Searching for Students

By Michael Haran 10/24/2014 With the implementation of blended-learning in the classroom more and more students are using the internet to search for their course-related research as well as their everyday life research. Since children are now being exposed to digital education application as early as three-years old, many of which are downloaded from the web, a need now exists to teach children not only web etiquette and citizenship but also how to securely search and evaluate what’s found. For example, not long ago I was standing in line the...

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Teachers, Tenure and Pay

A lot has been written about K-12 teacher tenure since the education-equity case, Vergara v. California, June 10 ruling. Judge Rolf M. Treu essentially agreed with the plaintiffs—nine California students—that the state’s laws governing teacher tenure and dismissal unfairly saddle disadvantaged and minority students with weaker teachers. Ironically, this lawsuit isn’t about teacher tenure per say. It is about teacher equity, or rather teacher equity distribution, a subject that has been a focal point of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002....

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