plan” and one that has been opposed by public educators for years.

For underprivileged students, vouchers give the “kind of options only rich ones currently have.” While the state vouchers won’t cover the entire cost of private education, they can be a great help to parents trying to afford it. As well as providing opportunity to students that might not have had much of it before, state vouchers will also “create competition” that will benefit public schools and students. And here’s the added edge: schools that stand to lose students unless they improve will likely improve with the added competition.

However, there are critics of the voucher program. Some contend that this program will “end up siphoning off the best students”, leaving the struggling ones far behind. Also, parents who are the most committed will leave the school and other students that

Education Reform in Springfield? The Performance Counts Act will be discussed in the Illinois Senate - Your Doubting Thomas

Education Reform in Springfield? The Performance Counts Act will be discussed in the Illinois Senate - Your Doubting Thomas

Education Reform in Springfield? The Performance Counts Act will be discussed in the Illinois Senate

Brian C. Thomas

Michelle Rhee on the cover of Time

When I started as chancellor in 2007, I never had any illusions about how though it would be to turn around a failing system like D.C.'s; the city had gone through seven chancellors in the 10 years before me. While I had to make many structural changes,... I believed the hardest thing would be changing the culture. We had to raise the expectation that people had about what was possible for our kids.

Michelle Rhee, Newsweek, December 6, 2010.

Maybe you have heard of Michelle Rhee. She is the former boss of Washington D.C.'s schools- who resigned (much like former Chicago boss Ron Huberman) after her benefactor, Adrian Fenty, lost his re-election bid as Mayor of Washington D.C. While in Washington, she closed failing schools and confronted what the Chicago Tribune editorial board called the "adults first

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Teachers taking stress-related leave log 17th straight yearly rise | The Japan Times Online

Teachers taking stress-related leave log 17th straight yearly rise | The Japan Times Online

Teachers taking stress-related leave log 17th straight yearly rise

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The number of public school teachers who took sick leave due to depression or other mental disorders in the academic year through last March rose for the 17th straight year to reach a record high, an education ministry survey said Friday.

The number of such teachers at elementary schools as well as junior high and high schools totaled 5,458, up 58 from the preceding year, accounting for 63 percent of the 8,627 teachers who took sick leave during the year, according to the Education, Sports, Culture, Science and Technology Ministry.

The pace of rise slowed in the reporting year and a ministry official said it could be attributable to "the effects of improving counseling treatment (for teachers)."

Among the teachers who took leave citing psychological reasons, the largest portion, 39 percent, were in their 50s, followed by 35 percent in their 40s, 19

Cornel West Among Blacks, Others, Call For Mass Protest Against Obama | RENWL

Cornel West Among Blacks, Others, Call For Mass Protest Against Obama | RENWL

Cornel West Among Blacks, Others, Call For Mass Protest Against Obama

24 December, 2010 | Derrick Mathis | Comments (0)

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Dr. Cornel West sounding off.

In a petition titled Open Letter To The Left Establishment, Dr. Cornel West, Noam Chomsky, Glen Ford of the popular African American blogBlack Agenda Report, and several other African American and progressive notables stated “the Obama administration has demonstrated itself to be an impeccable enemy of reform.”

The letter also accuses the Obama administration of “suppressing” protest movements saying that the almost complete absence of protest from the left has emboldened the most right-wing elements inside and outside of the Obama administration to pursue and act on an ever more extreme agenda.

While the letter focuses its attacks on the Obama administration, it is actually a petition to protest against Obama supporters Michael Moore,

Who can attend L.A. Unified's arts high school? - latimes.com

Who can attend L.A. Unified's arts high school? - latimes.com

Who can attend L.A. Unified's arts high school?

The policy that 70% of students be from the downtown area was designed to be temporary until overcrowding at nearby schools was relieved. But some officials say that figure is permanent.

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Parents and prospective students walk through the theater lobby on a tour of the $232-million campus in downtown Los Angeles. L.A. Unified board policy called for the school to be open equally to youths districtwide once overcrowding at other schools in the area was relieved. (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times / December 9, 2010)

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December 26, 2010

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You can't miss the distinctive 140-foot stainless steel tower of the city's year-old downtown arts high school from the adjacent 101 Freeway or from anywhere else nearby.

But figuring out how to enroll in the still-unnamed Grand Avenue campus can be elusive, and Los Angeles Unified School District officials are ignoring a school board policy regarding who should attend the $232-million, state-of-the-art school.

The drill for getting into Los Angeles Central High School No. 9, the campus' temporary name, adds