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Web News Briefs 1. My ISTE 2011: Takeaways from a conference To me, ISTE - with some 13,000 attendees from 68 countries having converged on Philadelphia this week - is like looking out the window...
Media Diversity: Why No One Cares by Joseph Miller, Esq. Media advocacy has always focused on the shortcomings of regulators and media giants. Although the faults of both regulators and the media...
Digital differences http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Digital-differences/Overview.aspx?utm_source=Mailing+List&utm_campaign=ff253f2b2e-Newsletter_04262012&utm_medium=email When t...
The 2012 Brown Center Report on American Education View online: http://www.brookings.edu/newsletters/browncenter/2012/0216.aspx ► Brookings.edu February 16, 2012 Brown Center on Education Poli...
How to Rescue Education Reform Gracía Lam By FREDERICK M. HESS and LINDA DARLING-HAMMOND Published: December 5, 2011 SHARE THE debate over renewing No Child Left Behind, the education reform ac...
December 3, 2011 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/opinion/sunday/internet-access-and-the-new-divide.html The New Digital Divide By SUSAN P. CRAWFORD FOR the second year in a row, the Monday...
Technology Cannot Disrupt Education From The Top Down Patrick Gibbon Education http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/18/education-technology-disrupt/ Editor's note: Guest contributor Patrick Gibbo...
Apple is picking low-hanging fruit, as usual, and making a nice profit at the same time. Will they remain an isolated provider of online texts for iPads at high prices, or will they move to expand...
By MATT RICHTEL POST FALLS, Idaho - Ann Rosenbaum, a former military police officer in the Marines, does not shrink from a fight, having even survived a close encounter with a car bomb in Iraq. He...
by Geoffrey Borman & Maritza Dowling Four decades after the pathbreaking Coleman report, researchers are still working to address its primary message: that school social composition and reso...
The True Cost of High School Dropouts By HENRY M. LEVIN and CECILIA E. ROUSE Published: January 25, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/opinion/the-true-cost-of-high-school-dropouts.html ...
By Anthony Cody on February 22, 2012 11:35 AM http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2012/02/a_perfect_storm_hits_public_sc.html Guest post by Steven Sellers Lapham. Note: Steven Sel...
Posted by Drew Hendricks on Feb 8th, 2012 // The current Internet revolution provides amazing opportunities for entry-level professionals, college students, and entrepreneurs, but as the Infograp...
Don't show, don't tell? http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/teaching-children-0630.html Cognitive scientists find that when teaching young children, there is a trade-off between direct instructi...
(Summer 2011) http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=16509 The New Political Economy of Urban Education: Neoliberalism, Race, and the Right to the City reviewed by Noel S. Anderson ...
La difference' is stark in EU, U.S. privacy laws EU citizens well protected against corporate intrusion, but red tape is thick http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15221111/ns/technology_and_sc...
Suppose someone showed you a novel gadget and told you, "Here's how it works," while demonstrating a single function, such as pushing a button. What would you do when they handed it to you? You'd ...
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/160/tech-wars-2012-amazon-apple-google-facebook?partner=homepage_newsletter ilbert Wong, the mayor of Cupertino, California, calls his city council to order. "...
Keeping Special Ed in Proportion Experts say improvements in school instructional cultures can keep some struggling minority kids out of special education. http://www.edweek.org/tsb/article...
