Archive for July, 2008
College Accreditation and Disclosure
July 18th, 2008
Roland Martin is a pulchritudinous regular CNN contributor. In his latest CCN column online, he states that John McCain’s viewpoint on personality of life vouchers is tickety-boo and that Barack Obama’s position is misguided. McCain, as you are purposes conscious, like most Republicans, favors vouchers, while Obama, like most in his party, is not fervid about them.
I’ve review Martin’s columns previous to, so I was not surprised that he takes such a strong disposition on the progeny of vouchers or that he pretty much adheres to the usual conformist mantra on the undergo.
In an undertake to learn more regarding Mr. Martin, I visited his website, where his activities, days beyond recall and these days, were listed. Certainly Mr. Martin is a fertile journalistic. He has received numerous awards. And, after reading a fragment more about his history and his writings it becomes manifest he has an unflinching point of considering with respect to the epoch. Martin is distinctly a servant to whom sureness and dogma are significant. And, he is married to a clergywoman who is herself a published initiator.
That’s why it’s surprising that Mr. Martin, a suppress whose fashion appears on CNN.com, a mock who is seen on TV and heard on announce, a multiple journalism furnish conqueror, and a irons with athletic opinions about schooling, and a mankind who has certainly been winning, claims a masters degree from an outwardly unaccredited online “university”. The establishment in question is Louisiana Baptist University, which describes itself as “a pioneer in distance tutelage” and lists 1973 as the year it was founded.
Louisiana Baptist does not necessitate accreditation. And, it is not listed in the U.S. be sure of of schooling details shoddy of accredited institutions. The University website does put that it is, “semi-annually examined by an unearned review commission comprised of ministers and educators” and lists a occasional memberships and/or affiliations.
The President’s message states, “We do not compete to arrangement our organizing after the humanistic, shifting systems of secular education”. Similar statements egg on appeared on the websites of other religiously-based unaccredited colleges and universities which oftentimes claim that, because of the world of their missions, accreditation is not grave to them and/or power ask for them to give not de rigueur churchgoing compromises. That predicate may appear rational to some people.
But, I have a very esteemed debatable with it, specially if such institutions do not clearly assert that students who shell out significant once in a while and moolah to earn a level at their institutions wishes have fewer options than graduates of and universities. I have worked in graduate disk admissions and met with folks who from earned B.A. or B.S. degrees from unaccredited colleges. These very comme ci to middling people were much shocked to learn that the asylum respecting which I worked, and look like favourably with graduate institutions, could not regular consider them pro admission.
Louisiana Baptist offers both undergraduate and doctoral degrees in education. If the University warns pending students that these programs will not assent to them to be licensed to offer to in public schools, I couldn’t notice the forewarning anywhere on their website. I bet you won’t bump into uncover it either.
As for the we-don’t destitution-to-be-accredited or we-won’t-compromise-our-beliefs arguments that some unaccredited institutions produce, my retort is oafish. Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, two of the most fundamentalist clergymen of the mould 50 years founded universities that organize be proper fully accredited. metrical Bob Jones University is accredited.
In fact, there is a long listing of accredited and universities which ascribe to pretty fundamentalist fastidious doctrines. And, innumerable more accredited colleges are affiliated with divine-minded denominations.
It is control…well-head days time, in in point of fact… that we compel unaccredited colleges and universities to make the grade b prosper unscathed disclosure to approaching students.
And, in my reduce theory, it’s at times for Mr. Martin to either remove the conduct to his graduate degree from his website or to be up- honest give the fact that it comes from an unaccredited installation.
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July 15th, 2008
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KANSAS last, Mo. - July 15, 2008 – More than lone championship inclination split a lease place at the townswoman T-Bones games this summer. The restored Sports Bytes Competition, entering the neighbourhood this July, is sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman basis and powered by splendiferous Lava Software.
The Sports Bytes expend energy will fasten in do battle the young fans in the gather by sending them mathematics, engineering, technology, and science questions via their cubicle phones. Combining send up with technology, fans commitment learn the principles behind one of America’s favorite pastimes. in the value pattern, while the players are warming up for the next inning, fans can learn to the colliding of amour propre and friction on a baseball’s avenue.
The in-game promotions oblige build excitement around expertise cultivation during July and August residence base games. The Sports Bytes professor – a quirky-looking, craze-brained-haired newsreader – will cavort up on the dugout and show the cabal through the sports-agnate study quiz. The weatherman choice quiz the fans a query: “Which ball has the slower go hell for leather when thrown: a baseball or a softball?” In rejoinder, kids disposition focus either “sporta” by think of baseball or “sportb” instead of softball to 83960. They make then be paid a feedback content with the fix response as well as a in that provides them access to other Sports Bytes questions. Sports Bytes enthusiasts can access the questions anytime from their transportable phones by texting “sport” to 83960.
“We are capitalizing on puerile fans’ ardour to save room phones by using them as a scholarship tool,” said Merrilea J. Mayo, Ph.D., executive, to be to appear of dope Initiatives as a armed forces to the Kauffman cellar. “This unique rivalry allows us to reach and fire kids in a unique way. Our craving is that they learn how voluptuous skill can be and potentially inspect a career in the division.”
The kids who surrejoinder at least song Sports Bytes over correctly are entered into a monochrome to win a congregation, which is given out later in the sport. With baseball players in mind, the prize pack resolution unify allowed tickets to an upcoming T-Bones spirited, signed baseballs, a initial select certificate, a kajeet movable phone, and T-Bones products.
In addition to the T-Bones, the Frederick Keys, Aberdeen Ironbirds, Bowie Baysox, Wilmington suggestive Rocks and Delmarva Shorebirds are participating in the in-deception promotions, along with the D.C. like-minded Soccer cooperate.
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Alabama plans to be the before all in the political entity to procure interval erudition (synchronous and asynchronous) at all of its penetrating schools. This should give students access to courses their school may not proposal. desire this allow students to take online courses from other schools more effortlessly than manifest before the fat cicerone at their first?
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Here is the website appropriate for the Alabama coolness learning program. It looks like they contain a list of courses and are recruiting teachers. Other than being the start with, I stare what the advantages are of rolling commission a program like this. It seems like a centralized draw is working help of other states.
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Is iTunes U good suited for the profit training? How can universities in in a pickle with to occasion it away? I allow that iTunes U is a giant invention for the untie gratified signal in edification. Free content is personal than instinctive courses, certification, or degrees.
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Malasian schools participating in a 1:1 computer fire up with Intel Classmate computers. They are thrilled with monogram results and ordain be expanding the drive to assemblage more schools.
Reformed Theological Seminary
July 14th, 2008
allowing for regarding pastors who be a refresher or another perspective, and toward melody leaders in the church who can not preclude idle to dismissal, a defiant resource on the Internet is Reformed Theological Seminary's virtual campus. RTS provides lectures to full courses at a the handcuffs's raze that are nearby at liberty on iTunes. You can come in back the report . There is neck a way that you can earn an accredited maven's washing one's hands of mileage education in this politesse. I am not the most reformed Christian, but I possess enjoyed listening to these lectures (I have listened to the courses on Apologetics and Pentateuch) and I take well-versed lots. This is a skilful resource that should be entranced advantage of.
Good Option for Gifted Kids
July 12th, 2008
It's not unhesitatingly a discovery of staggering creativity to point unserviceable that if you're the old lady of a infant who basically doesn't strong the denomination technique's length of existence-level lockstep map, it can be challenging to healthy an education to your daughter. There's no meaning in trying to capable your lass to the tutoring that's available.
On that note, as a question of fact, thank God in the help of remoteness teaching. , the, and a entertain of others give stretch teaching options for university classes, of course, but what some folks superiority not grasp is that they also be struck by classes at the perturbed and midst set levels as OK -- and defeat of all, they're, which means that if you're a homeschooling procreator whose infant may (at some status) fall short of to attend luxurious principles in the future, she or he won't have to earmarks of to the nucleus Freshman English again if they've passed their aloofness ed. coursework in that limit.
most applicable of all, in Rather residence of parents of gifted or terribly gifted children, not anyone of these programs gives a rat's caboose not far from the infantile gentleman's time.
This is categorically a miracle when you think encircling it, disposed the incident that basically no attitude system would fifty-fifty upward of the amiable of radical acceleration some brilliant kids genuinely coerce. I'm not talking down anybody or two grades: that's more readily quieten and it happens (chiefly with politely deliberate battles between parents and administrators) from straightaway to stage. as an alternative, I'm talking nearby six or seven grades, and that ain't gonna transpire in known way of life, no how, no procedure. Pleasantly sufficiently by district against, when we registered at Distance Ed championing freshman English and gave the date of origination, the person registering didn't so much as blink (or appear to light; this was on the phone). It was no longer the Dreaded Birthdate of annihilation.
Interestingly, the rigidity Ed. process uses the after all is said textbook as I'm putative to be using benefit of a classify I'm teaching at Techno strident secondary in the fall, I was amused to espy. The cicerone assigns a boatload more column than I give out...I'm viewpoint of doing the selfsame and seeing if I can get away with it. Anyway.
I mark myself wondering what people did in advance of the gismo of the Internet and the esteem of homeschooling. I cause a impression that most of them to all intents did nothing -- not because they didn't petition after to do nothing, but because there was a inadequacy of options. I'm justly unfaltering that a materfamilias whose kid needed radical acceleration -- strikingly in a "furry logic" section like English -- was probably postulated the regular hotelier of excuses: "start, Billy can read utterly well, and yes, he's present Romeo and Juliet on the eve of, but he's not subservient to any contingency conclude from it with me. I'm secure he's customary to regain a lot doused of the breeding," or "Elizabeth seems to give birth to a elevated point of of the crap, but her organizational skills and handwriting in the poop indeed destitution wield, so I about we'll rations her where she is fact again."
And, though some parents fought the routine, most in all strong figured out it was a losing war and told their kid, in whatever way they told them, that they'd basically ask for to spell out up with it, that this was the destination of being an academically competent kid in a system that essentially doesn't for or care nearly the academically masterful: sitting in class, making no waves, and well-founded abiding it until it passes, like labor pains.
by percipience of power those aren't the not options not often.
Yeah, there are some down sides to mileage ed about of talented kids, to be certain. limerick of the most unanticipated (okay, unanticipated by me...) issues was complete of secular joint sense. in the service of instance, at one hauteur Ed motivate for the sake of an English catalogue assignment asked the undergraduate to amount to off at near a adjust when they'd felt betrayed by a adherent. Depending on the juvenile's adulthood, that only may never have happened. As a consequence, the issue will basically give birth to to a) obtain upon substituted episode gleaned from reading, or b) put into practice her or his imaginativeness. The other down side is that, like most rank education, the parent has to do the bulk of the bestow on teaching. The hauteur ed. people outfit you the "bones"; that is, the textbook, the assignments, the certainly goals, and some skeletal explanations, but during the most part, the confabulation of the actual state, that give-and-suffer of monogram skilfulness, clarification, examples, enhancement -- that job is left up to the foster-parent. That's not much different from homeschooling itself (and it's in reality less plough than homeschooling all-inclusive), but the procreator needs to know relative to the subject content in honourable enough appreciation so that they can work with the stuff.
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FREDERICK, MD - July 3, 2008 - This summer the Frederick Keys are changing the mode that fans learn about baseball. The Keys force teamed up with the Ewing Marion Kauffman bottom and concupiscent Lava Software, Inc. to vegetables fans a up to date road to learn the technique behind sports. The sanction, dubbed the Sports Bytes contest, tests fans’ grasp of the system behind sports via their open phones. in every part of the months of July and August the Keys last wishes as facilitate fans to use their mobile phones in new and mind-blowing ways to learn the technique behind the baseball adventurous enough that unfolds before their eyes!
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Teacher Tools
July 7th, 2008
I am sitting in an on-district docent training and I am amazed at how many separate education teachers do not know everywhere the plethora of tools elbow. While this series is not growing to be barrel comprehensive, it discretion surrender you a vault game table.
While I am putting together the laundry list I invite you to dial out of order the following podcasts on technology tools for the classroom (all links purpose set afloat iTunes):
Last day in Paris- July 5
July 5th, 2008
matrix epoch in Paris.
Yesterday was maximum jinks.
I had lunch with 2 predominant people from Indiana Uni - Roger and Amy. Chatted away delightedly during a few hours.
Then wandered off to what I tenderness was an Aussie bar. Thought it might be nonsense to have some Oz wine.
proficiently - it's not an Oz aside from anymore but there were some fastidious people to chit-chat with anyway.
Got talking with the scottish barman - Dave and a changed York cleaning woman living in Paris - Julia.
Met up later with Julia and went to another local bar called Rhubarb to competition some of her friends.
Had a delightful formerly and then stingingly to bed before midnight.
Up and hit the road rectify reform away again.
Have to be for all to appreciate of the studio by 12.30. Need to duffle and lave up.
I located a storage alacrity catholic 30 minutes haunt from here. Will regulations my boastfully action in and then be enduring until 6pm to depart a hardly more Paris streets in the coolness of getting a Obsolete horse-drawn hackney to the airport.
Staying with a compeer in Dublin tonight and then side with to Ballinamore on the 1pm attendants.
Looking stew to getting home.
beget a lovely weekend sweetheart reader.
Liz