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BusinessWeek January 27, 2011 Kate Andersen Brower |
Obama School Reform Plan Relies on Big Business With Republicans gunning for the Education Dept., the President needs companies to help him fend off deep budget cuts. |
T.H.E. Journal March 15, 2010 David Nagel |
Obama's ESEA Blueprint Continues Emphasis on Assessment President Obama has released his new "Blueprint" for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, calling for the transformation of American K-12 education into a "world-class" system. |
Fast Company September 2008 Kate Rockwood |
A History of Public Education Reform in the U.S. Michelle Rhee's overhaul of the D.C. school system is the latest entry in a long history of attempts to improve public education in the U.S. Read on for some highlights. |
T.H.E. Journal October 2008 Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
President Ed Tech Following a rough ride with the Bush administration, only one candidate offers the policies and vision that can reinvigorate our industry and help our students gain a foothold on the future. |
National Defense January 2016 Stew Magnuson |
More Learning, Less Testing to Boost STEM The defense and aerospace workers of the 21st century will need more than expertise in STEM fields. They will need to be creative, critical thinkers, and they will need to know how to work in teams to solve problems. |
T.H.E. Journal February 1, 2010 David Nagel |
EETT Eliminated in 2011 Obama Budget Proposal Despite an overall $3.5 billion increase in education spending, the proposed $3.8 trillion 2011 budget zeroed out the only federal source of funding specifically dedicated to education technology. |
IndustryWeek July 22, 2009 Jonathan Katz |
Educating Next-Generation Innovators 'Radical reform' needed in schools to keep the United States competitive in the product-development race. |
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2009 Sander A. Flaum |
Domestic Intervention The United States needs a new focus on educating its future labor force; and it needs parents to take the main role. |
Reason June 2009 Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Gutting D.C. School Vouchers After They Work As Predicted The Democratic Party, as part of its "omnibus" federal spending package, voted in March to end the Washington D.C.school voucher program after the 2009-10 school year. |
Salon.com June 7, 2001 Arianna Huffington |
Betraying our children Rather than reform our schools, Bush's test-centric education bill will lead to game-show-style teaching and unfairly categorize kids as failures... |
The Motley Fool December 14, 2011 Brian Stoffel |
Shame of a Nation A New York Times article ironically shows how far we still have to go. |
T.H.E. Journal March 29, 2010 David Nagel |
Education Department Names Race to the Top Winners Delaware and Tennessee have been awarded a combined total of about $600 million to implement school reform plans over the next four years. |
T.H.E. Journal July 28, 2009 David Nagel |
Obama Pushes for Education Reform with $4.35 Billion in Competitive Grants President Barack Obama is calling on states and districts to set higher standards for student achievement. |
Salon.com May 7, 2001 Arianna Huffington |
School of lies When it comes to education, only one rule applies in the nation's capital: "If it's broke, don't fix it"... |
Registered Rep. March 19, 2012 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
The Risks of Independence When parents realize that they haven't saved nearly enough money for college, some of them start wondering how their college-bound teenagers could qualify as independent students. |
T.H.E. Journal February 2009 Charlene O'Hanlon |
Credit Recovery Software: the New Summer School Districts are using online programs to get at-risk students back on track to graduation. |
National Defense June 2008 Alan L. Gropman |
Waning Education Standards Threaten U.S. Competitiveness High-quality education is critical to national security, and the United States must address a number of challenges in its educational system if it wants to maintain a competitive edge in the global economy and in key technologies. |
IEEE Spectrum April 2006 Stephen Barlas |
Crazy About Competitiveness The U.S. Congress and the White House look to boost science and technology education in the 2007 federal budget. |
T.H.E. Journal March 17, 2010 David Nagel |
Snapshot: Students Want Online Learning High school students seem to be overwhelmingly in favor of online instruction as a component of their educations. |
Fast Company February 2011 Anya Kamenetz |
How to Spend $100 Million to Really Save Education Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is the latest entrepreneur to join the rush to fix America's public schools. He announced in late September that he planned to donate $100 million to the city of Newark to overhaul its school system. |
InternetNews July 19, 2010 |
Microsoft Lands Cloud Deal With NYC Schools As it continues efforts to entice large, public-sector organizations to sign up for its expanding portfolio of cloud services, Microsoft lands e-mail partnership with New York City schools. |
T.H.E. Journal July 2008 |
Extracurricular :: For technologists who do their homework Technology-aided instructional practices are key to successful teaching in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and math. McKinley Technology High School's testing scores are proof of that |
Registered Rep. May 20, 2013 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Unlocking College Data What good are the loads of data about colleges, if families can't access it? Here are four websites that are opening the vault. |
T.H.E. Journal November 2, 2009 David Nagel |
Are Schools Preparing Students for 21st Century Learning? While more than half of America's school principal's say they are doing a good job preparing students for the 21st century, only a third of parents of middle school and high school students agree. |
Reason July 2008 Oren Grad |
Gentler Failure What's the best way to deal with chronically failing schools? In Massachusetts, apparently, the answer is to come up with a kinder word for failure. |
T.H.E. Journal September 9, 2009 Jennifer Demski |
Learning to Speak Math The presence of a bilingual educator is proving pivotal to the success of technology initiatives aimed at developing Spanish-speaking students' grasp of both the concepts and the language of mathematics. |
T.H.E. Journal January 2009 Rama Ramaswami |
A World of Hurt : Latin America Massive socioeconomic problems have left Latin American education in a dire condition, and decades behind the rest of the globe in integrating technology into teaching and learning. |
HBS Working Knowledge July 14, 2008 Sarah Jane Gilbert |
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina The organization New Schools for New Orleans aims to create networks of schools to receive shared support services while avoiding the dysfunctions of a large urban district. |
Registered Rep. April 27, 2015 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
College Savings Don't Hurt Chances For Financial Aid Clients will be in a far better position and enjoy more college options if they've saved for their child's college education. Here's why. |
The Motley Fool September 22, 2010 Selena Maranjian |
7 Ways to Cut the Cost of College Why pay hundreds or thousands when you could be saving that money instead? |
Registered Rep. August 20, 2012 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
When Dream Schools Become a Nightmare Many parents will go to great lengths to send to their children to their dream schools, but it's not always the best financial decision. |
Registered Rep. February 23, 2015 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Helping Parents Deal with College Stress The number of parents who express concern about getting their kids into college is almost as many as those who worry about paying the tab. |
T.H.E. Journal March 2009 |
Drill Down Students, teachers, parents, and administrators were asked to outfit their ultimate school with one guiding criterion: maximizing achievement. |
T.H.E. Journal January 2003 Judith B. Rajala |
Education Reform Education reform is the comprehensive and prioritized change within the field of K-12 education that promotes the overall improvement of student performance and academic achievement. The NCLB Act targets four basic education reform principles. |
Fast Company November 2010 Rachel Arndt |
A Guide to Presidential Bestsellers Which U.S. presidents and their wives have written books that reached the bestseller list. |
CRM December 2012 Marshall Lager |
Smarten Up Arm graduates with skills that matter. Studentforce is an extremely clever system built on the Force platform. It is nothing less than a complete educational management system. |
Registered Rep. June 18, 2012 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
How College Rankings Influence Scholarship Awards For your affluent clients, it's the schools that don't possess the marquee names that will be eager to award their children scholarships. The author's book, The College Solution: A Guide to Everyone Looking for the Right School at the Right Price explains more. |
T.H.E. Journal February 2009 |
Technology + Online + Industry + Partnerships Virginia Educators Honored for Tech Leadership... Follet Expands Ebook Offerings...Green Light Names Contest Winners... etc. |
T.H.E. Journal February 2009 |
Student Attitudes: Online Learning Students participating in a survey reveal their opinions about online learning courses. |
Reason July 2009 Lisa Snell |
The Graduates Charter school success |
Reason Aug/Sep 2001 Lisa Snell |
Schoolhouse Crock Why George W. Bush's education reforms won't change anything... |
Reason October 2000 Nick Gillespie |
Without Merit Why merit pay won't reform public education... |
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2009 |
Drill Down Administrators report on the obstacles they encounter in the effort to provide students with take-home technologies. |
Insurance & Technology January 28, 2010 |
Full Text: Obama's State of the Union Address The following are remarks U.S. President Barack Obama made during his State of the Union Wednesday before a joint session of Congress in Washington. |
BusinessWeek November 11, 2010 Drake Bennett |
A Management Primer from the Decider-in-Chief In his memoir, George W. Bush breaks his Presidency up into a series of decision-making case studies. Unfortunately, running a country isn't just a series of decisions |
T.H.E. Journal July 2007 Fletcher & Wolf |
Striking a New Tone The fourth annual collaboration with SETDA finds that, even in the face of political peril, ed tech supporters have plenty of reasons to be hopeful. |
Financial Advisor January 2012 Jerilyn Klein Bier |
College Crunch Advisors should start asking clients where their kids may want to attend college when the kids are high school freshmen or even in middle school, says Mazareas. There's a lot to talk about. |
T.H.E. Journal January 4, 2010 Scott Aronowitz |
Report Shows Teachers Not Adequately Prepared for Education Reform A new report by the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning indicated that in California, where schools are pursuing ambitious education reform, while many teachers are well qualified to take on the demands of such an effort, many more simply are not up to the task. |
Entrepreneur April 2010 |
Top Honors Business school students give a shout out to their schools. The Princeton Review's Student Opinion Honors for business schools. |
National Defense January 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Acquisition Workers: No More Reforms! Agencies have been deluged by reform proposals and never have enough time to implement them before the next wave. |