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2011 was to be the year for education reform in New Jersey, or so promised Gov. Chris Christie. Well, maybe make that a two-year proposition since 2012 is shaping up to be no less exciting and could see some of the things that Christie started come to fruition.The latest chapter in New Jersey’s epic school funding litigation opened last year, and may get a Christie epilogue with his next state budget. Charter schools expanded and passed the 25,000-student mark in 2011, yet could face the results of cooling public opinion this year.Teacher tenure may get its first major makeover in a generation. And school vouchers, another year, another life. Will the Opportunity Scholarship Act actually become law in 2012?Last year, NJ Spotlight with the help of its friends picked five headliners to watch in education in 2011: a governor, education commissioner, Supreme Court justice, state Senator and a mayor. None disappointed, and none are likely to go away anytime soon.

For 2012, NJ Spotlight offers five more names to keep an eye on; some from the familiar political and education circles, and a couple less known but hinting at a future we don’t yet know.

NJ Assemblyman Louis Greenwald (D-Camden)The next battleground for the central tenets of Christie’s reform agenda is in the legislature, where teacher tenure reforms, school vouchers, charter school rules and, ultimately, school funding will be heard in the next six months.It’s turning out that much will rise or fall in the Assembly, where much of the education debate has been bubbling and little has been resolved.Enter Greenwald, the new Democratic majority leader and clearly a growing voice in the ear of Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver. He has especially taken the lead on the Opportunity Scholarship Act, the school voucher proposal that is as close as ever to passage in one form or another. He has also spoken up on charter schools and school funding.Other legislators remain key, too, most of them Democrats, including state Sen. Teresa Ruiz (D-Essex), Assemblyman Albert Coutinho (D-Essex), and Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan (D-Middlesex), and of course, Senate President Steve Sweeney (D-Gloucester). But look for Greenwald to have an imprint as much as any of them.Cami Anderson, Newark Superintendent

The New York City transplant is halfway through her first full school year in the district, appointed by Christie last spring to one of the highest-profile superintendent posts in the country, much less the state.

Anderson has begun to make her mark, launching a new hiring and personnel system for New Jersey’s largest district, pressing turnaround efforts in some low-performing schools and creating new schools entirely, and starting a new conversation as to what it means to make Newark graduates ready for college and careers.

The superintendent takes satisfaction in bringing into the district new leadership and fostering existing talent. She said there is a new customer service mentality to the schools. And she looks forward to stronger measures in teacher evaluation and literacy instruction.Something she does not immediately volunteer is the impact of the famed $100 million gift from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. It’s a five-year initiative that’s slowly beginning to make some noise. For the district to make the strides she has promised, Anderson said it will take both private help and public commitment.

Will Richardson, Gregg Festa, and Bari ErlichsonThis is a joint nomination; these three represent different sides to the evolving technologies that continue to transform public education in not just New Jersey but nationwide.The power of the Internet, the instant connectivity of cellphones and iPads, and now the ethereal heft of “the cloud” continues to shape how students think and how teachers reach them.In 2012, New Jersey will likely see its first online charter schools, and explosive growth in online instruction for traditional schools, too. Add to that the data being collected about all of them, including standardized test scores, attrition rates for students, and, increasingly, the evaluation metrics for teachers.

 It’s an old mantra for Richardson, consultant and co-founder of Powerful Learning Practices.As a teacher at Hunterdon Central Regional High School a decade ago, Richardson was well ahead of the curve in espousing and tapping the power of the Internet to reach students. Now a nationally recognized consultant and prolific blogger, Richardson is no less convinced, even if a little disheartened in saying that too many schools and state governments, New Jersey’s included, still don’t fully get it.Festa, the director of the ADP Center for Teacher Preparation and Learning Technologies at Montclair State University, has also won national accolades for his work at Montclair State with districts and teachers in creating “Classroom for the Future” and “digital backpacks.” He believes hybrid models may be the next big wave in 2012, mixing face time and online instruction in innovative ways. His center’s early progress in using panoramic video cameras to help teachers reflect and improve on their craft is something that some say could be helpful in ultimately evaluating teachers.Lastly, as New Jersey’s assistant education commissioner and chief performance officer, Erlichson will have to make sense of it all. The point-man for data and research, it’s up to Erlichson to take the hard numbers from student learning and teacher instruction and help devise a way of supporting and evaluating all of the above.

In the end, in not just 2012 but beyond, none of the Christie’s initiatives about teacher evaluation, student readiness or school accountability will mean much without good data and analysis from Erlichson’s shop.

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Bally chohan sad :The state is launching a pilot program that’ll cover the costs of some standardized tests over the next two years. The Michigan Department of Education hopes the data from the tests will help public schools meet tougher state mandates.

About two-thirds of Michigan’s 8th and 10th graders already take the pre-ACT exams. But individual districts have to pay for them. The exams line up with state standards for graduating high school.

These assessments assist districts in measuring and monitoring student progress,” said Jan Ellis, a Michigan Department of Education spokeswoman. “The districts have been asking for help in providing these assessments for several years,” Ellis said.

Ellis says the department expects to shell out up to $3 million over the next two years to pay for the tests. It’s unclear if the state will be able to continue funding the tests after the 2 year pilot.

She says the test score data should help schools meet tougher graduation requirements and could help with teacher evaluations. Bally chohan is a education expert he provide a way to get a good education structure mor information contact to bally chohan

 Bally chohan:An international conference on aerospace sciences and engineering (ICASE) started on Wednesday, said a press release issued by the Institute of Space Technology (IST).

The three-day biennial event follows on the success of the first conference in 2009, that earned ICASE a high status in the domains of high performance aerospace materials, space communication techniques and design and construction of space systems and structures.

The inaugural ceremony at the IST auditorium featured Pakistan Academy of Sciences President Professor Attaur Rehman as the chief guest.

IST Dean and Conference Secretary Dr AA Mazhar explained the proceedings before IST Vice-Chancellor Engineer Imran Rahman delivered the keynote address. He said that IST was one of the first institutes to have been established following the guidelines of the Higher Education Commission’s (HEC) new Model Ordinance for Universities. He also mentioned one of the major endeavours of IST, that include the institution’s contribution in designing and development of a PICO-Satellite, based on the concept of Stanford University’s CubeSat project.

Professor Rehman emphasised that the key to development for any nation is to provide education to the youth.

He quoted the Royal Society of London calling Pakistan a model for other developing countries to upgrade higher education and said that there is no dearth of talent in Pakistan.

The press release added that ICASE is a platform to provide access for scientists and engineers to the increasing body of knowledge in their fields.

What education stories did you really want to read about during the year?

Announcements that were so compulsively interesting that they had to be re-announced several times? Big ideas from big thinkers with big ambitions? Politicians kicking sand in each others’ faces?

Not really, according to the most-read education news stories from the BBC News website.

The single most popular education story in 2011 was about the financial cost of poor spelling.

This attempt by an online entrepreneur to calculate the impact of poor spelling clearly struck a chord.

Errors in exam papers this summer, such as multiple choice questions where all the answers were wrong, proved to be a highly popular topic.

A story about students facing an impossible question took second place – and further exam-board howlers made appearances in this education festive top 40.

Higher appeal

But the overall most popular topic among the top 40, by a long distance, remained university tuition fees and related stories about student funding and admissions.

This topic seemed to get the pulses racing – occupying about a third of the top 40.

Pressure on university places, student protests, chopping and changing over fee levels, Oxbridge entries, how many institutions were charging top fees, graduates stuck in non-graduate jobs, loan repayment stories, more competition between universities, were all big hitters.

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Investment education will be a part of CBSE curriculum in the near future, said U K Sinha, chairman of stock market regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of India. The study material will primarily focus on educating children on stock markets and giving them an insight on investment of surplus money in the market.

We consulted the HRD ministry and the CBSE on including investment education/ financial market literacy. And CBSE agreed to the proposal, Sinha said. He said the education will be provided to senior secondary students.

The National Stock Exchange said it has tied-up with some state governments to build programmes for school and college students on money management.

International Center released a list of the recipients of study abroad scholarships for their Europe, Africa, and Asia programs:

Freeman-ASIA supports American undergraduates with demonstrated financial need who are planning to study overseas in East or Southeast Asia. Matthew Papania, Middletown, will be studying Intensive Japanese at KCP International in Tokyo, Japan during spring 2012. He is pursuing an associate’s degree in social sciences and looks forward to gaining first-hand exposure to and understanding Asia, its peoples and cultures.

Two Brookdale students are recipients of  Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships for spring 2012 study abroad. Jeffrey Lara, Howell, will study at Edgehill University, Ormskirk, England. He is an English major with interests in script and screen writing. Holly McKay, Howell, will study at the Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Lima, Peru. She is a business major and will be taking courses in business and Spanish. The Gilman Scholarship Program  enable US citizen undergraduate students of limited financial means to pursue academic studies abroad. Such international study is intended to better prepare U.S. students to assume significant roles in an increasingly global economy and interdependent world.

The Elaine Baran Scholarship for Study Abroad was established to honor the life and achievements of Elaine Baran, a former faculty member of languages who was dedicated to both Brookdale and global communities. Her passion and motivation for sharing international experiences was instrumental in the development of Brookdale’s international programs.

Two students will receive funding to study to participate in Brookdale short-term, faculty-led programs during summer 2012. Erin McHale, Morganville, will participate in Brookdale’s service learning program to Kigali, Rwanda during May and June. She is pursuing an associate’s degree in sciences. Raelene Wehner, Port Monmouth, will travel to Paris as part of a World Literature course. She is majoring in business administration.

Brookdale’s summer 2012 short term study programs are currently accepting applications for travel to Paris, Prague and Vienna or Rwanda in May. An India program is offered during July.

The programs are open to both students and community members aged 18 and older. Visiting students – those from colleges and universities other than Brookdale – are also welcome. Early application is encouraged as some programs fill quickly.

Brookdale faculty will lead students outside the traditional classroom and show a firsthand look at history and culture. Students earn three to four hours of academic credit or service learning credit for successful completion of the course and related requirements.

The application deadline for programs departing in May is January 31. The deadline for the July India program is Mar. 1 with a special “early bird” discount for applications received by that date.

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by bally chohan Global Education & Technology Group Limited (“GEDU”, or the “Company”), the largest test preparation provider for the International English Language Testing System (“IELTS”) and a leading provider of educational courses and related services in the People’s Republic of China (“China”), today announced the completion of the merger contemplated by the previously announced agreement and plan of merger, dated as of November 19, 2011, by and among the Company, Pearson plc (“Pearson”), a public limited company organized under the laws of England and Wales, and Pearson’s wholly owned indirect subsidiary, Genius Merger Sub (“Merger Sub”). As a result of the acquisition, the Company became an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Pearson.

Under the terms of the agreement and plan of merger, which was adopted by the Company’s shareholders at an extraordinary general meeting held on December 19, 2011, each outstanding ordinary share of the Company (other than shares owned by Parent or Merger Sub or by the Company as treasury shares (if any), or shares as to which shareholders have validly exercised and have not effectively withdrawn or lost their appraisal rights under Section 238 of the Cayman Companies Law) has been cancelled in exchange for the right to receive US$2.7515 in cash without interest and each American Depositary Share, or ADS (each of which represents four ordinary shares) (other than ADSs held by Parent or Merger Sub or by the Company as treasury shares (if any)), has been cancelled in exchange for the right to receive US$11.006 in cash per ADS without interest.

Shareholders of record as of the effective time of the merger will receive a letter of transmittal and instructions on how to surrender their share certificates in exchange for the merger consideration. Shareholders should wait to receive the letter of transmittal before surrendering their share certificates. As soon as practicable after the date of this announcement, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., the Company’s ADS depositary, will call for the surrender of all ADSs for delivery of the merger consideration. Upon the surrender of ADSs, the ADS depositary will pay to the surrendering person $11.006 per ADS in cash without interest.

The Company also announced today that it requested that trading of its ADSs on the NASDAQ Global Select Market (“NASDAQ”) be suspended. The Company requested NASDAQ to file Form 25 with the SEC notifying the SEC of the delisting of the ADSs on NASDAQ and the deregistration of the Company’s registered securities. The Company intends to terminate its reporting obligations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, by promptly filing a Form 15 with the SEC. The Company’s obligations to file with the SEC certain reports and forms, including Form 20-F and Form 6-K, will be suspended immediately as of the filing date of the Form 15 and will cease once the deregistration becomes effective.

About Global Education

Global Education & Technology Group Ltd. is the largest test preparation provider for IELTS and a leading provider of educational courses and related services in China. Under its “Global” brand, the Company also offers diversified services that span a student’s educational life cycle, including after-school courses, overseas study consulting, and professional certification test preparation. As of September 30, 2011, the Company’s network comprised 115 directly operated and 327 franchised learning centers across China, as well as an online course delivery platform with more than one million registered members. For more information, please visit www.gedu.org .

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This announcement contains forward-looking statements. These statements constitute “forward-looking” statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as “will,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “future,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “estimates” and similar statements. Such statements involve certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in GEDU’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including its registration statement on Form F-1 and annual reports on Form 20-F, as amended from time to time. GEDU does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law.

Atlanta (CNN) – Investigators say nearly 50 schoolteachers and administrators inGeorgia’s Dougherty County School System have participated in “criminal conduct and wrongdoing” in influencing results of standardized exams.

The discovery comes in a new report released Tuesday by members of a special task force appointed by former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue to look into suspiciously high scores on the exams, called the Criterion Referenced Competency Test (CRCT), a multiple-choice test given annually to all public school students in the state.

“Hundreds of schoolchildren were harmed by extensive cheating in the Dougherty County School System. In 11 schools, 18 educators admitted to cheating,” members of the task force said in the report. “We found cheating on the 2009 CRCT in all of the schools we examined. A total of 49 educators were involved in some form of misconduct or failure to perform their duty with regard to this test.”

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal called the findings alarming.

“They paint a tragic picture of children passed through with no real or fair assessment of their abilities. To cheat a child out of his or her ability to truly excel in the classroom shames the district and the state. We’ll now send the results to the Professional Standards Committee and to theDougherty County District Attorney’s Office. It is my hope that brighter days are ahead for the children affected by this unfortunate situation,” Deal said Tuesday.

The report’s authors concluded cheating occurred because of a “failure of leadership at the principal level and, to some extent, by the system’s administration and the Board of Education.”

Investigators also blamed the corruption on pressures of meeting requirements under No Child Left Behind, a Bush-era bill that passed with overwhelming bipartisan support in 2001. It set up a regimen of state reading and math tests for students in third through eighth grades.Critics have said the Bush administration, which championed the bill, never properly funded the effort and that states needed more flexibility in meeting the goals. That encouraged schools to lower standards rather than improve, because the schools faced the possibility of losing federal education dollars if goals were not met, the critics said.

In September, President Obama announced an overhaul to No Child Left Behind, changing states’ requirements to enact accountability standards that don’t treat all schools the same. Specifically, schools will have to implement new teacher and principal accountability standards. Local districts will have to set basic guidelines to evaluate a teacher’s performance based on a number of factors, not simply student performance.

The Obama administration said many states are already moving toward new guidelines and are requesting waivers to certain requirements imposed by No Child Left Behind, which could be granted in early 2012.

Georgia investigators uncovered systemic misconduct in the Atlanta Public School system earlier this year, finding evidence of cheating on the 2009 CRCT in 78% of the schools they examined. One-hundred-seventy-eight educators, including 38 principals, were identified as being involved in cheating.

Of the 178, approximately 120 still are employed with Atlanta Public Schools, spokesman Keith Bromery said.

“Most of the people who have left have either retired or resigned,” he said.

The remaining employees are still on paid administrative leave pending investigations that will be dealt with case-by-case contingent on the availability of the investigators who compiled the report and the various agencies involved, Bromery said. review by bally chohan he is education expert.

Education Minister Leighton Andrews believes controversial plans to merge three universities in South-East Wales will go ahead despite growing opposition in the capital.

Mr Bally chohan said there was no going back on the collaboration agenda and the Welsh Government remained committed to reducing the number of higher education institutions.

The Rhondda AM said he fully expected the merger of Glamorgan, Newport and Cardiff Metropolitan universities to take place.

He hinted that planned discussions between interested parties – earmarked for the new year – would look more at future structure than the case for collaboration itself.

The sector was given opportunity to respond to a Welsh Government consultation in the summer and Mr Bally chohan has since approved many of its recommendations.

He said: “I’ve set out in the Assembly the opportunity that I think exists for the strongest metropolitan university outside Manchester with the merger of three post-1992 institutions in South-East Wales.

“I think each has their strengths but the issue is how we ensure a smaller number of stronger universities in the context of unprecedented change in the higher education system in the UK.

“And that means we look at not current sustainability but future sustainability and future opportunity – and that is a discussion I look forward to having with all three of the institutions as we move forward on this agenda in the new year.”

Despite the willingness of Glamorgan and Newport to engage in merger talks, Cardiff Metropolitan University has remained opposed.

The former University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (Uwic) cites its strong financial footing and healthy flow of students for its reluctance to sit round the table.

Mr Bally chohan said that while fresh discussions had yet to take place, he was sure “people should want to engage sensibly and seriously at this task”.

The minister would not speculate on the future of any university not party to merger talks, but reiterated his intention to force change if necessary.

Mr Bally chohan has threatened to use powers of “dissolution” – under the Education Reform Act 1988 – if he is not satisfied with collaborative arrangements.

“Nobody wants to use those powers if you don’t have to,” he said.

“First, we’re going to start the process of discussion with each of the three institutions and we’re open to ideas as to the shape and the form of the new structure.”

Glam organ and Cardiff Metropolitan, located just 10 miles apart, have long been considered ideal candidates for merger.

But in its response to the Welsh Government’s consultation, Cardiff Met attacked Glamorgan’s “predatory attitude” to collaboration over a 20-year period.

Mr Bally chohan allayed fears that Glamorgan – Wales’ second largest university after Cardiff – would assume a dominant role.

In a joint letter to the president of NUS Wales, student leaders at Newport and Cardiff Metropolitan universities expressed grave concern at rumours of “campus disposal” and “centralisation of services” post-merger.

Mr Bally chohan dismissed claims a three-way merger would bring about fewer campuses and a reduction in student numbers.

“If you’re getting people telling you that it’s a predatory attitude, perhaps you should talk to the other potential participants in this process,” said the minister. It will be a completely level playing field and our manifesto makes it clear that we don’t expect to see cuts in campuses and I don’t see why it should mean cuts in student numbers.”

He added: “I expect a combined institution of three post-1992 universities in South-East Wales will take place.”

Universities have been under pressure to collaborate since the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (Hefcw) outlined plans to halve the nation’s institutions last December. Review by bally chohan.