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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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    Seven Districts Split $25 Million in Gates Education Grants
    Source: ABC News
    December 6, 2012

    Seven U.S. school districts committed to working with charter schools to improve student achievement will split approximately $25 million in grants from the Gates Foundation. The funding is designed to deepen collaboration among educators in Boston, Massachusetts; Denver, Colorado; Hartford, Connecticut; New Orleans, Louisiana; New York, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Spring Branch, Texas. “These cities are particularly committed to advancing college-ready strategies in both district and charter schools,” said Vicki Phillips, education…

      Related to: Education Reform, Primary/Secondary Education, Teaching & Learning
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    Pay Rises Pegged to Performance for Teachers in England and Wales
    Source: BBC News
    December 5, 2012

    Teachers in England and Wales will no longer receive increases based on length of service; instead, pay raises will be linked to annual performance appraisals per the School Teachers’ Review Body. Education Secretary Michael Gove welcomed the change for its “greater flexibility.” The idea has been attacked by teachers’ unions, with one saying it would be “a disaster for children’s education,” but head teachers’ leader Russell Hobby said it was a “reasonable…

      Related to: Education Reform, Policy & Governance, Primary/Secondary Education, Teaching & Learning
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    Michelle Rhee Announces Her Next Target: Teacher Tenure
    Source: EducationNews.org
    November 26, 2012

    Michelle Rhee, CEO of StudentsFirst, wants to continue her education-reform efforts by overhauling the system of teacher tenure in the U.S., something she failed to do during her time as the head of schools in Washington, D.C. Her goal is for states to drop all tenure provisions, although Rhee is not opposed to tenure reform. The key, she says, it to ensure that instructors retain their jobs year to year…

      Related to: Education Reform, Policy & Governance, Teaching & Learning
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    U.K. Ed Sec Michael Gove Plans A-Levels Shake-Up
    Source: The Huffington Post
    October 17, 2012

    U.K. Education Secretary Michael Gove is preparing a major shake-up of A-Levels as the latest stage of exam reforms. Officials have been developing an Advanced Baccalaureate that would include a mix of A-Level subjects, a 5,000-word essay, and voluntary work. Gove is also expected to scrap modular courses in favor of a two-year version with exams at the end. AS-Levels would be retained but kept separate from the new “A-Baccs.”

      Related to: Assessment & Curriculum, Education Reform, Policy & Governance, Primary/Secondary Education, Teaching & Learning
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    U.S. Schools Show Sharp Increase in Segregation
    Source: The Washington Post
    September 24, 2012

    The UCLA Civil Rights Project has just released E Pluribus … Separation: Deepening Double Segregation fo More Students, which analyzed data from the National Center for Education Statistics and found that segregation is growing based on both race and poverty. According to the report, 15% of black students and 14% of Latino students attend “apartheid schools” across in the country–schools in which whites make up 0-1% of the enrollment. Though whites make up just…

      Related to: Education Reform, Policy & Governance, Primary/Secondary Education, Research, Teaching & Learning
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    States With High-School Exit Exams Focus More on College and Career Readiness
    Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
    September 20, 2012

    As pressure builds on the U.S. secondary-education system to do a better job of preparing students for college-level work or to enter the work force, a growing number of states are aligning their high-school exit exams with college- and career-readiness standards. Specifically, 8 of 26 states that require students to take high-school exit exams have linked those tests with the Common Core State Standards or other similar types of college-readiness measures, and…

      Related to: Assessment & Curriculum, Education Reform, Policy & Governance, Primary/Secondary Education, Teaching & Learning
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    England’s Top Universities Need Better Access for Poor Students
    Source: BBC News
    September 6, 2012

    According to England’s higher-education-access watchdog, the Office for Fair Access (OFFA), the country’s elite universities must recruit more talented students from poor homes. OFFA head Professor Les Ebdon highlighed data showing that the proportion of poor students at top universities had fallen, making wider access to university a matter of “national importance.”  OFFA research indicates the richest 20% of young people are seven times more likely to enter the most selective…

      Related to: Education Reform, Higher Education, Policy & Governance, Teaching & Learning
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    Australia’s PM: I Will Boost School Rankings
    Source: The Sydney Morning Herald
    September 5, 2012

    Prime Minister Julia Gillard plans to elevate the international standing of Australian schools, pledging to bring them into the top five education systems in the world by 2025. In the government’s response to the Gonski review of school funding, Gillard has announced a plan for an ‘Australian Education Act’ to enshrine a new funding model. This means that an incoming Coalition government would have to repeal the law if it wanted…

      Related to: Assessment & Curriculum, Education Reform, Policy & Governance, Primary/Secondary Education, Teaching & Learning
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