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Director of White House Hispanic Education Initiative to Address 2010 Hispanic Scholarship Fund Education Summit | U.S. Department of Education

Director of White House Hispanic Education Initiative to Address 2010 Hispanic Scholarship Fund Education Summit

Juan Sepúlveda, executive director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans, will deliver the VIP pre-summit luncheon keynote address during the 2010 Hispanic Scholarship Fund Education Summit Tuesday in New York. Sepúlveda will highlight the Obama administration's strategies to increase Latino students' access to a quality education.

Education Technology Director to Give Keynote Address at Forum on “Unleashing Technology to Personalize Learning”

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David Thomas, (202) 401-1579

Event Date 1 : October 05, 2010

Karen Cator, director of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology, will give the keynote address at Education Week’s Leadership forum on “Unleashing Technology to Personalize Learning” on Tuesday Oct. 5 in Washington, D.C. The meeting is the first of two Leadership Forums sponsored by Education Week. Unleashing Technology to Personalize Learning is an interactive forum for district-level personnel charged with maximizing the effectiveness of technology in education.

Cator will discuss the ways in which modern technologies can be used to create engaging and interesting, personalized learning environments, to improve the achievement of this generation of students, and give another keynote address at the second forum in Boston Friday, Oct. 8.

Discussions at the all-day forums will include building a successful district e-learning program; customizing district assessments to raise achievement; using ed-tech tools for individualizing education; and engaging students in the digital age.

Event 1

Who :	Karen Cator, director of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology
What :	Keynote remarks at Education Week’s Leadership Forum on “Unleashing Technology to Personalize Learning”
When :	Tuesday, Oct. 5 – 8:30 a.m.
Where :	Hamilton Crowne Plaza Hotel, 14th and K Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C.

Parents sit-in to save school’s ‘casita’ — Joanne Jacobs

Parents sit-in to save school’s ‘casita’

by Joanne

To save an old school building known as the “casita,” Chicago parents are sitting in around the clock at Whittier Dual Language School, reports the Wall Street Journal. The $356,000 budgeted to tear down the 2,000-square-foot building should be used to fix it up and turn it into a library, parents say. They’re already collecting books.

School-district officials say the building, in a poor Latino neighborhood southwest of the Loop, is unsafe and would be too expensive to bring up to current building codes. “It’s not even a building. It’s a structure,” said Monique Bond, a spokeswoman for the Chicago Public Schools. “It would need to be torn down and rebuilt from the ground up.”

Education as economics (and politics)
by Joanne
On Community College Spotlight: With the Community College Summit set for Tuesday, President Obama is

“One in Five” Really? �Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech

“One in Five” Really?

by Dean Shareski

Data driven decision making is a buzz word in education of late. My crap detector goes into high alert when this discussion roles around, since data in this case usually means test scores and tests usually means low level, knowledge based memorization. Without this discussion, it's too easy to move to solutions that potentially address something that in the end, real educators care about… improving test scores.

Data can be extremely useful and yet our obsession with it is leading to some really weird and p otentially

Five Questions. � Fred Klonsky's blog

Five Questions.

by preaprez

As we start the week, here are five questions to ponder:

With a Hat Tip to Tim Furman at School Tech Connect, why is Arne Duncan Secretary of Education and

Parents Want Free Schools But They Feel Local Authorities Should Manage Them - New Research From London Councils

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New research from London Councils show that parents want local authorities to be involved in running schools even if they are "free schools".

Ipsos Mori, on behalf of London Councils, surveyed nearly 700 London parents and carried out a series of focus groups on greater parental involvement in education.

They found that while many parents want to be involved with their child’s school, they don’t necessarily want to be directly involved in running and managing it on a day to day basis. Juggling

Hundreds gather to remember Tyler Clementi | freep.com | Detroit Free Press

People participate in a candlelight vigil for Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi at Brower Commons on the Rutgers campus in New Brunswick, N.J., on Sunday. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Hundreds gather to remember Tyler Clementi

Rutgers student jumped to his death last week

BY ERIK SCHILLING
THE RECORD (HACKENSACK, N.J.)

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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Several hundred gathered Sunday night near the Rutgers University student center for a solemn candlelight vigil in honor of Tyler Clementi, a freshman who killed himself nearly two weeks ago after harassment over his sexuality.

Many students openly wept at the vigil, though few said they knew Clementi, who had been on campus just a month before a roommate allegedly taped Clementi’s intimate encounter with a man in his dorm room and broadcast it online. Days after the incident, Clementi

Inquirer Editorial: Keep tabs on charters | Philadelphia Inquirer | 10/04/2010

Inquirer Editorial: Keep tabs on charters

A dispute over the Philadelphia School District's authority to restrict enrollment at a charter school sheds new light on an old problem.

The inherent competition for students and the state funding that comes with them makes it difficult for local districts to objectively oversee charter schools.

The Philadelphia district and the Walter D. Palmer Leadership Learning Charter School are at odds over a crucial issue in the charter movement: expansion. Charters already enroll more than 30,000 city students.

In a lawsuit, the Palmer School has asked Commonwealth Court to force the district to fork over $1.7 million in tuition payments for students it did not get permission to add to its enrollment.

The district has refused to pay up because the school exceeded the enrollment limit of 675

'Superman' Up Against 'The Blob': The Rise And Fall Of Michelle Rhee - IBD - Investors.com

'Superman' Up Against 'The Blob': The Rise And Fall Of Michelle Rhee

By BEN BOYCHUK Posted 09/27/2010 06:44 PM ET

The likely ouster of Michelle Rhee, chancellor of District of Columbia schools, shows the perils of placing the mantle of change in the hands of one... View Enlarged Image

Nobody is indispensable, and Superman lives only in comic books. The nation's public education system won't be reformed through more top-down mandates, vain attempts to nationalize the schools, or cheap sloganeering.

Lasting school reform requires the education dollar following the child, eliminating the bureaucratic "middle man" and restoring accountability at

Mississippi schools see dip in suspended, expelled students | clarionledger.com | The Clarion-Ledger

Mississippi schools see dip in suspended, expelled students

Focus on exercise, diet and intervention cited by officials

MARQUITA BROWN • MBROWN13@CLARIONLEDGER.COM • OCTOBER 4, 2010

Education officials say a greater emphasis on diet and exercise and a growing emphasis on intervention over punishment may help explain the steep drop in student expulsions and suspensions across the state.

The number of expulsions reported to the state Department of Education fell to 527 last year from 766 in 2005-06. The number of suspensions dropped to 50,978 last year from 78,920 in 2005-06, according to department.

Shane McNeill, director of the state Office of Healthy Schools, credits a combination of factors.

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