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Victoria Schnettler

Attorney General Guidelines on Education Opinions - 1 views

www.doe.virginia.gov/...attorney_general_opinions.pdf

ADMS707 education Attorney General Code of Virginia

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  • Victoria Schnettler on 08 Feb 11
     
    VA's Code of Virginia's explanation of the role of the Attorney General in educational reform - opinions may be only asked on him/her in writing by specific members of the Commonwealth
REL N

Broken Promises: What the Federal Government Can Do To Improve American Education - Brookings Institution - 0 views

www.brookings.edu/...ing_k12education_loveless.aspx

ADMS707 Federal Conservative

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  • REL N on 07 Feb 11
     
    Ratvitch/Loveless identify 4 principles: (1) fix existing federal programs, (2) bring mandates in line with the revenues required to meet them (3) send federal education money to schools and not to support bureaucracies (4) resist the temptation to regulate curriculum, instruction, teachers etc
Victoria Schnettler

The Pulse: Name that School, Trim That Deficit - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...21cncpulse.html

deficit commercialism mayoral power corporations sponsorship

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  • Victoria Schnettler on 24 Jan 11
     
    Doritos High School....is that where you would like to attend, where your high school memories will be formed? The push and allowance of corporate sponsorship of schools are a response to impending and repeated education budget cuts.
REL N

House GOP Looks to Slash Education Spending - 2 views

blogs.edweek.org/..._gop_slashes_education_sp.html

ADMS707 Federal Funding Cuts

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  • REL N on 13 Feb 11
     
    GOP proposes numerous cuts in federal education spending. Significantly reduces or eliminates programs that the President proposed in his recent State of the Union speech.
stephlennon

Trying to Hold Down Blue Language on a Red-Letter Day - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...13swearing.html

ADMS707 education states politics

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  • stephlennon on 14 Feb 11
     
    $5000 for no cursing initiative...really? We can't even get new textbooks!
REL N

When Dad Loses His Job - On Education - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...31winerip.html

Unemployment Impacts Struggling Schools Homeless Students

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  • REL N on 01 Feb 11
     
    Parents' job loss prompts students to worry that they may need to leave a key support systems--their school.
REL N

The "Big Three" of Education Reform - NYTimes.com - 1 views

freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/...-big-three-of-education-reform

Research Findings Accountability Nonprofit Foundations

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  • REL N on 01 Feb 11
     
    Mounting evidence shows that business-type/market-based reforms are not delivering anticipated results.
REL N

United States Education Dashboard - 1 views

dashboard.ed.gov/default.aspx

Federal ADMS707 Metrics Results

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  • REL N on 04 Feb 11
     
    On-line tool providing lagging indicator education results.
  • REL N on 04 Feb 11
     
    In corporate strategy we said that our dashboards provided business intelligence for real-time decision-making. I commend this effort but I do not think that the metrics are granular enough or that the data are available quickly enough. While an interesting attempt/first step, I see this as an on-line collection of "rear view mirror" performance. We have not really captured leading indicators. Rather, this tool makes it easier for us to review our lagging indicators. We can get a clearer picture of our deficiencies/gaps, but I'm not sure how this will help inform timely and effective decision-making.
Victoria Schnettler

Education Organizations in VA - 1 views

www.doe.virginia.gov/...index.shtml

ADMS707 education organizations VA

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  • Victoria Schnettler on 08 Feb 11
     
    A listing of links to educational organizations dependent from the DOE.
Victoria Schnettler

Code of Virginia - 0 views

lis.virginia.gov/...legp604.exe

ADMS707 education Code of Virginia

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  • Victoria Schnettler on 08 Feb 11
     
    Title 22.1 - Education - State laws regarding Education policy.
Georggetta Howie

Online Public/Private High School Courses - 0 views

www.k12.com/...ticipating_schools_in_virginia

on-line education K-12 State School

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  • Georggetta Howie on 11 Feb 11
     
    This site is powerhouse site for online public and private education for K-12. There are 30 states participating including Virgnia and Washington, DC. Public online course are FREE, while private online course vary in tuition.
REL N

Review of Research in Education - 0 views

rre.sagepub.com

Research in Education

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  • REL N on 01 Feb 11
     
    Link to issues of "Review of Research in Education" produced by AERA
Jonathan Becker

Teachers' Colleges Upset By Plan to Grade Them - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...09teachers.html

ADMS707 politics highered teachers grades ratings

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  • Jonathan Becker on 09 Feb 11
     
    This is really about the politics of higher ed., but it's an issue that's near and dear to me and my colleagues in the School of Education.
stephlennon

Ending the education wars - 1 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...AR2011020305473.html

ADMS707 education states teacher evaluation

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  • stephlennon on 11 Feb 11
     
    Comparing educators to murderers begins this article- but actually brings up compelling issues. Why is it so hard to dismiss incompetent teachers? Even in non-union states, the process is lengthy and the threat of litigation is thick in the process.
stephlennon

Website on Funding for Gifted Education - 0 views

www.davidsongifted.org/...StatePolicy.aspx

ADMS707 education states gifted

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  • stephlennon on 11 Feb 11
     
    Interesting that "Special Education" allegedly means higher-than-average and lower-than-average performing students. Yet the funding for some states does not even exist!
Victoria Schnettler

Review of Military vs. Education Spending Worldwide - 0 views

www.globalissues.org/...world-military-spending

ADMS707 education funding

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  • Victoria Schnettler on 12 Feb 11
     
    Commentary and charts showing where tax dollars are being spent worldwide - especially interesting to see military vs. education here in the US.
Roger Mancastroppa

School Administration in the Federal Republic of Germany and Its Implications for the United States. - 0 views

www.eric.ed.gov/ED380881.pdf

ADMS707 education states boards

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  • Roger Mancastroppa on 18 Feb 11
     
    Germans do not use lay governance - This paper presents findings of a study that explored the governance and administration of elementary and secondary schools in Bavaria, in the Federal Republic of Germany. The sample included 12 Bavarian schools--3 each of the following 4 types of schools--elementary (Grundschulen) and secondary (Gymnasien, Realschulen, and Hauptschulen). Data were gathered from interviews with school principals or headmasters and some administrative staff, observation, and document analysis. Findings showed that the selection process for teachers in Germany is much more rigorous than in the United States. Principals are experienced classroom teachers with proven ability who continue to teach. In addition, the entire district apparatus is missing; there are no superintendents, lay boards of education, and so forth. Bavarian schools appear to function extremely well within a framework of fairly tight external control, while enjoying strong professionalism among educators and freedom from the micromanagement that all too often plagues their American counterparts. Findings underscore the need for fundamental and systemic reform in the United States; high student achievement must be preceded by advances in teacher professionalism.
Victoria Schnettler

Eurybase - 0 views

eacea.ec.europa.eu/...eurybase_en.php

ADMS707 education international Europe governance

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  • Victoria Schnettler on 18 Feb 11
     
    Education systems of all European nations - outlined.
Tara McDaniel

Virginia General Assembly & Education Legislation - 2 views

www.doe.virginia.gov/...legislation

ADMS707 general assembly education

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  • Tara McDaniel on 19 Feb 11
     
    DOE keeping local divisions abreast of General Assembly activity pertinent to education.
REL N

A Board's Eye View : Education Next - 0 views

educationnext.org/aboardseyeview

ADMS707 Niemeyer Boards reform

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  • “Code of Conduct for School Board Members.” This was intended, wrote the superintendent, in recommending the code, “to set standards for how the Board interacts with itself.” Sounded like sex to me. But the preoccupation with board member behavior was the result of the long-standing tension between the democracy represented by elected officials who oversaw the schools and the professionalism of those hired to run them. The superintendent was definitely attempting to tip the balance in favor of the pros. “We will not attempt to exercise individual authority over the district’s operations, staff, or personnel decisions,” read one of the rules he was proposing for us. Another: “We will not express individual judgments about the performance of the superintendent or staff. . . . We recognize the value of the chain of command. When approached by staff, constituents or the public, we will channel all inquiries to the administrator.” I e-mailed the superintendent, “Is this a joke?” He called and laughed lamely.
    • REL N
      REL N on 17 Feb 11
       
      "... the preoccupation with board member behavior was the result of the long-standing tension between the democracy represented by elected officials who oversaw the schools and the professionalism of those hired to run them."
  • “We should let people know we are looking for quality, of course, but not to the point of advertising outside official channels.”
  • the board never reviewed other major expenditures, such as the installation of a new computer system.
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  • I asked the superintendent how a new asphalt parking lot was installed at the Greenport School without board approval–or even a bid or a notice or a need. He informed me that a bid wasn’t necessary for a job worth less than $10,000.
  • no clarification of what any of this meant–or cost. Don’t ask. “Mandated” was the knowing word from veteran board members.
  • almost 16 percent of the children in the school district were disabled, almost double the national average.
  • more than 350, were either “emotionally disturbed,” “learning disabled,” or “speech impaired.” These were the kind of catchall categories that allowed a district to dispose of many problem children–in Hudson those children were mostly black–with expensive baby-sitting.
  • over the next several months as I learned that the district had been running a deficit for several years. In fact, the state comptroller’s office, which oversees the fiscal integrity of all state and local government agencies, had conducted its own audit and found the same thing: “overexpenditure of budgetary appropriations and the overestimation of revenues.” Money was being moved around, from one fund to another, which was also against the rules, the comptroller noted. And when auditors had asked for records, they couldn’t be found.
  • the school board was not where the biggest battles would be won or lost.
  • The teacher union president, normally a regular presence at school board meetings, stopped coming so that he wouldn’t have to answer my questions about what was being done to improve things that his teachers controlled. (He had already stopped responding to my phone calls and letters.)
  • the debate was as much cultural–and racial–as educational,
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      REL N on 17 Feb 11
       
      The author was frustrated that the board refused to discuss the academic mediocrity in the schools and then he realized that "the debate was as much cultural-and racial-as educational,...."
  • “Mandates” and laws sprouted acres of explanatory weeds–most of them unnecessary. No one ever read the original “mandate.”
  • no one seemed to know why the “Parent/Family/Community Involvement Policy” was necessary, but it was assumed that it was required by some Oz-like authority, passed through the policy-writing machinery at some school board association office, and sent to us for our “approval.”
  • No one else on the board expressed any hint of having read it. And I was beginning to discern a pattern: the more written, the less understood.
  • REL N on 17 Feb 11
     
    A concerned parent joined the local school board in hopes of improving the academics. After 6 frustrating months he resigned from the board believing that "the school board was not where the biggest battles would be won or lost."
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