The current policies both Presidential candidates would advocate for education
Yet as a new school year begins, the time may have come to reconsider how large a role technology can play in changing education. There are promising examples, both in the United States and abroad, and they share some characteristics. The ratio of computers to pupils is one to one. Technology isn’t off in a computer lab. Computing is an integral tool in all disciplines, always at the ready.
Until recently, the impact of Title IX, the law forbidding sexual discrimination in education, has been limited mostly to sports. But now, under pressure from Congress, some federal agencies have quietly picked a new target: science.
Actually, what buys that education is Berea’s $1.1 billion endowment, which puts the college among the nation’s wealthiest. But unlike most well-endowed colleges, Berea has no football team, coed dorms, hot tubs or climbing walls. Instead, it has a no-frills budget, with food from the college farm, handmade furniture from the college crafts workshops, and 10-hour-a-week campus jobs for students.
Education advisors for presumptive presidential nominees John McCain (R) and Barack Obama (D) outlined the candidates' stances on key issues June 6, with both emphasizing a larger role for technology in schools.
For as long as wealthy Americans have given their money away,
education has been a leading recipient of their largess. Andrew
Carnegie, Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller: the biggest philanthropists of
the 20th century all gave significant portions of their fortunes to
schools, teachers and libraries.
A New York City charter school set to open in 2009 in Washington Heights
will test one of the most fundamental questions in education: Whether
significantly higher pay for teachers is the key to improving schools.
FOR the eighth straight year the Bush administration has ritually
proposed taking a hefty whack out of the federal subsidy for public
broadcasting. The cuts would in effect slice in half the money that
public television and public radio get from the government. If we follow
the usual script, this means it’s time for upset listeners and viewers to
rally to the cause, as they have in the past, and browbeat Congress into
restoring the budget.
Washington Post / November 28, 2007
WASHINGTON - Some scholars are joining parent advocates in questioning whether the No Child Left Behind law, with its goal of universal academic proficiency, has had the unintended consequence of diverting resources and attention from the gifted.
New report released from a collaboration between ISTE, SEDTA, and P21
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The current policies both Presidential candidates would advocate for education
Yet as a new school year begins, the time may have come to reconsider how large a role technology can play in changing education. There are promising examples, both in the United States and abroad, and they share some characteristics. The ratio of computers to pupils is one to one. Technology isn’t off in a computer lab. Computing is an integral tool in all disciplines, always at the ready.
Washington Post / November 28, 2007 WASHINGTON - Some scholars are joining parent advocates in questioning whether the No Child Left Behind law, with its goal of universal academic proficiency, has had the unintended consequence of diverting resources and attention from the gifted.
New report released from a collaboration between ISTE, SEDTA, and P21
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