August 31st, 2010 by Edward Wolff |
If you thought selling taxpayers on a levy this fall would be difficult because Ohio recently secured $400 million in Race to the Top grant funding, just wait. Today the Ohio Department of Education announced preliminary allocations for the recently passed federal Ed Jobs legislation.
While Race to the Top funding will be split over four years and only flow to participating districts, Ed Jobs money will be awarded to every district and community school in the state during the 2010-11 school year.
A list of preliminary allocations is available here.
If you’re keeping track, the scorecard for stimulus-related funding for the 2010-11 school year alone looks something like this:
ARRA (federal stimulus bill passed 2009) $ 766 million
Race to the Top (passed as part of ARRA) $ 100 million
Ed Jobs (passed August 2010) $ 361 million
Total $1.227 billion
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August 30th, 2010 by Mitchell Robinson | Tags: Schoodoodle Teacher, Teacher
Here at Chicago School Supply, we believe wholeheartedly that teachers hold communities together. We have all heard the cliché about it taking a village to raise a child. The fact of the matter is it’s true!
Teachers are one of the main pillars of a sound and progressive society. They bear the weight and responsibility of teaching, and, apart from parents, are the main source of knowledge and values for children. – From The Importance of Teachers
Beginning this month, we will be highlighting an educator who truly makes a difference in their community. In the
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August 29th, 2010 by Brock Wolfe | Tags: Remix
Academics have been remixing since forever.
You cannot move forward without taking from what is already behind you.
Yet remixing is different from plagiarising. Academics reference the work they’re using and explain how they reached the detail they’re presenting.
There is a common misconception amongst students that you shouldn’t reference too much, because it looks like you haven’t done any thinking yourself. But the more you refer to, the broader your research has been. Your scope widens as you read more, leading to more citations.
A high number of references is a healthy sign. Those references have to be relevant, mind!
As you bring all these works together, you are creating a brand new work. Remix. Mashup. Col
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August 28th, 2010 by John Bowe | Tags: Blogging
I have great reason to celebrate: one year of blogging!
Well, one year and something….
Although this post is rather late, mainly due to a really heavy teaching schedule in July and August, I have been thinking about it and writing bits and bytes whenever I had a few minutes.
On the 1st of July in 2009, I posted my first post, not really knowing where this would lead me, not expecting the rich rewards blogging has brought me!
In these first twelve months, I wrote 40 blog posts, not a very great number compared to the output of some of the bloggers who are featured on my blogroll, but for me, given the time some of my posts take to give birth to, quite a good number!
Time for some stock-taking then… What has this year of blogging given me?
Apart from the obvious – an unexpected number of visitors, a few thousand eyes which read my posts and commented on them, a few honourable mentions in the annual blogger awards – there were tremendous additional gains for me and this is what this post is about.
In this great TED video, R ichard St. John sha
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