Human Resources

  • 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 ]

  • NASA program creates teacher corps
    Tue, Aug 01, 2006    Primary Topic Channel:  Professional development
    Looking to bolster student interest in scientific fields from electrical engineering to complex aeronautics, NASA has created a new, hands-on professional development program for technology-savvy educators. The selective four-day workshop composed of an elite corps of K-12 teachers encourages educators to share their newly acquired knowledge with colleagues and students back in their own communities. [ Read More ]

  • States struggle with key NCLB mandate
    Tue, Aug 01, 2006    Primary Topic Channel:  Professional development
    Editor's note: This is the first in a three-part series on Professional Development. Part Two, which will appear in our September issue, will focus on the use of technology to deliver professional development to educators. Part Three, which will run in October, will focus on how schools are training teachers in the use of classroom technologies. [ Read More ]

  • New course teaches instructional gaming
    Wed, Mar 29, 2006    Primary Topic Channel:  Professional development
    A developer of educational video games for the classroom is offering what is believed to be the first comprehensive professional development course for educators who want to incorporate instructional computer gaming into their curricula. The course comes as interest in gaming as an instructional tool appears to be on the rise. [ Read More ]

 

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