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Sunday, November 28, 2010

Education News: November 28, 2010

November 25 | The "Teaching Boys" issue of this e-journal explores the reasons that boys underachieve compared to girls and the strategiess that teachers are using to teach boys effectively -- ASCD Express

November 23 | The CEO of ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) lists the top eight ways that education is benefitting from technology | Mashable

November 22 | Districts nationwide continue the trend of adopting systems of merit pay for teachers, awarding teachers more money if they can demonstrate that their teaching has caused students to learn -- Hechinger Report

November 22 | Sec'y of Education Duncan answers questions about what must be done--and what is being done--to improve public education in the United States -- Wall Street Journal

November 22 | The creator of the World Wide Web itself decries the growth of Facebook and other social networking sites that wall off their users' data from other users of the Web, citing this as a threat to the open standards and neutrality that have made the Web a valuable public resource -- Scientific American

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