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posted by: Alix
| September 09, 2011, 02:54 pm
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Yesterday evening, President Obama made a speech before a joint session of Congress to gain support for his new $447 billion jobs bill to be introduced sometime next week. Among the many new spending initiatives, the president spent significant time discussing education and increased investments in hiring new teachers and modernizing schools with improvements and technology.
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posted by: Alix
| September 08, 2011, 12:20 pm
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This Sunday is the ten year anniversary of the terrorist attacks that changed our country forever. In light of this milestone, many education experts have raised the question about how to address this tragedy and our ongoing wars with students, especially with those students who have no memory of the day. While there are no national or state guidelines for teaching this recent and still emotional part of our history, many teachers are, for the most part, on their own as they decide how to explain and teach these events to a broad range of students. If you are planning discussing the attacks with your students, there are some fantastic resources for reading, sharing and contributing.
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posted by: Jill
| September 07, 2011, 12:00 am
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This is an exciting week at AAE. Today, the professional development branch of the AAE blog has a new partner, Best Practices Weekly (BPW). BPW is a free non-profit professional development service for teachers that summarizes education research into bite-size chunks for busy educators.
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posted by: Alix
| September 06, 2011, 10:58 am
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This week we look back on another Labor Day gone, and the hope and promise of a new school year ahead. While most Americans see Labor Day as a long weekend marking the end of summer, it is critical to not only recognize the history and hardship of the workers of over century ago, but recognize the state of labor today.
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posted by: Alix
| September 02, 2011, 11:19 am
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The teaching profession has for years been known for low and structured pay scales. As reformers and policymakers continually champion effective teaching as the key to improving student outcomes, the prospect of attracting our nation's best and brightest to a career in teaching seems grim under our current system. In the last few weeks, several key education leaders have endorsed competitive pay for teachers. Is the answer to attracting and sustaining top professionals simply dollars and cents, or is it more complicated in an educator workforce?
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