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Monthly Archives: February 2007
Math Teacher Receives Carnegie Learning’s Winter 2007 Award
Alessandro Montanari, a ninth grade math teacher at Miami Springs Senior High School in Miami-Dade County Florida, is the recipient of Carnegie Learning’s Winter 2007 Distinguished Educator Award. Congratulations to you and your students, Teacher. Keep up the good work.
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Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Method
New teacher Erin Gruwell stumbled into responding to her students’ lack of information by referring to Nazi depictions of German Jews in the 1930s and 1940s. The stumble came about because she tried to follow the conventional rules of classroom … Continue reading
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America’s Digital Schools 2006 – Mobilizing the Curriculum
America’s Digital Schools: A Five Year Forecast – Mobilizing the Curriculum (ADS 2006) shows that student appliances, Tablet PCs, Ultra-Mobile PCs (UMPCs), and interactive whiteboards will be some of the fastest-growing product categories among mainstream education products over the next … Continue reading
Reforming High Schools: The Role for Career Academies
The paper Reforming High Schools: The Role for Career Academies explores how career academies can be used as a strategy for transforming the traditional, comprehensive high school in ways that support all students’ learning to high standards. Students in schools … Continue reading
Call for Nominations: Presidential Awards for Teaching Math and Science
The Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) calls for nominations for outstanding teaching. Applicants must have at least 5 years of mathematics or science teaching experience prior to application and must teach mathematics or science at … Continue reading
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Quote: What You Know is Your Only Source of Power
In Washington, power is everything – not love, not money – but power. But unless you’re elected or appointed to some office, your only source of power will be what you know. And so it’s thought to be unwise to … Continue reading
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Factoid: Carnegie Learning, Inc., Expanding into Post-Secondary Schools
Carnegie Learning, Inc., a publisher of research-based math curricula for middle school and high school students, announced that the company will expand its award-winning math curricula to serve students in community, junior, and four-year colleges nationwide. Carnegie Learning’s programs … … Continue reading
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Dell Says Three Ways to Improve Technology in Education
Michael Dell identified three points to improve technology in education in his remarks before the Texas Statewide Education Summit, February, 16, 2007. The first is to develop technology as a SKILL. To help young people succeed in today’s global economy, … Continue reading
Dirty Offices, Sick People
Microbiologist Charles Gerba reports that in most work environments, offices and cubicles have higher bacteria levels than surfaces in common areas. East Coast offices win the germiest title. “The dirtiest offices are on the East Coast since people are in … Continue reading
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RFP: Teaching Material Science and Material Scientists
James W. Watson, Chairman, Teacher/Student Outreach Subcommittee of the ASM International Foundation is sponsoring 10 grants each year for K12 teachers. The purpose of these grants is to enhance awareness of materials science and the role of materials scientists in … Continue reading