But make sure you have plenty of time to spend there at Education Week....
Prepare to be completely sucked in for a great length of time
because of the tremendous amount of interesting information to be read.
Major headings list Teacher, Digital Directions, Industry and Innovations, Top School Jobs, along with shopping and advertising.
Current issues in the education field are addressed in each heading, making it easy to find and follow trends, research the latest happenings in Washington, along with opinions and blogs regarding the subjects. Written in newspaper format and updated (loosely) every week, I try to read more than just the headlines but find myself going from one article to the next.
Today I enjoyed reading about the Common Core's Image Problem, and the blog responses from the teaching community.
On this same title page was a link to a School Kindness Project, describing one person's response to a fellow student who showed a simple act of concern which then led to an entire attitude adjustment for a school. It was such an inspiring article; I hope everyone reads it.
The article right above it was titled, "We Need Teachers of Color", directly related to this weeks's discussion of demographic shifting.
My e-newsletters come daily and always pull me in. Today's headline was "Education looms large in pivotal U.S. Senate races" addressing the large differences in democratic and republican stands on teacher pay, common core curriculum, and higher education student loans.
After reading this article, I noticed the one below it about "distortions" and "bias" in new Texas textbooks. Here is the trailer:
"New social studies textbooks under consideration by the Texas board of education include "serious distortions of history and contemporary issues," according to a watchdog group's recent review. Among other problems cited by the group are that the textbooks exaggerate religion's role in the founding of the country, include negative stereotypes about Islam, gloss over civil rights efforts for gay and lesbian citizens, and are critical of affirmative action" (Ujifusa, 2014).
I had to read that one.
There are subject headings leading to information on legislative policy shifts, and a listing of upcoming webinars for enhancing your professional development. A section of job postings is also in this area.
Because I work with infants and toddlers, my main go-to website is Zerotothree. It is a well known, popular site that is very up to date and resourceful when helping families with a particular problem. By discovering and subscribing to Education Week, it is providing me with a larger picture, where I need to be informed of what is happening in the world I am sending my babies toward. It is enriching my knowledge, strengthening my opinions, and opening up my curiosity.
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This website sounds really good.. I will be checking it out to learn more about news that is going on in the field. I also work in the infant through toddler rooms. I love the Zerotothree website. It is really helpful to use for parent resources.
ReplyDeleteRenee, Sounds like you found a great resource! Good for you! I will have to check it out. Thanks for sharing!
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