D.C. Schools Insider - Fenty backs out of education debate with Gray

D.C. Schools Insider - Fenty backs out of education debate with Gray

Fenty backs out of education debate with Gray

Mayor Adrian M. Fenty has backed out of a highly-anticipated, one-on-one debate with chief rival Vincent C. Gray, the Post's Nikita Stewart reports on D.C. Wire.

The forum's organizers, The Young Education Professionals, are not happy. The group is urging people to "reach out" to the mayor via twitter, e-mail, Facebook and phone, in an effort to get him to reconsider.

Read the full story here.

Adobe Education Exchange - resources galore | ZDNet

Adobe Education Exchange - resources galore | ZDNet

Adobe Education Exchange - resources galore

By Christopher Dawson | June 28, 2010, 11:10am PDT

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Adobe’s new Education Exchange is set to become an important destination for anyone looking to really explore the company’s tools in the classroom.

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I think that I’m probably the only Ed Tech guy on the planet who’s not atISTE right now. If this weren’t a somewhat professional blog, I’d make a sad emoticon. Oh well. Duty calls elsewhere this year. That doesn’t mean that I can’t cover some great highlights, though. The first is Adobe’s formal launch of its Education Exchange site, a real windfall for educators looking to get the most out of Adobe software.

It’s pretty rare that I recommend too much in the way of expensive software. Adobe CS5 is an exception to the rule. When I reviewed itfrom an educational perspective a few months ago, I was so blown away by its features that I immediately began dreaming up ways that it could be used in the classroom, whether in technical education, comprehensive schools, or universities. I started thinking of what teachers could do to create more interesting and engaging content and suddenly I realized just how little I actually knew about the inner workings of Adobe’s leviathan of content creation suites.

Sure, I could make my way around and I could go through the help files, figuring out snazzy ways to use Photoshop or how to create really sharp video in Premiere Pro (which makes iMovie look just silly, by the way). But I was only scratching the surface. And, frankly, I was still thinking more like a geeky content creator rather than an educator. Enter the

Huffington Post State Money Will Keep CPS Class Sizes At Normal Levels, Huberman Says

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On education speech, Palin blunders on Reagan's education
AlaskaDispatch.com - 06/28/2010 01:40 PM
Oh my. You had to figure this might happen when Sarah Palin, one-time best governor of Alaska, started pallin' around with those journalist types there at Fox News. Or any of those journalist types there in the lamestream media, you know. The makin' things up and gettin' things confused is dangerous...
	State Money Will Keep CPS Class Sizes At Normal Levels, Huberman Says
	Chicago Sun-Times - 06/28/2010 01:36 PM
	Chicago's public school elementary class sizes are expected to be restored to normal levels and high school classes will increase to only 33 instead of 35, thanks to a bump of new state money, Chicago Schools CEO Ron Huberman said today....
	Trust Us: We Are the Organization!
	John Brown - 06/28/2010 01:38 PM
	"I won't belong to any organization that would have me as a member." --Groucho Marx I guess these days we all try to make sense of the corporate-provided US "news," given the bombardment of "information" that assaults us every second via the media, new and old, both social or -- I guess that's wha...
	Support An Awesome Cause With These Authentic Ethnic-Printed Bags
	Refinery29.com - 06/28/2010 01:29 PM
	For a bag that really packs a punch, check out these woven, printed cross-body bags handmade by the indigenous Wayuú women and distributed by Wayuú Taya Foundation. The Wayuú—a Latin American group that live in the Guajira region between Venezuela and Colombia—have...
	Salivating at The Summer Fancy Food Show
	Brad Balfour - 06/28/2010 01:10 PM
	Of the many events I have attended at the Javits Center, the one that really stirs the juices is the Fancy Food Show. A phantasmagoria of every style of condiment, sauce, chocolate bars and various packaged smoked salmons among the many foods sampled there, the Summer Fancy Food Show provides an i...
	OLDER WOMEN RALLY NATIONWIDE
	Ashley B. Carson - 06/28/2010 12:44 PM
	The Older Women's League (OWL) rallied this weekend. They organized rallies with members of MoveOn.org outside of "town hall" meetings in 6 cities nationwide, because they were worried. This was all part of a campaign called, "Strengthen Social Security," an effort lead by a group called Social Se...
	Does Being Fat Kill Your Career?
	E. Jean Carroll - 06/28/2010 01:34 PM
	DEAR E. JEAN: Does my being overweight really cut down on my chances of advancing at work? Today I overheard one of my managers saying about me "she's so fat, I don't think she'll get promoted. Ever." I'm angry! I've been at this firm three years as an assistant and have yet to be promoted! I've t...
	Book Review Roundup
	Caroline Eisenmann - 06/28/2010 12:24 PM
	Did you miss the weekend's big book reviews? Catch up with some of the highlights below! "Denial: A Memoir of Terror," Jessica Stern The New York Times "Denial" is a hard book to read, in part because of its subject matter, in part because Ms. Stern's id floats very near the surface. Her ang...
	Cut This: The Death Penalty
	James Clark - 06/28/2010 12:02 PM
	California's governor has proposed closing the state's $20 billion budget gap with a drastic cuts-only approach; slashing funding for vital human services without working to increase revenue. Yet one state program seems to be immune from these cuts: the death penalty. We think the time has come ...

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Do the math

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Do the math

We spend $1 billion each year for every al Qaeda member in Afghanistan while schools go broke. For every al Qaeda fighter, we have 1,000 of our troops.

Listen to this interview with CIA Director Leon Panetta:

TAPPER: How many Al Qaeda, do you think, are in Afghanistan?

A Message to Our Community The Women's Conference

A Message to Our Community

A Message to Our Community

The Women’s Conference team would like to extend our apologies again for the technical issue experienced during registration last Wednesday. We understand how disappointed and frustrated many of you are with the process.

We’ve investigated the problem and wanted to make sure we fully understood what happened. After reviewing our server records, we've discovered that the technical problems resulted when thousands of users continually refreshed their browsers. When registration began, we had about 10,000 unique users produce approximately 500,000 requests to the server. Because this same problem occurred during registration last year, causing the site to crash, we posted a warning about it last Wednesday on the homepage of the registration site informing people not to refresh more than once and to use only one browser. We now realize that the warning was not enough as our servers could not handle the load. We’re confident that this problem will be addressed and resolved so that, in the future, the entire process can accommodate the overwhelming demand by our community.

We pride ourselves on creating empowering experiences for our audience and this has clearly fallen short of that. For many years, The Women’s Conference was a one-day event. Because of popular demand, we have continued to expand it over recent years so that more and more women could attend. Now, in 2010, the conference includes three days of six amazing events with top level speakers and authors. While the Main Event is currently sold out -- and there are simply not enough tickets for everyone who wanted one -- tickets do still remain for several of our other extraordinary conference events.

A note to our Women’s Conference Facebook community -- You are part of an important forum to help us better understand what’s on your mind. The complaints and posts during the registration process were very valuable to us and, as you may have seen that day, many of the posters were contacted directly by the registration team. By Friday, we felt it was important to use our Wall to promote the other events that were available for attendees. We received calls in the office from many people unaware that these events were still open and we wanted to get that information out via Facebook without confusion. The intention was never to censor any of your posts. If you have something to say – we want to hear it.

Again, we are truly sorry about the problems encountered last week. We hope that you will consider joining the 30,000 attendees for a life-changing experience in Long Beach in October.