One out of five state school superintendents have joined a group that his national foundation created, Chiefs for Change, to rally behind a common agenda.
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Jeb Bush Finds New Role as Education Adviser - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Mr. Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in Education. The nonprofit group received contributions of $2.9 million in 2009, from the foundations of Bill Gates and Eli Broad, among others, and for-profit education technology companies.
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By eighth grade, Florida students begin to lose their advantage on the NAEP, and by 12th grade, they fall behind national averages.
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Gerard Robinson (the Secretary of Education in Virginia) joined Chiefs for Change... along with a number of other governors from the south. Oh, yes and Chris Christy.
Education Week: Poll: Students Grade High School Down, College Up - 2 views
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A majority say their school wasn't good at helping them choose a field of study, aiding them in finding the right college or vocational school or assisting them in coming up with ways to pay for more schooling.
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getting students ready for work remains central to high schools' mission.
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most young people say their school didn't do a good job of preparing them for work or helping them choose a future career.
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What Did We Learn From the Cathie Black Debacle? - Bridging Differences - Education Week - 0 views
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education is not interchangeable with business. Education is not a business. It is supposed to provide good education to all children, not to segment its market and compete with others in the marketplace. It operates on the principle of equality of educational opportunity, not a race to see who can sell the most or win the biggest market share and beat out the others.
Events - Chief Learning Officer, "Preparing Your Workforce for Tomorrow's Challenges" - 0 views
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A webinar to explain how businesses--and some universities--approach education...
Education cuts coming, but fewer than GOP wanted - Washington Times - 1 views
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Striving Readers, a program to boost literacy rates among middle- and high-school students, takes a $250 million hit,
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some programs not only were spared but will get more money than the administration was looking for. The Teaching of Traditional American History, designed to help fund classes devoted to U.S. history, will lose $73 million from 2010 levels but will get $46 million more this year than the administration requested.
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Adult education will be cut by $31 million
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Rita M. Solnet: Scorecard of Latest Education Deforms in the Sunshine State - 0 views
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Even if this is distorted and only half of the information is true... the education reform initiatives enacted by the new governor are atrocious. Yet, you gotta wonder... didn't the voters realize that you reap what you sow? What were they thinking when they elected the man who was CEO of the company that was fined $1.7B--the largest fine of its kind in history--for Medicare and Medicaid fraud? Ethics and social justice were clearly not part of his vocabulary.
Educate or incarcerate? NAACP pushes states to shift priorities. - CSMonitor.com - 0 views
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Better education can save society money in the long run, “but our refusal to make sane investments in these kids has led to an explosion in the costs of our criminal justice system,” says Amy Wilkins, vice president for government affairs at Education Trust, a nonprofit that focuses on narrowing the achievement gap.
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Better education can save society money in the long run, "but our refusal to make sane investments in these kids has led to an explosion in the costs of our criminal justice system," says Amy Wilkins, vice president for government affairs at Education Trust, a nonprofit that focuses on narrowing the achievement gap.
Michelle Rhee: Education reform huckster - War Room - Salon.com - 0 views
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"American students have improved substantially, in some cases phenomenally. In general, the improvements have been greatest for African-American students, and among these, for the most disadvantaged. The improvements have been greatest for both black and white 4th and 8th graders in math. Improvements have been less great but still substantial for black 4th and 8th graders in reading and for black 12th graders in both math and reading."
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it should be stipulated that nobody's yet found a means or motive for cheating on NAEP surveys.
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An exposé by USA Today reveals that scores of high-performing Washington schools displayed "extraordinarily high numbers of erasures on standardized tests. The consistent pattern was that wrong answers were erased and changed to right ones."
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Education Week: At-Risk Kids Treated as 'Gifted' Perform Better, Study Finds - 0 views
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A U.S. Department of Education evaluation of a North Carolina program shows that when at-risk students are taught as if they are gifted and talented, they are likely to perform better academically.
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Well duh! Imagine how many more students could have been helped if we redirected the money that was spent to "prove" what we already knew to increasing the reach of the program!
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Education Week: State, Local Policies Seen to Slow Personalized Learning - 0 views
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K-12 education is at a policy crossroads, experts in educational technology policy say, as seat-time requirements, school funding models, textbook-adoption procedures, and teacher-certification requirements restrict the growth and effectiveness of emerging learning methods.
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Moves to replace seat-time mandates, which set the amount of time students must spend in a class before completing it, with requirements that students demonstrate competency in the skills needed to master the course appear to be gaining traction
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But some policy experts caution that a complete abolition of seat-time requirements could adversely affect the social and collaborative aspects of learning
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The 2010 MetLife Survey of the American Teacher, released this month, finds that 60 percent of K-12 educators say strengthening resources and programs to help students with diverse learning needs become college- and career-ready should be a top priority in education.
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Webinar scheduled for this afternoon at 4P. Archived version will be available within 24 hours.
More districts looking at nontraditional candidates to lead schools - Page 3 - Philly.com - 0 views
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Spokesperson from the Broad Superintendents Academy. So... tell me again why someone who has a track record as a strong leader in diverse and large organizations; surrounds her/himself (as a strong leader would do) with and listens to functional/discipline experts; and has more experience addressing financial, organizational, and HR issues than traditional superintendents should not be considered a viable (and maybe even preferable) candidate than someone who is a practitioner whose paradigm is a well run classroom rather than effective (not efficiency at the expense of the core mission and values) organizations?
Few back Quinn's consolidation push | school, local, consolidation - Jacksonville Illin... - 0 views
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Ganson said each of the five local elementary districts have different costs, different debt loads and different needs. There would have to be sweeping agreements before consolidation could ever move forward
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Different needs, different debt loads... could this be "code" for something else?! This sounds a little like "separate but equal"--although it may not be predicated solely on race--or the apartheid that Kozol describes in Shame of the Nation.
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Koch said the Illinois State Board of Education has always had the power to step in and take over failing schools. He said that power also includes the ability to dissolve a local school district. Koch said the state board will continue to "focus on incentives" to consolidation.
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"If (school consolidation) makes sense in a community and a community is supportive of it, it needs to be a community decision. I don't think as a General Assembly we should be making and mandating school consolidation," Roth said.
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So the school boards and their constituents know that consolidation would reduce costs and the people don't want to pay higher taxes... yet there is reluctance to consolidate small districts (those with approx 500 students) because of unique needs (hmmm is this "code" for something?) and because the constituencies don't like the idea of a state mandate. So, let's see... whose interests are they protecting?
Increase in education administrators causes New York State's public school spending to ... - 0 views
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The number of supervisory staff in public schools increased to 42,000 this year from 31,332 in 1997, even as student enrollment statewide fell and performance rankings sat stagnant, according to a Post analysis of state Education Department data. The state's student population dropped to 2.7 million from 2.8 million -- or 4.6 percent -- during that period.
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According to the governor's research, 223 (33 percent) of school-district superintendents earn more than $175,000.
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Heads of the smallest districts, which oversee up to 250 students, would get a $125,000 cap.
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Some interesting numbers and ideas to consider, although it is important to consider the source... The NY Post.
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