To assist states and school districts as they undertake the critical task of developing and launching next-generation educator effectiveness systems, Pearson unveiled a new guide, "Evaluating Teachers and Principals: Developing Fair, Valid, and Reliable Systems."
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3/19/2012
3/19/2012
PLATO Learning announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Archipelago Learning, an award-winning software-as-a-service provider of supplemental education products.
3/18/2012
It's been a confusing few months for Calif. families with children who are turning 5 in November -- kids who, until this year, would have been eligible to start kindergarten.
3/18/2012
Rialto (Calif.) Unified School District has responded to a request seeking the number of complaints of teacher misconduct, becoming the second of 19 school districts to provide such a list for a special project by the Daily Bulletin, The Sun and the Redlands Daily Facts.
3/18/2012
The N.C. Pre-K program has become the focus of a statewide debate over early education, but it represents only a portion of state taxpayer-funded pre-kindergarten classes.
3/18/2012
The Cupcake Wars came to Public School 295 in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, in October.
The Parent-Teacher Association’s decision to raise the price of a cupcake at its monthly bake sale — to $1, from 50 cents — was supposed to be a simple way to raise extra money in the face of city budget cuts.
3/18/2012
Among the nation’s young people, those in the South suffer the worst rates of sexually transmitted infections such as HIV, according to a new study that finds little resistance among parents in the region for age-appropriate sex education in schools.
3/18/2012
The Common Core will replace Ohio's state standards adopted in 2002. Prior to then, local districts developed their own curriculum standards.
3/18/2012
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar — author, ambassador and former Los Angeles Laker superstar — joined Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn Sunday in working to score points with Chicago high school students on the importance of learning math and science and preparing for careers outside of sports and entertainment, such as in engineering and technology.
3/18/2012
Missouri legislators entered the session with aspirations for major education reform, but a lack of consensus on some of the thornier proposals has imperiled the prospects of any schools overhaul getting approved this year.
3/18/2012
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act may be winding down, but there's another economic stimulus taking place in and around San Mateo (Calif.), where two school districts are spending hundreds of millions of dollars overhauling their facilities.
3/16/2012
In addition to complete registration opportunities, Follett recently announced it will make available single-day passes for its annual conference March 21-23 in Schaumburg, Ill.
3/16/2012
Extron Electronics is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the SME 100, a live H.264 encoder for streaming audio, video, and computer-video signals.
3/16/2012
Turnitin has launched a free webcast series to help educators teach students the importance of authentic writing and advance their writing skills.
3/16/2012
Sixth graders at Langston Chapel Middle School in Ga. who used the Fast ForWord family of educational software products achieved substantial gains in reading and language arts on the Northwest Evaluation Association’s Measures of Academic Progress, according to an independent study.
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