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HBS Working Knowledge January 16, 2006 |
Readers Resond: Should More Transparency Extend to Education for Management? Yikes, what an awful idea!... Disclosing grades would place a greater weight on grades than is necessary in some cases... Too much importance is already attached to grades... Disclosure of grades to recruiters and others is indeed a good practice... etc. |
HBS Working Knowledge January 9, 2006 Jim Heskett |
Should More Transparency Extend to Education for Management? Should the quality of the educational process be the primary concern in the debate over grade disclosure? |
BusinessWeek September 12, 2005 Geoff Gloeckler |
Campus Confidential Students from our top-tier B-schools don't disclose grades. Now that policy is under attack. |
T.H.E. Journal February 2009 |
Student Attitudes: Online Learning Students participating in a survey reveal their opinions about online learning courses. |
T.H.E. Journal September 30, 2009 David Nagel |
States Look To Raise Reading Proficiency in Title I Schools The United States Department of Education is awarding $6.61 million in grants to eight states to help improving reading achievement among poorer students. |
InternetNews April 14, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
Study Links Facebook to Lower GPA New research finds that university students using the popular social network perform more poorly than their offline peers. |
T.H.E. Journal February 26, 2010 Scott Aronowitz |
California District Implements Writing Program Throughout Elementary Schools Stanislaus Union School District in Stanislaus, CA, reported that it implement Vantage Learning's MY Access! writing software for the 5th and 6th grades in all of its five elementary schools. |
T.H.E. Journal October 2000 |
All Grading Tasks on One Software Program Created and tested by educators, GradeSpeed is a gradebook for PCs that lets teachers record grades and report them as needed to students, parents and administrators... |
ifeminists March 23, 2005 Tony Zizza |
Time To Scrap The STAR Program So what's the problem with the STAR program? Isn't it something that will make students who are "behind" shine a little brighter? Give additional points of light to educational darkness and dimming or dimmed academic potential? |
T.H.E. Journal June 2007 |
PracticePlanet by Siboney Learning Group Siboney Learning Group has announced PracticePlanet, a web-based program that gives students confidence answering practice questions similar to those on standardized tests. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2008 |
Classroom Jeopardy! StandardsLink by ETA/Cuisenaire ETA/Cuisenaire is debuting Classroom Jeopardy! StandardsLink, a new series that uses the format of the popular TV game show to offer standards-based content in math, science, and language arts for grades 3 to 8. |
T.H.E. Journal December 2001 Sylvia Charp |
Assessment and Accountability Tests are a means, not an end. To increase educational achievement, teachers should be responsible for judging student performance, giving out grades and deciding to pass or fail students... |
Financial Planning October 1, 2005 Craig L. Israelsen |
Making the Grade Does Morningstar's new stewardship ranking of a fund's ethics correlate with good performance? |
Macworld November 2003 Scholle Macfarland |
Grade-Book Software Five OS X-ready programs for teachers get assorted marks |
T.H.E. Journal September 2000 |
Solution Helps Administrators Analyze Student Performance IBM's Insight at School is a new business intelligence solution for the K-12 market. It provides schools with technology, consulting and services to improve the learning process by helping students make more informed decisions. |
Registered Rep. March 2, 2015 David Armstrong |
Editor's Letter: March 2015 Last week President Obama, in a speech to the AARP, rallied support for the Department of Labor's proposal to enact a fiduciary standard for advisors to retirement portfolios. |
Entrepreneur December 2006 Nichole L. Torres |
Real Smart Your academic experience doesn't have to be all about the grade. |
BusinessWeek March 19, 2007 Louis Lavelle |
Playbook: Does Your School Make The Grade? Here are four things to consider when applying to an undergrad business program. |
Registered Rep. March 29, 2011 Diana Britton |
Morningstar: Pick Funds that Regard Investors as Partners Fund companies that regard their investors more like partners than "other people's money" are more likely to deliver good risk-adjusted returns and have higher survivorship rates. |
T.H.E. Journal September 2000 |
Cognitive Concept's GameGoo Students in grades K-2 can receive help in learning language with Cognitive Concept's GameGoo, a Web-based educational games site. These games are based on state language arts curriculum standards for students grades K-2. |
Teacher Magazine May 2000 Kathleen Kennedy Manzo |
Pressure Points Tough teachers resist students' pleas for extra credit. |
Registered Rep. March 1, 2006 Kristen French |
Gimme an F! At least one aspiring broker wants retribution after the NASD mistakenly gave him a failing grade on his Series 7 exam last October. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2006 Brian McElfish |
Interactivity for the 21st Century A Southern California tech coordinator wants to create a classroom that engages all three essential participants in education: teachers, students, and parents. Here's how he intends to do it. |
Managed Care May 2006 |
Physician Disclosure Strengthens Patients' Trust Patients who received a disclosure felt more competent to judge the effect of their physician's compensation on their health care, and nearly a quarter of patients who remembered receiving a disclosure reported that it had increased their trust in their primary care physician. |
T.H.E. Journal March 2000 Jim Schneider |
Focus on Administration and Assessment Software for educational administration and assessment. |
T.H.E. Journal October 2004 |
Take it to the Computer: Writing Sentences and Paragraphs Evan-Moor Educational Publishers' Take it to the Computer: Writing Sentences and Paragraphs helps students in grades 1-5 learn basic computer skills while engaging them in motivating writing activities. |
T.H.E. Journal December 2005 |
Driving High-Tech Assessment Solutions for providing quality assessments and data to educators and the community top the list for this Maryland deputy superintendent. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2000 |
Organize Your Course Materials on the Web Classpage is a Web-based application that offers high school and college instructors free Web pages for distributing course materials and keeping track of grades.... |
Science News February 12, 2005 |
Whys Up The University of Wisconsin creates "The Why Files" website aimed at grades 5-12 to explain the science behind news headlines. |
Salon.com July 12, 2002 Janelle Brown |
L is for lawsuit Angry that little Johnny flunked, increasing numbers of parents are suing teachers. |
Science News June 10, 2006 Ivars Peterson |
Dropping Lowest Scores Determining which scores to drop when computing a final grade that is to a student's greatest advantage can be tricky. Here are some examples. |
T.H.E. Journal March 18, 2009 Ruth Reynard |
The Suitability of Technology-based Education for Skills Development Skill development now refers not only to specific technical skills for specific vocations but to the development of workplace skills (or competencies) and personal development skills as well. |
T.H.E. Journal November 2001 |
Applications Case Study Electronic gradebook products change the way teachers do business in the classroom... |