23 Jan, 2012
Guest post by Jackie Zubrzycki
Depending on whether you’re using the Julian or Gregorian calendar, John Hancock either was or was not born today, National Handwriting Day. In either case, his authoritative signature’s legacy lives on in debates about handwriting and cursive in schools. Should schools spend precious instructional time teaching handwriting? Should students learn cursive at all, or is it an outdated skill—and here’s the Hancock link—how will they sign their names if they don’t know cursive?
I wrote an article about the conversation about the role of handwriting in school, prompted by a summit on handwriting that’s happening right now at the Newseum here in Washington. The
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18 Jan, 2012
Indigenous Indigenous Education
EPLT is proud to announce a unique new graduate program in Indigenous Knowledge and Indigenous Pedagogies, being offered on campus here at UBC. This program is hosted by the Language & Literacy Education department as well as the office of Indigenous Education here in the Faculty of Education and is offered in partnership with the Vancouver School Board.
This M.Ed. will focus on school and classroom processes and practices that support Aboriginal learners using educational frameworks, theory and approaches that focus on Indigenous knowledge. The program is designed to help educators build their knowledge and understanding of indigenous worldviews and education.
While the program is hosted by the LLED department, instruction will involve other departments in the Faculty as well, giving students a wide variety of viewpoints and learning communities to communicate with.
Dr. J
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2 Jan, 2012
Close Opportunities Set
Don’t miss out on these great opportunities set to close soon. To check them out, simply go to www.zagtrax.net, search with ID# and you are set to go! Good luck and happy hunting Zags….
17 Dec, 2011
George Mason Mason
A new leader for George Mason University was announced early Thursday morning, following President Alan Merten’s announcement in March that he planned to retire at the end of this school year.
Angel Cabrera, 44, is currently the president of Thunderbird School of Global Management in Arizona. He’ll take the reins in Fairfax this summer, becoming the sixth president in GMU’s 39-year history.
Merten had been president since 1996, overseeing an enrollment increase from 24,000 to more than 33,000, and watching the admissions rate drop from 75 percent to 50 percent in that time.
Cabrera, a native of Spain, was a professor and dean at IE Business School in Madrid from 1998 to 2004, when he joined Thunderbird.
He earned doctorate and master’s degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology, attending as a Fullbright Scholar.
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6 Dec, 2011
Exams Exit Exams High School Test School Test
Fewer students are being required to pass exit exams to graduate from high school, but high school testing is increasing because more states are requiring college- and career-readiness tests, according to a study released today.
Those are a couple of the key takeaways from a study released by the Center on Education Policy. It is the 10th in a series of annual reports that examine trends in high school testing. Its findings are echoed in states’ applications for waivers from the No Child Left Behind Act, as well.
My colleague Caralee Adams gives us the lowdown on the CEP study in her blog, College Bound. Among the findings: In 2010-11, 25 states—down from 28 the previous year—require students to pass a comprehensive exam or end-of-course tests to earn a diploma.
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19 Nov, 2011
Education Museum Education
EPLT is proud to announce a unique new graduate program being offered on campus here at UBC, and is offered by the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy.
The Master of Museum Education focuses on teaching and learning outside of the classroom, bringing together museum educators, community educators, and teachers.
From the program web site:
This program will provide the necessary skills and knowledge for careers as educators in informal settings such as museums, locally and globally, and to support classroom-based teachers in expanding their use of the community as a learning site.
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