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Photographs: Many Charter Schools, Varied GradesMore Pre-K Pupils Qualify for Gifted Programs
By SHARON OTTERMAN
The minimum score for the most competitive of the programs, which have 300 slots, was achieved by 1,788 students.
Monday, May 3, 2010
This Week In Education AM News: NYT Covers Charter Replication Challenge
AM News: NYT Covers Charter Replication Challenge
Local News | Budget cuts challenge Bellevue College's big ambitions | Seattle Times Newspaper
Budget cuts challenge Bellevue College's big ambitions
Bellevue College, the state's largest community college, has scaled back ambitious plans to expand its offerings on top of absorbing $2.3 million in cuts this year.
Seattle Times Eastside reporter
DEAN RUTZ / THE SEATTLE TIMES
Two-year degrees are the backbone of community colleges. But more of the schools, like Bellevue College, now offer four-year programs.
Bellevue College
Basics: The state's largest community college was founded in 1966. The main campus at 3000 Landerholm Circle sits on 96 acres. Roughly 34,000 students enroll annually.Degrees: Bellevue College offers transfer associate degrees in 58 focus areas; professional and technical associate degrees in 95 areas; a bachelor of applied science in radiation and imaging sciences; a bachelor of applied arts in interior design; worker-training programs; and an associate degree program in occupational life skills for students with learning, cognitive and intellectual disabilities.
Transfers: In 2008-09, roughly 10 percent of all community- and technical-college transfer students who moved to public, four-year universities in the state came from Bellevue College — more than any other college.
Source: Bellevue College
President Jean Floten has big ambitions for Bellevue College. She's taken steps to add four-year degrees to the school's offerings, and she's even dropped the word "community" from the school's name — part of her effort to bring sweeping change to community-college education in the state.
For now, though, those ambitions have run smack into the state's budget problems.
The state's largest community college is figuring out how to absorb $2.3 million in cuts this year. The cuts also have delayed plans for a new health and science education building on the 96-acre main campus, and the school has increased tuition 7 percent for the roughly 35,000 students who enroll every year.
While Bellevue College has hunkered down, it hasn't abandoned its vision. Floten says the school will continue to expand its mix of four-year degrees along with the more traditional two-year programs.
Applied four-year bachelor's programs in interior design
Textbooks v. laptops: What should Texas do? | The Dallas Morning News
Textbooks v. laptops: What should Texas do?
Editor's Note: Geraldine "Tincy" Miller is the Texas State Board of Education member for District 12, in Dallas.
Recently, a plan was discussed to transition our public schools' from printed textbooks to electronic materials. Although some state leaders prefer moving in this direction, I would urge that it not be a top-down approach or a cost-shifting strategy for the state. And most importantly, I would insist that the quality of the materials be the central focus of any change.
Educators need to lead any such transition, not the state. When college students have the option of choosing between e-books and printed textbooks, they overwhelmingly choose the printed textbook because it is easier to read and reference. Therefore, our parents, educators and local textbook committees and school boards should have some say over the format as well.
Moving to an entirely electronic format is a major change for schools. Each district will have to figure out the total cost of buying the devices, training teachers, setting up the devices, making sure they work for blind students, maintaining, insuring and protecting them from theft and damage, and providing uninterrupted internet connectivity with internet filters. These are all new costs that must be addressed at a time when school districts
Recently, a plan was discussed to transition our public schools' from printed textbooks to electronic materials. Although some state leaders prefer moving in this direction, I would urge that it not be a top-down approach or a cost-shifting strategy for the state. And most importantly, I would insist that the quality of the materials be the central focus of any change.
Educators need to lead any such transition, not the state. When college students have the option of choosing between e-books and printed textbooks, they overwhelmingly choose the printed textbook because it is easier to read and reference. Therefore, our parents, educators and local textbook committees and school boards should have some say over the format as well.
Moving to an entirely electronic format is a major change for schools. Each district will have to figure out the total cost of buying the devices, training teachers, setting up the devices, making sure they work for blind students, maintaining, insuring and protecting them from theft and damage, and providing uninterrupted internet connectivity with internet filters. These are all new costs that must be addressed at a time when school districts
Texas education schools need to do a better job preparing teachers
Portland's Sabin schoolyard abuzz with "tickle" bees | OregonLive.com
Portland's Sabin schoolyard abuzz with "tickle" bees | OregonLive.com
Bees at Sabin Elementary.Mace Vaughan is a bee guy. So how perfect is it that a year ago he moved into a Northeast Portland home across from a schoolyard field abuzz an estimated 20,000 native bees, known to the kids as "tickle bees" for the way they feel when they land on your skin?
"On a hot day in the spring you're just knocking into them all the time and you don't get stung," says Vaughan, pollinator program director for theXerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation.
Now, Vaughan uses the story and photos of Sabin Elementary School's bees -- genus Andrena -- during lectures nationwide, just as he will in a May 14 pollinator workshop at the Oregon Zoo. Vaughan wants farmers, land managers, landscape architects, gardeners and others to understand the ecological and economic importance of North America's 4,000 native bee species; the Willamette Valley is home to 250 bee species, and the deserts east of the Cascade Range hold 600 to 800 species.
By and large, they're misunderstood.
"If you say bees," says Anne Warner, Oregon Zoo conservation manager,
Portland's Sabin schoolyard abuzz with "tickle" bees
By Katy Muldoon, The Oregonian
May 03, 2010, 1:27AM
Bees at Sabin Elementary.Mace Vaughan is a bee guy. So how perfect is it that a year ago he moved into a Northeast Portland home across from a schoolyard field abuzz an estimated 20,000 native bees, known to the kids as "tickle bees" for the way they feel when they land on your skin?"On a hot day in the spring you're just knocking into them all the time and you don't get stung," says Vaughan, pollinator program director for theXerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation.
Now, Vaughan uses the story and photos of Sabin Elementary School's bees -- genus Andrena -- during lectures nationwide, just as he will in a May 14 pollinator workshop at the Oregon Zoo. Vaughan wants farmers, land managers, landscape architects, gardeners and others to understand the ecological and economic importance of North America's 4,000 native bee species; the Willamette Valley is home to 250 bee species, and the deserts east of the Cascade Range hold 600 to 800 species.
By and large, they're misunderstood.
"If you say bees," says Anne Warner, Oregon Zoo conservation manager,
Education News - The New York Times
Education News - The New York Times
Despite Push, Success at Charter Schools Is Mixed
By TRIP GABRIEL
Ruth Fremson/The New York Times
Williamsburg Collegiate in Brooklyn, whose students outscore their district counterparts.
Leaders of the school choice movement have come to recognize that raising student achievement for poor urban children is difficult and often expensive.
Post a CommentA Fairy Godmother to Help With College Aid
By JACQUES STEINBERG
When financial aid is not enough, families can ask for more help. Judging those appeals falls to people like Sandra J. Oliveira.
The Choice Blog: No Glimmers of Economic Recovery Apparent from Window of Financial Aid OfficeA New Emotional Intimacy in a Class on Human Anatomy
By JAMES WARREN
Some Northwestern medical students who dissected donated human bodies got to know their donor better thanks to a new wrinkle at a post-course gathering.
For Individual Reasons, Quadruplets Pick Yale
By JACQUES STEINBERG
Carol, Kenny, Martina and Ray Crouch considered going their separate ways for higher education, but in the end, they all liked what they saw at Yale.
City Pushes Shift for Special Education
By JENNIFER MEDINA
Principals at 1,500 schools must enroll all but the most severely disabled students by fall 2011.
A Long Walk for a Cause
Four students arrived in Washington, having walked from Miami to support a bill that would give legal status to immigrants who arrived at age 15 or younger.
Found: Matching Funds for Federal Grants
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Best Resources To Learn About The Vietnam War | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...
The Best Resources To Learn About The Vietnam War | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...
The World’s HarvestsThe Best Resources To Learn About The Vietnam War
This past Friday was the thirty-fifth anniversary of the ending of the Vietnam War. I don’t have time tonight to develop a complete “The Best…” list on the topic, but because it’s timely and many of my students are refugees because of the war, I wanted to pull together a few resources and I and others could use on Monday.
I’ll be adding many more links to this list, and welcome your suggestions.
Here is a very beginning of a list of The Best Resources To Learn About The Vietnam War (and are accessible to English Language Learners):
I have many accessible resources on the
Cinco de Mayo
For-profit colleges see stocks drop after official's speech | California Watch
For-profit colleges see stocks drop after official's speech
Several for-profit college companies, including a California-based outfit, saw dips in their stock prices this week after a senior education official likened the industry to Wall Street firms that played a part in the financial crisis.
The Associated Press reported that Santa Ana-based Corinthian Colleges Inc. and several major for-profit players that serve students in California experienced drops after Deputy Undersecretary of Education Robert Shireman's speech to regulators last week:
The Associated Press reported that Santa Ana-based Corinthian Colleges Inc. and several major for-profit players that serve students in California experienced drops after Deputy Undersecretary of Education Robert Shireman's speech to regulators last week:
Shares of DeVry Inc. dropped $4.09, or 6.1 percent, to $62.61 on Thursday. And stock in Apollo Group Inc. – which runs the University of Phoenix chain, the nation's largest for-profit school – slid $3.56, or 5.8 percent, to $57.94.
Shares of Corinthian Colleges Inc. fell 87 cents, or 5.1 percent, to $16.04; Career Education Corp. sank 3.36 cents, or 10.1 percent, to $30.05 and Strayer Education Inc. lost $3.04, or 1.2 percent,
State lawmakers seek millions in earmarks for colleges, universities
Members of Congress have submitted their 2011 requests for earmarks – federal money that lawmakers direct to organizations of their choice.Governor's school board appointee is rejected over conflicts – again
Conflict-of-interest concerns devoured another of the governor's appointees to the State Board of Education.
The Senate rejected the nomination of Jeannie Oropeza to the state education board yesterday, according to theSacramento Bee.
Oropeza is a budget analyst for the Department of Finance. Senate President Darrell Steinberg told the Bee that while Oropeza was qualified, her position at finance created a conflict.
The Senate rejected the nomination of Jeannie Oropeza to the state education board yesterday, according to theSacramento Bee.
Oropeza is a budget analyst for the Department of Finance. Senate President Darrell Steinberg told the Bee that while Oropeza was qualified, her position at finance created a conflict.
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