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Gates Awards Tutor.com Professional Development Grant

Tutor.com, the largest online tutoring and homework help service, has been awarded a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create a completely new professional development model that will provide on-demand, one-to-one support for math teachers.

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Top-Ranked Questions for Digital Town Hall

Here is the list for the top ten questions for the Intel-sponsored Digital Town Hall, which will be running on Tuesday morning. You can tune into edReformer.com tomorrow morning at 8.45 am to watch the live streaming video.

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The Turnover Gap

This report examines the growing "turnover gap" between black and Latino teachers and their white counterparts.

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Carlos Contreras: Education Policy Director, Intel

A day before the Intel Digital Town Hall on Innovation, we talk with Intel's Education Policy Director Carlos Cantreras. The “Education for Innovation” digital town hall where be will Secretary Arne Duncan will make an announcement about the 2009 PISA results. He will be joined by OECD Secretary General Angel Gurr...

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At The Education Barricades

Here's a portion of the Joel Klein Wall Street Journal op-ed. He looks back at his time "at the education barricades" and voices his opinion about a "self-serving approach" to training and keeping quality teachers, or not removing the bad ones.

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No Teachers, Students Choose their Schooling

During a given day, some students at this school in Florida head over to the reading corner, some of them work on writing and drawing, and others tap into the computers to perfect their word processing and software-related skills. But, where are the teachers?

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Supporting Student Voice and Choice Leads to Equity

The trouble with some forms of assessment and curriculum is that the teacher still remains in control, argues Andrew Miller.

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