Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced the availability of $191 million in recovery funds for Nebraska to save teaching jobs and drive education reform. More: continued here

Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced the availability of more than $70 million in recovery funds for North Dakota to save teaching jobs and drive education reform. More: continued here

Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced the availability of more than $134.5 million in recovery funds for New Hampshire to save teaching jobs and drive education reform. More: continued here

Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced the availability of more than $213 million in recovery funds for New Mexico to save teaching jobs and drive education reform. More: continued here

Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced the availability of more than $76 million in recovery funds for Alaska to save teaching jobs and drive education reform. More: continued here

Five states will receive technical assistance in developing green programs in career and technical education. More: continued here

Update 6/09When I first started attending AAPT meeting in January, 2002, I started talking about information literacy. I was pleased to realize that several faculty were very interested in my ideas. BYU was working on curriculum for their “Writing in Physics” class. Steve Turley and later Jean-Francois van Huele agreed to speak on a panel [...]

This is the kind of article that reaffirms for me why other nations tend to do consistently better when it comes to educating their students. It also reaffirms the trend that certain college administrators have of embracing the business models without actually thinking about all the possible consequences past saving a buck or two. Professor [...]

I am at the i3 conference that is taking place at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland, for the next few days. This conference focuses on information literacy and information behaviour. Today included a parallel session with two studies concerning schools in Finland: I will blog them in 2 entries.Eeva Kurttila-Matero talked about Teachers’ conceptions of [...]

"The first Your School Library online conference – Transforming School Libraries with Web 2.0 – was held over February and attracted in excess of 20 (Source: pligg – all) More: continued here