http://www.onlineeducationinamerica.com Online Education in America, colleges and universities. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:25:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The first thing I want to say to the authors of the new National Ed Tech Plan (pdf) is this: DON’T TEASE ME. Please. I’m trying not to get overly optimistic here, but suffice to say, if the rhetoric is any indication of the direction, we may have actually turned a corner. Personalized ... http://www.onlineeducationinamerica.com/the-new-national-ed-tech-plan%e2%80%a6pinch-me/ The city’s high school graduation rate rose to 59 percent. (GothamSchools, Times, Daily News, Post, NY1) District schools in Harlem are focusing more on marketing to compete with their charter neighbors. (Times) One of the unions of school bus drivers has authorized a strike but has no plans to carry one out. ... http://www.onlineeducationinamerica.com/rise-shine-hiring-freeze-for-nyc-teachers-lifted-%e2%80%94-in-florida/ Private and parochial schools want the same reimbursement from the MTA’s payroll tax public schools get. After several requests, the state will allow a Harvard test expert to study whether score inflation is real. First Lady Michelle Obama will speak at the commencement ceremony for a D.C.-area turnaround school. The group developing common ... http://www.onlineeducationinamerica.com/remainders-state-test-scores-to-be-investigated-for-inflation/ When choosing which schools to close, city officials say they pick the worst of the worst. But new graduation data released today shows that the city doesn’t always follow its own criteria. Earlier this year, Department of Education officials announced their intention to close 19 schools based on the schools’ abysmal ... http://www.onlineeducationinamerica.com/graduation-rates-show-closing-schools-not-always-the-worst/ More than half of the New York City’s Hispanic students graduated from high school last year, the first time the city has reached that bar since it began tracking graduation rates in the 1980s. That statistic stood out among several gains reported in graduation rate data trumpeted by Mayor Michael Bloomberg ... http://www.onlineeducationinamerica.com/breaking-city-record-more-than-half-of-hispanic-students-graduate/