Learning Aloud

Try this online exam based on the U.S. Citizenship Quiz.

Education World describes a recent interview with John Bailey in which various roles for technology in “No Child Left Behind” are outlined. Information of federal grant programs is included.

eSchool News has a recent article describing a case in which a teacher is being considered for dismissal because of inappropriate material on a personal web page (humor content of a sexual nature adapted from a comedy site). To complicate the case, it appears the teacher had created the page some years prior to taking the teaching position.

I recently stumbled across an alert on a listserv attempting to activate readers to protest the proposed reworking of ERIC. I did not think too much more about this until I walked by the ERIC booth at AERA yesterday and the booth personnel were passing out stickers with the wording – SAVE ERIC.

The plan for the “New ERIC” makes the following changes:
Closes all 16 ERIC Clearinghouses
Eliminates personalized reference and referral services
Terminates AskERIC and clearinghouse question-answering services
Ends all networking and outreach activities, including ERIC-sponsored Listservs
Shuts down Clearinghouse Web sites currently visited by 22.5 million unique visitors a year

Earth Day is April 22nd. Stop by The Earth Day Groceries Project, and see what children around the world have been working on: Earth Day Bags. Celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, this is one of the largest educational projects on the Internet.

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If you are a history buff or want to trace your family history, you now have access to the same resources used by the pros – The National Archives. This collection of at least 50 million digitized douments can now be searched online.

The National Archives offers a variety of suggestions for educators include how a school might develop its own archives.