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REL N

Education Week: Poll: Students Grade High School Down, College Up - 2 views

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ADMS707 Niemeyer Mission Effectiveness

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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.
  • getting students ready for work remains central to high schools' mission.
  • 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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  • The one category where young people rated high schools best was preparing them for further education: 56 percent say their school did a good or excellent job at that.
  • 4 in 10 young people voice strong satisfaction with their high school education.
  • Dill, now 21, self-employed and living with her father in Arcadia, La., thinks high schools should offer juniors and seniors workshops on how to get a job, how to build a career and the many educational options besides a four-year degree.
  • Almost half of college attendees feel that the schools "get" them. That's significantly more than among those whose education stopped at high school; just 3 in 10 say the school system could identify with them.
  • Nonwhite students were more likely than whites to say their high school counselors helped them, and also gave their high schools better ratings for helping find money for college.
  • Georggetta Howie on 19 Apr 11
     
    Thanks for sharing. This is true and in my case and majority of my peers. My success in going to college goes to my mentors!
Georggetta Howie

Education Equality Webpage - 2 views

www.edequality.org

federal website reform education videos

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  • Georggetta Howie on 03 Feb 11
     
    Ed Equality is a great website of the latest information, videos, and new findings on education reform. It allows you to sign up and receive "daily news roundups". There are several signatories who include, Corey Booker the Mayor of Newark, NJ and Iris Chen; I have a Dream Foundation, CEO. Insightful, inspirational, and lots of resources!!
Georggetta Howie

Ed.gov take on Federal Govt Role in Education - 0 views

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laws government education federal

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  • Georggetta Howie on 03 Feb 11
     
    I just wanted to see what would pop up when I Googled role of federal government in education. At the top of search list was link for ed.gov
Phil Riddle

It May Be A Sputnik Moment, but Science Fairs Are Lagging - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...05science.html

Accountability Global Competition

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  • Phil Riddle on 05 Feb 11
     
    This article describes the disconnect between federal education policy focused on math and reading (and rote memorization in other subjects) and Obama's calls for greater emphasis on science education.
REL N

Education Week: States Aim to Curb Collective Bargaining - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...20bargaining_ep.h30.html

ADMS707 Teachers Union

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  • REL N on 07 Feb 11
     
    GOP leaders are proposing bills to limit collective bargaining to wages and benefits. They want to exclude teachers/unions from the table when they develop education policy.
  • REL N on 07 Feb 11
     
    GOP leaders are proposing bills to limit collective bargaining to wages and benefits. They want to exclude teachers/unions from the table when they develop education policy.
Victoria Schnettler

Focus on Governance in K-12 Education - 1 views

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ADMS707 school boards

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  • Victoria Schnettler on 14 Feb 11
     
    In elementary and secondary education governance, the need to build an effective system of public education is the driving force behind the selection of a state's key education leaders. This paper provides a snapshot of what state K-12 governance looks like in SREB states. - abstract
Phil Riddle

Obama Unveils Education Research Initiative Modeled on DARPA - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...21arpa-ed.h30.html

Education Technology Military

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  • Phil Riddle on 17 Feb 11
     
    This initiative provides funding for applying technological innovations developed by the military to the world of education. There are certainly some ethical issues raised here, but I don't think we have to worry about an Ender's Game scenario.
REL N

Accountability Lost : Education Next - 0 views

educationnext.org/accountability-lost

ADMS707 Niemeyer Boards accountability

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      REL N on 17 Feb 11
       
      Tried to identify confounding variables to increase the likelihood that any changes in voting behavior were due to school performance
  • incumbent school board members won a larger share of the total vote in a precinct when test scores in that precinct improved. We estimate that improvement from the 25th to the 75th percentile of test-score change—that is, moving from a loss of 4 percentile points to a gain of 3.8 percentile points between 1999 and 2000—produced on average an increase of 3 percentage points in an incumbent’s vote share. If precinct test scores dropped from the 75th to the 25th percentile of test-score change, the associated 3-percentage-point decrease in an incumbent’s vote share could substantially erode an incumbent’s margin of victory.
  • percentile scores had increased in the year preceding the election, incumbents won 81 percent of the time in competitive elections; in districts where scores had declined, incumbents won only 69 percent of the time.
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  • significant relationship with precinct test scores and the absence of a relationship with district scores suggests that voters were more concerned with school performance within their immediate neighborhood than across the district.
  • all indications of a relationship between school performance and an incumbent school board member’s vote share vanished after the passage of NCLB in 2002.
  • None of these approaches yielded clear evidence of a link between school performance and voter behavior in school board elections.
  • the overwhelming weight of the evidence indicated that school board members were not being judged on improvement or weakening in school test scores.
  • School performance as measured by test scores may have helped determine which candidates sought reelection and which faced a challenger.
  • assess the relationship between test-score trends and incumbents’ decisions to run for reelection, and then to estimate the effect of test-score trends on the probability that an incumbent who runs faces an opponent.
  • incumbents may bow out in anticipation of being held accountable for poor test-score performance by schools in their district.
  • drop from the 75th to the 25th percentile of test-score change, our results lead us to expect that incumbents will be 13 percentage points less likely to run for reelection. In fact, 76 percent of incumbents sought reelection in districts with improving test scores; in districts with falling scores, only 66 percent did.
  • we failed to find any indication that incumbents in 2002 and 2004 based their decisions about running for reelection on student learning trends.
  • In these years, only 30 and 34 percent of articles, respectively, touched on test scores. The decline in media attention leads us to suspect that concerns about student learning trends probably did not stand at the forefront of voters’ or candidates’ thinking in the 2002 and 2004 elections.
  • “The PACT needs to be seen for what it is: a vehicle for politicians to say that they are tough on education (and educators). This may make for good politics, but it makes for bad educational policy.”
  • Reacting to the rising criticisms directed toward PACT, voters may have grown disenchanted with the state’s accountability system and removed test-score performance from among the criteria on which they evaluated school board candidates.
  • if most schools appeared to be average or better, parents may not have been prompted to hold incumbents accountable for poor school performance. Incumbents and potential challengers may also have become less responsive to scores when the testing regimen began to give nearly every school a passing mark.
  • School board elections give the public the leverage to improve their schools. If voters do not cast out incumbents when local school performance is poor, they forfeit that opportunity. As debate continues over components of NCLB, policymakers should consider whether it is realistic to assume voters will in fact use the polls to drive school improvement.
  • analyzed test-score data and election results from 499 races over three election cycles in South Carolina to study whether voters punish and reward incumbent school board members on the basis of changes in student learning, as measured by standardized tests, in district schools
  • According to a 2002 national survey, student achievement ranks second only to financial concerns as school board members’ highest priority.
  • the basic purpose of all school board activities is to facilitate the day-to-day functioning of schools.
  • Neither the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) nor the states impose direct sanctions on members of school boards that oversee large numbers of underperforming schools.
  • impact of school performance on incumbents’ decisions to seek reelection and potential challengers’ decisions to join the race.
  • All but 4 of the state’s 46 counties hold nonpartisan school board elections. Approximately 80 percent of school board members receive some compensation, either a salary, per diem payments, or reimbursement for their expenses. Over 90 percent of South Carolina’s 85 school boards have between 5 and 9 members, while the largest board has 11. And, as is common practice in other states, nearly 9 out of 10 South Carolina school districts hold board elections during the general election in November.
  • the most important difference between South Carolina and most other states when it comes to local school politics is the role played by the state’s teachers unions, which are among the weakest in the country.
  • South Carolina school boards are unlikely to be beholden to the unions, which should make the boards more responsive to the broader public.
  • examine whether voters are more concerned with student performance districtwide or in their local neighborhood, we computed two measures of average school performance to include in our analysis.
  • separate the effect of school performance from the effects of other factors that could reasonably influence an incumbent school board member’s vote share
  • REL N on 17 Feb 11
     
    Details about research on the impact school performance has on how people vote for school board members. The authors conclude "If voters do not cast out incumbents when local school performance is poor, they forfeit that opportunity. As debate continues over components of NCLB, policymakers should consider whether it is realistic to assume voters will in fact use the polls to drive school improvement."
Angela Winston

"A False Dilemma": Should Decisions about Education Resource Use Be Made at the State or Local Level? - 0 views

www.jstor.org.proxy.library.vcu.edu/...651414

state vs. local education governance Winston ADMS707

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  • Angela Winston on 21 Feb 11
     
    State versus local education governance
Angela Winston

State Education Finance and Governance Profile: Virginia - Peabody Journal of Education - 0 views

www.informaworld.com.proxy.library.vcu.edu/...section

State Finance Governance Winston ADMS707

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  • Angela Winston on 24 Feb 11
     
    Describes Education Governance and Finance in Virginia...read all about it! yeyy U.Va.
Victoria Schnettler

Obama Still Increasing Education Spending in New Budget - 0 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...education-budget_n_823735.html

ADMS707 federal Obama spending education

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  • Victoria Schnettler on 16 Feb 11
     
    Seems Obama is serious about education even though the government is threatening a shut down over budgetary issues.
Georggetta Howie

Social Justice Needs to Be Everywhere":Imagining the Future of Anti-Oppression Education in Teacher Preparation - 0 views

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ADMS707 education Justice

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  • Georggetta Howie on 19 Apr 11
     
    In the light of the difficulties and tensions, we end with recommendations for anti-oppression teacher education. These focus on how (a) to make deliberative and transformative inquiry central and focused on social justice; (b) to invitereflection about the implications of social locations for teaching; (c) to createand sustain communities of inquiry and action among social justice educators;and (d) to articulate warrants for anti-oppressive teaching.
Roger Mancastroppa

www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR8-2/horn.pdf - 0 views

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adms707 High Stakes Tests Accountability Testing Academic Achievement Evaluation Teacher Attitudes

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  • Roger Mancastroppa on 01 Apr 11
     
    "It was found that the state test has far-reaching effects on teaching, curriculum, school climate, students, parents, and school administration. The ideology of testing as a positive reform idea and the practice of testing as a constant and tangible threat, form the two poles of an experiential field that these educators encounter as figure and ground. The avoidance of failure and the threat of failure push these educators toward an ideological commitment to testing."
REL N

Education Week: State, Local Policies Seen to Slow Personalized Learning - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...25policies.h30.html

NIemeyer ADMS707 Technology Education Policy

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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.
  • 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
  • But some policy experts caution that a complete abolition of seat-time requirements could adversely affect the social and collaborative aspects of learning
REL N

Addressing Diverse Student Learning Needs Webinar Registration (EVENT: 296451) - 0 views

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NIemeyer ADMS707 Diverse Learning Needs

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  • REL N on 07 Apr 11
     
    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.
  • REL N on 07 Apr 11
     
    Webinar scheduled for this afternoon at 4P. Archived version will be available within 24 hours.
Victoria Schnettler

US Educational Policy Interest Groups: Institutional Profiles - 0 views

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adms707 education policy interest groups book

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  • Victoria Schnettler on 28 Mar 11
     
    A quick view (not the whole book) of educational policy interest groups - tables of number of bills that the groups "testified" for, etc.... if I had extra money, I would totally buy this book.
Roger Mancastroppa

Chris Hedges: Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System - Chris Hedges' Columns - Truthdig - 0 views

www.truthdig.com/..._her_education_system_20110410

adms707 education teachers Standardized Testing

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  • Roger Mancastroppa on 11 Apr 11
     
    Offers a pointed finger for why our education system is collapsing in upon itself. The author provided connections between teaching and curriculum to business and corporate influence. He used powerful quotes by teachers decrying how they feel like frauds telling their kids that what they are learning will prepare them for life.
Georggetta Howie

Center on Education Policy, Washington, DC - 0 views

www.cep-dc.org/press

adms707 education policy

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  • Georggetta Howie on 03 Feb 11
     
    Center on Education Policy various Publications including Press Releases and Media Adivsories
Georggetta Howie

Dr. Steve Perry Speaks - 1 views

www.dr-steveperry.com/Multimedia.html

education Perry schools videos books

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  • Georggetta Howie on 25 Jan 11
     
    Dr. Steve Perry is educator, speaker,and author who founded Capital Preparatory Magnet School in Hartford, CT. This school has a graduation rate of 100% with all of its graduates going to college. OUTSTANDING WORK!
Tara McDaniel

Virginia's Public Education System 4th in Nation - 4 views

www.doe.virginia.gov/...jan21_gov.shtml

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  • Tara McDaniel on 28 Jan 11
     
    Virginia's public education system's fourth place ranking in education Week's annual Quality Counts report. The rankings are based on four critical areas: the chance for success, K-12 achievement, school finance, and policies related to transitions and alignment.
  • REL N on 04 Feb 11
     
    Sadly... none of the states got an A or A-. Alas, MS is no longer dead last. Granted they have the lowest C- possible. I know we say that grades are not everything but it is sad that there are no "A" states and our national average is mediocre at best. And, this is not a comparison to other developed countries....
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