Education Secretary Arne Duncan to Announce 2010 National Blue Ribbon Schools at D.C. High School | U.S. Department of Education

Education Secretary Arne Duncan to Announce 2010 National Blue Ribbon Schools at D.C. High School | U.S. Department of Education

Education Secretary Arne Duncan to Announce 2010 National Blue Ribbon Schools at D.C. High School

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will announce that more than 300 schools have been selected as 2010 Blue Ribbon Schools Thursday, Sept. 9, at 10:00 a.m., at the School Without Walls Senior High School in Washington, D.C.

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RSA Commissioner Ruttledge to Keynote Southeast Region National Rehab Association, North Carolina Rehab Association Training Conference

Lynnae Ruttledge, commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration, will present the keynote address at the Southeast Region National Rehabilitation Association/North Carolina Rehabilitation Association Annual Training Conference Wednesday, Sept. 8 in Asheville, N.C.

What Does The Mayor's Announcement Mean For CPS? - District 299: Chicago Public Schools Blog

What Does The Mayor's Announcement Mean For CPS? - District 299: Chicago Public Schools Blog

What Does The Mayor's Announcement Mean For CPS?

by Alexander Russo

Mayor Daley isn't running for re-election, according to WBBM and the Sun Times. If confirmed, this means big things for Chicago and for Chicago public schools. A new mayor will likely want to bring in his or her own education chief, and a new agenda. Somewhat the same scenario may be playing out in Washington DC, where mayor Adrien Fenty may lose re-election and his schools chief Michelle Rhee is expected to lose her job. What

Top 50 Education Technology Blogs

Top 50 Education Technology Blogs

March 5, 2010

Education technology has many supporters in its movement to alter traditional teaching methods. This list of the top 50 education technology blogs includes writers, technicians and social media experts…but they all are teachers. The “movers” are teachers who facilitate learning among other teachers and in the classroom, the “shakers” teach new philosophies and innovations, and the folks “on the ground” offer news, tools and methods of using those tools in the classroom.

This list is divided into those three categories, and each link within those categories is listed alphabetically. The links lead straight to the recently updated blogs, and the descriptions supply information about that blogger’s achievements, including careers and jobs.

Movers

1. Always Learning: Kimberly Cofino is in her ninth year of teaching technology in international schools around the world.
2. Artichoke: Peering into the artichoke for better models and designs for teaching and learning.

Education Department Still Lags in Employee Satisfaction - Politics K-12 - Education Week

Education Department Still Lags in Employee Satisfaction - Politics K-12 - Education Week

Education Department Still Lags in Employee Satisfaction

by Alyson Klein

The U.S. Department of Education still ranks near the bottom of the list of big federal agencies when it comes to employee job satisfaction, at least according to a survey released last week by the non-profit Partnership for Public Service.

But it seems that the department's employees are a tiny bit happier than they were on the same survey last year.

Out of 32 large federal agencies surveyed about issues such as leadership effectiveness, work/life balance, and pay, the Education Department came in 30th. Last year, on the same survey, the department ranked 27th out of

This Week In Education: Thompson: A Teacher's Aide in Every Classroom

This Week In Education: Thompson: A Teacher's Aide in Every Classroom

Thompson: A Teacher's Aide in Every Classroom [image: Teamwork] Robert Schiller, the Yale economist whose predictions have been prescient in the past, told the Wall Street Journal that one way to work against a "double dip" recession would be to fund schools hiring an additional person in each ...

USDE: Duncan Official Caught Telling Made-Up Sob Story [image: image from mat.usc.edu] Thelma Melendez de Santa Ana, a top USDE official, recently got a standing ovation after relating a story about a student-teacher friendship that turns out not to be true. Read all about it here.

How Much Return Do Teachers Get on NEA’s $15 Million Indiana Real Estate Investment? | Intercepts

How Much Return Do Teachers Get on NEA’s $15 Million Indiana Real Estate Investment? | Intercepts

How Much Return Do Teachers Get on NEA’s $15 Million Indiana Real Estate Investment?

by Mike Antonucci

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1) How Much Return Do Teachers Get on NEA’s $15 Million Indiana Real Estate Investment?

2) Ohio Education Association Strike: Sides Far Apart

3) More District Spending Tables Posted

4) Last Week’s Intercepts

5) Quotes of the Week

The Magic Wand Test � The Quick and the Ed

The Magic Wand Test � The Quick and the Ed

The Magic Wand Test

by Kevin Carey

Today’s New York Times “Room for Debate” discussion focuses on the value-added teacher effectiveness controversy. My entry is here. Linda Darling-Hammond, by contrast, is skeptical. She says the measures aren’t good enough and offers the following as evidence:

Researchers have found that the very same teacher looks more “effective” when she is teaching more advantaged students — and less effective when she teaches more students who are low-income, new English learners, or who have special education needs.

Darling-Hammond is confused here and it’s important to understand why.

Imagine you’re on vacation in an exotic foreign land, and you stumble upon a hidden cave, and in that cave is a gold chest, and in that gold chest is a magic wand. If you point the magic wand at a teacher, it will reveal

Newark official on Race to the Top panel said he flagged error before presentation | NJ.com

Newark official on Race to the Top panel said he flagged error before presentation | NJ.com

Newark official on Race to the Top panel said he flagged error before presentation

Published: Tuesday, September 07, 2010, 1:16 PM Updated: Tuesday, September 07, 2010, 1:16 PM

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file photoExecutive Assisstant of Innovation and Change at Newark Public Schools Daniel Gohl is at far left in this video screen grab from New Jersey's interview during the Race to the Top process.

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TRENTON — A Newark Public Schools official who helped present New Jersey's Race to the Top application in Washington, D.C., said today he flagged a crucial error less than a week before the presentation — but was told by consultants there was no chance to correct an answer after the deadline.

Dan Gohl, in charge of innovation and change in Newark schools, said he noticed the error six days before the presentation but he did not tell former Education Commissioner Bret Schundler or others in the state education department about the error.

Speaking at an Assembly committee hearing on the failed grant application, Gohl said he was told "anything that was submitted on June 1 timestamped a final document, and that's all we can speak to" in the presentation.

When asked why he didn't raise the issue with other officials in the state, Gohl said he was

Some Charters Could Face Hurdles Tapping Edujobs Funds - Politics K-12 - Education Week

Some Charters Could Face Hurdles Tapping Edujobs Funds - Politics K-12 - Education Week

Some Charters Could Face Hurdles Tapping Edujobs Funds

by Alyson Klein

Charter school advocates are dismayed that some charters may have a tough time tapping funds from the $10 billion Education Jobs Fund, which is meant to help stave off teacher layoffs.

The issue? It's very complicated, but basically, it comes down to the fact that in some districts and states, some charter school teachers are employees of a charter management organization or an educational management organization, not a school district.

"There's a lot of head scratching," said Brooks Garber, the vice president for federal advocacy at the National

Back to School: New York Times Resources for Social Studies and History - NYTimes.com

Back to School: New York Times Resources for Social Studies and History - NYTimes.com

Back to School: New York Times Resources for Social Studies and History

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Photograph by Reinhard Hunger. Set design by Sarah IllenbergerThe search terms displayed above were selected from a list of 8,000 collected by Experian Hitwise that drove traffic to news sites in the United States for the week ending April 24, 2010.Go to related Teaching Topics page on Research »

Whether your school year started in August or is just getting underway, here are some basic ways to use The New York Times use this year with your social studies and history students.

Ideas for all subjects, including social studies, are here. Check back tomorrow for more ideas for science, health and technology, and Thursday for language arts and fine arts. And our lesson plans start back up next week – have you

Little Rock 9 member Jefferson Thomas dies in Ohio - Boston.com

Little Rock 9 member Jefferson Thomas dies in Ohio - Boston.com

Little Rock 9 member Jefferson Thomas dies in Ohio

FILE - Jefferson Thomas in 1957, one of nine African American who integrated Little Rock Central High School while federal troops patrolled the campus, is seen in an 1957 file photo. Jefferson Thomas died Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010 in Columbus, Ohio, said fellow Little Rock Nine member Minnijean Trickey Brown. He was 68. (AP Photo, File)

By Tom Parsons

Associated Press Writer / September 6, 2010

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Jefferson Thomas was fast and athletic and often played pickup basketball with white students while growing up in Little Rock in the 1950s.

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But when Thomas became one of nine black students to integrate Arkansas' largest high school, many of his basketball buddies weren't happy to see him in their classes.

"One of them said, 'Well I don't mind playing basketball or football with you or anything. You guys are good at sports.

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