Education System stories:
Obama to students: See you at graduation
Feb 19th, 2010 - Washington Post
washington -- coming to a high school graduation near you: president barack obama. the white house and the education department are giving public high schools the opportunity to compete to have the president speak at their commencement ceremony
Whitman brings campaign message to Lafayette
Feb 17th, 2010 - San Jose Mercury News
on tuesday night.
the mostly older crowd greeted whitman warmly if not wildly as she vowed to put the shine back on california - make it more business friendly, avert tax increases and focus on improving its declining educational system.
the heavyIn private, Virginia governor pushes deep budget cuts
Feb 16th, 2010 - Washington Post
richmond -- virginia gov. robert f. mcdonnell (r) has privately recommended cutting $730 million from k-12 education and $300 million from health programs, as well as changing the state retirement system and requiring 10 days of furloughs for state
Obama: No weeknight television for Malia, Sasha
Feb 16th, 2010 - Boston
washington-president barack obama, who is spending billions of dollars to overhaul the u.s. public education system, says there's one sure thing parents can do to help their kids learn, regardless of financial means: forbid them from watchingObama education overhaul well received
Feb 2nd, 2010 - Boston
massachusetts school officials and education advocates welcomed yesterday president obama's proposal for sweeping changes in the way schools are judged on meeting federal standards, hopeful that it will focus attention on schools that need
Education System videos from YouTube:
20:04Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
www.ted.com Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.tedtalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference ...
9:25A Nation In Crisis: America's Education System Is Broken
www.learntolearn.com Globalization has exploded the Information Age. Yet our education system isn't preparing our children for how to compete in the Global Economy. America is a nation in crisis. Did you know how little media ...
7:36Noam Chomsky on the Role of the Educational System
1991 Noam Chomsky is an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. congressandlaw.blogspot.com The goal of education, Chomsky argues, is to produce free human beings whose values are not accumulation and domination ...
