Education Department Grants Money to Colleges to Help Strengthen Postsecondary Institutions

     The federal goverment finally is trying to help colleges around the nation. After budget cuts left and right plenty of colleges are suffering, this help comes just in time to help aliviate somehow their current finantial situation.    Education Department Awards $5.4 Million in Grants to 14 Institutions to Help Strengthen Postsecondary Institutions
A complete list of grantees follows, with first year funding:

Somerset Community College	KY	$383,561
Valencia College-West Campus	FL	$375,361
Central Carolina Community College	NC	$408,747
San Francisco State University	CA	$394,360
Renton Technical College	WA	$521,856
Bay Path College	MA	$399,957
Lehigh Carbon Community College	PA	$401,074
Orange County Community College	NY	$392,669
Fairmont State University	WV	$399,117
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro	NC	$398,586
Williston State College	ND	$399,900
Community College of Allegheny County	PA	$311,314
Monroe Community College	NY	$400,000
Saint Joseph’s College	IN	$299,160
TOTAL		$5,485,662

Two more for blog role

This comment article that I found in the internet is a very clear example of how education now is more politics that education itself. Polictics role on education is harming the process education for children. For instance in Chicago ,IL the teacher's union have desided to go in strike and now republicans and democrats are taking sides.

                                                                                    

                                                                                    "But how will it play in the presidential campaign?

Already, Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee, put out a statement saying he's "disappointed" by the union's decision to strike, and that Obama has picked his dog in this political fight (the unions)".  However are the teachers right? or not. I think they

are because, a teacher should not be evaluated based only on the test scores of the children of his class. In some classrooms there are a diversity of learners including children with special needs who will not perform as good as their average peers, therefore how we expect to evaluate a teacher vased only on the results of a standarized test? Goverment have to come up with a more realistic way to evaluate the teacher's performance.

Education in African countries

 A typical classroom in a poor country looks bout like this,
 lack of resources has become perhaps the greatest obstacle for teachers in poor countries. If you want to know more click herehttp://www.un.org/en/africarenewal/subjindx/123educ.htm

                                                                     

 My Beliefs about Technology and Learning  

I think that the use of technology in the classroom is a great tool for the education if the children and young adults. In today's world we need to make sure that students are really well prepared to face all those new technology advancements that occur almost every day.

 In order to do so we have to provide them with the right tools by incorporating in our classrooms the best technology that we can. However, some school districts can not afford the newest technology, therefore we need to find the way to grant equal access to technology to all students and schools despite their socioeconomic status.