Pearson Isn#39;t Making Web Trade Better Than Newspapers (Update1)
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Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) — Pearson Plc Chief Executive Officer
Marjorie Scardino is selling newspaper assets and moving from
textbooks into online courses. The efforts arent bringing the
164-year-old publisher the valuation of Washington Post Co.,
whose shares cost 50 percent more.
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Student recounts seeing peer shot to death in school parking lot
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Clarke had just emerged from Simeon, where, like Jackson, he was taking classes to recoup high school credits, authorities said Sunday.
In a shooting Friday, police still were seeking answers in the death of Miguel Pedro, 15, an 8th grader at Nobel Elementary School. Pedro was fatally shot while walking to a store a block away [...]
Daley threatens propertytax hike for schools
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“I want to make it clear, [if] the Board of Education is forced to raise property taxes this year, it will be because Springfield forced them to do that,” the mayor said at a news conference in Hanson Park Elementary School.The threat comes months after the City Council approved the biggest property-tax hike of [...]
Fired coach at Walter Payton High charged in sex assault molestation of students
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Turner, who is charged with criminal sexual assault and criminal sexual abuse, was employed as a basketball coach but did not teach any classes at the nationally recognized school, located at 1034 N. Wells St., spokesman Mike Vaughn said.At a hearing in Bond Court, Assistant State’s Atty. Kathleen Muldoon said Turner engaged in a [...]
Wanted A few bad teachers
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Buying off bad teachers is part of his effort to improve education, Berman said.
“What I really want to do is jump-start a conversation,” Berman said. “There are lots of kids who can’t read or do math and are well behind in science. … I’ve interviewed teachers who say their colleagues are not competent to teach [...]
Universities fear imminent student drought
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The number of school leavers is expected to plummet over the next 10 years, leaving 70,000 university places unfilled - the equivalent of nearly six universities.Universities will have to compete harder, target more mature students and those from outside the EU to fill seats in lecture halls as a historic dip in the birth rate [...]
Financial settlement disappoints Scottish universities
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Scotland’s universities shared a tight budget settlement this week, with institutions that have excelled in research and knowledge transfer benefitting the most, while three of the country’s newer universities have seen a marked downturn in their research funding.The cash from the Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council (SFC), announced today, comes against a backdrop [...]
News
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A campaign drawing in parents, businesses, teachers and pupils to help schools raise their game in use of technology has been launched by the educational technology agency, Becta. Next Generation Learning is the result of a Becta survey back in 2006 that found only 20% of schools were making best use of technology - even [...]
Are teachers getting a fair deal
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The prevalence of a learning platform monoculture seemed this year to be overwhelming the Bett show that teachers once knew and loved. For governments there is always a fine line between influencing markets and stifling innovation. The heavy-handed compulsion for all schools to have a learning platform by the end of the year has removed [...]
Children have celebrity rammed down their throats says professor
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Adults are to blame for a decline in children’s happiness because they control a commercial world which “rams celebrity down children’s throats”, according to the head of an inquiry into primary education.There is widespread anxiety among adults about a perceived loss of innocence among children, but most children have a more optimistic outlook on their [...]
