Microsoft's Takeover Of TEACH Website Noted

Chuck Lawton writes at Wired (11/14) about last week's Microsoft Partners in Learning Global Forum event, at which Education Secretary Arne Duncan "announced that the DOE's TEACH campaign will be taken over by Microsoft. This site, a marketing effort aimed at recruiting new teachers, will be moved from its current home at teach.gov to a new site, teach.org." Lawton notes that Microsoft aims to recruit private-sector support for the program. Lawton notes that in its current form, the TEACH website has some useful links, but "there didn't seem to be a lot of targeted information for me for finding a job in Wisconsin." However, he praises some of the site's mechanics and expresses the hope that Microsoft will make further improvements.