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TEDxNYED 2013 Inside-Outside

April 27, 2013

TEDxNYED is a New York City-based TEDx event focused on education. The theme of this year’s TEDxNYED is Inside-Outside, a discussion about education from both inside...

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The 2013 School Leadership Summit

March 28, 2013

The Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership (TICAL) and Steve Hargadon are pleased to announce the inaugural virtual and worldwide School Leadership Summit, Thursday, March...

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Designing Modern Learning Environments: Design Thinking for Education Leaders Hangout

February 20, 2013

GETideas.org seeks to help education leaders understand the impact of environment on learning and to leverage design when attempting to transform education systems. This Google...

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Midwest Educational Technology Conference (METC)

February 11 - February 13, 2013

  Midwest Education Technology Conference February 11-13, 2013 St. Charles Convention CenterSt. Louis, Missouri http://2013.metcconference.org/...

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U.S. Higher Education Leaders Call for Bold Action on Attainment

January 24, 2013

In an open letter released yesterday, leading U.S. college and university presidents called upon their colleagues to make retention and completion a critical priority to stem...

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Bringing It All Together: Empowering Education Leaders to Innovate Hangout

January 30, 2013

GETideas.org hosts this GooglePlus hangout to engage with noted thought leaders on how to help educators innovate. The discussion includes a dialogue on how innovation in...

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Public Universities to Offer Free Online Classes for Credit

January 23, 2013

In an arrangement with commercial company Academic Partnerships, dozens of public universities plan to offer an introductory online course free and for credit to anyone...

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State Spending on U.S. Higher Education Rebounds in Most States after Years of Decline

January 22, 2013

After falling nearly 11% since the 2008 fiscal year, state appropriations for U.S. higher education are on the rise in most states. Long-term effects of...

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    Gonski Report: Means Test Australia’s Wealthy Schools
    Source: News.com.au
    February 20, 2012

    Australia’s wealthy private schools will undergo a form of means testing if the government decides to adopt a central proposal as part of a review of education funding released today. The 18-month long review, headed by David Gonski, recommends that there should be exploration of an approach based on “the capacity of parents to contribute” to a schools’ costs. The document urges a measurement to establish the level of private resources…

      Related to: Assessment & Curriculum, Education Reform, Policy & Governance, Primary/Secondary Education, Teaching & Learning
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    No Link between School Cash and Marks, Study Shows
    Source: The Sydney Morning Herald
    February 17, 2012

    According to a new Grattan Institute report, there is no clear link between school funding levels and good test results. For example, Korea spends less on students and performs better than Australia across a range of subjects. What the report identified as key to improving student achievement was improving teaching and the resources put into teaching. The successful school systems studied–Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Korea–all placed great value on the early stages…

      Related to: Assessment & Curriculum, Primary/Secondary Education, Professional Development, Research, Teaching & Learning
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    U.S. Teachers’ Competition to Focus on Educator Quality
    Source: The Huffington Post
    February 16, 2012

    U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan yesterday spelled out details of a proposed new $5-billion competition focused on improving teacher quality. Among the changes the administration is seeking: higher teaching salaries, compensation tied to performance, and more selective and improved teaching colleges. The competition would focus on improving the quality of the existing teaching force and on better training and recruitment of future teachers. Some states already are enacting some of the changes…

      Related to: Assessment & Curriculum, Policy & Governance, Primary/Secondary Education, Teaching & Learning
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    Educators, Parents Hold Mixed Views on Testing
    Source: Education Week
    February 8, 2012

    According to a survey released today, parents, teachers, and district administrators in the U.S. consider formative and interim tests far more valuable than summative assessments–and parents do not find much value in state results that arrive more than a month after tests were administered.   “What the data show is that parents, teachers, and administrators think that summative tests do not give them the information they consider most valuable, and…

      Related to: Assessment & Curriculum, Education Reform, Policy & Governance, Primary/Secondary Education, Research, Teaching & Learning
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    Apple No Longer Claims to Own Your Content on iBooks
    Source: Mashable
    February 6, 2012

    Apple has updated the End User Licensing Agreement (EULA) for its iBooks Author app, clarifying its terms and ownership conditions. Immediately after its release, the EULA for iBooks Author was criticized by technology writers and copyright analysts. The original wording stated that authors would be able to sell books created in iBooks Author only in Apple’s iBookstore. The broadness of the terms made it appear Apple was claiming ownership of the content…

      Related to: Assessment & Curriculum, ICT in Education, Open Educational Resources, Teaching & Learning
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    Britain’s Free Childcare Has Limited Impact on Early Education
    Source: The Telegraph
    February 3, 2012

    A £2-billion-a-year program to provide free childcare is failing to have a long-term impact on education standards in Britain. According to the country’s National Audit Office (NAO), there has been no improvement in results for seven-year-olds in recent years, despite the introduction of flagship reforms to give all preschoolers access to weekly nursery sessions. Noting that children’s development at the age of five had improved recently, the lack of improvement for seven-year-olds…

      Related to: Assessment & Curriculum, Early Education, Policy & Governance, Teaching & Learning
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    Most South African Public Schools Lack Workbooks
    Source: Mail & Guardian
    February 3, 2012

    Due to a “patchy” delivery process, 70% of South Africa’s public schools are still without important workbooks–exercise books that the basic education department introduced to improve literacy and numeracy performance in various grades. A Gauteng district official called the workbooks a “magnificent intervention that is now being hampered by incompetence. Delivery is very patchy throughout the country.”   The basic education department admitted the delay in the delivery of the books,…

      Related to: Assessment & Curriculum, Policy & Governance, Primary/Secondary Education, Teaching & Learning
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    MIT Gaming Project Could Help Spark STEM Education
    Source: eSchool News
    January 31, 2012

    A $3-million Gates Foundation grant will help the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Education Arcade build a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) to help high school students learn math and biology. Part of the grant’s purpose will be to change the way that science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) topics are taught in secondary schools. Studies indicate that many students fail to remain engaged and interested in STEM education in high school…

      Related to: Assessment & Curriculum, Game-based Learning, ICT in Education, Primary/Secondary Education, STEM Education
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