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• View Education headlines on HDLNS.com

  HDLNS.com is the easiest to use aggregated content RSS Reader on the net. No need to sign up, nothing to remember. Just browse and read. (read)

• Pupils could study Simon Cowell and SuBo as part of new English GCSE

  Pupils could study Britain's Got Talent, The Apprentice and The Dragons' Den as part of a new English GCSE. They will be allowed to examine the way Sir Alan Sugar and contestants on these TV programmes speak and present themselves. Reality television (read)

• Will new academies spell two-tier system in Swale?

  KENT NEWS: Schools in Swale could spearhead the Governments new academy system after education officials at Kent County Council offered the region as a test bed. The news will come as a shock to many head teachers in the district who are yet to be (read)

• US high school ends 'Beat the Jew' game

  Extract not available. (read)

• Teaching as a Career Choice One of Many Ideas to Enhance U.S. Education

  /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ ----D.C. education forum discusses teaching, innovation, technology as keys to improvement Among the ways to bring about improvement in the future of U.S. education, according to a forum at the National Press Club Friday, are (read)

• US school ends 'Beat the Jew' game

  Seven seniors at a Southern California high school are facing disciplinary action for participating in a game called Beat the Jew, in which losers were subjected to 'incineration' or 'enslavement', a school administrator says. The game involved some (read)

• Arizona City Councilman, on School Mural: 'To depict the biggest picture on

  Well, here's an ugly story : A group of artists has been asked to lighten the faces of children depicted in a giant public mural at a Prescott school. [...] [The mural] features portraits of four children, with a Hispanic boy as the dominant (read)

• Teaching as a Career Choice One of Many Ideas to Enhance U.S. Education

  D.C. education forum discusses teaching, innovation, technology as keys to improvement WASHINGTON, June 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Among the ways to bring about improvement in the future of U.S. education, according to a forum at the National Press (read)

• Teaching as a Career Choice One of Many Ideas to Enhance U.S. Education

  Among the ways to bring about improvement in the future of U.S. education, according to a forum at the National Press Club Friday, are to position teaching as a prestigious career choice, continue to encourage innovation in the classroom, and to use (read)

• Teaching as a Career Choice One of Many Ideas to Enhance U.S. Education

  Among the ways to bring about improvement in the future of U.S. education, according to a forum at the National Press Club Friday, are to position teaching as a prestigious career choice, continue to encourage innovation in the classroom, and to use (read)

• Teaching as a Career Choice One of Many Ideas to Enhance U.S. Education

  Among the ways to bring about improvement in the future of U.S. education, according to a forum at the National Press Club Friday, are to position teaching as a prestigious career choice, continue to encourage innovation in the classroom, and to use (read)

• Teaching as a Career Choice One of Many Ideas to Enhance U.S. Education

  Among the ways to bring about improvement in the future of U.S. education, according to a forum at the National Press Club Friday, are to position teaching as a prestigious career choice, continue to encourage innovation in the classroom, and to use (read)

• US high school ends 'Beat the Jew' game (AAP)

  Seven seniors at a Southern California high school are facing disciplinary action for participating in a game called Beat the Jew, in which losers were subjected to 'incineration' or 'enslavement', a school administrator says.The game involved some (read)

• A Week in History: D-Day, Salem Witch Trials, and the Declaration of Indepe

  Allied forces storm the beaches of Normandy, France, during World War II and Robert Kennedy is buried. (read)

• Back to the Gulf: Obama Sees Progress on Oil Spill

  Obama says it's 'way too early to be optimistic' about BP's latest control effort. (read)

• Some Sarah Palin Endorsements Matter More Than Others

  In all but the rarest cases, endorsements don't swing elections. Their importance lies in what they tell us about the endorser, not about the endorsee. (read)

• Trail Mix: Today's College News

  Friday's college news roundup from around the world. (read)

• Zogby: North Korea, Oil Spill Make It a Bad Week for Obama

  Zogby on Week 72: This is the type of week a president could wake in a cold sweat and ask 'did I really want this job.' (read)

• Senators Await Clinton-Era Files on Kagan

  Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's paper trail is about to get a lot longer. (read)

• Annuity Buyers Seek Safety, Risk Guarantees

  Many complex product features require careful review to make the right decision. (read)

• Should Offshore Oil Drilling Be Expanded?

  After the BP oil spill, should new areas be opened to offshore energy exploration? (read)

• Walt Minnick on Familiar Ground in Re-Election Bid

  Minnick prepares for a heated battle over Idaho's nationally targeted 1st Congressional District seat. (read)

• America's Best High Schools: Highest African-American Enrollment

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• You Can't Borrow Your Way Through Retirement

  Here is why you should make retirement savings a priority. (read)

• Retirement Versus Financial Freedom

  Saving enough to decide when and how you want to work. (read)

• Jobs Are Number One Issue for Young Voters

  Rock the Vote's Heather Smith is optimistic about turnout in 2010. (read)

• Road Dog

  cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Getting some of the essentials ready for my upcoming road trip. If it’s June, it must mean I am not home. In fact, I am supposed to be in my car in a few minutes. This next leg is a car expedition, (read)

• Student Challenge Favorite | Life Online

  We've invited students to tell us weekly what interested them most in The Times and why. We'll choose a 'favorite' regularly, and this is our first. (read)

• Learning Online: Students ditch the books in favour of iPads

  By John Masanauskas, Herald Sun The launch of Apple’s new product on caused huge excitement with thousands of iPads bought over the weekend. But Melbourne’s Brighton Grammar has had one for two months as part of a research project on e-le (read)

• Teaching as a Career Choice One of Many Ideas to Enhance U.S. Education

  Among the ways to bring about improvement in the future of U.S. education, according to a forum at the National Press Club Friday, are to position teaching as a prestigious career choice, continue to encourage innovation in the classroom, and to use (read)

• Teaching as a Career Choice One of Many Ideas to Enhance U.S. Education

  D.C. education forum discusses teaching, innovation, technology as keys to improvement WASHINGTON, June 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Among the ways to bring about improvement in the future of U.S. education, according to a forum at the National Press (read)

• Teaching as a Career Choice One of Many Ideas to Enhance U.S. Education

  D.C. education forum discusses teaching, innovation, technology as keys to improvement WASHINGTON, June 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Among the ways to bring about improvement in the future of U.S. education, according to a forum at the National Press (read)

• Best High Schools: Asian-American Enrollment

  View more America's tables: Select a Table: Gold Medal List-Top 100 Top Charter Schools Top Magnet Schools Top Open Enrollment Schools Top Economically Disadvantaged Schools Gold and Silver Medal Schools by the Numbers Bronze Medal and Honorable Ment (read)

• Parents and pupils can take part in new Scottish Government education websi

  by Alison Rennie, Paisley Daily Express PUPILS, teachers and parents from across Renfrewshire are being given the chance to have their say on education. A new interactive website - Engage for Education - has been set up for teachers, young people, (read)

• 'I was shocked at how little drug education was involved'

  A look at what you've been talking about on Nursingtimes.net this week… On: Moving to an all graduate profession is a necessity 'This is about rank and status too. All other relevant professions in our field and beyond now have degrees. Why not (read)

• Gove's GTC chop splits education

  Registration body comes out fighting as Education Secretary damns it for giving 'teachers almost nothing' The education establishment was divided this week after Education Secretary Michael Gove announced he will abolish the General Teaching Council (read)

• High earners

  These inspectorate staff pull in £150k+, while just one civil servant from larger DfE earns as much Five ofsted officials are paid more than the Prime Minister, with £150,000-plus salaries, compared to just one civil servant in the Department for (read)

• Truancy fines are a clear message

  ON one hand, the number of parents fined because their children have played truant is alarming. In Bristol it works out to roughly one for every school day last year. And remember, these are not people being penalised for occasional absences. They ar (read)

• Private vs state schools in Birmingham

  Comments King Edward's School (0121 472 1672; kes.org.uk) What would Enoch Powell make of his alma mater, where 50 per cent of the pupils are now of Asian stock? 'He would have thoroughly approved,' insists the head, pointing out that the core values (read)

• Top 25 Librarian Blogs, Says Onlinedegrees.com

  Online Degree's top twenty-five here. By way of comparison, here's the LISNews list of Top 10 blogs. (read)

• It's Audiobook Month

  June is Audiobook Month, and to celebrate the Audio Publishers Association is bringing together more than 100 authors and narrators to discuss audiobooks during the month on Twitter, Facebook, blogs and at bookstores. Follow this link to a detailed (read)

• Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor returns to old Bronx elementary schoo

  U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor came home to the Bronx on Friday, visiting her old elementary school before heading to a commencement at the community college where her mother studied... (read)

• US court weighs school discipline for Web posts

  A U.S. appeals court heard arguments Thursday over whether school officials can discipline students for making lewd, harassing or juvenile Internet postings from off-campus computers. Two students from two different Pennsylvania school districts are (read)

• Prescription drugs abuse high among US high school students: Study

  WASHINGTON: One in five US high school students has abused prescription drugs, including powerful medications such as OxyContin and Percocet, a study published yesterday showed. White teens were the most likely to say they had abused prescription dru (read)

• 4-day school weeks gain popularity across US� 57 mins ago� -

  During the school year, Mondays in this rural Georgia community are for video games, trips to grandma's house and hanging out at the neighborhood community center. Don't bother showing up for school. The doors are locked and the lights are off. Peach (read)

• 4-day school weeks gain popularity across US� 36 mins ago� -

  During the school year, Mondays in this rural Georgia community are for video games, trips to grandma's house and hanging out at the neighborhood community center. Don't bother showing up for school. The doors are locked and the lights are off. Peach (read)

• 4-day school weeks gain popularity across US� 34 mins ago� -

  During the school year, Mondays in this rural Georgia community are for video games, trips to grandma's house and hanging out at the neighborhood community center. Don't bother showing up for school. The doors are locked and the lights are off. Peach (read)

• Education Jobs Bill Faces Tough Climb in Congress

  Extract not available. (read)

• Duncan: 'I Don't Have a Plan B' for Saving Teacher Jobs

  N.C.'s Perdue, Obama Official Push for School Funds U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan warned on Thursday that without federal funds, hundreds of thousands of teachers will be laid off in the coming weeks. Some 300,000 teacher jobs are at risk (read)

• Oil frenzy spills into Neb.; schools get the money

  Extract not available. (read)

• Legends of Horror, Discs 3 and 4

  Two discs only because the second consists entirely of flicks I’ve already reviewed (in the Alfred Hitchcock set). Disc 3 End of the World, 1977, color. John Hayes (dir.), Christopher Lee, Sue Lyon, Kirk Scott, Dean Jagger, Lew Ayres, Macdonald (read)

• Gove's Ofsted exemption risks shifting 'outstanding' schools into reverse g

  So 'outstanding' schools will not have to face inspection again, unless, of course, there are certain alarming indicators or if parents complain. Who will pick up on these indicators if Michael Gove is to free schools from the yoke of local education (read)

• Bexhill High head: 'I took my eye off the ball' There has been angry reacti

  There has been angry reaction from parents to the Ofsted monitoring of Bexhill High School. Inspectors reported 'urgent action' must be taken before the opening of the new 37 million premises in October and said children had not achieved as much as t (read)

• 4-day school weeks gain popularity across US

  FORT VALLEY, Ga. -- During the school year, Mondays in this rural Georgia community are for video games, trips to grandma's house and hanging out at the neighborhood community center.Don't bother showing up for school. The doors are locked and the li (read)

• 4-day school weeks gain popularity across US

  FORT VALLEY, Ga. During the school year, Mondays in this rural Georgia community are for video games, trips to grandma's house and hanging out at the neighborhood community center. Don't bother showing up for school. The doors are locked and the lig (read)

• Learn more about the US university system and application process

  My friends and I are running a series of workshops in several cities from this month through August on the US university system and its application process. There'll be one-day sessions in Kota Kinabalu, Kuching, Penang and the Klang Valley, and a lo (read)

• A Fly on the Wall

  Hey Mike. How's by you, Mike? Sorry I had ta say all that stuff about the teachers.  I know you probably didn't wanna hear it. That's OK.  Don't worry about it.  It's a long ride to Albany and I don't wanna argue. So, our deal is (read)

• Kitchen couture and a full-length string vest from London College of Fashio

  The outlandish reputation of undergraduate fashion is alive and well in London thanks to students from Asia. Latticed knitwear and plastic colander headgear caused a sensation at the show, created by Kai Yeung, one of 24 BA Fashion students whose wo (read)

• Ministers confirm areas of responsibilities

  The Department for Education has confirmed what areas of responsibilities each of its ministers is to have in the new Government. New children's minister Sarah Teather will have responsibility for childcare, the EYFS, families, special educational (read)

• Pupils use World Cup to promote recycling

  PUPILS from a Calderdale School are among those taking part in a 'recycled World Cup' event next week. Backed by the Park Lane Learning Trust, 24 year eight and nine students at Park Lane High, Halifax, will be participating in the events next Tuesda (read)

• Bafta bid by students

  TWO teams of students from Sheffield Hallam University are in with a chance of winning a BAFTA after reaching the final round of a prestigious international games design competition.The annual Dare to be Digital competition, organised by The Universi (read)

• Pardo & Patterson on Neuroscience & Law

  Michael S. Pardo and Dennis Patterson (University of Alabama School of Law and European University Institute) have posted More on the Conceptual and the Empirical: Misunderstandings, Clarifications, and Replies (Neuroethics, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Her (read)

• 7 Money Mistakes We Make Every Day

  You might be over-paying on your mortgage or buying expensive mutual funds. (read)

• Diversity Yields Benefit for Salmon Stocks

  Local diversity helps keep sockeye from going bust every few years. (read)

• Who will feed our appetite for change?

  News The KPMG report (page 1) reveals further education as a real mixed bag of ingredients. We have a crop of generally high-quality providers - all locally sourced, naturally - alongside a distinctly sour funding situation and a bunch of colleges t (read)

• Another view - Minister, join us for a pow-wow around the lecturers' campfi

  News May 2010 - John Hayes appointed as minister of state for further education, skills and lifelong learning. Dear John, You have been in post for three weeks now, So, as the pictures in the office have been changed and a cheaper brand of coffee (read)

• Skills leap too far

  News John Linfoot is misled by the necessarily short letter from me to which he responds ('Tests must get real', Letters, May 7). I was not defending specific literacy and numeracy tests: I was pointing out that the jump from Skills for Life to (read)

• Morley and Outwood MP: Ed Balls interview

  Leeds MP Ed Balls is battling it out for the top job of Labour leader. Political editor Mark Hookham talks to him. Spending a rain-lashed evening holed up in your mother-in-law's caravan in the Lake District watching the Eurovision contest might not (read)

• Thumbs up for county children's services

  The inspection sampled the quality and effectiveness of contact, referral and assessment arrangements and their impact on minimising any child abuse and neglect. Moira Swann, corporate director for Children's Services, said: 'We are particularly (read)

• We all need optimism of Cardiff cabbie

  I was at a seminar on school self-evaluation in Cardiff. Inevitably, school evaluation is overwhelmingly based on statistics: test scores, examination attainment, numbers entering higher education - all valid measures of school success. It was useful (read)

• Elitist proposals restrict path to fairness

  I am deeply concerned about the proposals put forward by the Scottish Qualifications Authority group reviewing the development of new Curriculum for Excellence courses. These relate to classical studies and Latin. An internal review group at the SQA (read)

• KGS pupils put The Boyfriend on stage

  PUPILS from KGS are putting on a show of comic musical The Boyfriend this weekend at the Orkney Arts Theatre. The show has been organised by the drama and music department at the school, with a cast and crew mainly made up of S2 and S3 pupils. They h (read)

• VIDEO & VOTE: Fun-loving pupils aim to raise a smile by picking their favou

  Pupils from Edward Heneage primary school, Grimsby, tell jokes as part of the Grimsby Telegraph literacy campaign (from left) Chloe Handley, eleven, Bethan Wheatley, eleven, Louis Carr-Harris, eleven (back), Harvey Wharton, ten (front), Jayne Emery, (read)

• Spotlight on Flagler College

  Flagler - Ponce de Leon Hall Photo by Allen Grove In May I visited over a dozen colleges in Florida, and Flagler College truly stands out from them all. Be sure to explore the campus in this Flagler College photo tour I put together. The college's (read)

• Daily Spotlight on Education 06/04/2010

  Brewer pupils finish 50-state 'tour' - Bangor Daily NewsMy new friend Cheryl MacInnes has now 'finished' a 50 state tour within the past four months with her third graders in Maine! She also founded class chats in the process! This is how it happens. (read)

• 13-Year-Old Fights to Go to Community College

  The parents of Anastasia Megan, 13, have filed a complaint with the U.S. Education Department charging that Lake-Sumter Community College, in Florida, is engaged in illegal age discrimination by denying Megan admission, The Orlando Sentinel reported. (read)

• Imbalance in British Study Abroad

  Cultural group, citing heavy flow of students into British universities, calls for international education to be made more attractive to British students. (read)

• Where the Streets are Paved with Crushed Candy

  Oronte (read)

• Harvard Business Review offers online learning continuing education

  by Harvard Business Review Developed by Harvard Business School faculty for use in MBA and executive education courses at HBS and other leading business schools, as well as Fortune 2,000 companies, our online courses offer comprehensive introductions (read)

• Online Learning: Classrooms going virtual

  By JEFF SCHMUCKER, Hernando Today More students are going online for their middle and high school education, resulting in Hernando County jumping in to provide its own virtual school and expecting to recoup more than $100,000 next school year. Marcia (read)

• Methuen mom stops runaway school bus

  When a mother from Methuen saw an empty bus rolling near a school, she reacted quickly. ?I didn?t think twice,?? said Lorie Aliano yesterday, a mother of two. ?I just ran onto the bus.?? After jumping into the vehicle, Aliano slammed on the brakes be (read)

• US Department of Education Financial Aid Approval

  Extract not available. (read)

• Pupils help put young African through school

  Pager1.imageUrls[0]= 'http://i.thisis.co.uk/275560/article/images/2266614/1607688.jpg'; Pager1.imageCaptions[0]= 'BANGING THE DRUM: Middle, from left, Julie Scotting (head of Austen Scho (read)

• stumps

  photo by Brian Yap - found via Trove. The time has come, a fact's a fact. Though Peter Kenneally has gently accused me of being all Farnsey about it*, I am  pulling up stumps here, and decamping quietly to my internet scrapbook at Mulberry Road. (read)

• Case studies of two teachers: The knowledge teachers draw upon to adap

  by Davis, Stephanie Grayson, Ph.D., The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2009, 137 pages; AAT 3355946Available Formats: [/images/common/ab.gif], Preview, Full Text - PDF, Order a copy (read)

• Comprehensive school reform from the perspective of fourth-grade educa

  by Ford, Jody L., Ed.D., University of Phoenix, 2009, 146 pages; AAT 3353749Available Formats: [/images/common/ab.gif], Preview, Full Text - PDF, Order a copy (read)

• Examining three types of correctional feedback about errors in mechani

  by Du, Xiaoqing, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2009, 106 pages; AAT 3358611Available Formats: [/images/common/ab.gif], Preview, Full Text - PDF, Order a copy (read)

• Wal-Mart to Offer Workers College Degree Program

  The retailer is joining with a Web-based university to give employees tuition reductions and credits from work. (read)

• Teaching Work Values to Children of Wealth

  No can expect those young adults to have a graceful trajectory; they'll smack the pavement a few times before they figure out the mechanisms of reality. (read)

• My links for today 06/04/2010

  Handheld Learning - Game Changer: Is it iPad?tags: learning, handheld, education, iPad, gameAugmented Reality | TeacherTechnologies.comtags: no_tagPosted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. (read)

• Bexhill High head: 'I took my eye off the ball'

  There has been angry reaction from parents to the Ofsted monitoring of Bexhill High School.Inspectors reported 'urgent action' must be taken before the opening of the new £37 million premises in October and said children had not achieved as much a (read)

• On your bikes, students told

  Teenage pupils could be given grants for bicycles to help Northamptonshire County Council reduce the amount it spends on transport. The county council has announced a change in its funding for transport schemes aimed at college and sixth form student (read)

• Welsh universities may have to share resources in financial squeeze

  UNIVERSITIES in Wales may be forced to share services and resources under plans drawn up by the body which funds them. Under the proposals, the institutions would have to reduce ?unnecessary duplication? because of the squeeze on finances. The fundin (read)

• 3 Good Ofsted report for Camelford Little Acorns Nursery

  LITTLE Acorns Nursery at Camelford have received a good Ofsted report, with inspectors stating that children are happy and well supported by staff. 'What a fantastic achievement by both staff and committee, a real team effort,' said Rebecca Coleman, (read)

• From THE BOOK: The Grouch Who Invented School Vouchers is Back! And He Want

  Extract not available. (read)

• D.C. teachers' contract has a familiar ring to it

  The language in the contract between the District and the Washington Teachers' Union soars with promises of a new day. There will be collaboration, school turnaround efforts, pay-for-performance and serious mentoring for novice instructors. It vows (read)

• Blogging fear: Jobs catches it

  Steve Jobs, according to accounts: 'I don't want to see us descend into a nation of bloggers.' Also: 'descending into a nation of bloggers'. A few thoughts: Seeing bloggers as bad and/or dangerous is a decade-old meme. Does Apple have... (read)

• So sad

  There was a young woman--a very sweet and bouncy girl--I worked with for a few weeks who is now six months pregnant. I found out today that her baby apparently has no nerves. The doctor is recommending she either abort the foetus now or deliver it s (read)

• Panic at the podium

  A few of us started bandying about some public speaking highs and lows and thought we’d share them. If there’s a lesson to be learned I think it’s something about a back-up plan! I was in the middle of a meticulously scripted r (read)

• American College of Education Partners With the Department of Veterans Affa

  Veterans who have chosen to serve this country again in America's classrooms are now assured access to online accredited affordable master's degrees in education and online programs that can be fully reimbursed by the Post 9-11 GI Bill. American Coll (read)

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