The report thrust the Education Department into the center of the heated national debate over school choice. By Diana Jean Schemo. Link: Study of Test Scores Finds Charter Schools Lagging. [Source: NYT > Education]
Monthly Archives August 2006
This paper outlines the research methodology and findings of a unit development project on an online collaborative learning component, for a first year Bachelor of Education course run in 2001, at the University of New England. The original premise for the project was that the application of activity based processes that required students to participate with one another in focussed…
A Nobel laureate gives credence to a malodorous solution to global warming: shooting sulfur into the Earth's atmosphere. By Elizabeth Svoboda. Link: This Global Warming Fix Stinks. [Source: Wired News: Top Stories]
Enquiring Minds is a three-year research and development project investigating how children can shape their own learning, by changing the emphasis from what they learn to how they learn. [Source: Enquiring Minds: a new approach to learning.]
The knowledge drought intensifies. Australia’s advancement as a society will continue to be hampered by our poor esteem for knowledge. [Source: On Line Opinion]
Jobless at generational low. THE unemployment rate has slipped to a generational low of 4.8 per cent, figures show. By AAP. [Herald Sun | Breaking News]
Global Teacher. Global Teacher is an intricate online network, created by the Victorian Education Channel and the School Library Association of Victoria to provide a dualistic, interactive, cyber setting, for educators and students to self publish using an especially designed publishing and communication tool. GLOBE is establishing a network that has been designed to enable educationalists from all over the…
Infrastructure banking excites Mac Bank. Smh.com.au - Sun Aug 6, 11:30 pm GMT [News4Sites - Australia Economy]
Registration Open for A Well-skilled Future: Tailoring VET to the Emerging Labour Market. Registration is open for the National Centre for Vocational Education Research research forum, A Well-Skilled Future: Tailoring Vocational Education and Training (VET) to the Emerging Labour Market. The forum will cover research from the National Institute of Labour Studies (NILS) and the Centre for Post-compulsory Education and…