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NUT passes unanimous vote of no confidence in Michael Gove
The Guardian
One of the biggest classroom unions in the country has unanimously passed a vote of no confidence in the education secretary, Michael Gove, and called for his resignation. A 1,000-strong audience at the National Union of Teachers annual conference in ...
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The Guardian
Education chief, key senator disagree on high school reform bill
Dallas Morning News (blog)
Texas Education Commissioner Michael Williams (left) and Senate Education Committee Chairman Dan Patrick disagreed Tuesday on whether a bill by Patrick would diminish current high school graduation standards in Texas. Patrick, R-Houston, argued ...
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Dallas Morning News (blog)
Education for all scheme fails to stick to deadline
Hindu Business Line
The March 31 deadline whizzed past, but implementation of the Centre's 'education for all' plan — the Right to Education (RTE) Act — is yet to come to pass. Curiously, even though the deadline for complying with RTE norms was integrated with the Act ...
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Hindu Business Line
Minister for Education jeered and heckled during speech to INTO conference
Irish Times
Minister for Education Ruairi Quinn today insisted the Government has not made any preparations to legislate for pay cuts among teachers if the Croke Park II agreement is rejected by unions. Speaking after addressing the INTO annual congress in Cork ...
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Irish Times
Iowa Senate passes education reform bill
DesMoinesRegister.com
The Senate plan also sets up 10 pilot projects for competency-based education, which was recommended by a task force. Competency-based education allows students to learn at their own pace and then move on once they have mastered specific concepts ...
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RTE violation: Civic education dept recommends action against school
Indian Express
Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) education department's inquiry report to Zilla Parishad has recommended action against Saraswati Vidyalaya Union Primary School for allegedly violating the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 ...
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New further education tsar will have power to close failing colleges
Telegraph.co.uk
The move comes as part of a wider "skills strategy" designed to ensure more young people receive the education needed to get good jobs and help drive the economy. It also emerged that £214m of funding would be made available to rebuild or refurbish 47 ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
UKBA reforms: will higher education providers see meaningful change?
The Guardian (blog)
So what does this mean for education providers? Does it herald yet further change to what has been the ever-shifting landscape of Tier 4? Possibly, but we are not holding our breath. While May did also announce a new Immigration Bill in the autumn, the ...
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The Guardian (blog)
Xinhua Insight: Online learning trend to enliven Chinese education
Xinhua
BEIJING, April 2 (Xinhua) -- A new trend for free online teaching is set to explode in China, as the world's most populous country has both a strong tradition of respect for education but uneven education resources. "Massive online open courses" (MOOC ...
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Angie's Afghan education
Independent Online
The 37-year-old actress has funded the girls only educational establishment - which caters to between 200 and 300 students - just outside of Kabul and hopes it will be the first of many schools she sets up. Angelina plans to fund more schools by ...
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Independent Online
AEA Only One Perspective in Alabama Education (Cameron Smith)
al.com
After years of the status quo in public education, the Alabama Legislature and Governor Bentley enacted the Alabama Accountability Act to create alternative public education options for students trapped in Alabama's worst schools. But over the past ...
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Education group poll: Voters support grading schools, adding money
The Seattle Times (blog)
A group pushing for changes in education has commissioned a poll showing public backing for moves it supports — a finding quickly rejected by opponents. For example, the poll found that 66 percent of Washington state voters support giving an A-F ...
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Quinn expects bishop cooperation on patronage
Irish Times
"I would hope and expect during that period a suitable school will be identified by them within the various towns and arrangements will be made for the orderly transfer of the patronage of that school back to the Department of Education," Mr Quinn said ...
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Irish Times
Beaten down education stocks bounce back; top 4 picks
Economic Times
Everonn Education gained the most in this sector on Tuesday, about 4.5 per cent, ending the day at Rs 62.90. Other education companies such as Core Education surged 2.04 per cent to close at 64.05, while MT Educare rose 0.52 per cent to end the day at ...
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Economic Times
Scandal in Atlanta Reignites Debate Over Tests' Role
New York Times
"The widespread cheating and test score manipulation problem," said Robert Schaeffer, the public education director of FairTest, the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, "is one more example of the ways politicians' fixation on high-stakes ...
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Mourning In America: The Incomplete Education of David Stockman
Forbes
David Stockman's education began at Harvard Divinity School where he hoped to become a great moral philosopher in the tradition of Christian social activists. It continued with his role as a congressman in Washington in the late 1970s. Then as director ...
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Iowa education policy legislation inches forward
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier
DES MOINES (AP) --- Gov. Terry Branstad's proposal for new education funding inched forward Monday in the General Assembly, as a Senate subcommittee took action that means the Democratic-majority Senate and the Republican-controlled House could ...
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"Michael Gove must go": Teachers say Education Secretary has lost the ...
Mirror.co.uk
Teachers warned Education Secretary Michael Gove that he had lost the confidence of their profession today.. To chants to "Gove must go" delegates at the annual conference of the National Union of Teachers unanimously passed a vote of no confidence in ...
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Mirror.co.uk
California workers face a growing education gap, study says
Los Angeles Times
Under-educated Californians could lose out on billions of dollars of income over the next decade, a study estimated. Above, students from around the state march to the state Capitol last month, calling for more funding for higher education. (Rich ...
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That Sound You Hear Is the Online Education Pendulum Swinging Back Toward ...
Huffington Post
Those of us in the higher education online marketplace have seen the "for-profits" a bit similarly, as though they had created so much momentum that there was simply no way to stop their progress. Then 2012 came. Online giants like The Apollo Group ...
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Education Portal Offers 13 Free AP Courses to Help High School Students Ace ...
Sacramento Bee
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 2, 2013 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Education Portal, a Silicon Valley start-up that develops free online courses that lead to real college credit, today added 13 Advanced Placement (AP) courses to its roster of over 40 college courses.
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Alberta's war on advanced education will backfire
Winnipeg Free Press
Since its release, Minister of Advanced Education and Enterprise Thomas Lukaszuk has been making the case to the public that the changes mandated under the Campus Alberta program will result in millions of dollars of savings for students and taxpayers, ...
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Winnipeg Free Press
Is our vocational education ready to become a major export?
The Australian
CRAIG Emerson's energetic defence of the logic of his much expanded portfolio is a welcome respite from ALP back-stabbing. By melding trade and education, he says, Australia can look forward to more economic engagement with the region, including the ...
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Advocating for international higher education: advice from Australia
The Guardian (blog)
It is a truism to say that international education today faces many challenges. At the heart of these challenges, however, is one key problem. We have a crisis of identity. Politicians and most civil servants do not understand who we are, what we do ...
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The Guardian (blog)
Education, children advocates to speak at Wheelock commencement
Boston.com
As a community leader and advocate, Jones founded, helped establish or led over thirty community-based organizations in the greater Boston area that have had an impact legislation, public policy, human service delivery, and educational opportunities.
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Blogs10 new results for Education
 
Seminar spells out education system's inadequacies - The Nation
Seminar spells out education system's inadequacies. The education system is failing in properly equipping juveniles to join the job market, as six out of 10 only complete at most a higher secondary or...
NationMultimedia.com - National
GUEST POST: Michigan's Education Achievement Authority Follows ...
By Eclectablog
"The indispensable Michigan politics source" -Rachel Maddow.
Eclectablog
House Second-in-Command: Federal Education Aid Should Follow ...
By Alyson Klein
Michele McNeil covered education and state government in Indiana for a decade before joining Education Week as a state policy reporter in June 2006. Alyson Klein, who reports on federal education policy, joined the staff in February 2006 ...
Politics K-12 - Education Week Blog
Woodlawn Foundation proposes expansive education pipeline and ...
By Madison Underwood | munderwood@al.com
"The model starts with a strong pre-K in every elementary school," Cockrell said. "It progresses through elementary and middle school, keeping the students and their families actively engaged so that every student graduates from high school ...
Real-Time News from Birmingham
Campaign For Early Education Begins | KTXL FOX40
By Lonnie Wong
Educators and parents have unveiled a campaign to back President.
KTXL FOX40
The Good News from Pakistan
By Chester E. Finn, Jr.
A new book from Sir Michael Barber, noted British education reformer, describes an effort to improve education in rural Pakistan.
The Education Gadfly Daily
Annual CAFÉ Conference Celebrates Freirean Principles of ...
By joanie
"Education as Critical Consciousness," which will be presented by students in UCLA's Graduate School of Education& Information Studies (GSE&IS) and visiting scholars from international schools and institutions that embrace the theories ...
UCLA GSE&IS Ampersand
Idaho lawmakers reach deal on $1.3 billion education budget | Local ...
This new budget includes only minor tweaks to the original plan that lost out on an 18-17 vote.
KBOI 2 News - Local & Regional
Education of the future | The Wenatchee World
By Rick Steigmeyer
WENATCHEE — The classrooms of tomorrow won't need books, pencils or paper. Everything students need will be at their fingertips. Education will flow back and forth between teachers and students using electronic devices connected to the ...
wenatcheeworld.com stories: Local News
NUT urges for sex education to be made statutory in order to tackle ...
By Scott Roberts
The government's decision to maintain sex education as a non-statutory subject has been criticised by the general secretary of the National Union of Teachers.
PinkNews.co.uk

Web10 new results for Education
 
NESDIS Education
NOAA Climate Stewards Education Project (CSEP) provides educators access to reliable scientific information through an array of professional development ...
www.nesdis.noaa.gov/education.html
Atlanta School Reform Scam - Yet Another Education... - Esquire
Cheat or lose your job. This is the face of education"reform." To hell with Superman, I'm just waiting for someone who isn't a crook.
www.esquire.com/blogs/.../atlanta-school-reform-scam-04011...
US Airways Education Foundation seeks grant applicants in ...
US Airways Group Inc.'s Education Foundation is seeking grant applicants in its .. .
www.bizjournals.com/.../us-airways-education-foundation-see...
Twitter Refreshes Its Business Education Site To Help Boost Ad ...
Twitter has redesigned its business education site in a move to help get more companies to advertise.
thenextweb.com/.../twitter-refreshes-its-business-education-site...
Push on in Minnesota Legislature for education funding - Star Tribune
If higher taxes are the medicine the DFL wants the state to swallow, then more money for education— from finger-painting preschoolers to debt-burdened ...
www.startribune.com/politics/statelocal/200978041.html
Education scholar to highlight future of humanities in public higher ...
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Professor Sheila Slaughter of the University of Georgia will visit the University of Florida at 6 p.m. today to give a public lecture on the ...
news.ufl.edu/2013/04/02/education-scholar-humanities/
Structured Liberal Education | Stanford Undergrad
Skip to: Skip to content; Skip to navigation. Stanford University. Undergrad. Structured · Liberal Education. BETA. Search form. Search. Rate the New site ...
https://undergrad.stanford.edu/programs/residential.../sle
Continuing Education | Texarkana College
Welcome to Texarkana College and congratulations on your desire to improve your quality of life through higher education.
https://www.texarkanacollege.edu/.../continuing-education/
Vallas being sued over certification - Education Matters
BRIDGEPORT — A lawsuit was filed Monday against city School Superintendent Paul Vallas, the city school board and Commissioner of Education Stefan Pryor ...
blog.ctnews.com/.../2013/.../vallas-being-sued-over-certificatio...
Putting education at the center of the mayor campaign - Opinion ...
Encouraging new developments should put education reform front and center of the 2013 mayoral campaign. The first is growing anxiety about the city's ...
bostonglobe.com/opinion/2013/04/03/putting.../story.html


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