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If Obama doesn’t really care about 21st century skills, perhaps EETT proposed cuts don’t matter? | ISTE’s NECC09 Blog
“During the past several months, the Obama Administration has outlined a vision of educational innovation and improvement to enable our nation’s children to compete in the global economy. But today’s budget proposal falls far short of the targeted investments needed to ensure all students have the modernized classrooms and technology-rich instruction needed to achieve this vision.”
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“During the past several months, the Obama Administration has outlined a vision of educational innovation and improvement to enable our nation’s children to compete in the global economy. But today’s budget proposal falls far short of the targeted investments needed to ensure all students have the modernized classrooms and technology-rich instruction needed to achieve this vision.”
Hilarym99's Blog | Talking Points Memo | The School Wars.
To be overly simplistic and overtly biased, it is a battle with people who want kids to learn on one side, and people who want kids to pass tests on the other side.
Bridging Differences: Is Arne Duncan Really Margaret Spellings in Drag?
Everything I have seen and learned since Duncan came to office has supported Secretary Spellings' admiring comments about Secretary Duncan. It turns out that Duncan, like the Bush administration, adores testing, charter schools, merit pay, and entrepreneurs. Part of the stimulus money, he told Sam Dillon of The New York Times, will be used so that states can develop data systems, which will enable them to tie individual student test scores to individual teachers, greasing the way for merit pay. Another part of the stimulus plan will support charters and entrepreneurs.
Jamie Alter Lynton: Obama and His Field Force: How California Roared
So it may come as a surprise that the California team actually pulled off what can only be called a field operation coup: on election day, California volunteers got on their own phones and managed to make an astonishing 2 million calls into battleground s
Obama's Online Power: Blessing or Curse?
President-elect Obama will take office in January with a weapon no president has ever had at his disposal: an online army of more than 10 million supporters who can now be put to use to help carry out a sweeping agenda.
The vast lists of e-mail addresses
Battle Plans: How Obama Won
There was an almost obsessive singularity in the way that Obama and his chief strategists—Axelrod and David Plouffe, the campaign’s manager—saw the contest. In their tactical view, all that was wrong with the United States could be summarized in one word:
5 Signs President-Elect Obama Is a Geek | Geekdad from Wired.com
1. Obama has pledged to create a cabinet-level Chief Technology Officer for the country. The U.S. CTO would be responsible for making broadband technology readily available to every U.S. citizen, and for fighting the telcos for net neutrality. While this
Civics 101 - Nicholas D. Kristof Blog - NYTimes.com
Once I started working with Mikva, my students showed…energy. Enthusiasm. All that you don’t usually see when handing out the next reading assignment. Finally, I made the connection. I used to think that teens weren’t ready to act, that they needed more “
Campaigns in a Web 2.0 World - NYTimes.com
Old media, apparently, can learn new media tricks. Not since 1960, when John F. Kennedy won in part because of the increasingly popular medium of television, has changing technology had such an impact on the political campaigns and the organizations cover
The First Internet President | Election | TheRoot.com
In true community organizer fashion, Obama built a bottom-up machine on the Web, upending the traditional one-to-many approach of politics to truly embrace the chaotic Internet ethos of many-to-many action. Three innovations stand out. First, in the prima
Obama's Cellphone Army -- Courant.com
For four hours several nights a week, a room at Yale turns into an Obama phone bank, where any student with a cellphone and a laptop can become a virtual campaign worker, chatting up undecided voters in battleground states from the comfort of a dorm in un
How Obama Really Did It
"In 1992, Carville said, 'It's the economy, stupid,'" Trippi says, recalling the exhortation of Bill Clinton's campaign manager, James Carville. "This year, it was the network, stupid!"
Throughout the political season, the Obama campaign has dominated n
Obama Online: Preaching to the Choir Could Cost Him the Election
According to ComScore in June 2008, McCain and Obama purchased a combined 7.39 million sponsored search engine ads: 4.8 million exposures for McCain vs. 2.6 for Obama. Where Obama keeps it courtly by mostly buying keywords related to his name and campaign
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