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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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    Australia’s Preschools Flunk the Test
    Source: The Sydney Morning Herald
    January 9, 2012

    The standard of teaching in Australian preschools is ”very poor” according to a government-funded E4Kids study, which suggest that children may be attending little more than glorified playgroup. Despite research indicating that early learning makes a crucial difference to children’s long-term development, the national study of 2500 children found that on a scale of one to seven, the quality of instruction for four-year olds–regardless of whether they attend preschool, a childcare center,…

      Related to: Assessment & Curriculum, Early Education, Teaching & Learning
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    U.K. Schools Must Do Better to Engage Children, Warns OFSTED Report
    Source: The Independent
    November 29, 2011

    Teaching in hundreds of secondary schools is not engaging enough, says this year’s report  from the U.K. Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services, and Skills (OFSTED). The education-standards watchdog voiced “serious concern” that teaching standards were “no more than satisfactory” in 40% of schools nationwide, and it warns of a link between weak teaching and poor behavior, with disruption more likely to take place when pupils failed to be engaged by lessons. The…

      Related to: Early Education, Higher Education, Policy & Governance, Primary/Secondary Education, Research, Teaching & Learning
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    Mexico’s Largest University to Post Nearly All Publications and Course Materials Online
    Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
    November 15, 2011

    The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico’s largest university, will make virtually all of its publications, databases, and course materials freely available on the Internet over the next few years—a move that some academics speculated could push other universities in the region to follow suit. Campus officials said the All of UNAM Online program could double or triple the institution’s 3.5 million publicly available Web pages, making it the largest…

      Related to: Assessment & Curriculum, Early Education, Higher Education, ICT in Education, Open Educational Resources, Teaching & Learning
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    Garrett Calls on New South Wales to Justify Preschool Plan
    Source: The Sydney Morning Herald
    November 8, 2011

    Australia’s federal education minister, Peter Garrett, has called on the New South Wales (NSW) government to explain how it intends to get more children into preschool, warning that the NSW’s planned imposition of fees next year may make its task even harder.   The percentage of 4-year-olds enrolled in NSW has risen from 81.9% in 2008 to 86.2% in 2010. While Garrett called this “good progress,” he requested a detailed explanation…

      Related to: Early Education, Policy & Governance, Teaching & Learning
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    Obama Announces Stricter Financing Standards for U.S. “Head Start” Program
    Source: The New York Times
    November 8, 2011

    U.S. President Obama today announced stricter financing standards for the government’s “Head Start” program, which offers preschool training for children from low-income families. Stating that investments in early education are critical to the future competitiveness of the country, Obama said that the government would, for the first time, require Head Start programs to meet certain standards to qualify for renewal of federal grants.   “If a program isn’t giving children the…

      Related to: Early Education, Education Reform, Policy & Governance, Teaching & Learning
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    U.K.: Early Learning or Too Much, Too Young?
    Source: The Independent
    August 25, 2011

    Starting with the next school year, preschoolers in the U.K. will be following a new curriculum that has led to fears of “testing for tots.” Last month, the government set out reforms of early learning and children’s centres to slim down the curriculum for fives and under but also introduced new progress checks for two-year-olds and put more focus on getting children ready for school. The progress check is in an…

      Related to: Assessment & Curriculum, Early Education, Education Reform, Policy & Governance, Teaching & Learning
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    U.S. Education Department Releases Final Race to the Top Guidelines, Stressing Ratings and Assessments
    Source: The Huffington Post
    August 25, 2011

    According to new guidelines released Tuesday, in order to win money from the U.S. federal government’s early-childhood Race to the Top (RTT) contest–the Early-Learning Challenge–states are encouraged to implement “kindergarten entry assessments.”     Assessments are one component of the $500-million RTT early-childhood program. ”The overarching goal of the challenge is to make sure many, many more children enter kindergarten ready to succeed,” said U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan.    The assessment…

      Related to: Assessment & Curriculum, Early Education, Education Reform, Policy & Governance, Teaching & Learning
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    Chile Police, Students Clash as Protests Continue
    Source: The Huffington Post
    August 4, 2011

    Riot police clashed with high school and university students in Chile today as protests continue over Chile’s public education system, which strikers describe as underfunded and unequal. President Sebastian Pinera has offered a reform package in hope of resolving the strikes that have put classes on hold around Chile for more than two months. Lawmakers, however, have refused his invitation to discuss the package, and students demand more substantial changes.

      Related to: Early Education, Higher Education, Policy & Governance, Primary/Secondary Education, Teaching & Learning
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