Date: Wed, 20. October 2010 00:37:10

The U.S. Department of Education kicked-off its National Education Summit yesterday with a call to action to raise awareness about the education disparity within the Hispanic community.

Date: Fri, 2. September 2011 05:26:42

Research professor of education at NYU and former assistant secretary of education weighs in on K-12 education.

Date: Fri, 11. November 2011 02:23:04

ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | In last night's Republican debate, several of the candidates reiterated their resolve to get rid of the Department of Education if elected. If you listened to most of the current Republican candidates, you might come away with the idea that the vast majority of the United States wants an end to public education. According to Republicans, education is better served up by the private sector, with each family receiving vouchers that they can use to "choose" their own type of education.

Date: Mon, 15. March 2010 11:41:39

AP - President Barack Obama's proposal to overhaul education standards championed by his predecessor aims to broaden the focus beyond math and reading to a well-rounded education, Education Secretary Arne Duncan says.

Date: Fri, 1. August 2008 04:20:00

USATODAY.com - By vastly exceeding her authority as Secretary of Education, and then accusing colleges of complacency while concealing information in the bargain, Margaret Spellings and her Commission on the Future of Higher Education created a straw man, ignoring both the transparency and the accountability built into higher education.

Date: Thu, 14. February 2008 19:25:39

BNN/Education is a news aggregator with a number of useful and  appealing features. Take a look. ____JH _______ Here's what the editor of BNN, Dave Mastio, says about the new launch: "BlogNetNews.com has just launched BNN/Education , a single site to track what's going on in the Education blogosphere. The site's core is links to the latest posts from the best Education  blogs, targeted Education blog search and a handy headline service Education bloggers can use to promote each others' latest posts (found under 'services' in the left rail).You'll also find links to the news stories Education bloggers have linked most in the last 24 hours, where the most new comments are and which blogs are producing the most new posts. I hope you find the site useful and will tell your readers about us. I am sure we're missing important blogs on our first attempt, so please let me know the URLs I am missing. If our site works as planned, by making the Education blogosphere more convenient for readers and for bloggers, we can build readership for everyone.Also, blogger Chaney Rankin of WorldWideLearn.com has agreed to edit the site and continue to add the best of the education blogosphere to the site to keep it a first rate resource."

Date: Sat, 1. March 2008 15:24:44

This article from the Feb. 2008 International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning by Caswell, Henson, Jensen & Wiley gives a valuable overview of the recent history of opencourseware and its future importance for universal education. ____JH ______ "Abstract. The role of distance education is shifting. Traditionally distance education was limited in the number of people served because of production, reproduction, and distribution costs. Today, while it still costs the university time and money to produce a course, technology has made it such that reproduction costs are almost non-existent. This shift has significant implications, and allows distance educators to play an important role in the fulfillment of the promise of the right to universal education. At little or no cost, universities can make their content available to millions. This content has the potential to substantially improve the quality of life of learners around the world. New distance education technologies, such as OpenCourseWares, act as enablers to achieving the universal right to education. These technologies, and the associated changes in the cost of providing access to education, change distance education's role from one of classroom alternative to one of social transformer."

Date: Sat, 1. March 2008 15:24:44

This article from the Feb. 2008 International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning by Caswell, Henson, Jensen & Wiley gives a valuable overview of the recent history of opencourseware and its future importance for universal education. ____JH ______ "Abstract. The role of distance education is shifting. Traditionally distance education was limited in the number of people served because of production, reproduction, and distribution costs. Today, while it still costs the university time and money to produce a course, technology has made it such that reproduction costs are almost non-existent. This shift has significant implications, and allows distance educators to play an important role in the fulfillment of the promise of the right to universal education. At little or no cost, universities can make their content available to millions. This content has the potential to substantially improve the quality of life of learners around the world. New distance education technologies, such as OpenCourseWares, act as enablers to achieving the universal right to education. These technologies, and the associated changes in the cost of providing access to education, change distance education's role from one of classroom alternative to one of social transformer."

Date: Sat, 27. February 2010 15:28:57

Financial Education is an unfair advantage in challenging times. As life will become more expensive due to increases in taxes, debt, inflation and retirement; financial education can offer unfair advantages not available to other people. Since it is the lack of financial education that got people into this crisis, it is financial education that can lead them out. People can change by changing the way they think and what they study. Rich Dad Hawaii is hosting the CASHFLOW Challenge competition using an educational board game to teach financial education in a fun environment on April 10, 2010. (PRWeb Feb 21, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/02/prweb3629564.htm

Date: Tue, 29. September 2009 11:59:01

They say politics makes strange bedfellows. It turns out education does, too.U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, the Rev.