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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...

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...

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...

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/...

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...

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...

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...

New Software Development Contest to Help New York Students Excel in Math

Source: Mike Bloomberg.com

January 7, 2013

New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott today launched a new software-development competition for programs to help middle school students excel in math. The Gap App Challenge invites developers to submit applications, games, or other programs that focus on middle school math and can be used by students, teachers, or parents. The winning programs will be announced this June, and all submissions will be considered for school-based pilots to…
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U.S. Federal Effort Aims to Transform Learning Technologies

Source: Education Week

January 7, 2013

Cyberlearning: Transforming Education is a relatively new U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) program devoted to supporting research on advanced learning technologies–tools that help people connect directly with what they’re learning and provide them with new opportunities to acquire knowledge in ways that would otherwise be out of reach. “What we want to do is have one program that will be looking at the future of learning technologies—the next generation,” said…
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Hungarian Students Protest Education Reforms

Source: Mercury News

December 19, 2012

Hungarian high school and university students went ahead Wednesday with protests against changes in the education system despite the government’s acceptance of some of their demands. In the capital Budapest, several thousand students gathered outside the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Calling their protest the “Winter Rose Student Revolution,” they later marched downtown and threw rose petals into the Danube River. Government spokesman Andras Giro-Szasz said that the Cabinet had decided to…
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Mexico’s President Proposes Sweeping Education Reform

Source: The Washington Post

December 10, 2012

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is proposing sweeping reforms to the country’s challenged public-education system. Peña Nieto’s seeks to create a merit-based system of hiring and promoting teachers in a country where the positions often are bought and inherited. His plan would take much of the control of the education system away from the 1.5-million-member National Union of Education Workers, moving that control to the federal government.
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NAACP Pushes for Biggest U.S. Education Overhaul Since Brown v. Board of Education

Source: The Huffington Post

December 7, 2012

The NAACP is deploying volunteers across the U.S. in its biggest push for a public education overhaul since the nation’s classrooms were ordered desegregated in 1954. The volunteers, who have been trained for the past two years, will lobby at the state and county levels for four educational priorities: Extended school hours and years in school Improved teacher training Improved preschool programs Better targeting of spending to the neediest of students…
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Report: Cultivating Tech-Savvy Teachers Should Be Higher Priority

Source: Education Week

December 7, 2012

According to a report released this week by the National Association of State Boards of Education (U.S.), there is a strong need to improve the technology skills of teachers and other school officials, and to help them understand how digital tools should be used in the classroom. The report covers many issues–from the need to improve educational infrastructure, and tailor learning to personalize instruction, to the need to use technology…
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Basic Education in South Africa Gets Poor Grades

Source: Voice of America

December 6, 2012

South Africa’s government tested some 7 million students in 24,000 schools, and this year tested ninth graders for the first time. The conclusion of those tests: Young South African students are being left behind, especially in math. The average 1st grader scored 68% on the math test, while a 9th-grade counterpart scored a just 13%. That 1st grader scored 58% on a test in his or her first home language; the…
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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…
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