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Urban model for cybersecurity ed: San Diego | InSecurity Complex - CNET News

Urban model for cybersecurity ed: San Diego

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Darin Andersen, chief operating officer at Eset

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A Slovakian antivirus company with its American headquarters in San Diego is trying to make good cybersecurity just as much a part of the local fabric as good beaches and Chargers football.

Eset launched the Securing Our eCity program with the San Diego Chamber of Commerce two years ago to offer free workshops to consumers and small businesses on how to stay safe online. Today it has become a model for similar initiatives being launched in Malaysia, Buenos Aires, and London. And it helped with the creation of the Stop Think Connect campaign launched last week as part of National Cyber Security Awareness month.

"San Diego is the first community to implement the messaging in a complete awareness campaign," with billboards, public service announcements, and radio and print ads, Darin Andersen, chief operating officer at Eset, told C

Finns aren’t satisfied with math scores — Joanne Jacobs

Finns aren’t satisfied with math scores

by Joanne

Despite acing the PISA tests in math, the Finns aren’t satisfied, reports Flypaper. Finnish mathematicians think the test is poorly designed (pdf).

[O]ne has to consider the possibility that the first place in the PISA study is a Pyrrhic victory: are the Finnish basic schools stressing too much numerical problems of the type emphasized in the

Marcos Breton: Sacramento teachers union a roadblock to reform - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee

Marcos Breton: Sacramento teachers union a roadblock to reform

By Marcos Breton
mbreton@sacbee.com

Published: Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 - 12:00 am | Page 1B

When considering public education in Sacramento, it's easy to feel pessimistic.

It's not that there aren't great people, great teachers, great principals and great schools here.

You just get the feeling that reforms being preached by everyone from President Barack Obama to Oprah are out of reach in the capital of California.

As a result, fed-up reformers are breaking off to create alternatives to the rancid politics of public schools here.

The latest idea is from Margaret Fortune, who wants to open 10 charter schools aimed at lifting the prospects of African American students.

Michelle Rhee to announce resignation as D.C. schools chancellor on Wednesday

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On Education: Michelle Rhee on reforming D.C. schools

Michelle Rhee talks with Washington Post education columnist Jay Mathews about about D.C.'s school system issues, and what her kids learned from the new documentary "Waiting For Superman."

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By Tim Craig and Bill Turque

Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, October 13, 2010; 12:01 AM

D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee will announce Wednesday that she is resigning at the end of this month, bringing an abrupt end to a tenure that drew national acclaim but that also became a central issue in an election that sent her patron, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, to defeat.

Rhee survived three contentious years that made her a superstar of the education reform movement and one of the longest-serving school leaders in the city in two decades. Student test scores rose, and the teachers

Michelle Rhee will leave plenty of unfinished business in D.C.

by Bill Turque

Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee often said that she viewed the overhaul of the D.C. public schools as a task that would stretch across two four-year mayoral terms and that she was prepared to see it through.

Study challenges mayoral control of schools - The Boston Globe

Study challenges mayoral control of schools

Bloomberg News / October 13, 2010

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NEW YORK — Mayoral control, advocated by politicians pushing to overhaul underperforming school systems, fails to improve student achievement, according to a two-year study.

The research, conducted by the Institute of Education Law and Policy at Rutgers University, looked at improvements in nine education systems where there were changes in how the schools were governed, led by Baltimore, Boston, and New York City. The study will provide guidance to New Jersey policy makers as the state prepares to return schools in Paterson, Newark, and Jersey City to local control after as many as 21 years under state operation, the authors said.

The findings, the subject of a seminar yesterday at the university’s Newark campus, raise questions about Governor Chris Christie’s plans to overhaul the schools in New Jersey’s largest city by putting Mayor Cory Booker in charge,

Local News | Foes say Seattle's $48 million school levy more about leadership | Seattle Times Newspaper

Foes say Seattle's $48 million school levy more about leadership

Seattle Public Schools is asking voters to approve a three-year $48 million levy, but unlike most regular school levies in Seattle, this measure has organized opposition.

By Linda Shaw

Seattle Times education reporter

Supporters of a $48 million levy for Seattle Public Schools — the district's third levy this year — say the money is badly needed to shore up a district battered by $32 million in cuts from the state over the past two years.

The ballot measure, they say, is an important opportunity to help Seattle students get the education they deserve, despite a sour economy.

"That's the reality of where we are," Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson said. If the levy fails, she said, "the bottom line is that our students will lose."

What culprit-seeking ‘Superman’ lacks: complexity | Thoughts on Public Education

What culprit-seeking ‘Superman’ lacks: complexity - by Peter Schrag

by Peter Schrag

Teachers union members last week leafleted outside the Oakland movie house where I saw Davis Guggenheim’s film Waiting for Superman. And no doubt there’ve been countless protests elsewhere. The film, “and its unprecedented hype (and) … misleading or factually incorrect claims,” said the leaflets, “risk leading us dangerously astray from real solutions to real problems.” No [...]

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