You are hereFeed aggregator / Sources / NPR - Education
NPR - Education
Op-Ed: DEA Call For Ebonics Experts Smart Move
Mon, 09/06/2010 - 17:00The Drug Enforcement Administration is seeking Ebonics translators to interpret wire-tapped conversations. Critics fear the move by a federal agency could set a precedent. But linguist John McWhorter argues that, while any conversation about Ebonics is charged, the DEA is on the right track.
» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Categories: Teaching and Learning
Students Quiz Education Sec. Arne Duncan
Thu, 09/02/2010 - 17:00Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has spent much of the back-to-school season talking with teachers and parents. His department recently oversaw the awarding of more than $4 billion to public schools in select states. While he's addressed countless teachers in recent weeks, now, he tackles students' questions.
» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Categories: Teaching and Learning
Women's Salaries Back On Top For Younger Set
Wed, 09/01/2010 - 19:55Unmarried women between the ages of 22 and 30 are making 8 percent more than men in the same demographic, according to a new analysis of government data by a private research firm. It's partly because more women are college educated. But overall, women still make less than men.
» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Categories: Teaching and Learning
BYU Going Independent In Football
Tue, 08/31/2010 - 23:49BYU says it is leaving the Mountain West Conference and will go independent in football while joining the West Coast Conference in all other sports in the 2011-2012 school year.
» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Categories: Teaching and Learning
'L.A. Times' Database Angers Teachers, Union
Mon, 08/30/2010 - 21:31The Los Angeles Times has published a controversial database giving ratings for individual teachers in the huge L.A. Unified School District. Teachers and their union are outraged, and claim the ratings are a false measure of classroom performance.
» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Categories: Teaching and Learning
Parents Push For Diversity In New Orleans' Schools
Mon, 08/30/2010 - 19:45In the city's public schools, test scores are climbing, charter schools are opening all the time, and facilities are being upgraded. But the population of the schools is overwhelmingly African-American. The head of one charter school network says it takes a long time to break old patterns.
» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Categories: Teaching and Learning
One School District's Use Of Value-Added Analysis
Mon, 08/30/2010 - 19:00NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Donald Martin, superintendent of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School District in North Carolina, which has been using value-added analysis in evaluating its teachers for the past three years. Martin says the method is only one part of teacher evaluations, and that data collected is for internal use only.
» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Categories: Teaching and Learning
Teacher Performance Data Stirs Evaluation Debate
Mon, 08/30/2010 - 17:00Everyone agrees teacher performance is crucial to student achievement, but there is no consensus on how best to evaluate educators. The Los Angeles Times has fanned the heated debate by publishing the names of 6,000 L.A. teachers, along with data showing their students' test performance.
» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Categories: Teaching and Learning
University Attendance Scanners Make Some Uneasy
Mon, 08/30/2010 - 04:01Northern Arizona University has installed electronic devices that record student attendance in an effort to boost freshmen grades and lift lagging graduation rates. But some students say the monitoring makes them feel less independent.
» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Categories: Teaching and Learning
'L.A. Times' Teacher Ratings Database Stirs Debate
Fri, 08/27/2010 - 04:00The Los Angeles Times has promised to release the names of elementary teachers in Los Angeles, along with data showing how much their students improved on standardized tests. Reporters say the intent is to help parents measure teacher effectiveness, but the database has sparked a national debate on how to evaluate teachers.
» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Categories: Teaching and Learning
How To Make College-Bound Students Financial Pros
Thu, 08/26/2010 - 08:29New college students will have to master tough personal finance lessons early. Fahiya Rashid, a student at the University of California, Irvine, says her dad warned her of the problems he had. Rashid says her dad had more than a dozen credit cards and took out students loans. She says he's still paying the money back.
» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Categories: Teaching and Learning
Saving For College: How Much Is Enough?
Wed, 08/25/2010 - 19:34Parents should save between 3 and 9 percent of their income, starting the day the child is born.
» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Categories: Teaching and Learning
Colo. Among States That Fell Short In Race To The Top
Wed, 08/25/2010 - 19:00Nine states and Washington, D.C., were awarded $3.4 billion in education grant money on Tuesday. The federal education grant competition called Race to the Top asked states to come up with the most compelling plans for education reform. But what about the losing states -- especially the ones that made big changes? NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Barbara O'Brien, lieutenant governor of Colorado.
» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Categories: Teaching and Learning
New Website Lets Students Bet On Grades
Wed, 08/25/2010 - 17:00Many parents pay their kids for bringing home 'A's. The web startup Ultrinsic.com will let college students wager cash on their ability to meet -- or exceed -- a certain grade. Ultrinsic's co-founder, Jeremy Gelbart, says the venture will motivate students, while critics fear it could encourage online gambling.
» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Categories: Teaching and Learning
Poll: Obama's Education Approval Ratings Drop
Wed, 08/25/2010 - 06:22A new Gallup Poll has found fewer Americans approve of the job President Obama is doing in support of public education, but they continue to have a highly favorable opinion of their local schools.
» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Categories: Teaching and Learning
Typical College Student No Longer So Typical
Tue, 08/24/2010 - 17:00College classrooms were once filled primarily by eager students straight out of high school. But the vast majority of today's college students work, have a family, are enrolled only part time, or a combination of all three. This new breed of college student is reshaping the face of higher education in America.
» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Categories: Teaching and Learning
D.C., 9 States Win 'Race To The Top' Education Grants
Tue, 08/24/2010 - 16:02Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island and Washington, D.C., will get money to reform schools in the second round of the $4.35 billion program. The aim of the historic program is to reward ambitious changes to improve schools and close the achievement gap.
» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Categories: Teaching and Learning
To Start A Spinoff Biz, Look To Utah
Tue, 08/24/2010 - 04:00When it comes to creating new start-ups from academic research, only MIT compares to the University of Utah -- despite the fact that MIT's research budget is five times larger. Now officials from colleges around the country are flocking to Salt Lake City to learn the school's secret.
» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Categories: Teaching and Learning
Kids Face Differing Realities In New Orleans Schools
Tue, 08/24/2010 - 04:00For many children of New Orleans, their world was turned upside down five years ago when Katrina swept through the city. Since their return, one misfit became a star, while another teen struggles to get the attention he needs. Meanwhile, the school system continues undergoing major changes.
» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Categories: Teaching and Learning
In Lawsuit, Students Claim College Deceived Them
Sat, 08/21/2010 - 04:01A for-profit college is facing a lawsuit filed on behalf of students who say the school ripped them off. It's the latest in a series of hits the for-profit higher education industry has taken recently.
» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Categories: Teaching and Learning
