Wednesday, November 3, 2010

The Magic of Reading – Lily's Blackboard

The Magic of Reading

Nov 3rd, 2010

I love New York. For many reasons. But last week I loved New York because theNew York Public Library was filled with lots of Moms and Dads who “get it” about reading with kids.

Parenting Magazine and Target teamed up for Read.Connect.Grow, a special series designed to raise awareness and share strategies to improve early literacy. Parents in Washington, D.C., St. Paul, Minn., and New York City heard from teachers, literacy experts, child advocates and children’s book authors.

The mechanical statistics are grim. The research is clear, and a no-brainer. If kids can’t read well by third grade, they start to get behind in school and

Conference to tackle issues on diversity, immigration - The State Hornet - News

Conference to tackle issues on diversity, immigration

By Cayla Gales

Published: Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Updated: Tuesday, November 2, 2010 23:11

Sacramento State's bilingual and multicultural education department will be hosting its 17th annual multicultural education conference Saturday, which will explore the impacts of Arizona's immigration policy on education and other issues facing students from other cultural background.

The conference, which is open to all Sac State students, faculty and staff, will be from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the University Union.

"Primarily we are trying to highlight issues about multicultural education that impacts the students here in our local region. Sacramento is one of our most diverse cities in the United States," said Maggie Beddow, assistant professor and coordinator for the bilingual and multicultural education department.

The conference will start with a speech from keynote speaker Eugene Garcia, vice president for education partnerships at Arizona State University.

Garcia will be speaking about Arizona's policy toward Mexican immigrants, and how it affects these immigrants and their education.

"Arizona is taking a set of steps to mitigate what they perceive to be the negative effects of immigrants, particularly Mexican immigrants. There's a very ambiguous and negative climate towards Latinos in Arizona," Garcia said. "The

Democrats put monkey wrench in Chris Christie's tool kit; Gov picks up a hammer | NJ.com

Democrats put monkey wrench in Chris Christie's tool kit; Gov picks up a hammer

Published: Wednesday, November 03, 2010, 6:00 AM

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With Republicans poised to retake control of Congress, New Jersey governor Chris Christie is no doubt hoping for a similar outcome for his own mid-term election November 2011: a return of control of the state legislature to the GOP.

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And he may already have the key issue to do just that. It's the resistance by the Democrat-controlled legislature to pass the package of bills he calls the property tax tool kit.

Please Tell Me Where the Tipping Point Is. � Chalkdust101

Please Tell Me Where the Tipping Point Is.

by pjhiggins

In late October, I was fortunate enough to participate in TechLearning Magazine’s Northeast TechForum in Tarrytown, NY. This marked the fourth year that I’ve been associated with the conference either as an attendee or a presenter. Each year tells me a dynamically different story about what is happening in our schools here in the Northeast. Each year someone new comes into the conference and turns it on its ear in some capacity.

My presentation, Admin 2.0, was in the afternoon, which gave me all morning to catch up with friends and peek in on some of the sessions that were going on. In each of the sessions, there was a recurrent theme among the crowd: their computers were really small, and a good percentage of the machines lacked full keyboards. The proliferation of eReaders, smartphones, and iPads especially astounded me. Later in the day, as I entered the

News: No Curveballs for Higher Ed - Inside Higher Ed

No Curveballs for Higher Ed

Congressional races shake out much as expected, with Republicans winning House majority and a handful of Democrats on education panel hanging on in the Senate.

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Arizona Bans Affirmative Action

While the outcome was the same as in California and Michigan, the impact may differ.

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Fiscal Victories in Anti-Tax Year

Despite voter backlash against government spending, several states reject proposals that colleges feared would have limited appropriations, and some colleges win facilities bond measures.

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Shift in the Statehouses

Republican gains among governors could heighten budgetary challenges for public colleges and their students; Ohio's reforms threatened.

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New Jersey proposes caps on school leaders' salaries | Philadelphia Inquirer | 11/02/2010

New Jersey proposes caps on school leaders' salaries In an effort to push forward with its education-overhaul agenda, the Christie administration announced public hearings Monday on proposed salary limits for top school district administrators.

Teen program offers fast track to careers in building The assignment to design his own museum was all it took for student Christopher Thach to start imagining. The 17-year-old high school senior at Carver High School for Engineering and Science in Philadelphia envisioned a cavelike sphere with rooftop ...

N.J. districts pay Texas firm to slash their energy costs MANCHESTER, N.J. - Sometimes you have to spend money to save money. That is what seven school districts in Monmouth and Ocean Counties have discovered in their efforts to "go green."

Local News | Teach for America seeks foothold in Seattle area | Seattle Times Newspaper

Teach for America seeks foothold in Seattle area

Teach for America is working to bring its corps of young college graduates here to teach in Seattle-area schools next fall.

By Linda Shaw

Seattle Times education reporter

Teach for America, the high-profile organization that steers recent college graduates into teaching, hopes to place 50 of its recruits into Puget Sound schools next fall — the organization's first foray into Washington state since the mid-1990s.

The Federal Way School District has agreed to hire four to 10 Teach for America corps members — typically non-education majors who go into the classroom after five weeks of summer training. Seattle Public Schools is considering placing 20 to 25 more.

If Teach for America succeeds in getting a total of 50 placements in the next few months and raises a little more money, it will open operations here in September, and the Seattle area would become its 40th site across the nation.

The organization, which has grown tremendously since its beginnings 20 years ago, is in the middle of a

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: WONDERLAND AVENUE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL DONALD S. WILSONWEIGHS IN ON “WAITING FOR ‘SUPERMAN’”

WONDERLAND AVENUE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL DONALD S. WILSONWEIGHS IN ON “WAITING FOR ‘SUPERMAN’”

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November 2, 2010 01:25 PM - Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim's documentary feature Waiting for Superman has been generating much talk for its portrayal of the public education system in the United States.

I sat down with Donald S. Wilson, Principal of Wonderland Ave. Elementary in Los Angeles, CA, to discuss his thoughts on the film and the public education crisis.

Wilson, who has 17 years of teaching experience, came to Wonderland in 2009. The public school, located in Laurel Canyon, is part of the Los Angeles Unified School District. It runs from Kindergarten through to 5th grade and also has a gifted/high ability magnet program.

With consistently high test scores year after year, Wonderland is ranked as the number #2 among all LAUSD elementary schools.

What was your initial reaction to the film?
Donald S. Wilson: The factual information that was put forth was very compelling. It's a great place to not 'start' the conversation, but to take the conversation up to

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