by Carol A. Josel | Sep 6, 2012 | Making Education News
The Chicago Teachers Union has announced that it will strike on September 10th over pay class size, and a longer school day. The National Education Policy Center has renewed its call to slow the growth of full-tie K-12, Inc. virtual schools until students’...
by Carol A. Josel | Sep 4, 2012 | Making Education News
The National Education Association, the country’s largest teachers’ union, has lost 100,000 members since 2010 and expects to lose about 308,000 full-time teachers by 2014. A recent Blackboard Project Tomorrow survey finds that 52% of district...
by Carol A. Josel | Aug 30, 2012 | Making Education News
The Common Core Technical Core Standards were recently released; they’re divided into 16 clusters and 12 overarching, “career-ready” practices. Results on the first National Association of Education Progress (NAEP) of both hands-on and interactive...
by Carol A. Josel | Aug 28, 2012 | Making Education News
A recent Blackboard Project Tomorrow survey finds that 52% of district administrators support the idea of online classes, up from 33% in 2007. A recent CDW survey found that 71% of students and 77% of teachers say they use laptops or netbooks, smartphones, student...
by Carol A. Josel | Aug 23, 2012 | Making Education News
33 states and D.C. have now received NCLB waivers, freeing them from its looming 2014 100% reading and math proficiency mandate. In return are promises to develop and implement reform plans and promote and evaluate teacher effectiveness. The Obama administration is...
by Carol A. Josel | Aug 21, 2012 | Making Education News
The top performer on the 2009 PISA was Shanghai, China with a score of 556, while America’s 500 was largely unchanged from previous years. However, Asian-Americans came in second with a 541, and white Americans came in sixth with a score of 525....
