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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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• India Proposes Common College-Entrance Exam

  Source: Read the story > The Times of India

  October 11, 2010

  A committee of Indian vice-chancellors has proposed a common entrance test for admission to undergraduate and post-graduate courses for all central university colleges and institutions. This results of this test will be factored in over and above the school board results to determine admission into university. The committee has proposed that the weightage of school results and the common test be fixed by individual universities. 

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• Egypt’s Need for Education Overhaul

  Source: Read the story > News24.com

  October 6, 2010

  Egypt’s teachers and employers say that the country’s secondary education system needs an overhaul to due to disjointed education reforms that have changed exams but not teaching methods. High school teaching, based mostly on rote, does not give students practical skills, leaving them unprepared for college and hindering their transition to the workplace.
  Related to: Assessment & Curriculum, Education Reform, Higher Education, Primary/Secondary Education, Teaching & Learning

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• U.S. Accreditation Council Sets Stricter Standards for Recognizing Accreditors

  Source: Read the full story > The Chronicle of Higher Education

  September 28, 2010

  As the U.S. Congress and the Department of Education pressure accrediting agencies to be more stringent in monitoring colleges and universities, the nongovernmental Council for Higher Education Accreditation has released revisions to its policy for recognizing accrediting groups, including requiring accreditors to disclose the specific reasons for denying or withdrawing their approval of a college.

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• Higher Ed Leaders Announce Principles for Evaluating Graduate Programs

  Source: Read the full story > Inside Higher Ed

  September 16, 2010

  Higher-education leaders from 17 countries have announced a set of global principles for evaluating quality in master’s and doctoral education, including evaluation that uses meaningful metrics. Higher-ed groups from the following countries have signed on: Australia, Britain, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Thailand, the U.S., and Vietnam.

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• Save the Children Calls for End to Scotland’s Poverty Education Gap

  Source: Read the full story > BBC News

  September 16, 2010

  In comparing overall exam results with attainment by pupils registered for free school meals, Save the Children has found that students from wealthier backgrounds performed about 60% better in exams than poorer pupils. The charity has called on the Scottish government and opposition parties to come up with measures to break the cycle of under achievement and help poorer children to fulfill their potential. 

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• Japan Fattens Textbooks to Reverse Sliding Rank

  Source: Read the full story on Japan Today.

  September 13, 2010

   Alarmed that its children are falling behind those in rivals such as South Korea and Hong Kong, Japan is going back to basics after a 10-year experiment in “pressure-free education”–which encouraged more application of knowledge and less rote memorization–and adding about 1,200 pages to elementary school textbooks. The textbooks across all subjects for six years of elementary school now total about 4,900 pages, and will go up to nearly 6,100.  

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• Survey Finds Many College Boards at Sea in Assessing Student Learning

  Source: Many College Boards Are at Sea in Assessing Student Learning, Survey Finds

  September 9, 2010

  Oversight of educational quality is a critical responsibility of college boards of trustees; however, according to a survey-based report issued this week by the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (U.S.), a majority of trustees and chief academic officers say boards do not spend enough time discussing student-learning outcome

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• Test Scores Unreliable, Unfair, and Unhelpful in Evaluating Teachers

  Source: Test Scores Unreliable, Unfair, and Unhelpful in Evaluating Teachers

  August 30, 2010

   

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