26 Sep, 2011
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COLUMBIA – Rain Friday forced the groundbreaking for the new Darla Moore School of Business indoors. The site of the future school is at Assembly and Greene Streets next to the Carolina Coliseum.
USC President Harris Pastides said, “We intend for this to a community building.”
The $106 million building will be more than classrooms. The building will include a lecture hall designed so the nearby School of Music can use it for performances. It will also include research labs and will have the flexibility to allow almost all classrooms to become distance learning centers. Its
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21 Sep, 2011
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Teachers From California and Nevada Take Part in Microgravity Experience 30,000 Feet Above the Pacific to Bring Message Back to Students That Science is Cool
The Northrop Grumman Foundation launched 30 math and science teachers from California and Nevada into weightlessness yesterday as part of the Weightless Flights of Discovery teacher development program. The program, which is in its sixth and final year, provides educators with a unique opportunity to participate in microgravity flights and conduct real-life science experiments that test Newton’s Laws of Motion. Read full post…
25 Aug, 2011
New York York
The big news out of Gotham this week (Times, Daily News) is the “sharp rise in accusations of cheating by educators” (NYT), with the assumed follow-up question: Is New York the next Atlanta? (Michelle Rhee is off the hook, for the time being.)
If the response to that news by the city’s new chancellor, Dennis Walcott, is any indication of the city’s attitude about cheating, we should be worried. As Walcott told Sharon Otterman of the Times,
People are reporting things, that’s fine; we want people to report things…. [P]eople could be reporting for real and necessarily real reasons.
Uh? That means, I
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28 Jul, 2011
Open Open Education
Remember the Open Courseware Consortium folks? They’re awesome in their wielding of powers for good. They make online courseware available to educators and students everywhere. The newest project is partnering with community colleges.
Press release:
OCW CONSORTIUM PARTNERS WITH LEADING COMMUNITY COLLEGE CONSORTIUM, CCCOER, TO EXPAND ACCESS TO OPEN EDUCATION
Merger Will Bring Greater Attention to Benefits of OpenCourseWare Movement
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., – The OpenCourseWare Consortium has partnered with the to maximize and expand the impact of opencourseware to community college students, faculty and learners worldwide. CCC
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27 Jul, 2011
Policies
DENVER — Legislators are analyzing how Colorado schools punish students in order to determine whether changes are needed to policies they say lead to thousands of youth being unnecessarily sent to law enforcement each year.
A panel created by the Legislature this year will begin meeting Monday to look at schools’ zero-tolerance policies, some of which were created after the Columbine High School shootings and gang violence in 1993, during the so-called “Summer of Violence.”
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26 Jul, 2011
Athletes Student Athletes
KINGSFORD — Several of Kingsford’s student athletes suffered concussions last year. But trainers used science to evaluate head injuries in a new way.
All student athletes are required to take a baseline test before the season. If they suffer another concussion, they must pass the test and be cleared by a physician before returning to action.
“We can see their marked improvement,” said Kingsford Athletic Trainer Lane Linedman. ”It gives us a number and a standard to go off of as opposed to kind of treating these kids with a blanket approach. It gives us a more specific angle to come at.”
While the benefits can been seen on the field, Lindeman said they are being seen in other places as well.
“It makes a big difference clinically, but even moreso what we’ve seen in the first year is the fact that we’re bringing this many kids in, and it really has helped to raise awareness,” he said. “The education aspect is the most important thing.”
Testing also takes the pressure off the coaches from trying to diagnose a concussion on the fly.
Kingsford was one of the first schools in the U.P. to i
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