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U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and international leaders are set to convene for the International Summit on the Teaching Profession in New York City, March 16-17, 2011. The gathering aims to identify best practices worldwide in strengthening the teaching profession, focusing on effective recruitment, training, retention, and support for
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Third-level students will take the brunt of swingeing price hikes across the education sector, with the cost of going to college increasing by a third from €1,500 to €2,000 from next year. The increase in fees would condemn thousands of young people to unemployment and emigration, warned student
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The U.S. Department of Education, the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), and Education International will convene an International Summit on the Teaching Profession in New York City, marking the first-time international education community has been invited to the U.S. The Summit will take place on March
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As part of an ethnographic study examining the experiences of students in an ethnic literature course, researchers J.J. Kaufmann and colleagues from Georgia State University revisited their 1996 data to gain further insight into dialogue as a cultural practice in higher education classrooms. Their research, published in Adult Education
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The British government has announced plans for education reform, which aims to make the country's school system "world class" by introducing elements from high-performing foreign countries. Education Secretary Michael Gove unveiled the White Paper, "The Importance of Teaching," which proposes giving teachers more powers
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The revival of the Lakota language marks a significant milestone in 2011, as two institutions of higher learning in the Great Plains initiate undergraduate degree majors for teachers of Lakota as a second language, making Lakota the first Native American language to achieve professional recognition. The University of South Dakota
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Fears have been expressed by Britain's top arts educators that proposed government funding cuts could threaten the country's creative industries by driving talented artists, designers, and musicians overseas. The Royal College of Art, the London Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and Goldsmiths University have raised
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California's State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell and the State Board of Education have launched a new online resource to provide information and support for teacher and principal performance evaluation practices. The new "Teacher and Principal Evaluation Systems" Web page is designed to
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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Grammy Award-winning artist John Legend visited Howard University in Washington, D.C. to promote the TEACH campaign, a national teacher recruitment initiative. The duo hosted a TEACH town hall meeting with students and educators to encourage more diverse, high-quality teachers to join
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A $749,853 grant from the U.S. Department of Education has selected the Indiana University School of Education to create a unique teacher education curriculum supporting problem-based learning (PBL). The program, called "PBL-TECH: Using Web 2.0 Tools and Resources to Support Problem-Based Curricular Innovations in Pre-Service Teacher
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The College Board's Forum 2010 is a three-day conference that brings together educators from all over the country to discuss the most pressing education issues of today. The event, held at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C., will feature over 110 sessions and workshops, as well as
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US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and labor union leaders are set to convene a national education reform conference to highlight successful collective bargaining agreements across the country. The event aims to promote labor-management collaboration and reform at the state and district levels. This initiative comes as districts and unions
