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Teacher Current Events

Keeping up with current events happening in the teaching world is a vital part of the educational profession. Teacher current events can inform an educator with educational changes as well events that occurred that may shed teaching in a negative light. To uncover the latest buzz on current events in the teaching profession refer to the events below:

Teacher Current Events

1.) School Nutrition Bill Could Be Revived in Congress: First Lady Michelle Obama’s campaign for healthier school lunches could be revived in Congress after two key Democrats said they would drop their opposition. To read more on this teacher current event visit: http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2010/11/10/386853uscongresschildnutrition_ap.html

2.) Professional Development for Teachers at Crossroads: Plans for who will provide the training that is continually required to update teachers in order to improve their craft. To read more on this teacher current event visit: http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2010/11/10/11pd_overview.h30.html?tkn=VWTFjQhiem1sUw6mQ44Hh5ra0EAh3yf4w2%2FX&cmp=clp-edweek

3.) U.S. Releases National Ed-Tech Action Plan: The U.S Department of Education’s plan to pay for research to study online professional-collaboration communities for teachers. To further understand this plan, visit: http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2010/11/09/12edtech.h30.html?tkn=XVTFNNVyQtSI6tSk7HcTu%2FNC6n2og%2FVhBZih&cmp=clp-edweek

4.) Study: TAP Schools Outperform ‘Synthetic’ Counterparts: Schools in the Teacher Advancement Program apparently would produce higher-achieving students in math than non-TAP schools with similar characteristics, concludes a recent analysis released by the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. To read more on this teacher current event visit: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/teacherbeat/2010/11/the_teacher_advancement_progra.html

5.) The Same Thing Over and Over: How to “fix” public schools. For elaboration on this current event topic visit: http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2010/11/10/11hess_ep.h30.html

In order to stay on top of teacher current events and news in the teaching community, be proactive in reading news articles pertaining to the profession. Find websites that are updated regularly and can be posted on in order to obtain interaction with other teachers and gain incite on your peer’s thoughts. Relevant articles can be found at: http://www.edweek.org/ew/index.html

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