Carnival of Education Innovation #003

Welcome to the 3rd edition of the Carnival of Education Innovation.

For those who are new to the carnival, here’s a link to the first edition from a couple weeks ago, explaining how it works. We rely on your submissions for content. Submissions the last couple of weeks have been a little sparse, so if you see a great blog post or news article somewhere related to moving education forward, send it to us by 4pm each Monday to have it considered for the carnival.

Before we get to this week’s submissions, here are a few education innovation-related stories we’ve come across:

"SAT Scores Fall as Gap Widens; Asians Gain" - Wall Street Journal - 8/26/09
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125121641858657345.html?mod=igoogle_wsj_...

"grump, Grump, GRUMP" - Fordham's Flypaper Blog - 8/26/09
http://www.edexcellence.net/flypaper/index.php/2009/08/grump-grump-grump...

"U.S. students behind in math, science, analysis says" - CNN - 8/25/09
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/25/students.science.math/index.html

"Of master’s bumps, training and incentives" - EducationNews Colorado - 8/25/09
http://blog.ednewscolorado.org/?p=3035

"A shift lost in the shock" - ABCTE's Dave on Ed blog - 8/24/09
http://www.abcte.org/blog/2009/08/a-shift-lost-in-shock

"When a Gifted Teacher Has to Jump Through Hoops Just to Keep His Job, Change Is Needed" - The Washington Post - 8/24/09
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/23/AR200908...

"Teachers on ed degree’s value" - Joanne Jacobs - 8/24/09
http://joannejacobs.com/2009/08/24/teachers-on-ed-degrees-value/

And now for this week's submissions...

Scholarity presents Save the parents - digitize the textbook posted at Scholarity.

Katie Glennon presents Using Nature Study to Study all Areas of Science posted at Katie's Homeschool Cottage, saying, "You can study science the natural way by observing nature, including areas of biology, physics, and chemistry, and without textbooks."

Rick presents Variquest proves it’s OK to use paper sometimes posted at Education IT.

That's it for this week. If you have thoughts you want to share on anything you've read here, the comments section is open for discussion, or blog your thoughts and submit the entry for next week's carnival here: http://blogcarnival.com/bc/submit_7888.html.