Date: Mon, 15. March 2010 11:41:39

AP - President Barack Obama's proposal to overhaul education standards championed by his predecessor aims to broaden the focus beyond math and reading to a well-rounded education, Education Secretary Arne Duncan says.

Date: Fri, 1. August 2008 04:20:00

USATODAY.com - By vastly exceeding her authority as Secretary of Education, and then accusing colleges of complacency while concealing information in the bargain, Margaret Spellings and her Commission on the Future of Higher Education created a straw man, ignoring both the transparency and the accountability built into higher education.

Date: Thu, 14. February 2008 19:25:39

BNN/Education is a news aggregator with a number of useful and  appealing features. Take a look. ____JH _______ Here's what the editor of BNN, Dave Mastio, says about the new launch: "BlogNetNews.com has just launched BNN/Education , a single site to track what's going on in the Education blogosphere. The site's core is links to the latest posts from the best Education  blogs, targeted Education blog search and a handy headline service Education bloggers can use to promote each others' latest posts (found under 'services' in the left rail).You'll also find links to the news stories Education bloggers have linked most in the last 24 hours, where the most new comments are and which blogs are producing the most new posts. I hope you find the site useful and will tell your readers about us. I am sure we're missing important blogs on our first attempt, so please let me know the URLs I am missing. If our site works as planned, by making the Education blogosphere more convenient for readers and for bloggers, we can build readership for everyone.Also, blogger Chaney Rankin of WorldWideLearn.com has agreed to edit the site and continue to add the best of the education blogosphere to the site to keep it a first rate resource."

Date: Tue, 29. September 2009 11:59:01

They say politics makes strange bedfellows. It turns out education does, too.U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, the Rev.

Date: Mon, 13. October 2008 20:01:13

In Assignment Education news, a college education will be a little more attainable for some high school students starting next fall.

Date: Tue, 28. August 2007 16:15:03

Heres the link the to wiki syllabus for David Wileys Fall 2007 course about Open Education. Theres still time to sign up for this online course. The goals of the course are (1) to give you a firm grounding in the current state of the field of open education, including related topics like copyright, licensing, and sustainability, (2) to help you locate open education in the context of mainstream instructional technologies like learning objects, and (3) to get you thinking, writing, and dialoguing creatively and critically about current practices and possible alternative practices in open education. Those who dont want to participate in the course will still find value in the online readings and the links to OER sites. ____JH

Date: Thu, 14. February 2008 19:25:39

BNN/Education is a news aggregator with a number of useful and  appealing features. Take a look. ____JH _______ Here's what the editor of BNN, Dave Mastio, says about the new launch: "BlogNetNews.com has just launched BNN/Education , a single site to track what's going on in the Education blogosphere. The site's core is links to the latest posts from the best Education  blogs, targeted Education blog search and a handy headline service Education bloggers can use to promote each others' latest posts (found under 'services' in the left rail).You'll also find links to the news stories Education bloggers have linked most in the last 24 hours, where the most new comments are and which blogs are producing the most new posts. I hope you find the site useful and will tell your readers about us. I am sure we're missing important blogs on our first attempt, so please let me know the URLs I am missing. If our site works as planned, by making the Education blogosphere more convenient for readers and for bloggers, we can build readership for everyone.Also, blogger Chaney Rankin of WorldWideLearn.com has agreed to edit the site and continue to add the best of the education blogosphere to the site to keep it a first rate resource."

Date: Fri, 18. September 2009 09:01:17

(AHN) - After more than 18 years of anarchy and lawlessness in Somalia, where the education system and other social services have collapsed, signs of green shoots in education are more important than ever.

Date: Thu, 1. October 2009 03:50:10

"Revolt at Berkeley: Restoring Democracy to Education and Keeping Education for the Public", a panel discussion with Jack Gerson, Tanya Smith and others Sat.

Date: Sat, 1. March 2008 15:24:44

This article from the Feb. 2008 International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning by Caswell, Henson, Jensen & Wiley gives a valuable overview of the recent history of opencourseware and its future importance for universal education. ____JH ______ "Abstract. The role of distance education is shifting. Traditionally distance education was limited in the number of people served because of production, reproduction, and distribution costs. Today, while it still costs the university time and money to produce a course, technology has made it such that reproduction costs are almost non-existent. This shift has significant implications, and allows distance educators to play an important role in the fulfillment of the promise of the right to universal education. At little or no cost, universities can make their content available to millions. This content has the potential to substantially improve the quality of life of learners around the world. New distance education technologies, such as OpenCourseWares, act as enablers to achieving the universal right to education. These technologies, and the associated changes in the cost of providing access to education, change distance education's role from one of classroom alternative to one of social transformer."