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BusinessWeek July 15, 2010 |
Bill Gates' School Crusade Bill Gates' foundation is betting billions that a business approach can work wonders in the classroom. |
U.S. Banker February 2007 Lee Conrad |
Philanthropy: BofA, RBC Offer The Gift of Giving Bank of America is the latest institution to give the gift of giving-and make its customers feel like philanthropists. |
HHMI Bulletin Feb 2012 |
Raising Their Game When done right professional development can make a real difference for students. |
Fast Company April 2000 Sara Terry |
Schools That Think Everyone agrees: Education is essential for the future of the new economy. Everyone agrees: The public education system needs reform. No one agrees on how to do it. Here are four models for the future. |
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. |
Fast Company Peg Tyre |
The World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies In Education Some companies on the list include DonorsChoose.org, Inkling, and Kaplan. |
Fast Company Gwen Moran |
DonorsChoose Founder Charles Best On The Art Of Asking For Money Whether it's a big donation to a nonprofit or a business-boosting investment, asking for money can be tough. It's all sweaty palms and dry throats as we build ourselves up to seem worthy enough for the money source to fork over some dough. |
Teacher Magazine May 2000 David Hill |
He's Got Your Number "I turned down four speaking requests yesterday," says William Sanders, a professor at the University of Tennessee's school of agriculture and, oddly enough, the man who has created a controversial method of judging the effectiveness of teachers and schools.... |
T.H.E. Journal June 2001 Keith Oelrich |
Virtual Schools A 21st-century strategy for teacher professional development... |
BusinessWeek June 26, 2006 |
Best Practices: A Top 10 List Frustrated by the meager payoff from its traditional efforts to improve schools, a new generation of business philanthropists is developing innovative approaches to solving this seemingly intractable problem. |
T.H.E. Journal October 2004 Chris Rother |
Evaluating Technology's Role in the Classroom Teachers are using computers more than ever before for everything from instruction to handling administrative chores and communicating with parents. |
T.H.E. Journal November 2003 Chris Rother |
Technology's Value in Education A teacher survey reveals the importance of student access to computers and the need for more tech training. |
Salon.com May 26, 2000 Catherine Davis |
Money talks In wealthy school districts, it drowns out the sound of the teachers. |
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 August 2005 Carole Eaton |
Sparking a Revolution in Teaching and Learning How one of Ohio's lowest-performing elementary schools used technology to raise its third-grade reading test scores by a whopping 124 percent. |
T.H.E. Journal November 2005 Jacob Milner |
Warming Up To Wireless As wireless technology takes hold in school districts, the biggest challenge is getting teachers to embrace it, to take student learning to a new level. |
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 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 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 March 2008 Matt Villano |
Five on Five: A Dialogue on Profession Development A quintet of educators gathers to sound off on what works and what doesn't in the ongoing mission to train teachers to use technology in classroom instruction. |
T.H.E. Journal November 1, 2010 |
2020 Vision: Experts Forecast What the Digital Revolution Will Bring Next A discussion about how far we've come in education technology, and where we can expect to go. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Dan Ferber |
Calling All Teachers This article focuses on preservice training -- training college students and graduates to be STEM teachers. |
T.H.E. Journal January 2007 Frances Bryant Bradburn |
A Program With Impact A suitably named North Carolina technology integration model is enriching teaching and learning in schools that need it most. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2005 Gloria Bush |
Logging on to Staff Development Enhancing your teachers' knowledge and use of educational technology through online professional development. |
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 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 July 2008 Mary Ann Wolf |
High Schools : An Equation That Works As secondary students continue to show little interest in the four STEM subjects, combining technology use with engaging instructional practices may be the only way to reach them. |
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. |
T.H.E. Journal October 2005 Chris Rother |
Teachers Talk Tech The Teachers Talk Tech survey exposes a growing problem: Cash-strapped schools must choose between using computers as administrative or instructional tools. |
T.H.E. Journal March 2009 Charlene O'Hanlon |
Resistance is Futile Even as technology use grows embedded in education, some teachers still prefer the old ways. |
Job Journal May 16, 2004 Julia Hollister |
Teaching Careers Still Earn High Marks While some school districts cut staff, others are hiring for summer and fall. Find out more about the teaching profession and job openings from the web sites listed at the end of this article. |
T.H.E. Journal November 2001 Tom Ferrio |
Learning From Teachers Beyond the Classroom How Texas Instruments learned from mathematics educators and helped advance a discipline... |
T.H.E. Journal August 1999 Jody C. Isernhagen |
Technology: A Major Catalyst for Increasing Learning "If you can conceive of it, you can achieve it." (Kennedy Space Center, Florida) A rural Nebraska public school district adopted this philosophy when they applied for a three-year competitive Excellence in Education Grant in late 1995.... |
T.H.E. Journal July 2007 Mary Ann Wolf |
Systemic School Reform :: A Guiding Hand A systemic approach to school reform demands leaders with vision, who understand how every step of their efforts fits together to support teachers and benefit students. |
T.H.E. Journal January 2004 Mike Gatlin |
Interactive Whiteboard System Creates 'Active Classrooms' for Rural Georgia School System In order to catch and keep students' attention, while improving student learning in the process, our district needed new and exciting technology to infuse into the curriculum. |
T.H.E. Journal March 2005 Douglas Kellner |
The Changing Classroom: Challenges for Teachers The integration of technology in classrooms has obligated teachers to develop new teaching strategies to enhance learning across the curriculum. |
T.H.E. Journal December 2006 |
2006 Innovators Teachers who have demonstrated the power of educational technology to transform teaching and learning. |
T.H.E. Journal September 9, 2009 Joel Shore |
Profile :: Carla Wade Whether working at the classroom or state level, the former science teacher has shown a passion for teaching educators the most effective ways to integrate technology. |
T.H.E. Journal July 2006 Mary Ann Wolf |
Using Technology to Improve Achievement: Making Data Relevant New information systems are helping states and districts individualize instruction and boost student learning. |
BusinessWeek June 26, 2006 William C. Symonds |
The Reform Of School Reform Business is replacing the old piecemeal approach with ambitious efforts to revamp education on a far larger scale. |
T.H.E. Journal July 2007 Christine Fox |
Professional Development :: From Technophobes to Tech Believers High-quality professional development can turn the most reluctant teachers into enthusiastic users of classroom technology. It's key to any effort to reform the way students are taught and data is collected. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2008 Esther Shein |
One-Stop Shopping With Learning Management Systems Virtual course delivery is only one of many options afforded by an LMS, which allows educators to transfer online a host of educational and administrative tasks. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2009 Christine Fox |
More Than Machines Comprehensive technology integration programs go beyond laptop initiatives to provide teachers with the support they need to improve student engagement and achievement. |
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 April 2009 Jennifer Demski |
Up Close and Virtual By adding web-based offerings to traditional in-person sessions, school districts can continue to provide support to teachers when face-to-face visits aren't possible. |
T.H.E. Journal November 2008 Sean Portnoy |
Working Hand in Hand Alliances between school districts and community-based organizations are serving students in ways that neither group can do alone. |
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 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... |
Geotimes June 2005 Megan Sever |
Golfer Phil Mickelson on Science The golfer and his wife Amy recently partnered with ExxonMobil to create a week-long workshop to help third- through fifth-grade teachers gain the necessary tools to excite their students about math and science. |
HBS Working Knowledge June 16, 2014 Michael Blanding |
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology With 50 million public school students in America, technology holds much potential to transform schools, says John Jong-Hyun Kim. So why isn't it happening? |