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Joint venture builds on MITx and Harvard distance learning; aims to benefit campus-based education and beyond
Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) today announced edX, a transformational new partnership in online education. Through edX, the two institutions will collaborate to enhance campus-based teaching and learning and build a global community of online learners.
More at: http://www.edxonline.org/
Arizona Budget for Education
This Page will provide a collection of articles and reports written to describe how Arizona supports Education.
Arizona Education Parent Network - Campaign for Quality Education and Jobs
International Symposium on Integrating Research, Education, and Problem Solving: IREPS 2011
There is a growing academic and societal need for the integration of academic activities among themselves and with Society, including private and public sectors. An increasing number of academics have noticed the importance of integrating Research, Education, and Problem Solving among themselves and with societal and corporate real life problems. Information and Communications Technologies enabled different ways of supporting these kinds of integration processes. Informing Science is at the heart of academic activities (research, education, and consulting).
More information at: http://www.iiis2011.org/demset/website/default.asp?vc=51
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The World Is Becoming More Educated Than The U.S.
By Claire Gordon, Posted Sep 14th 2011 @ 1:33PM
Today the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released some hard numbers that confirm this startling decline of the West and the rise of the rest. Although the West that's declining is almost exclusively America.
SAT Reading Scores Fall To Lowest Level On Record
By JUSTIN POPE 09/14/11 11:08 AM ET 
- Scores on the critical reading portion of the SAT college entrance exam fell three points to their lowest level on record last year, and combined reading and math scores reached their lowest point since 1995.
The College Board, which released the scores Wednesday, said the results reflect the record number of students from the high school class of 2011 who took the exam and the growing diversity of the test-taking pool – particularly Hispanics. As more students aim for college and take the exam, it tends to drag down average scores.
Still, while the three-point decline to 497 may look small in the context of an 800-point test, it was only the second time in the last two decades reading scores have fallen as much in a single year. And reading scores are now notably lower than scores as recently as 2005, when the average was 508.
More information at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/14/sat-reading-scores-fall-t_0_n_962138.html?icid=maing-grid7|ipad|dl25|sec3_lnk1|95626
ELL to Go
Two schools transform their ELL programs by giving students around-the-clock access to some of the latest mobile devices.
The typical student at the Newcomer Center, an alternative school in Township High School District 214 in Arlington Heights, IL, is a recent immigrant with little or no English skills. The school is a temporary stopover for these students--they stay at the center for about a year, building up their English-language skills, and are then transferred to an ESL program at their home school in the district.
