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******************************** From Education Week [American Education's Newspaper of Record], Tuesday, March 27, 2012. See http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/Bridging-Differences/ ------------------...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/the-war-on-teachers-why-the-public-is-watching-it-happen/2012/03/11/gIQAD3XH6R_blog.html The war on teachers: Why the public is watching it hap...
By Valerie Strauss This was written by Mark Naison, professor of African and African American Studies at Fordham University in New York and chair of the department of African and African-American S...
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/marketplacek12/2012/03/live_from_sxsw_social_media_and_the_youth_culture_of_fear.html Cyberbullying's recent emergence in the public conversation has given way to...
Food and Culture As taught in: Spring 2011 A photograph of a child eating dim sum. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-265-food-and-culture-spring-2011/ Food plays an important rol...
Why Tablets in the Classroom Could Save Schools $3 Billion a Year Submitted: March 29, 2012 - 4:08pm Originally published: March 29, 2012 Last updated: March 29, 2012 - 5:58pm Source: Wall Street J...
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...
What teachers don't need (but are getting anyway) By Valerie Strauss This was written by Paul Thomas, an associate professor of education at Furman University in South Carolina. A version of th...
By Valerie Strauss This was written by John Jackson, president of the Schott Foundation for Public Education, and Pedro Noguera, the Peter L. Agnew professor of education at New York University. ...
STEAM = Science & Technology interpreted through Engineering & the Arts, all based in Mathematical elements. Recent News about STE@M DECEMBER 2011 Georgette Yakman, founder of STEAM Educatio...
Alice E. Marwick Microsoft Corporation - Microsoft Research New England; Harvard University - Berkman Center for Internet & Society danah boyd Microsoft Research; New York University (NYU) - Dep...
December 19, 2011 By Marc Parry Millions of learners have enjoyed the free lecture videos and other course materials published online through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's OpenCourseW...
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 ...
How Mobile Technology is Reshaping the Global Landscape http://www.brookings.edu/events/2011/120... With smart phones now outnumbering personal computers, there has been a sea change in the way peo...
I see this development as good and bad. Firstly, what will CS replace in current curricula? You cannot add something without giving up something else. That said, CS has the benefit of teaching e...
Third Annual Computer Science Education Week Spotlights Importance of Standards and Local Efforts to Ensure Strong Workforce http://thejournal.com/Articles/2011/12/05/Overhauling-Computer-Science...
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...
By Valerie Strauss http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/hawaii-teachers-reject-contract-in-blow-to-race-to-the-top/2012/01/20/gIQA2KHCGQ_blog.html Public school teachers in Hawa...
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...
Survey: Majority Say U.S. Teachers Underpaid By Liana Heitin on January 5, 2012 11:56 AM More than half of Americans believe that U.S. teachers are underpaid, according to a national telephone sur...
