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Dr. Scott Kellogg joins guest host Dr. Mark Green on December 21st 2009 to discuss the topic of crisis in treatment & helping people change.

Travel Weeklya TMs editor at large, Nadine Godwin, is retiring at the end of 2009, after 37 years as a reporter and editor with this publication and 40 years in travel journalism.

"An interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the analysis of contemporary teaching and learning." http://radicalpedagogy.icaap.org/ English International Consortium for the Advancement Radical Pedagogy 2009-12-09T19:56:30.274Z Radical Pedagogy 2009-12-09T19:56:30.274Z fedoraAdmin Active Education res:ipl-19629 "The Textbook Colloquium ...

Can you spell "cash cow"? U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan can. In a hard-hitting talk at Teachers College, Columbia University last week, Duncan said that most teacher education is lousy .

The Institute for Urban and Minority Education & Tisdale Studio Launch Harlem AIDS Blanket An Out-of-School-Time Community Education & Awareness Project Harlem, NY , December 1, 2009 - In recognition of World AIDS Day and AIDS Awareness Month, the Institute for Urban and Minority Education at Teachers College, Columbia University and Tisdale Studio ...

Brashier Middle College Charter High School, Greenville, SC * BMC will hold an open house for prospective students on December 10, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. * Starting January 4th there will be open enrollment held for incoming freshman for the 2010-2011 school year.

The following is an excerpt from The Yomiuri Shimbun's Educational Renaissance series.

The Cumberland County College board of trustees has announced three candidates for the position of CCC president.

VINELAND -- The Cumberland County College board of trustees expects to name its new president before the end of the month, Chairman Charles Thomas said Friday.

The Harlem Children's Zone , a high-profile New York City initiative that combines charter schools with wraparound community services for minority students and their low-income families, is showing dramatic academic gains that effectively close the black-white achievement gap in most categories examined, a new study finds.

With all due respect to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, his address at Teachers College, Columbia University, at the end of October had a few things wrong - namely that not all teacher preparation programs are failing.

If high school students are to master the skills and knowledge they need to do well in college or good jobs, their teachers need to be up to the task.

Kinloch draws connections between race, place, and studentsa literate identity through collaborative interviews between youth, teachers, longtime black residents, and their new white neighbors.

Seymour Fromer, the courtly catalyst for two major Bay Area Jewish institutions, died Oct.

Seymour Fromer died in his home in Berkeley on Oct. 25 after a long illness. The internationally known Jewish educator and founder of the Judah L. Magnes Museum was 87.

Someone once called the National Academy of Education the "old walruses" of the field.

In what had been billed as a major speech on teacher education, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan yesterday reiterated concerns about the quality of the schools that produce a majority of the nationa s teachers.

BROOKLYN, NY, October 12, 2009 /Cambridge Who's Who/ --Jory Zand Lieber, Literacy Coach for P.S. 116 Elizabeth L. Farrell School, has been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for demonstrating dedication, leadership and excellence in elementary education.

A A Yesterday an advocate of high academic standards and school accountability was sworn in as New York State commissioner of education.

This space explores issues in public education policy, and it advocates for a commitment to and a re-examination of the democratic purposes of schools.