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To see it, please <a href=" Javascript on</a> or try using a different browser. NBC Education Nation 2011. Education Nation (@educationnation) sur Twitter. Brian Jones - Still Separate, Still Unequal. American Teacher (2011. AMERICAN TEACHER: Official Trailer. Unraveling the myths about teachers. IN THE fall of 2010, NBC launched "Education Nation"--a televised summit on the state of American education.
It was a veritable Who's Who of corporate education "reformers. " The film Waiting for "Superman" was premiering in theaters nationwide, and received wall-to-wall acclaim and publicity from NBC. I was one of the only teachers to appear on a panel discussion. I spoke out against charter schools and privatization. Vanessa Roth. ANS: Ondertussen in de Verenigde Staten4. Ondertussen in de Verenigde Staten 5.
Education in the United States. Private schools are generally free to determine their own curriculum and staffing policies, with voluntary accreditation available through independent regional accreditation authorities. 88% of school-age children attend public schools, 9% attend private schools, and nearly 3% are homeschooled.[5] There are also a large number and wide variety of publicly and privately administered institutions of higher education throughout the country.
Post-secondary education, divided into college, as the first tertiary degree, and graduate school, is described in a separate section below. History[edit] K–12 (education) K–12 (spoken as "k twelve", "k through twelve", or "k to twelve") is a designation for the sum of primary and secondary education.
It is used in the United States, Canada, Turkey, the Philippines, and Australia. P–12 is also occasionally used in Australia.[1] The expression is a shortening of kindergarten (K) for 4- to 6-year-olds through twelfth grade (12) for 17- to 19-year-olds, the first and last grades of free education in these countries, respectively. The Term is often used in school website URLs, generally appearing before the country code top-level domain (or in the United States, the state top-level domain). The term "PK–12" is sometimes used to add pre-kindergarten. It is also used by American multinationals selling into the educational sector, such as Dell where UK customers are presented with this as a market segment choice.[2] Pell Grant. The Pell Grant is covered by legislation titled the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA), Title IV, Part A, Subpart 1; 20 U.S.C. 1070a.
These federal funded grants are not like loans, and need not be repaid. Association of American Universities. Organization[edit] The AAU was founded in 1900 by a group of fourteen Ph.D.
-granting universities in the United States to strengthen and standardize American doctoral programs. Today, the primary purpose of the organization is to provide a forum for the development and implementation of institutional and national policies, in order to promote strong programs in academic research and scholarship and undergraduate, graduate, and professional education.
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Association of American Universities. Little history. Accountability. U.S. Department of Education. Congressional Bills - NYTimes.com. Roberto J. Rodríguez Special Assistant to President Obama for Education, serves in the White House Domestic Policy Council. Roberto Rodriguez at 2010 NPS. State Of The Union 2011: Obama Expresses Support For Increased College Aid, Pell Grants. President Barack Obama pledged support to reestablish America as the global leader in higher education in his State of the Union address last night.
The president decried higher education budget cuts, which have become all the more common as states try to balance their coffers. Obama to Help Corporations with Their Complaints About Taxes. (image: twolf1) [ed. note: With this post, Firedoglake introduces a semi-regular series exposing and exploring ways in which the federal government spends vast sums or forsakes vital revenue in a perpetual, profligate and pathetic quest to assure corporate America that the elected representatives of we the people are really, truly, madly, deeply “business friendly.”
With each story, we hope to highlight another government giveaway, tax break, or loophole handcrafted by lawmakers and lobbyists to keep the powerful powerful and make the rich richer. If the reverse Robin Hoodism rises to special heights, we will present it with the FDL Wealthy Welfare Award—or, as we have taken to calling it back here, The Grafty. The Commercial War on Teacher Layoffs. Arthur Goldstein: Garrulous Mr. Gates. I'm not an education expert like Gates, so I'll comment only on a TED talk he gave last year.
My experience is limited to teaching 25 years in New York City. Arthur Goldstein: How To Extend Your Teaching Career (SATIRE) It's tough being a teacher nowadays.
In Wisconsin, they want to kill collective bargaining and do whatever they wish. Mayor Bloomberg doesn't want to look as extreme as Scott Walker, so he's simply rolled out a bill that would pretty much let him fire anyone he feels like firing. It's pretty easy to give a teacher an arbitrary "U" rating. State Budgets: Day of Reckoning - 60 Minutes. Crisis in the Dairyland - For Richer and Poorer - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 03/03. Diane Ravitch - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 03/03.
WindowsMedia Player:Diane Ravitch March8. VIDEO: America Is NOT Broke. March 5th, 2011 9:03 PM. America Is NOT Broke': Michael Moore Speaks in Madison, WI. Broke Town, U.S.A. Meredith Whitney Advisory Group LLC. National Education Reform Organization to Launch in Indiana. March 4, 2011 News Release [INDIANAPOLIS] - The Mind Trust, an Indianapolis-based education reform non-profit, today announces it has recruited Stand for Children to Indiana. Stand is a national grassroots education advocacy organization that channels the power of parents and educators to transform public schools. Chris Hayes and Naomi Klein Explain Why the Protests in Wisconsin Matter. Wisconsin Teachers Show Us How to Resist the Shock Doctrine - Living in Dialogue.
The Shock Doctrine Short Film. Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine - Part 1 of 6. Diane Ravitch: Bad news for Indiana teach... The Mind Trust - Home Page. The Mind Trust (TheMindTrust) Laura Bush expected to unveil major public school reform program, an initiative of SMU's George W. Bush Institute. Former first lady Laura Bush is expected to unveil a public school reform program today that will be the first large-scale policy initiative of the George W.
Bush Institute at SMU. The plan involves a new collaboration of educators, nonprofits and businesses aimed at improving the performance of public school students by altering the role of principals. The George W. Bush Institute » George W. Bush Presidential Center. (pdf)The Alliance to Reform Education LeadershipFact Shee. Cell Phones, U-verse, Digital TV, DSL Internet, and Phone Service. Teach For America - Help Ensure Educational Opportunity for All. James K. Glassman. James K. Glassman. James Kenneth Glassman (born January 1, 1947) is the founding executive director of the George W. Bush Institute, a public policy development institution focused on creating independent, non-partisan solutions to America's most pressing public policy problems through the principles that guided President George W. Bush and his wife Laura in public life.[1] The George W.
Bush Institute is based within the George W. Excellence in Education (Jeb Bush) Excellence in Ed (ExcelinEd) sur Twitter. NEA Home. Dennis Van Roekel (NEAPresident) sur Twitter. NEA President Calls on Educators to Keep Up the Fight for Public Education N.E.A. Shifts Position on Teacher Evaluations. APSCU: Association Private Sector Colleges and Universities.
APSCU (apscunow) sur Twitter. Chaîne de ccamedia1. Grading For-Profit Colleges. For-profit college group: "Eisman is a self-serving nutcase" - Apr. 21. The Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities spent five times as much on lobbying efforts last year to block the Department of Education proposed rules.By Hibah Yousuf, staff reporterApril 21, 2011: 5:52 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- It's no secret that prominent short-seller Steve Eisman has been outspoken against the for-profit education sector, and he has the ear of lawmakers and the Department of Education.
Eisman, best known as the star in Michael Lewis' The Big Short for his successful early bet against the subprime mortgage industry, has publicly blasted the for-profit education industry over the past year. And he hasn't been shy about his short positions on the stocks of for-profit colleges either. But the industry is fighting back hard. "Eisman is a self-serving nutcase who got lucky," said Harris Miller, president and chief executive of the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities, which represents over 1,630 for-profit schools.
Death & Life of the Great american School System. Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action. SOSMarch (SOSMarch) Ironic Lessons in Education Reform from Bill Gates.