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BusinessWeek January 13, 2011 |
Teachers' Union Boss Randi Weingarten The president of the American Federation of Teachers on public schools, teacher bonuses, and why unions are so unpopular |
T.H.E. Journal April 2005 |
District Snapshots: Schools Find Success With Data Management System Teachers Dig In With Data... Principals Designate Academic Planning Time... Data Using Teacher Leaders... |
T.H.E. Journal January 4, 2010 Scott Aronowitz |
Report Shows Teachers Not Adequately Prepared for Education Reform A new report by the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning indicated that in California, where schools are pursuing ambitious education reform, while many teachers are well qualified to take on the demands of such an effort, many more simply are not up to the task. |
ifeminists October 29, 2002 Glenn Sacks |
The Teachers' 'Code of Silence' Police officers are well-known for their "code of silence" -- their hesitation to divulge information about the misdeeds of other officers. Educators have a similar code, and our silence serves to keep failing teachers in the classroom, to the detriment of thousands of students. |
T.H.E. Journal November 5, 2009 Scott Aronowitz |
How Can American Education Compete Globally? Motoko Akiba and Gerald LeTendre published a book, entitled Improving Teacher Quality: The U.S. Teaching Force in Global Context, in which they make the argument that the way to improve U.S. teachers' quality is to overhaul the way teachers are recruited, trained, and hired. |
T.H.E. Journal September 9, 2009 |
Drill Down K-12 principals reveal the kinds of tech skills they would like preservice teachers to have upon receiving their credential. |
T.H.E. Journal December 2000 Gary West |
Technology Tools to Make Educational Accountability Work The South Carolina Education Accountability Act of 1998 (EAA) establishes new standards for student performance. There is little doubt that such standards are needed as our state attempts to move up the ladder toward excellence... |
T.H.E. Journal October 2007 Susan Brooks-Young |
Help Wanted For an alarming number of new teachers, the school gates have turned into a revolving door. Here's how technology can assist districts in addressing the reasons for the rampant turnover. |
T.H.E. Journal July 2004 Ann McMullan |
Technology Integration: Klein ISD Moves From Learning to Use Technology to Using Technology to Learn Klein Independent School District faced the challenge of assuring that all students in the district would have the opportunity to master the Technology Applications Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills. |
T.H.E. Journal July 2005 |
Developing Highly Qualified Teachers To ensure highly qualified teachers for every student, teachers need access to the right learning opportunities that meet their needs, and a mechanism to ensure that they have the support, time, and knowledge to implement what they learn. |
Job Journal April 17, 2005 |
Career Snapshot: Teacher According to this snapshot of today's teaching market, job prospects are fair to good, depending on your specialty and the district. |
Job Journal April 20, 2008 |
Career Snapshot: School Teacher Our children are the future, and school teachers are entrusted with the responsibility of educating and inspiring them. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2004 |
Online Resource Heralded as "Educator's Best Friend" Touted as the "educator's best friend," the Education World Web site has resources that cover almost all areas of the educator's career demands. |
T.H.E. Journal November 2006 Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
Imagine the Possibilities One district's innovative use of interactive whiteboards demonstrates technology's ability to fulfill any vision educators have for it. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2006 Lisa A. Petrides |
ISKME Special Series Part 3: Using Data to Improve Instruction Are you using the right tests? The correct assessment methods? The best technology? These are only a few of the issues that must be addressed in the effort to use data to change teacher practice. |
Reason October 2000 Nick Gillespie |
Without Merit Why merit pay won't reform public education... |
T.H.E. Journal May 1, 2010 Vanessa Hua |
A Strategy Worth Watching The Excellence in Teaching Project discards frivolous checklists in favor of a purposeful online, observation-based process of assessing teachers' performance. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2001 Keith Oelrich |
Virtual Schools A 21st-century strategy for teacher professional development... |
T.H.E. Journal March 2006 Lisa A. Petrides |
ISKME Special Series Part 2: Data Use and School Reform With so much data circulating, the first issue facing us is: What should we be keeping track of, and what do we do with the data once we have it? And how do we recognize good data from bad? |
T.H.E. Journal March 2000 Paul J. Lynch |
Curricular Management of the Internet: Beyond the Blocking Solution ...Perhaps the debate over student access to the Internet should be discussed in the language and discipline of our trade --- as a curricular and instructional challenge... |
T.H.E. Journal September 21, 2009 David Nagel |
How Do We Measure School Turnaround? A coalition of 17 education groups, called the Learning First Alliance, has released five key recommendations that it said will help turn around our struggling schools. |
T.H.E. Journal September 2000 |
Intel Intel's Teach to the Future program trains teachers on how, when and where to implement technology into the classroom. The multi-million dollar program currently instructs teachers from California, Oregon, Texas, New Mexico, Washington and Arizona. |
ifeminists December 17, 2002 Glenn Sacks |
Why Teachers Leave An effective school or school district leadership does one thing above all: It keeps good teachers in the classroom. Our schools are like an army whose best soldiers, year after year, are deserting. I have three solutions. |
Geotimes October 2004 Jay Chapman |
Seeing No Child Left Behind The highly controversial No Child Left Behind Act is at the center of the election-year debate on education reform. |
T.H.E. Journal September 2000 |
Online Destination Links Teachers with Resources Great Online Tools for Schools, GOTSchool Inc., has launched GOTSchool Teachers, a Web site for K-12 teachers to find and share resources. |
T.H.E. Journal September 9, 2009 Dian Schaffhauser |
Which Came First - The Technology or the Pedagogy? A new spin on an old riddle goes to the heart of a conflict between K-12 schools and the colleges of education responsible for cultivating and providing them with new teachers. |
T.H.E. Journal March 17, 2010 David Nagel |
Snapshot: Students Want Online Learning High school students seem to be overwhelmingly in favor of online instruction as a component of their educations. |
Fast Company Jul/Aug 2013 Anya Kamenetz |
News Corp. Introduces A New Kind Of Interactivity To The Classroom Amplify is two things: the first touch-screen tablet designed for the educational market and a tablet-based curriculum. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2004 Beth McBride |
Data-Driven Instructional Methods: 'One Strategy Fits All' Doesn't Work in Real Classrooms Differentiated instruction is vital to effecting positive change in student performance. |
Salon.com July 12, 2002 Janelle Brown |
L is for lawsuit Angry that little Johnny flunked, increasing numbers of parents are suing teachers. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2002 Mark Nixon |
How the Web Keeps Parents 'In the Know' As teachers and parents work together to assist students in their studies, the Web has emerged as a highly effective and informative communication tool to meet the needs of today's busy teachers and parents... |
T.H.E. Journal September 2000 |
Learning-Link Learning-Link is a unit designed specifically for classrooms and training environments where any PC application can be broadcast to 36 stations. Learning-Link connects to the instructor's CPU via adapter cables and easily interfaces to PC audio cards. |
IDB America May 2002 Paul Constance |
Why do you teach? The art of motivating teachers in a high-stress, low-reward environment |
Teacher Magazine August 2000 Julie Blair |
It's A Steal Bidding wars break out as districts battle teacher poachers. |
T.H.E. Journal July 2004 Manchester, Muir & Moulton |
Technology Integration: Maine Learns' Maine is the first state to make real implementation of one-to-one computing through the Maine Learning Technology Initiative by having the provision of a laptop computer for every public school student and teacher in grades 7-12. |
InternetNews July 19, 2010 |
Microsoft Lands Cloud Deal With NYC Schools As it continues efforts to entice large, public-sector organizations to sign up for its expanding portfolio of cloud services, Microsoft lands e-mail partnership with New York City schools. |
T.H.E. Journal October 2006 Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
Keep the Customer Satisfied Like any good organization, we need to stay in touch with our consumers - the students. |
The Motley Fool February 11, 2005 Whitney Tilson |
Learning From Ideas for Public Schools Strategies used in the reform of the NYPD can be used to improve public schools and corporations. |
T.H.E. Journal January 2005 Barbara Frey |
A Virtual School Principal's To-Do List The following to-do list shows the differences and likenesses in this new realm of virtual education. |
T.H.E. Journal October 2000 Andrew Hoffman, Ph.D. |
Technology Built for Teachers We all love technology, but adapting one's teaching style to the new resources often takes more time and energy than it's worth and doesn't truly help the learning process. When technology is built for teachers' direct benefit, it will have startling results on the educational process... |
T.H.E. Journal October 29, 2009 David Nagel |
Q&A: iNACOL's Susan Patrick on Trends in eLearning At last count, there were more than 1 million enrollments in K-12 online schools in the United States. |
T.H.E. Journal November 2002 |
Technology Takes On Rural Alaskan Schools Technology is improving virtually all aspects of rural education for teachers, administrators and students. Nowhere is this demonstrated better than in the Northwest Arctic Borough School District, located in one of the most remote areas of northwest Alaska. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2009 Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
A Matter of Principals Administrators have much to gain from learning how technology can be used effectively in education, but often are left out of professional development programs. Two initiatives are intent on remedying that. |
T.H.E. Journal December 2008 Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
Separation Anxiety The annual Speak Up survey returns, with some unsettling data revealing a disconnect between students and their educators. |
InternetNews April 7, 2009 David Needle |
Teachers Driving Web 2.0 Adoption? A new survey indicates teachers are leading the charge to get more Web 2.0 services into the classroom. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2002 Douglas W. Green & Thomas O'Brien |
The Internet's Impact on Teacher Practice and Classroom Culture Does Internet use result in an increase in constructivist teacher practices? What other features of classroom life are impacted when the Internet is used as a source of information for student research projects? |
T.H.E. Journal October 2001 Lea Ann Lockard |
Collaborative Technology Planning The impact of technology plans on students' and teachers' learning... |
Reason May 2002 Mike Lynch |
Classroom Control Teacher pay, working conditions, and benefits apparently aren't enough to keep the Calif. Teachers Association busy. It wants to negotiate over everything that takes place in the classroom, setting curriculum standards, developing policies of parental involvement, and selecting textbooks... |
T.H.E. Journal January 2001 |
Project TEACH Implements Versatile Software The Keller Independent School District in Keller, Texas trains its teachers to integrate technology into the curriculum with Project TEACH... |
Teacher Magazine November 2001 Katharine Dunn |
Computer Confidants A growing number of teachers are connecting in virtual staff rooms.... |