Morgan Hill: Teen athletes entangled in debate over U.S. flag clothing - San Jose Mercury News

Morgan Hill: Teen athletes entangled in debate over U.S. flag clothing - San Jose Mercury News

Morgan Hill: Teen athletes entangled in debate over U.S. flag clothing Story of students' U.S. flag clothing spreads nationally In nail-biter elections, one school parcel tax passes while another fails UC-Santa Cruz scientist coordinated project that reveals Neanderthal-human liaisons Groundbreaking set for Stanford University's state-of-the-art concert hall Software glitch delays results of parcel tax election County archives bring back fascinating history of lives and times not forgotten Voters in 5 districts approve parcel taxes Chegg's rent-don't-buy mantra takes hold at California schools Four Bay Area teams advance to finals of National Science Bowl Herhold: Principled San Jose teen stands up to principal Stanford bioengineer explores own genome Ground broken on Gilroy school that was burned by arson

A 2.5 Year Old Has First Encounter With An iPad - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter. About Education.

A 2.5 Year Old Has First Encounter With An iPad - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter. About Education.

A 2.5 Year Old Has First Encounter With An iPad

by CJW

Video Below: Approaching the 1 Million Mark In Hits
Oh, The Places These Kids Will Go!

From Laughing Squid, father Todd Lapin captures his daughter's sense of play and exploration with her new "toy", the iPad.  Lapin does admit that she had played with his iPhone previously, so she did have a bit of a head start.  Still, it just reminds us how insatiable young kids are in the learning department.  Guess the question begs is how to continue cultivating this sense of wonderment and curiosity throughout their school-life years?

"My iPhone-savvy 2.5 year-old daughter held an iPad for the very first time last night, and it turned out to be an interesting user-interface experiment.

Video: Approaching the 1 Million Mark In Hits - Oh, The Places These Kids Will Go!
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Sacramento's Cristo Rey High celebrates as entire senior class heads for college | News10.net | Sacramento, California | Education

Sacramento's Cristo Rey High celebrates as entire senior class heads for college | News10.net | Sacramento, California | Education

more >> Education News Sacramento's Cristo Rey High celebrates as entire senior class heads for college Comments The first graduating class at Sacramento's Cristo Rey High School has scored a major coup -- all 53 seniors are going to college. Taking a closer look at public charter schools Comments National Charter School Week is about celebrating and educating the public about alternative education. Bill seeks to keep 4-year-olds out of California kindergartens Comments A bill moving through the state Legislature would require children to have turned 5 by Sept. 1 to begin kindergarten in that school year. UC policy center in Sacramento to reopen Comments A University of California satellite teaching and research center in Sacramento will resume classes this summer after budget cuts suspended its activities last year.

Panel OKs teacher reform bill - The Denver Post

Panel OKs teacher reform bill - The Denver Post

Panel OKs teacher reform bill 505/07/2010The House education committee heard more than eight hours of testimony before approving a controversial teacher reform bill today in an emotional meeting that stretched into the morning. Gun-rights group to drop concealed-weapons lawsuit against CSU05/07/2010 - A gun-rights group plans to drop its lawsuit challenging Colorado State University's prohibition of concealed weapons on campus. DPS Shakespeare Festival an opportunity for one and all05/07/2010 - Denver Public Schools students from kindergarten through high school performed 400 short scenes, dances, soliloquies and sonnets today at the Denver Performing Arts Complex as part of its 26th annual Shakespeare Festival. 30 percent of Colorado 3rd-graders not reading at their level, CSAP finds05/05/2010 - After a decade of testing, myriad school reforms and intense reading programs, 30 percent of Colorado's third-graders still are not reading at grade level. 3rd-grade CSAP scores show decline05/04/2010 - Statewide scores on this year's assessment of third-grade reading skills declined to 2008 levels.

The Education Report In the midst of a local contract dispute, some Oakland teachers, students turn to Sacramento

The Education Report

In the midst of a local contract dispute, some Oakland teachers, students turn to Sacramento

By Katy Murphy
Thursday, May 6th, 2010 at 3:25 pm in budget, high schools, state news, students
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About 40 Oakland parents, teachers and staff will ride their bikes to the state capitol on Saturday – in part, to call attention to the declining support for public education in California. Michael Barglow’s history class at Skyline also headed to Sacramento this week. His brother, Raymond Barglow, tells us how it went. -Katy

It’s one thing for California high school students to read or hear a lecture about how government works. It is quite another for them to experience this in person.

Shortly after 8 a.m. on May 4, a group of 45 students in Michael Barglow’s history class at Skyline High School boarded a charter bus headed for the state capitol.

Michael’s students had been preparing during the past week to meet with East Bay

GothamSchools - Hidden in the ATR pool, teachers trained for disappearing jobs

GothamSchools - Breaking News and Analysis of the NYC Public Schools

Hidden in the ATR pool, teachers trained for disappearing jobs

by Philissa Cramer

Chancellor Joel Klein likes to say that many of the teachers who’ve lost their jobs and remain on the city’s payroll aren’t trying to find new work. But a back-of-the-envelope analysis of teachers in the reserve pool shows that even if all of them doggedly pursued open positions, nearly a quarter are trained for jobs that are disappearing.
Most teachers in the absent teacher reserve — a pool of people cut from schools when they were closed or enrollment dwindled — are certified to teach core subjects that every school offers. But the most recent datashows that almost a quarter of teachers in the pool are only licensed to teach classes like swimming, jewelry-making, and accounting, among other subjects that are nearly extinct in the public schools.
The pool also includes music, dance, and art teachers for whom getting a new position will be difficult in a year when schools will have to lay off thousands of teachers.
As of November, there were 1,247 teachers in the pool, working as substitutes and collecting salaries that totaled $134 million. After announcing a deal to close the notorious rubber rooms for teachers accused of misconduct or incompetence, Chancellor Klein said last month he would turn his attentions to the ATR pool.
But the composition of the pool raises questions about Klein’s claim that its members ought to be fired because

Remainders: A student-run bank branch opens in Harlem school

by Maura Walz

• A debate is shaping up over whether Congress authorized Race to the Top. Politics K-12 weighs in.
• Capital One bank is opening a student-run branch inside Harlem’s Thurgood Marshall Academy.
• A “neighborhood schools sellout” explains her difficult decision to send her kid to a magnet program.
• It will take $4 billion a year to get nutritious school meals to America’s hungry schoolchildren.
• Britain’s Conservative Party is taking some inspiration from the KIPP charter school chain.
• Colorado’s two teachers unions disagree over whether to support that state’s new tenure bill.
• A parent tries to shield her seventh-grader against the trauma of HS admissions but it may be too late.
• Mrs. Mimi plans to blog about the “Top 100 Children’s Novels of ALL TIME.” First up: The Egypt Game.

San Diego State University Receives $1.5 Million Department of Education Grant - MarketWatch

San Diego State University Receives $1.5 Million Department of Education Grant - MarketWatch

San Diego State University Receives $1.5 Million Department of Education Grant

SAN DIEGO, May 06, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The College of Business Administration at San Diego State University (SDSU) announced today that the university's Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) received a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education. This grant will be disbursed starting this fall through 2014.

The overall mission of the national CIBER program is to ensure the United States' long-term international competitiveness. The CIBER program serves to promote the nation's capacity for international understanding and economic enterprise by linking the manpower and information needs of U.S. business with the education, foreign language training, and research strengths of universities.

"SDSU CIBER has made great contributions in all areas of international business research and teaching," said U.S. Congresswoman Susan A. Davis (D- San Diego). "This new grant includes many innovative educational initiatives and displays an impressive commitment to quality, accountability and transparency."

"In the past two decades, SDSU CIBER has become a true and effective catalyst for exposing students, faculty, and business executives to international business," said Mark Ballam, SDSU CIBER managing director. "This new grant will allow us to not only continue with programs that have proven successful, but also establish new avenues of global outreach, research and education."

SDSU CIBER is one of 33 centers located at select business schools throughout the U.S. and one of the original six to be chartered in 1989.

Do you have a college degree, but no job? | OregonLive.com

Do you have a college degree, but no job? | OregonLive.com

Do you have a college degree, but no job?

By Bill Graves, The Oregonian

May 06, 2010, 5:20PM

If you earned a college degree a year ago or longer, The Oregonian is interested in talking to you about your success in finding work.

The Oregon Class of 2009 in particular graduated in the depths of the worst recession since the Great Depression in a state with one of the nation's highest unemployment rates. I would like to talk to students from this class about their experiences trying to find work in such a grim economy.

I hope to write a newspaper story about how recent college graduates have fared over the past year in the workplace as a new class prepares to join them. If you are interested in sharing your story, please complete the form below. Your contact information will be kept confidential, and I won't publish anything without contacting you first.

-- Bill Graves

Job-seeking college graduates

The Oregonian's Bill Graves is writing a story about how recent college graduates have fared over the past year in the workplace. If you are willing to share your story, complete this form.

How to Volunteer to Help with Oil Spill Response � Tangerine, Florida

How to Volunteer to Help with Oil Spill Response � Tangerine, Florida

How to Volunteer to Help with Oil Spill Response

Right now BP’s offshore drilling program is not something many of us want to support. It was with some trepidation I called the BP Volunteer Center for information. It’s a busy place, taking 60 calls a minute from all over the world.
If you’d like to volunteer to assist with the response efforts, please contact BP’s community information line at(866) 448-5816. Volunteers will not be exposed to any oil but will do beach pre-cleaning, administrative tasks, and assist with record-keeping.
The call center is needs to know your name, your location, your phone number and e-mail address. All

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Schools Matter: The Top Ten of the Bottom Paying College Degrees

Schools Matter: The Top Ten of the Bottom Paying College Degrees

The Top Ten of the Bottom Paying College Degrees

by Jim Horn

Yep, that's right--elementary school teachers, the ones that absorb the most abuse of the Wall Street ed reformers, they're #1. Let's make them earn that $33,000 a year. From Payscale.com:

Drama	$35,600	$56,600
Fine Arts	$35,800	$56,300
Hospitality and Tourism	$37,000	$54,300
Education	$36,200	$54,100
Horticulture	$37,200	$53,400
Spanish	$35,600	$52,600
Music	$34,000	$52,000