A back-to-school primer (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Is your high school banning hats this fall? Starting a boys' swim team? Teaching with iPods? South-metro high schools have a long list of changes planned for the 2008-09 school year....more...Rebecca Walsh: Best Utah teachers won't get raises (The Salt Lake Tribune)
SANDY - The bumper sticker on the bulletin board about sums it up: "Ignore great teachers. They'll go away." Tony Romanello went away for a while. ...more... Space Station Provides Boost To High School Students In California (NASA)
Students from Buchanan High School in Clovis, Calif., who are taking part in a 48 hour space station simulation, will get an extra boost when they receive a call from the real International Space Station....more... Rochester-area workers forge path from industry to classroom (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
Local colleges are helping career scientists and mathematicians teach in city classrooms.ROCHESTER NEWS...more... Stafford readies students for teaching careers (Sugar Land Sun)
Stafford High School will launch a new course in the fall called ?Ready, Set, Teach!? designed to equip students for careers in teaching....more... DPS, teachers union dispute: Two teachers, two perspectives (Rocky Mountain News)
Margaret Bobb and Ben Jackson are passionate teachers, union supporters and former co-workers. They want a settlement in the ongoing contract dispute between Denver Public Schools and its teachers union - but they disagree on the best way to get there....more... Failed venture follows anti-Obama author (Boston Globe)
Bradley Amundson was at home in Minneapolis two weeks ago when a familiar face appeared on his television screen. It was Jerome Corsi - a blast from a humiliating time in Amundson's past. "I said: 'Hey, there's Corsi; what's he doing on TV?' " Amundson recalled....more... Ellis University Launches As An Independent Instituition Of Higher Learning (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Ellis University launched today as a result of its transition from Ellis College and after achieving independent accreditation by national and regional accrediting bodies....more... Democracy and Citizenship Initiative at Washington University in St. Louis (Student Life)
Welcome to Washington University. You begin your undergraduate careers at a time of profound institutional reflection and a discussion that?like much of what you will experience in the next four years±will be both specific and abstract....more... |