Digital Learning Day - 1 views
On Wednesday, February 1, 2012, thirty-seven states, 10,000 teachers, and more than 1.5 million students will participate in the first-ever national Digital Learning Day, a national awareness campa...
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New Initiatives Signal Shift in U.S. Ed Tech Leadership - 2 views
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2011/09/28/05digital.h31.html?tkn=XSRFsuvC7GROaMXE92c6fwk5iMBhT9XqAM%2Fb&cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS1 Submitted: September 26, 2011 - 2:37pm Originally published: September 26...
Teach for America: Liberal mission helps conservative agenda - 1 views
Teach for America: Liberal mission helps conservative agenda http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/teach-for-america-liberal-mission-helps-conservative-agenda/2011/12/25/gIQApoVZHP...
U.S. Senators Show Strong Support for Department of Energy's Exascale Computing Initiative - 1 views
Recognizing the vital role that High Performance Computing (HPC) plays in national competitiveness, on November 8th 24 U.S. Senators signed off on a letter to the White House asking the Administrat...
Teaching in "Culture of Fear, Intimidation and Retaliation" - 6 views
URLs: quoted article: http://www.educationnews.org/ednews_today/159157.html originally published in http://npe.educationnews.org/Review/Essays/v7n7.htm (with appendices containing many further links)
CEC | Ask Arne: A Conversation with the Council for Exceptional Children's (CEC) Member... - 0 views
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Claude Almansi on 25 Sep 11"As I have travelled across the country visiting schools and classrooms and talking with teachers and parents, I have heard many questions about our plans at the U.S. Department of Education to support children with disabilities, their families, and the teachers who educate them and fight for them daily. To hear more about the issues affecting students with disabilities and their teachers, I asked CEC to contact members through an e-mail blast. Your response was overwhelming. Though CEC received more questions than we could possibly answer here, I have worked with your leadership to identify some of the central questions for educators of children with disabilities, and I have worked with my staff at the Department so that we can address them in this document. I would like to thank CEC members and all teachers of children with disabilities for their outstanding compassion and commitment and for the range of complex skills and talents you bring to teaching your students every day."
Save Our Schools March Guiding Principles - 3 views
Guiding Principles [Translate] For the future of our children, we demand: http://www.saveourschoolsmarch.org/about/guiding-principles/ Equitable funding for all public school commun...
ATI: ATI Google Apps Accessibility Evaluation (ATI Google Apps Accessibility Evaluation) - 0 views
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"In the summer of 2010, Peter Mosinskis from CSU Channel Islands assembled a team of approximately fifteen volunteers from seven different CSU campuses and one from the UC system to evaluate the accessibility of Google Apps. The team also recruited student volunteers and screen reader users to assist with the testing. Automated, manual, and screen reader testing began the first week of January 2011 and was completed February 4th. The report has been completed and posted here for your review. The CSU Accessible Technology Initiative (ATI) Staff, ATI Leadership Council, and Google have reviewed the Google Apps Accessibility Evaluation report. We discovered a number of accessibility issues during our testing. These issues are outlined in the report as well as "workarounds" that can be used to improve the user experience for persons with disabilities. When campuses choose to use Google Apps, they are required to provide an equally effective service for people with disabilities and it is critical for campuses to ensure that the "workarounds" meet the educational needs of the student and/or faculty. The March 15, 2011 USA TODAY online news article "Complaint: Google programs hard for blind students" illustrates possible legal problems that may result from adopting the Google Apps for Education suite. Questions or Comments about this report may be directed to CSU ATI Staff"
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Table of Contents Print Complete BookPrint This Chapter Next ATI Google Apps Accessibility Evaluation Section 1. Executive Summary Section 2. About the Project Section 3. Findings Section 4. Workarounds, Accommodations and Best Practices Summary and Conclusions Authors Note Appendices A - E
America's Next Educational Crisis - 1 views
America's Next Educational Crisis Posted: 07/ 1/11 11:51 AM ET http://www.huffingtonpost.com/franklin-schargel/americas-next-educational_b_883381.html High-quality teachers are critical to acc...
Broadband Adoption Key To Jobs and Education Connect To Compete - 1 views
Connect To Compete Overview http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/featured-news/broadband-adoption-key-to-jobs-and-education.html Washington, DC - Last week, Chairman Genachowski unveiled his pr...
Congress Likely to Stay Divided on Education - 2 views
Congress Likely to Stay Divided, Will Gridlock on K-12 Continue? By Alyson Klein on November 6, 2012 11:36 PM The U.S. House of Representatives is likely to stay in GOP hands and the Senate under ...
Making Progress: Rethinking State and School District Policies Concerning Mobile Techno... - 1 views
Making Progress: Rethinking State and School District Policies Concerning Mobile Technologies and Social Media pdf http://www.cosn.org/Default.aspx?TabId=12543 BACKGROUND It is...
the whole child - 1 views
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." -- Einstein Learn what's really happening in the world of education with veteran education writer Valerie Strauss and her guest ...
Globaloria Creator Idit Harel Caperton Discusses Her Recent Visit To East Austin Colleg... - 1 views
Globaloria Creator Idit Harel Caperton Discusses Her Recent Visit To East Austin College Prep http://blog.swkey.org/2012/03/12/idit-harel-caperton-interview/ Posted by Southwest Key on Mar 12, 201...
Best part of 'schools-threaten-national-security' report - 1 views
Best part of 'schools-threaten-national-security' report: The dissents By Valerie Strauss Best part of 'schools-threaten-national-security' report The most interesting part of the new Condoleezza...
The Broadband Imperative - 2 views
The Broadband Imperative provides an up-to-date assessment of access to broadband by students and teachers (in and out of schools); current trends driving the need for more broadband in teaching, l...
Computer Science Education Week - 2 views
About CSEdWeek http://www.csedweek.org/about KEY FACTS | NEWSROOM | PARTNERS CSEdWeek 2011, December 4 to 10, 2011, is a highly distributed celebration of the impact of computing and the ...
Broadband, Social Networks, and Mobility Have Spawned a New Kind of Learner - 0 views
12/13/11 Students are different today because of technology. Every educator knows this, of course, but this change is about much more than agile thumbs, shriveling attention spans, and OMG'd vocabu...
Who really benefits from putting high-tech gadgets in classrooms? - 2 views
****************************** From The Los Angeles Times, Saturday, February 4, 2012. See http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20120205,0,639053.column .. Our appreciation to Monty Neil, ...
Duncan's equity commission and the 'rising tide' of avarice, hostility, testing - 3 views
I agree ~ and the lessons and sharp reminders in the article are not just for K-12