Archive for June, 2007

SELECTED READINGS

Friday, June 29th, 2007



06/28/2007 05:32 PM
The Marginal Utility of Education
How do we find a middle path between the enormous abstract value that poor families often hold for education and the limited marginal utility of additional educational effort for their actual children?


06/28/2007 07:20 PM
Give Education a Second Life
On July 7 and repeated on July 8, some graduate students from the Pepperdine University Online Masters of Educational Technology (OMET) program are convening an audience to talk in Second Life how to give education itself a second life


06/28/2007 01:19 PM
Legislative Education Study Committee Meetings
The Legislative Education Study Committee is meeting today and tomorrow. Here is the tentative agenda from the NM Legislature website:. TENTATIVE AGENDA. June 28-29, 2007. State Capitol, Room 307. Santa Fe, New Mexico


06/28/2007 12:38 PM
ARRL Certification and Continuing Education Course Registration
Antenna Modeling (EC-004); Radio Frequency Propagation (EC-011); HF Digital Communications (EC-005), and VHF-UHF (EC-008). To learn more, visit the CCE course listing page or contact the Continuing Education Program Coordinator.


06/28/2007 05:33 PM
Why does it cost so much to get an education in the US?
I also deeply resent the student loan industry for treating my education as just another commodity. I mean, its not like I just blew thousands of dollars on a new car or designer clothes, so why do I have to put up with these cheap


06/29/2007 01:51 AM
Education sector requirements - big business opportunity
This morning I came across a copy of Education World Special Directory, January, 2007. The publishers call it path-breaking first-of-its-type special directory. The stated objective is to make a platform available for the countrys

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Thursday, June 28th, 2007

1. The Opposition of Experience and True Knowledge. As
livelihood and leisure are opposed, so are theory and practice,
intelligence and execution, knowledge and activity. The latter
set of oppositions doubtless springs from the same social
conditions which produce the former conflict; but certain
definite problems of education connected with them make it
desirable to discuss explicitly the matter of the relationship
and alleged separation of knowing and doing.


06/28/2007 07:03 PM
Third Annual Nissan Student Government Leadership Program Slated for July 29 -…
Sixty Student Government Presidents from the nation’s historically black colleges and universities will descend upon Jackson, Mississippi for the third annual Nissan Student Government Leadership Program .


06/28/2007 07:03 PM
Supreme Court Race Ruling Watched In Omaha
Omaha, Ne.- By a 5-4 vote today the United States Supreme Court raised key racial questions for hundreds of school districts across the country including Omaha.


06/28/2007 07:03 PM
Education
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06/28/2007 07:03 PM
Chennai enters quarterfinals
Theni: Chennai, down by a 11th minute strike by Srikanth, bounced back to register a 3-1 win over Nilgiris and entered the quarterfinals of the 23rd Tamil Nadu State sub-junior inter-district football …

In 1844 ‘The Ragged School Union’ was formed in London, and maintained

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Mastering Essential Math Skills (for grades 6-8).

Mastering Essential Math Skills (for grades 6-8)
by: Richard W. Fisher
publisher: Math Essentials
, released: 08 September, 1998

price: $12.55 (new), $12.08 (used)


06/28/2007 08:06 AM
Read Story
Conway’s Mary Michael Maggio said she is not surprised that 12-year-old Alexis Thompson is playing in the U. S. Women’s Open.


06/28/2007 08:06 AM
UWE students win Macmillan Illustrustration Book awards
Two students from the University of the West of England have won top awards in the prestigious Macmillan Prize for Children’s Picture Book Illustration.


06/28/2007 08:06 AM
NW Arkansas today
QUOTE OF THE DAY “The teachers had to figure out ways to keep them interested. These kids don’t want you to stand there and lecture while they take notes.” - Lindsey Asbury, a teacher at the University of …


06/28/2007 08:05 AM
Community College
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06/28/2007 08:04 AM
Teens get summer job, career advice, we get cleaner roads
If you see young people in orange vests cleaning up roadsides over the next couple of months, give them courtesy and some thanks.


06/28/2007 08:04 AM
Qwest Awards $3,000 to the Wyoming Latina Youth Conference
The Qwest Foundation today announced an award of $3,000 to the Wyoming Latina Youth Conference .


06/28/2007 08:04 AM
Ohio Marine Killed In Iraq
Marine Cpl. Derek Dixon, 20, of this Dayton suburb, was killed while conducting combat operations in Iraq, the Pentagon said Wednesday.


06/28/2007 08:04 AM
BGSU Says Professor Lost Drive Containing Student Info
About 1,800 current and former Bowling Green State University students are being notified about the loss of a computer flash drive containing their personal information, the university has announced.


06/28/2007 08:04 AM
Cyber Charter Schools
Okay this will appear in the “Virtual Schooling in the News” feature at the end of the week, but I felt the need to draw attention to this a little more than simply including it there.


06/28/2007 08:04 AM
Congratulations
DIAMOND DAY: Ralph and Beryl Head celebrate their special day. BROMSGROVE couple Ralph and Beryl Head are celebrating their diamond wedding anniversary.


06/28/2007 08:04 AM
Locals shine at National History Day
More than 2,300 students representing 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Department of Defense Schools participated in the National History Day competition held June 9-14 at the University of Maryland.

We also, in the early thirteenth century, find bishops enforcing

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

theological training on future priests by orders of which the following is
a type:


06/27/2007 10:00 AM
Citrix GoToMeeting Wins eLearning Guild Platinum Award (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—-Citrix Online, a division of Citrix Systems, Inc. , won a Platinum Award this week for customer satisfaction with Citrix GoToMeeting based on results from eLearning Guild’s research on Synchronous Learning Systems.


06/26/2007 08:12 PM
The eLearning Guild Announces the Publication of New 360 Degree Report: (RedNova)
SANTA ROSA, Calif., June 26 /PRNewswire/ — The eLearning Guild announced today the publication of a new Guild Research 360 Degree Report on Synchronous Learning Systems (SLS).


06/26/2007 07:29 PM
The eLearning Guild Announces the Publication of New 360 Degree Report: (SYS-CON Media)
The eLearning Guild announced today the publication of a new Guild Research 360 Degree Report on Synchronous Learning Systems (SLS). Synchronous e-Learning (people learning something together at the same time, but not in the same place) is already very pervasive, with almost 65% of respondents using Synchronous Learning tools on a regular basis and with some industries seeing double-digit annual …


06/26/2007 06:36 PM
The eLearning Guild Announces the Publication of New 360 Degree Report: (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
The eLearning Guild announced today the publication of a new Guild Research 360 Degree Report on Synchronous Learning Systems . Synchronous e-Learning is already very pervasive, with almost 65% of respondents using Synchronous Learning tools on a regular basis and with some industries seeing double-digit annual growth in their adoption and use.


06/25/2007 09:47 AM
Elluminate Enhances Leading eLearning and Web Collaboration Solution With Launch of Elluminate Live! V8 (SYS-CON Media)
Elluminate, Inc., a leading provider of live eLearning and web collaboration solutions, today announced the launch of the latest version of its flagship product, Elluminate Live! V8. The new release sets the bar for real-time eLearning and web conferencing, working to effectively engage groups of all sizes in interactive online sessions. Elluminate has expanded the capabilities of Elluminate …

If compulsory continued education is introduced, for boys and girls

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

who now have no school education after the elementary school, it is of
the utmost importance that the direct study should be included in
some form or other before the age of eighteen is reached, and it is
in connection with this type of school rather than in connection with
the elementary or secondary school that constructive efforts should be
made
If compulsory continued education is introduced, for boys and girls
who now have no school education after the elementary school, it is of
the utmost importance that the direct study should be included in
some form or other before the age of eighteen is reached, and it is
in connection with this type of school rather than in connection with
the elementary or secondary school that constructive efforts should be
made.


06/27/2007 01:59 AM
Webcams a new tool in the fight against cheating
The number of college students taking courses online is surging, creating a tough dilemma for educators who want to prevent cheating.


06/27/2007 01:58 AM
Experts predict ‘catastrophic’ floods
Floods could cause an extra 1 billion worth of damage a year by the end of this century unless climate change is tackled.


06/27/2007 01:58 AM
MAS to fund study on training directors
THE Monetary Authority of Singapore is to finance a study on how to train and develop company directors here.


06/27/2007 01:58 AM
Recording Studio NYC
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06/27/2007 01:58 AM
Tree branch kills school trip boy
Grieving schoolchildren and their teachers are being counselled after a 10-year-old boy died and three other youngsters were hurt when a tree branch collapsed on an adventure holiday woodland activity.


06/27/2007 01:58 AM
FOOTBALL: Central coach’s cancer is in remission
Dennis Roland, hired by Central Gwinnett as its football coach in February despite being in the midst of a battle with cancer, is in remission, the school’s principal, Valerie Clark, said.


06/27/2007 01:58 AM
Regional News Briefs
Kenosha man accused of threatening judge A man has been charged for a second time with making threats against a federal magistrate judge in Milwaukee, according to a criminal complaint.


06/27/2007 01:58 AM
50 Schools and Districts Chalk Up CMS to Blackboard
At the 2007 NECC show happening this week in Atlanta, education technology developer Blackboard announced that more than 50 K-12 schools and districts have recently signed up to use or upgrade the company’s …


06/27/2007 01:58 AM
18 Texas Districts Get Unitedstreaming
At the NECC show in Atlanta, Discovery Education announced that 18 Texas Regional Education Service Centers have signed on for the company’s unitedstreaming service through the 2011/2012 school year.


06/27/2007 01:58 AM
ASO to perform in Gwinnett for 1st time since … who knows?
The park is alive with the sound of music. At least it will be on Saturday. Suwanee Town Center Park will play host to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra this Saturday evening.