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Professional Learning Board

Dropout rates high, but fixes under way | csmonitor.com - 0 views

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ed news reform

shared by Professional Learning Board on 13 Mar 07 - Cached
  • Dropout rates high, but fixes under way Survey: 9 of 10 students had passing grades when they left.
  • Nearly a third of high school students don't graduate on time
  • "The problem is solvable."
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  • Already this year, Massachusetts, Colorado, West Virginia, New Hampshire, and Indiana, among others, are seeking to raise the legal dropout age or limit the reasons students can leave school.
    • Professional Learning Board
      Professional Learning Board on 13 Mar 07
       
      And this is how we solve the problem?!?
    • Professional Learning Board
      Professional Learning Board on 13 Mar 07
       
      And this is how we solve the problem?!?
  • emphasizes that the reasons kids leave school are complex and not always focused on academics.
  • "But once people started to get a handle on the fact that the true statistics were closer to one-third of all students [dropping out] and in some school districts closer to 80 percent ... we've had broad bipartisan support."
Professional Learning Board

eSchool News online - Social-networking sites confound schools - 0 views

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ed k12 reform tech

shared by Professional Learning Board on 12 Mar 07 - Cached
  • Interestingly, very few of the responses included teaching students about responsible use of online social networks
  • "It is important to keep in mind that just blocking access to social web sites at school is not the end of the story,"
    • Professional Learning Board
      Professional Learning Board on 12 Mar 07
       
      RESEARCH: K12 needs to teach HOW TO use Social Networking.


  • Thirty-six percent of those polled by NSBA said students' use of MySpace and similar sites has been "disruptive" to their school district's learning environment.
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  • two-thirds said the posting of inappropriate content or personally identifiable information posed a problem
  • 40 percent said cyber-bullying or "causing too much time off task" were problems
  • one in four said the creation of false pages for administrators or teachers has been a problem
Clif Mims

Making the Shift Happen - 0 views

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curriculum curriculum-integration education educational-technology future learning reform teacher-education teaching technology-integration

shared by Clif Mims on 31 Mar 08 - Cached
  • shift from the “computer class” mindset to an “integrated” technology program
  • very similar problems, very similar history
  • very similar ideas
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  • same fears, concerns and questions
  • why isn’t there a common process or framework to work through
  • why isn’t there a common understanding of what needs to be done to move forward?
  • why aren’t more teachers arriving at schools with some background in this model of teaching and learning
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