In the Blogosphere: Title I Changes, Higher Pay for Math & Science Teachers, YouTube.Edu, and More…
I spend a lot of time browsing the blogosphere for things that interest me. Here’s some of what stood out in the past few days…
- NCLB: Act II – Expect New Rules for Title I on Tuesday – David J. Hoff at Education Week points out that Anre Duncan’s Department of Education will release new Title I regs this week. “Graduation rates” will likely be redefined. The changes may impact minimum cell size for the number of students in a subgroup needed for that group to be include under NCLB’s accountability rules.
- Ga. Senate OKs Extra Pay for Math, Science Teachers – EdWeek carried an Associated Press story a few days ago on Georgia’s plan to up the pay of math and science teachers. It will be interesting to see if the move carries over to other states and to other shortage areas (like special education). Georgia math & science teachers would get the extra pay for five years and then they’d have that bonus tied to student performance. That smells like merit pay to me…
- YouTube Edu Launches – Cool Cat teacher Vicki Davis commented a few days ago on the launch of YouTube’s K-12 channel. Still some bugs to work out.
- Open Education had a piece this week that reviewed some useful sites for teachers.
- Teacher Magazine ran a short piece on the annual “Technology Counts” report that Education Week just finished. Who’s Number One? West Virginia (although it shares the spot light in a tie with Georgia).
