Human Resources

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  • Duncan calls for overhaul of education schools
    Fri, Oct 23, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  HR
    The Obama administration is calling for an overhaul of college programs that prepare new teachers, saying they are cash cows that do a mediocre job of preparing teachers for the classroom. Among the changes proposed by Education Secretary Arne Duncan: overhauling education schools' curricula to ensure that future teachers learn how to use data to improve their instruction, and linking the performance of teachers with the schools where they received their training, so policy makers can see which schools are most effective. Key words: educational technology, teacher preparation, Obama education, teacher training, Arne Duncan, teacher colleges [ Read More ]

  • Teacher quality under the microscope
    Thu, Aug 20, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  Teacher pay
    It's no secret that one of the keys to creating better schools is to raise the quality of teaching in the nation's classrooms. But how to identify, and encourage, high-quality teaching is proving to be a challenge. Key words: effective teaching, pay merit, Arne Duncan, educational technology, teacher quality [ Read More ]

  • Gates Foundation seeks keys to effective teaching
    Thu, Aug 20, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  HR
    Ever since Americans sent their children to one-room schoolhouses, parents have known what makes a good school: inspiring, organized, and creative teachers. But researchers haven't been able to quantify what, exactly, makes a teacher effective and how to tie that to student achievement. Key words: effective teaching, Bill Gates, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, teacher schools [ Read More ]

  • Open-source tool to boost STEM graduates
    Thu, Jul 09, 2009    Primary Topic Channel:  Policy , Technologies
    State education officials have a new tool to help them predict which investments will pay dividends as they try to boost the number of college graduates who major in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Key words: STEM, education, technology, Raytheon, engineering, University of Massachusetts, computer simulation [ Read More ]

  • Teachers warned about MySpace profiles
    Mon, Nov 19, 2007    Primary Topic Channel:  Policy
    In a memo to Ohio teachers, the state's largest teachers union strongly discouraged educators from using social-networking web sites such as MySpace and Facebook to create personal profiles or communicate with students. [ Read More ]

  • NASA to focus on educational partnerships
    Thu, Jan 25, 2007    Primary Topic Channel:  Professional development
    Aiming to boost science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and better prepare students for the new global economy, NASA convened a summit in which the space agency announced a new "Educational Framework" for forming partnerships with schools and other STEM-focused institutions. [ Read More ]

  • Report slams teacher-education programs
    Tue, Sep 19, 2006    Primary Topic Channel:  Continuing education-high-quality requirements
    Despite some examples of success, the majority of today's teacher-education programs are engaged in a "pursuit of irrelevance," having failed to keep pace with substantial changes in technology, student demographics, and global competition, according to a new report from the non-partisan Education Schools Project. The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education said it welcomed the report and agreed with some, though not all, of its recommendations. [ Read More ]

 

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