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Education Secretary, FCC Chairman to Headline Digital Learning Day Town Hall; 20,000 Students, Teachers Expected Online | U.S. Department of Education

Education Secretary, FCC Chairman to Headline Digital Learning Day Town Hall; 20,000 Students, Teachers Expected Online | U.S. Department of Education:

Education Secretary, FCC Chairman to Headline Digital Learning Day Town Hall; 20,000 Students, Teachers Expected Online

Contact:

Education Department, Press Office, (202) 401-1576, press@ed.gov

Neil Grace, FCC: Press Secretary, 202-418-0506, neil.grace@fcc.gov

Jason Amos, Communications Director , Alliance for Excellent Education, jamos@all4ed.org

Event Date 1: February 01, 2012 01:00 pm - 03:00 pm

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski will participate Wednesday in the first national Digital Learning Day, a nationwide celebration of innovative teaching and learning through digital media and technology.

Originating from The Newseum in Washington, Secretary Duncan and Chairman Genachowski will open a national town hall webcast to an audience of more than 20,000 students and teachers online at schools across the country.

The day’s activities are aimed at profiling great teachers who effectively use technology to support student learning and focus on improving access and equity for all students.

On hand with Duncan and Genachowski will be former West Virginia Gov. Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education whose organization is designing and hosting the event. Washington’s WJLA-TV anchor Leon Harris will moderate.

For details on Digital Learning Day, see http://www.digitallearningday.org/.

RSVP: Due to limited studio seating, reporters should please RSVP attendance to Alliance for Excellent Education Communications Director Jason Amos at jamos@all4ed.org.

Event 1

Who :	U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski Former West Virginia Gov. Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education Moderator Leon Harris, news anchor for WJLA-TV in Washington
What :	Remarks to a national town hall webcast for Digital Learning Day with an estimated audience of more than 20,000 students and teachers online at schools across the country, recognizing the accomplishments and potential of digital learning
When :	1 p.m. ET Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012
Where :	The Newseum, The Knight studio, 555 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. Webcast: www.digitallearningday.org

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All Education Matters: Lead Plaintiff SLM Ventures Files Class Action Suit Against SLM Corporation ("Sallie Mae")

All Education Matters: Lead Plaintiff SLM Ventures Files Class Action Suit Against SLM Corporation ("Sallie Mae"):

Lead Plaintiff SLM Ventures Files Class Action Suit Against SLM Corporation ("Sallie Mae")

by Cryn Johannsen

Courthouse News Services reports:

A federal judge has certified a securities fraud class action against Sallie Mae, the top student loan provider in the United States.

Lead plaintiff SLM Ventures accused SLM Corp., Sallie Mae's corporate name, of telling investors it used strict underwriting standards for its loans, while weakening those standards by approving risky loans to students at for-profit schools.

The suit was filed in the Southern District Court of New York (a copy of the pdf filing is here).

What's the primary reason why the plaintiff filed suit? Sallie Mae offers federally guaranteed loans and private

Does President Obama Know What Race to the Top Is? - Bridging Differences - Education Week

Does President Obama Know What Race to the Top Is? - Bridging Differences - Education Week:

Does President Obama Know What Race to the Top Is?

by Diane Ravitch

Dear Deborah,

I don't know about you, but I am growing convinced that President Barack Obama doesn't know what Race to the Top is. I don't think he really understands what his own administration is doing to education. In his State of the Union address last week, he said that he wanted teachers to "stop teaching to the test." He also said that teachers should teach with "creativity and passion." And he said that schools should reward the best teachers and replace those who weren't doing a good job. To "reward the best" and "fire the worst," states and districts are relying on test scores. The Race to the Top says they must.

Deconstruct this. Teachers would love to "stop teaching to the test," but Race to the Top makes test scores the measure of every teacher. If teachers take the President's advice (and they would love to!), their students might not get higher test scores every year, and teachers might be fired, and their schools might be closed.

Why does President Obama think that teachers can "stop teaching to the test" when their livelihood, their

Schools Matter: Gray Continues in Fenty's Corrupt Tradition by Hiring Charter Loan Company to Research School Closures

Schools Matter: Gray Continues in Fenty's Corrupt Tradition by Hiring Charter Loan Company to Research School Closures:

Gray Continues in Fenty's Corrupt Tradition by Hiring Charter Loan Company to Research School Closures

by Jim Horn

Last summer DC's Mayor Gray selected a real estate consulting and loan outfit from Illinois to "study" the public schools of DC to determine which will live and which will die. Yep, the pick to do the "research" was the non-profit Illinois Facilities Fund that funnels tax credited corporate cash to favorite charity ventures by the plutocrats.

For instance, the Walton kids have shoveled IFF $8.625 million to privatize education through voucher efforts and charter schools. In fact, the Waltons pitched in $100,000 to fund the "study" of which DC schools to close. We

Major Substantive Problems With Charter School Bill HB2428 | Seattle Education

Major Substantive Problems With Charter School Bill HB2428 | Seattle Education:

Major Substantive Problems With Charter School Bill HB2428

by seattleducation2011

A Parents Across America-Tacoma member provided this information regarding House Bill 2426 regarding charter schools. After reading this, please contact your legislators who will be listed at the end of this post and let them know that charter schools in our state are not a good idea.

To follow is the post:

We have all heard the arguments for and against charter schools. Whatever your feelings on this hot button issue, there are substantial deficiencies in this particular piece of charter school legislation. If you support charter schools generally, I hope that you will set these feelings aside and look critically at HB 2428. We cannot

Extra Credit For Charity « My Island View

Extra Credit For Charity « My Island View:

Extra Credit For Charity

by tomwhitby

I am anticipating that this post may be among the most unpopular posts I will write as a blogger. My position on this topic certainly did not win me the “most popular guy” award when I was a secondary teacher. I remember when Barry Goldwater ran for President; there was a saying that “He would rather be right than be President”. That was a testament to the man’s core beliefs. That seems to be a dying quality given the examples of politicians today. The point however is that sometimes there are issues that we must hold true to, even at the expense of our own popularity or acceptance by others.

As teachers, we accept the fact that we have to put aside our political beliefs in the role as educator. For the most part educators accept the fact that politics and education should be separated. We need to do this to explore critical thinking. We can talk about issues when appropriate, but hopefully, it will be in a fair and

What Can America Learn From the World’s Most Successful Education Systems? - Education - GOOD

What Can America Learn From the World’s Most Successful Education Systems? - Education - GOOD:

What Can America Learn From the World’s Most Successful Education Systems?

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• LIZ DWYER
  Education Editor

• January 31, 2012 • 5:30 am PST
• 9 responses

With so many ideas for education innovation and reform here at home, why should the United States pay attention to what school systems around the globe are doing? Veteran journalist Dan Rather recently posed that question to Linda Darling-Hammond, an expert in school redesign and teacher quality who was President Obama’s education adviser for his first presidential campaign.

Like other education experts, Darling-Hammond notes that nations likeFinland and Singapore have dramatically improved their education systems in the last four decades while the U.S. has "been pedaling in

According to NAEP, Our Students Are Improving | Seattle Education

According to NAEP, Our Students Are Improving | Seattle Education:

According to NAEP, Our Students Are Improving

by seattleducation2011

One final thought regarding test scores and teacher evaluations before I move back to the proposed charter school bill in our state.

From the Economic Policy Institute blog, ‘Reformers’ playbook on failing schools fails a fact check, an excerpt:

Education “reformers” have a common playbook. First, assert without evidence that regular public schools are “failing” and that large numbers of regular (unionized) public school teachers are incompetent. Provide no documentation for this claim other than that the test score gap between minority and white children remains large. Then propose so-called reforms to address the unproven problem – charter schools to escape teacher unionization and the mechanistic use of student scores on low-quality and corrupted tests to identify teachers

Michelle Rhee Sells 16th Street Heights Home: Luxury Home Sales - Homes (washingtonian.com)

Michelle Rhee Sells 16th Street Heights Home: Luxury Home Sales - Homes (washingtonian.com):

Michelle Rhee Sells 16th Street Heights Home: Luxury Home Sales

Plus—Channel 7’s Gordon Peterson sells for nearly $2 million and Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank makes a deal.

By Washingtonian Staff Published Monday, January 30, 2012

Local newsman Gordon Peterson collected $1.8 million for his Georgetown home (left). Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank paid $1.5 million for this house in Georgetown (right). Photographs by David Pipkin.

In DC: Two finance executives struck a deal at Georgetown’s 3303 Water Street, one of the city’s most expensive condo buildings. Charles O. Holliday Jr., the former DuPont CEO who now chairs Bank of America’s board, paid Legg Mason’s Peter Nachtwey $4.6 million for a three-bedroom, four-bath unit. The condo has floor-to-ceiling windows with views of the Potomac River. Nachtwey, former chief financial officer of the Carlyle Group, joined Legg Mason last year.

Technology executive Tom DePasquale sold a four-bedroom, five-bath condo on Connecticut Avenue in Kalorama for $3.1 million. The 5,400-square-foot unit includes a dining room with space for 20. DePasquale has held senior positions at several software companies including Concur

What Would You Ask Diane Ravitch? | StateImpact Ohio

What Would You Ask Diane Ravitch? | StateImpact Ohio:

What Would You Ask Diane Ravitch?

JANUARY 30, 2012 | 12:31 PM

BY IDA LIESZKOVSZKY

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Education historian Diane Ravitch will be visiting Cleveland this week. What would you like to ask the former Assistant Education Secretary?

A few weeks ago we posed some of your questions to education reformer and former Chancellor of D.C. schools, Michelle Rhee. Well now we snagged a few minutes with Diane Ravitch, the anti-Michelle Rhee of sorts.

Ravitch is an education historian and the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education under George H. W. Bush. She’s also the author of “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education.”

Ravitch is perhaps best well known in the education world for changing her mind.

Back when No Child Left Behind was rolled out under