Wednesday, April 14, 2010
This Week In Education AM News: Lawmakers Question RTTT Funding Scheme
AM News: Lawmakers Question RTTT Funding Scheme
Thompson: Mind Your Own Business
Local News | Richland schools to warn parents of some books | Seattle Times Newspaper
Richland schools to warn parents of some books
The Richland School Board decided to require that English class descriptions provide a warning that certain books may contain ...
RICHLAND — The Richland School Board decided to require that English class descriptions provide a warning that certain books may contain profanity, sex or violence.
The decision Tuesday came after months of debate over how teachers should inform parents of potentially objectionable content.
The Tri-City Herald reports the debate was started by parents of a student at Hanford High School who objected to parts of the book "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," which tells the story of a boy whose father died in the 9-11 attacks.
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The Educated Guess Special ed option for laid off teachers
Special ed option for laid off teachers
Posted in Teacher Development
The California Teacher Corps announced this week that it is expediting efforts at retraining teachers who are interested in becoming certified to teach special education. The Corps represents alternative certification programs, which are particularly suited for individuals seeking second careers as teachers and, in this case, for teachers interested in changing their specialty.
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Jaime Escalante, Non-Conformist And Craftsman - Perdaily.com
Jaime Escalante, Non-Conformist And Craftsman
When I started teaching 24 years ago, I initially thought this is going to be easy after the first year. I'll just get the lessons together in Government, U.S and World History and after that it will be easier to deal with the mountain of work in addition to classroom time that any good teacher must spend in reading and grading what
Education - Everything you need to know about the world of education.
Obama's school funding plan sparks debate
Plan to reward innovation over need splits congressional Democrats
President Obama. (Pete Souza/ The White House)Posted at 6:30 AM ET, 04/14/2010
U.S. public education by the latest numbers
From 1986 to 2007, the percentage of enrolled students in public elementary and secondary schools who were white decreased from 70 percent to 56 percent. In 2007-2008, the largest number of bachelor's degrees were awarded in business. These are some of the statistics in the 2010 Digest of Education Statistics, just released by the Education Department. Here are some more.
Posted at 10:00 PM ET, 04/11/2010
Should high schoolers read aloud in class?
Recently I visited a history class at a local, low-performing high school where students read in turn from the autobiography of a famous American. The teacher was bright and quick. He interrupted often with comments and questions. The 18 sophomores and juniors seemed to be into it, but it was such an old-fashioned--and I suspect to some educators elementary--approach for that I decided to see what other educators thought of it.
Ed Buzz: The Nation
- Illinois school fighting cyber-bullying(Chicago Tribune)
- Boston teachers asked to work more hours for same pay (Boston Globe)
- Advocates weigh Obama's commitment to early ed. (Education Week)
- N.Y. bill would allow layoffs of teachers with seniority (New York Times)
- Bilingual ed., immersion work equally well (Education Week)
- Schools tackle teacher-on-teacher bullying (USA Today)
- English-language learners making gains (Education Week)
- Researchers argue over Head Start study (Education Week)
Ed Buzz: The Region
- Loudoun looking to slash positions, up fees (WTOP)
- Kids at Md. school get tainted milk (Fox 5)
- McDonnell signs college lab school legislation (Richmond Times Dispatch)
- Schools reduce police presence (The Examiner)
- Montgomery College, schools brace for cuts (The Gazette)
- P.G. County PTA reinstated (The Gazette)
- Md. GOP: Don't raise dropout age (The Gazette)
- Birth-control center finds home at T.C. Williams (Alexandria Gazette Packet)
- Fairfax teacher quits over embezzlement charges (Examiner)
- MoCo teachers say they are overwhelmed (Gazette)
- Alex. considers new school boundaries(Examiner)
- PG parents fear impact of school cuts(WJLA)
- Md. lawmakers favor ed cuts (Baltimore Sun)
Rise & Shine: A more dire assessment of teacher pension costs | GothamSchools
Rise & Shine: A more dire assessment of teacher pension costs
- Parents submitted 3,800 applications for 538 seats in yesterday’s Achievement First lottery. (Post)
- A family who was shut out of Achievement First’s schools has its hopes pinned on other charters. (Post)
- Parents whose son did get into an Achievement First school say he’s destined for greatness. (Post)
- A conservative think tank says the city’s teacher pension fund is in worse shape than the city says. (NY1)
- Nationwide, teacher pension funds are more than $900 billion in the red, the group found. (USA Today)
- An NYC superintendent’s son is among tens of thousands of students waitlisted at elite colleges. (Times)
- Teachers at Williamsburg Collegiate Charter produce YouTube videos to help their students. (NY1)
- The Daily News says legislation to end “last in, first out” layoffs would protect good teachers.
- Some school districts in the region are holding weekday proms to cut down on after parties. (Times)
- SUNY’s new strategic plan includes a pipeline stretching from pre-K to college. (NY1, GothamSchools)
- A 2-year-old was left alone on a daycare school bus for hours. (Post, Times, Daily News)
Sacramento Press / Meeting Starts Public Discussion on New Sacramento River Crossing
Meeting Starts Public Discussion on New Sacramento River Crossing
A new avenue of crossing the Sacramento River was the topic of discussion Monday night at the first meeting of the Stakeholder Advisory Committee, which is part of the Sacramento River Crossings Alternatives Study.
The meeting, which was held in Kampala Center at the Sacramento Zoo, is the first of five meetings planned throughout the year.
The Stakeholder Advisory Committee is made up of different community members from Sacramento and West Sacramento, and is meant to provide community involvement in the process of determining the need for another method of crossing the river between Sacramento and West Sacramento. While a bridge is an option for the new river crossing, the members of the group are stressing the need to look at alternatives to a bridge.
Among those attending was Maureen Pascoe, the capital improvement manager of the West Sacramento Public Works Department, who said this process was started to get community input into the idea of a new river crossing. This new community aspect came after a previous attempt to get a river crossing didn't work out.
"I think we made a misstep before, where we zeroed in on one location and one concept," Pascoe said. "We figured that we needed to take a step back
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