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Apr 2nd, 2005
From Education Week, an article which will help point you toward resources on finding the right (online?) university.
Three years after a federal law required states to collect a host of education data, much of that information and more will now be available in one place-giving the public a newfound resource and giving educators headaches over how schools can be compared.
On a free Web site to be launched this week, a public-private partnership will post test scores, school spending, student demographics, and other relevant data.
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Apr 2nd, 2005
From Accuracy in the Media, via Distance Educator.
George Will recently pointed out that the Public Broadcasting Service, which once promised creativity and diversity in programming, is now airing reruns from HBO.
Will said that PBS should be weaned from the public dollar. In fact, there is a movement growing in Congress to eliminate funding for public TV and radio. A campaign to do that years ago was derailed when supporters for PBS falsely charged that this would lead to the death of Big bird, a beloved figure for little children.
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Apr 1st, 2005
At the Kokomo Tribune, 'hybrid classes cast their web' …
With four children younger than 5 and three jobs, Martha Bugher said she barely finds time to breathe.
Sleep? She forgot about that long ago.
" Speedway makes really good coffee,&lrquo; she said, sitting in a cushy chair at Indiana University Kokomo.
Yet the 27-year-old manages to juggle six classes, in part, she says, through a new type of course that pairs online instruction with traditional in-class learning.
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Apr 1st, 2005
From CIT-INFOBITS, at AFT ON CAMPUS.
The March 2005 issue of the AFT ON CAMPUS "Speak Out" column asks the question, "Does technology hurt student writing?" Norm Goldstein, an Associated Press editor, uses examples from email correspondence to argue that technology is eroding writing skills. Clinton R. Gardner, a composition teacher at Salt Lake Community College in Utah, believes that "online writing technologies have improved student writing, because more people are writing and sharing their writing than at any time in the history of humanity."
