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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...
http://mediatapper.com/social-media-typewriters-and-fax-machines-lead-the-revolt-against-oppression/ Social media is transforming the world! This is especially true in the Middle East where platf...
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...
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...
Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning PLAYBACK: News on Teens and Blogs, Facebook, Twitter and Google+, And Schools That Don't Allow Them Posted: 03 Feb 2012 02:22 PM PST In this week's PLAY...
Mobile Phone Problems Even though mobile technology often simplifies the completion of everyday tasks, cell phone owners can also encounter technical glitches and unwanted intrusions on their phone...
New resources are now available to help researchers use data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). * The NAEP Primer on CD-ROM guides new researchers through the technical h...
The Storytelling Project Model: A Theoretical Framework for Critical Examination of Racism Through the Arts http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=15787 by Lee Anne Bell & Rosemarie...
PEW RESEARCH CENTER FOR THE PEOPLE & THE PRESS Public Focused on Economy, Media on Weiner Scandal http://pewresearch.org/pubs/2024/public-interest-too-much-anthony-weiner-palin-coverage Public Se...
San Jose Mercury News, Calif., Mike Cassidy column [San Jose Mercury News, Calif.] July 23--The hardest thing about imagining the future of public education is that the present is so terribly b...
A few clippings. The Save Our Schools March http://www.washingtonpost.com/local By Valerie Strauss "I don't know where I would be today if my teachers' job security was based on how I performed o...
Teachers kick off Save Our Schools rally in Washington, D.C. A four-day rally known as the Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action is taking place in Washington, D.C., with teachers gath...
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)
ttp://civiccommons.org/2011/06/building-a-civic-commons/ Why We're Building a Civic Commons - And How You Can Be Part of It | By Andrew McLaughlin Walk down any major street in any ci...
By Audrey Watters / July 2, 2011 12:30 PM / 19 Comments Hacker News Share There seem to be three forces at play when it comes to education and social media. The first is a lack of force, quite fr...
http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=16561 Just Schools: Pursuing Equality in Societies of Difference reviewed by Sherick Hughes - October 14, 2011 Title: Just Schools: Pursuing Equality...
BY VANESSA VEGA 10/25/11 People often ascribe technological devices with magical properties, as though the inert objects in and of themselves can bestow us with the capacity to be "better, faster, ...
