AM News: New Science Standards, More Science Learning?

Science Education Standards: Can New Recommendations Help 'Mediocre To Awful' States? ScientificAmerican:  Those general statistics tell only a piece of the story, however. There are pockets of excellence across the U.S. where student achievement is world-beating.

State Budgets Appear Stable, but Concerns About 'Uncertainty' Remain State EdWatch:  Believe it or not, states are only a few months away from the start of their 2013 legislative sessions, and of course preparations get underway well before those official start dates. 

Q&A with A Blended Learning CEO Hechinger Report: In Colorado, a state where just this week there’s been controversy as three foreign-language teachers lost their jobs when their classes moved online, there are differing perspectives on the value of online education and technology’s ever-increasing role in education.

Can Technology Replace Teachers? EdWeek: Of all the recent budget cuts made by the Eagle County, Colo., school district—the loss of 89 staff jobs through attrition and layoffs, a 1.5 percent across-the-board pay cut, and the introduction of three furlough days—none sparked as much anger or faced the same scrutiny as the decision to cut three foreign-language teaching positions and replace them with online instruction.

Deal Sites Jump on Back-to-School Bus US News:  Parents of high schoolers can use sites such as Groupon to save on everything from backpacks to tutors.

Comments

[Bruce]

Tutors who can help high school science students discover what world-class standards are and how to achieve them are a very valuable way for families to invest their education dollars, although good tutors should steadily work their ways out of jobs, so that students have time for co-curriculars later in the high school years.

[Sarah]

The decision to try to teach foreign languages via a computer baffles me still. Voice recognition software is not good enough to teach orally, which is really what you need to learn a foreign language.

[Sarah]

Groupon is certainly a useful resource, however, if you’ve got the printer for it.

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