Education Study Reveals Significant Emergent Literacy Benefits for Preschool Children Engaged by Professional Teaching U.S. Newswire via Yahoo! News
Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts' Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts announces significant results from the recent Fairfax (Fairfax County, Virginia) Pages program. The Fairfax Pages program and study, made possible by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, measures the impact of 14-week arts-in- education Teaching Artist residencies at three Fairfax County,
Study: Raise Teacher Pay to Improve Education NPR
A new study by education researchers concludes that the best way to improve the quality of teaching is to pay teachers more. And to pay good teachers even more.
Study: Higher Teacher Pay Would Improve the Education System NPR
Morning Edition , December 13, 2006 · A new study by education researchers concludes that the best way to improve the quality of teaching is to pay teachers more. And to pay good teachers even more. Critics aren't so sure, notably teacher's unions.
Online Journal Combines Teaching Math And Studying How Students Learn Science Daily
When instructors at Bronx-area community colleges applied for a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to study how students think about fundamental concepts of calculus, they hoped to gain a better understanding of how college students learn mathematics. During the 4-year project, the teacher-researchers integrated ongoing research theories with classroom teaching. As a result, their project
Coach steps down after 5th OUI; Still teaching physical education at Weymouth High Patriot Ledger
WEYMOUTH - The coach of the girls basketball team at Weymouth High School has resigned after his fifth drunken-driving arrest. Stephen Shoff, 56, of 35 Signal Hill Road, Marshfield, was arrested Nov. 18 by a State Police trooper who said he saw him weaving on Route 3 in Hanover.
Ideas backed by deep pockets lead way in molding education Contra Costa Times
Perhaps all that's needed to shape the world in your own image are billions of dollars and a plan. That may be how Bill Gates, the world's richest man, beat out politicians, educators and policy wonks to be named the most influential person in American education in the past decade by the research center at Editorial Projects in Education, the Bethesda, Md.-based nonprofit group that publishes
Letters ; Education RedNova
BLAIR'S LEGACY Alan Smithers is right to identify education policy as well- intentioned but lacking coherence ("Blair's legacy is a mess; how can we clear it up?" Comment, EDUCATION &CAREERS, 7 December). However, I do not share his optimism that Mr Blair's successors will put this right.
'Spend on education, not guns' Independent Online
Governments should be spending more money on education and less on guns, Anglican Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane has told Commonwealth education ministers in Cape Town.
Projects: Norwich schools: Teaching newcomers Norwich Bulletin
Local education officials say cutting $400,000 in funding for the Norwich Public Schools' English language-instruction program could leave the district in possible violation of federal law.
'Spend on education, not guns' News 24 South Africa
Governments should be spending more money on education and less on guns, Anglican Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane has said.
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