Enjoy a dozen stunning images of American Wildflowers with this wall calendar. Each month includes an informative paragraph on the featured wildflower.

LastPass CEO Explains Possible Hack | PCWorld The CEO of password management company LastPass says it’s highly unlikely hackers gained access to his millions of users’ data–but that he doesn’t want to take any chances. tags: hack ceo lastpass explains Cheating Poll Common Sense Media’s groundbreaking new study, conducted in partnership with The Benenson Strategy [...]

“U.S. Warns Schools Against Checking Immigration Status” is the headline of a New York Times article this morning. Here’s how it begins: Federal officials issued a memorandum to the nation’s school districts on Friday saying it was against the law for education officials to seek information that might reveal the immigration status of children applying [...]

Wisconsin recalls hit deadline: Where things stand is the headline of a Washington Post headline reporting on the latest news out of the campaign by teachers and other public workers. And things are really looking interesting… I’m adding the link to The Best Resources For Learning About Attacks On Teachers & Other Public Sector Workers In Wisconsin. [...]

The principal with the belly ballooning from his crisp, blue shirt is a former coach and athlete.

Eric Stoller

Scrible is a new service offering a nice set of tools for highlighting, annotating, and bookmarking webpages. Scribble offers browser bookmarklets for Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer. With the Scrible bookmarklet installed, anytime you're on a page just click the bookmarklet to launch a menu of bookmarking tools. The Scrible tool set includes highlighters, sticky notes, and font change tools. When you annotate and bookmark a page in Scrible it is saved as it appeared to you when you were done altering it. And as you would expect from a web-based bookmarking tool, you can share your bookmarked pages with others.

Learn more about Scrible from its CEO in the following interview with Robert Scoble.

Image via WikipediaDespite the growth of broad-band internet and the increases of online learning, the correspondence model of distance education is still going. According to Wikipedia, distance education dates to around 1728 when an advertisement in...(read more)

Sorry to report that there is nothing much to say about Wednesday, May 4. The day went just as it should. Check back later! =) Read More......(read more)

Day 157 was Cinco de Mayo. We did a few things to learn about the day. First, we viewed a short video on Brainpop Jr. . (For those of you not familiar, Brainpop Jr. is a website that provides short videos, quizzes, and activities on all topics for students...(read more)

Today we worked on Mother's Day projects. I know some teachers do theirs a few days ahead, but I find that sometimes little ones have a hard time keeping a secret, so I do mine a day or two before the weekend. I've done various projects through the years,...(read more)

Tribute to Derek K. Miller of http://penmachine.com

Doane (doan) College in Nebraska has named an administrator from the University of New England in Maine as its next president.

The state has given a stamp of approval to an Ohio liberal-arts college that was purchased by an alumni group in 2009 after it closed due to financial problems, state and school officials said Friday.

Members of Ohio's largest teachers' union have agreed to a one-time, $54 dues increase to pay for the fight against Ohio's new collective bargaining law.

A Nebraska lawmaker said Friday he will try to revive a vetoed bill that would add energy efficient projects to a list of school health and safety issues that fall under a special school district taxing authority.

The U.S. Department of Education sent a letter to districts around the country Friday, reminding them that all students -- legal or not -- are entitled to a public education.

Why Can't Public Schools Serve Poor People Better, Like Supermarkets Do? Scocca: Holding up the supermarket industry as a model for the equitable distribution of life's necessities is like holding up the NFL as a model of gender parity... (PLUS: An Ed Reform Metaphor More Idiotic than RiShawn Biddle's "Hollywood Model")... This Standardized Testing Story Will Break Your Heart GOOD: Although most places probably don't allow a student all day to take the state test, the video is a reminder that sometimes what seems like sound educational policy to many adults often isn't what's best for kids... We Are Not Going To Charter School Our Way Out Of This Beachwood Reporter: The candidate for the elite got elected while the candidate for everyone got pummeled... Faulty Towers: The Crisis in Higher Education The Nation: “I won’t talk to students about graduate school anymore,” he explained. “Going to grad school’s a suicide mission.”... A Call to Arms for Education Innovation Jim Kohlmoos: See this excellent Huffington Post commentary by Alliance member Bob Slavin of Johns Hopkins and the Success for All Foundation touting the ground breaking potential of the administration’s ARPA-ED proposal for FY12...

I frequently feel like when I'm arguing education with people, we end up talking about middle class peoples' concerns about their own schools. - Megan McCardle (The Atlantic)

Things I don’t want to be. Poultry processor (look it up… it will make you a vegetarian like the Tech Queen). Newspaper reporter (this is not going to end well). Roustabout (again, look it up). Garbage man (the work is [...]

Odalis Polanco will graduate today from Northeastern University. Sitting at the small blue table in his Northeastern University dorm room, Odalis Polanco could not help but marvel at how the collision of chance and choice shaped his life.

Go here to join next week’s Education Buzz Carnival, which will be hosted by Bellringers. The deadline for entries is Saturday afternoon.

Amidst the rancorous debate around the national debt, federal spending and state budgets, it’s important to keep in mind that our budgets ultimately reflect our values. And considering the heavy cuts that state funding for education has taken in the past three years, we have to ask: Are we investing in our children’s futures? This [...]

Russia has had a very checkered history and is a country that many people find interesting. It is a state in Northern Europe and shares borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, the People's Republic of China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It has shares sea borders with Japan and the United States. Its capital city of Russia is Moscow. Russia has a population of approximately 142,905,200 people and the official language of the country is Russian.

Thanks to everyone who participated in last week’s #SAchat focused on Professional Development During the Summer. Our chat produced 607 tweets from student affairs professionals, graduate students and undergraduates interested or working in the Student Affairs field!  During this chat, we discussed both previous and ideal professional development opportunities, shared summer reading recommendations, challenges to [...]

Jeannie Norris announced on April 22 that she will leave Miss Hall’s School effective June 2012. In a letter to the community, she explains that the announcement is not sudden, but, rather, a natural evolution for which she, and the the MHS trustees, have been planning. Her letter also captures that lasting affects and power [...]

A wrap-up of a week that featured an outpouring of news and opinion on this topic, with links to the best Times and Learning Network resources for teaching about its significance.

UCLA’s Anderson School of Management is one of the top-ranked business school in the world, and we get inquiries about it from prospective applicants all the time. If you’re reading this, odds are that you’re interested in Anderson, too. But, … Continue reading →

I started writing this thinking “Wow, I have had a hard day!” I did not recognize several of my children today, they came in disagreeable, grumpy and so not with the program. I had a little hint, that it was going to be rough, when it took me almost an...(read more)

Only $2.00 Free if you use my $5 Coupon and enter TEACHERLOVE at checkout! No Min. Purchase, so grab a few other things you like, too! Link to the Game: http://www.teacherebooksnow.com/downloads/end-of-the-year-classroom-feud-game.html?affid=104115 Link...(read more)

Zulily has these 4 pack of workbooks of Pre-K thru 5th grade for $8.99! Read More......(read more)

Last night was our spring kindergarten concert. There isn’t much more entertaining than watching a gaggle of sprouts sing their heart out in their Sunday finest... even if the silly songs get stuck in your head. As I stood backstage waiting for them each...(read more)

WOWEE!!!! Check it out! Zulily has ALL of these Elmo furniture for only $84.99!! You get the Elmo bed, table with chairs, AND toy storage shelf with nine bins!! If my youngest son had his own room I would buy this in a heartbeat- he LOVES Elmo!!! Head...(read more)

Demonstrate the application of scientific principles with T ryScience's Extreme Challenge , which combines students' interest in extreme sports with science. By exploring the site, they can learn why traveling on a snowboard in a crouched position is...(read more)

In celebration of this weekend's Mother's Day, Disney's announcing the release of the intergalactic adventure MARS NEEDS MOMS on Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray 2D, and DVD September 9th! And as an added bonus, Earthling children are given some Mars Needs Moms coupons...(read more)

Welcome to a new feature on O’DonnellWeb. I’ll be posting a review of a newish rock record every Friday. Even I’m getting bored with all the serious education theory around here. This week, we are talking about This is Gonna Hurt, the new record from Sixx AM, which is the side project from Motley Crue [...]

This being Teacher Appreciation Week, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan felt obligated to say something nice about teachers and did so in a commentary piece for Education Week, a publication few teachers read (or even know exists). More than a few educators responded online to his disingenuous mash of cliches and excuses with open letters of… Continue reading »

CertificationMap.com, the group that tracks what is required to get a teaching certificate in each of the 50 states, also does information graphics from time to time. Got this one from them today:  A map on how states are spending less on education in 2010 than in 2009. The map should change dramatically when 2011 [...]

Mark Twain, who had covered Congress as a reporter, once quipped: Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.* Our friend and correspondent Jim Kessler writes of a run-in he had with the staff of Congressman Peter King (Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee): A day [...]

The Washington Post Co. said Friday that its first-quarter earnings dropped because enrollment fell at its Kaplan for-profit colleges. The company said the Kaplan division's income will fall sharply for the rest of the year.

Kansas legislators broke off negotiations Friday over a $14 billion budget, with dozens of big differences unresolved and the House and Senate still haggling over building up the state's cash reserves.

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper on Friday signed into law a state budget for next year that trims spending and will likely force teacher layoffs and the closure of some schools and state parks.

Public school boosters and business groups announced Friday the formation of a new coalition supporters say will keep the pressure on the Legislature to keep an extra penny on the sales tax to prevent deep cuts and thousands of job losses in education.

Thousands of faith schools in England could become academies, a leading Church of England bishop is predicting.

A proposed constitutional amendment that would repeal Florida's ban on state aid to churches and other religious organizations faces a final vote in the Senate Friday.

As lawmakers worked on the budget, more protestors gathered outside the Statehouse on Thursday.

As the accolades pour in for the education overhaul approved by the Indiana General Assembly, one question isn't being asked: What evidence do you have that any of this will work? Steve Hinnefeld, a Bloomington-based blogger, did ask.

Westport Superintendent of Schools Elliott Landon told the Sunrise Rotary Club today that he is neither a "positivist" nor an optimist about the ability of America's educational system to compete with China and other growth cultures without significant changes.