Private Education Center

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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There are plenty of articles about education floating in cyberspace. It’s the stuff of afternoon talk shows and challenging documentaries. Everyone is chattering about what is wrong – budgets, classroom sizes, teacher education – and the message of why can be lost. Why does education need to change? What kind of challenges are children facing today that are unique to their generation?

The following video is an animated talk by Sir Ken Robinson. He argues that the current system is out of date. The brainchild of the Enlightenment Era and funded by the Industrial Age, the education model views the world as full of academics and non-academics.

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If you are wondering why education never came up during last night’s GOP debate in New Hampshire, you aren’t the only one.

So was Jay Carney, President Obama’s press secretary. Although Obama didn’t watch the debate, Carney said he watched replays. He told reporters today:

“I was struck by the fact that over the course of two hours, the phrase ‘middle class’ and the word ‘education’ did not pass anyone’s lips that I heard, which was striking to me because the middle class is obviously, to our mind, the primary focus of everything that we do in terms of the economic policies we pursue and the concerns we have.

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The dependents of veterans and active-duty military members will have one less challenge when it comes to pursuing a higher education: They won’t have to worry about funding.

Colorado State University at Fort Collins announced Monday that it is offering full awards — including tuition, fees and stipends for housing and books — to U.S. military veterans or their children beginning this fall as part of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Yellow Ribbon GI Education Enhancement Program.

“Our community, state and nation owe all those who have served in the military a great deal of gratitude and appreciation. We at CSU are pleased to be able to offer these brave men and women, and their families, this opportunity to earn a degree at one of the nation’s top public research universities,” CSU President Tony Frank said in a news release. “We are commi

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I have this idea that all homeschoolers are inherently rebellious. We rebel against the common system. We rebel against the traditional education. We rebel against state institutions which seek to indoctrinate our children. We take comfort in days filled with exploration as a means of education. We can assess without a test or grading system. We feel textbooks and plans are guidelines and suggestions. Does this describe you? Maybe not. It most certainly describes me while at the same time I am an advocate for any choice a parent makes on their child’s education. I do not believe all parents should homeschool. I do believe that education is a plate best served messy and by the child. Yet, I believe the cook should be the mom who guides, directs and schedules the day to include a sense of world schooling.

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President Obama kicked off what the White House is calling “education month” today at Miami Central Senior High School, a persistently low-performing school that received a School Improvement Grant from the feds.

He used a 30-minute speech to talk about the same old things we’ve been hearing from him for awhile now—the importance of school turnarounds, the success of Race to the Top, and the need to not cut federal spending in education.

But more important than his speech might be who he came with: ex-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a Republican and education uber-advocate, who sat on stage during the speech alongside EdSec Arne Duncan. O

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