OVERCOMING BULLYING IN LAUSD SCHOOLS: Superintendent Cortines Discusses a National Epidemic--BULLYING LAUSD News Release::For Immediate Release | http://bit.ly/bD3ZnL October 28, 2010 - Los Angeles – The special, one-hour On the Record television program with Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Superintendent Cortines examining the topic of ...
HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUT, GRADUATION, AND COMPLETION RATES: BETTER DATA, BETTER MEASURES, BETTER DECISIONSNational Academies Press | http://bit.ly/dtd4ww High school graduation and dropout rates have long been used as indicators of educational system productivity and effectiveness and of social and economic well being. While determining these rates may ...
48th IS NOT A GOOD PLACE World Economic Forum ranks U.S. 48th out of 133 developed and developing nations in quality of math and science instruction - Source: World Economic Forum, Executive Opinion Survey 2008, 2009: Quality of math and science education |
It’s time for Civic Participation: STUDENTS LEARN HOW IN SCHOOLS Themes in the News for the week of Oct. 25-29, 2010 by UCLA IDEA | http://bit.ly/9k0ADx 10-29-2010 -- To most people the principle of “majority rule” means that a few people should not exercise their power over the will of the general public. But to ...
REPORT: STUDENT LEARNING EXPECATIONS GAP CAN BE TWICE THE SIZE OF NATIONAL ‘BLACK/WHITE ACHIEVEMENT GAP’: What students are expected to know in one state may be up to four grade levels behind the expectations in another state. American Institutes for Research (AIR) Press Relaese |http://bit.ly/bMDKwR Full Report: International Benchmarking: State Education Performance Standards Chart: 2007 State Assessments of 4th Grade Student ...
BROWN’S AND WHITMAN’S PLATFORMS:Notable differences in style and substance By John Fensterwald - Educated Guess | http://bit.ly/99yEvs 10/27/10 • Few voters, other than fighting-mad members of the CTA, will likely cast their ballots for governor based on Meg Whitman’s or Jerry Brown’s views on K-12 education. Education ...
MICHELLE RHEE OUTSPOKEN TO THE END OF HER TENURE AS D.C.SCHOOLS CHANCELLOR: Takes on ineffective teachers and the schools that granted them degrees By Bill Turque - Washington Post Staff Writer | http://wapo.st/aNKzI0 Thursday, October 28, 2010; 11:18 PM - She is D.C. schools chancellor for just one more day, but that didn't stop Michelle A. Rhee from issuing one last warning Thursday, this one to ...
OBAMA PLAYS CHEERLEADING ROLE FOR STEM EDUCATION + video By Erik W. Robelen | EdWeek Vol. 30, Issue 10 | http://bit.ly/dBb9tM October 29, 2010 - Amid a struggling economy, a raft of foreign-policy headaches, and the tail end of a heated campaign season, President Barack Obama carved out time in his schedule ...
IS FEAR OF BILINGUALISM PART OF U.S. CULTURE? By Mary Ann Zehr | EdWEEK | http://bit.ly/du5MRM October 29, 2010 1:01 PM |In the more than 30 years that Kenji Hakuta, an education professor from Stanford University, has been studying English-language learners, he's come to realize that many Americans ...
