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Looking Forward at Learning

From the ?Making the Compelling Case Dept.? comes this article from the new International Journal of Learning and Media titled Learning: Peering Backward and Looking Forward in the Digital Era. Written by Howard Gardner, Carrie James and Margaret

Mar. 14   4:05 pm

Full Story at Weblogg-ed News

SAT Meets the Recession: Test-Prep Prices Are Dropping

Parents of students who are taking the SAT test on Saturday or getting ready for the next one in May know that test prep can be an expensive proposition, limited mainly to affluent families who can afford expensive private tutoring sessions. But in a

Mar. 14   3:57 pm

Full Story at Time Magazine

Don't blame Germany's school shooting on a video game

In the frame: the video game Counter Strike Forgive me for the groaning obviousness of this statement, but I am not in the least qualified to explain the behaviour of a serial killer. I would venture to suggest that nobody else is, either. But I am

Mar. 14   3:28 pm

Full Story at The Telegraph

Bill Would Make ?Strengths And Weaknesses? Teaching Of Evolution State Law

A bill filed Friday in the Texas House of Representatives would make an end-run around the curriculum setting authority of the state?s elected State Board of Education and codify the requirement that the ?strengths and weaknesses? of scientific

Mar. 14   3:19 pm

Full Story at Capitol Annex

Health education, recreation chair named at SIUC

CARBONDALE -- Joyce V. Fetro, professor in the Department of Health Education and Recreation at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, has been named chair of her department, having served as interim chair since Jan. 1. Former chair David A. Birch

Mar. 14   3:11 pm

Full Story at The Southern Illinoisan

Smithsonian Museum Looks Back At Black Power Movement

Sponsored by the Smithsonian?s National Museum of African American History and Culture, ?1968 and Beyond: A Symposium on the Impact of the Black Power Movement in America? will examine what African American history scholar Peniel Joseph calls the

Mar. 14   2:19 pm

Full Story at Huliq.com

Hernando school superintendent Wayne Alexander wants focus to be on people

Fill out this form to email this article to a friend You may enter up to 20 multiple email addresses, separated by commas. Wayne Alexander couldn't wait to come to Florida. He had worked in Sarasota in the early 1990s and remembered that

Mar. 14   2:10 pm

Full Story at TampaBay.com | St. Petersburg Times

Islamic Saudi Academy: Redacted Hate Texts and Protests against Expansion

In June of 2008, there was a vigorous protest of the hate-filled Islamic studies texts used by the Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA) in Fairfax Virginia.  We wrote about it extensively here and here.  To refresh our collective memories, the ISA is one of 20

Mar. 14   2:08 pm

Full Story at Red County

Iowa governments vary greatly in online posting

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ? More than a dozen of Iowa's 99 counties don't offer Web site, and there are glaring inconsistencies in content among those counties that maintain sites. The Associated Press conducted a one-day spot-check of county and state

Mar. 14   1:41 pm

Full Story at Sioux City Journal

Put-in-Bay team qualifies for nationals

Put-in-Bay School got a taste of March Madness but in a sport very different from basketball. The Put-in-Bay School Archery Team got a ticket to the big dance and qualified for the National Archery in Schools Program National Championships in the high

Mar. 14   1:11 pm

Full Story at Port Clinton News Herald

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