EdWeek Update: Education Aid Emerging as Campaign Issue

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	Special Notice to Education Week Print Subscribers TODAY'S TOP STORY Education Aid Emerging as Campaign Issue As the party conventions near, Rep. Paul Ryan's budget plan spurs debate on support for K-12 and colleges. • Politics K-12 Blog: Obama: Ryan Budget 'Wrong' Direction for K-12 Funding For more stories, visit Education Week's homepage. Advertisement Buy New VmathLive® Now & Save 15%! New VmathLive® is finally here! More action, new avatars and a graphic-rich environment to motivate, engage and keep your students coming back for more. Get your students ready for the 2012-2013 Math Mania Season and SAVE 15% off your purchase. Offer ends 09/11/2012. Enter and Save MATHMANIA15 TODAY'S COMMENTARY Rethinking Teacher Compensation Teacher pension systems need a significant overhaul, write Laura Overdeck, Arthur Levine, and Christopher Daggett. View more Commentaries from Education Week. Follow Education Week Commentary @EdWeekComm Advertisement Stage a memorable staff development experience with School Play, an award-winning documentary film that reveals the profound impact of knowing and nurturing students, both at school and at home. The PD Guide provides options for both full- and half-day workshops, discussion questions, handouts, and more. Click here for details! TODAY'S MUST-READ Commentary Blending High School and Higher Ed. for STEM Stanley Litow of IBM says the nation needs more innovative, STEM-focused schools. Preview by clicking headline, or subscribe for full access. MORE NEWS Students With Special Needs Staying in Traditional Schools (August 20, 2012, Associated Press) State-Local Standoff Over Charters in Tenn. (August 17, 2012, Charters & Choice Blog) Judge Rules Kansas City Student Transfers Violate State Law (August 17, 2012, District Dossier Blog) Middle Income Students Incur Highest Student-Loan Debt (August 20, 2012, College Bound Blog) Calif. School Districts Embrace Transitional Kindergarten (August 17, 2012, Early Years Blog) Fla. Cheating Probe Implicates One School, Inconclusive for Others (August 17, 2012, State EdWatch Blog) Bookshare Plans to Make Graphics, Math in Books More Accessible (August 20, 2012, On Special Education Blog) Pittsburgh Steeler Covers District's Pay-to-Play Fees (August 17, 2012, Schooled in Sports Blog) MORE VIEWS Education, Not the Economy, Is the Most Important Issue (August 20, 2012, John Wilson Unleashed Blog) How to Get Kids to Work as a Team If the Adults Around Them Can't (August 18, 2012, Finding Common Ground Blog) Should Your School Replace Textbooks With Ereaders? (August 18, 2012, Vander Ark on Innovation Blog) Confusing Standards and Pedagogy (August 17, 2012, On Performance Blog) Competition Won't Work in Schools (August 20, 2012, Walt Gardner's Reality Check Blog) OUR COMMUNITY Comment of the Day The continued adversarial relationship between home education and public education is useless, pointless, and immature. —Susan.R • View this comment and respond. Weekly Forum Discussion Teaching: There's an App for That What are your favorite online teaching tools? What online resources, if any, have made your job easier? And how have you used them to improve your teaching? • Share your thoughts. Follow EdWeek on Twitter and Facebook for the latest news and insight.		WEBINAR TOMORROW Managing the Print-to-Digital Transition Tomorrow at 2 p.m. ET Officials, educators, and publishers have pushed for schools to replace print textbooks with e-texts and digital content, to save money and improve learning in the process. 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