Saturday, September 4, 2010
Task force cites high dropout rates for African American, Latino students | Philadelphia Inquirer | 09/03/2010
Task force cites high dropout rates for African American, Latino students | Philadelphia Inquirer | 09/03/2010
Task force cites high dropout rates for African American, Latino students
Calling the high school dropout rate for city students one of the most serious problems facing Philadelphia, Mayor Nutter said Thursday his administration would work with the School District to address it.
"There is nothing less at stake here than the future of this city," Nutter told an audience at the district's administration building following release of a blueprint for stemming the dropout rates for African American and Latino males.
After studying the dropout problems of African American and Latino males in Philadelphia for 10 months, a task
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"There is nothing less at stake here than the future of this city," Nutter told an audience at the district's administration building following release of a blueprint for stemming the dropout rates for African American and Latino males.
After studying the dropout problems of African American and Latino males in Philadelphia for 10 months, a task
N.J. Democrats push ahead with hearing to 'dissect' Race to the Top error | NJ.com
N.J. Democrats push ahead with hearing to 'dissect' Race to the Top error | NJ.com
N.J. Democrats push ahead with hearing to 'dissect' Race to the Top error
Published: Saturday, September 04, 2010, 7:44 AM Updated: Saturday, September 04, 2010, 8:24 AM
TRENTON — Assembly Democrats have called upon nearly everyone in the state who might have laid a hand on the failed Race to the Top application — from the governor’s chief of staff down to the person who hand-delivered it to Washington, D.C. — to testify at a hearing Tuesday.
The hearing is an attempt to "dissect" an error that cost the state $400 million in federal education funding and "avoid future missteps," according to a press release the Democrats issued late Friday.
That session, as well as one planned by Senate Democrats, will prolong an issue Gov. Chris Christie had declared over.
Former education commissioner Bret Schundler, who said he made the error while editing the state’s application, was invited to
Hindus upset over mishandling of Hinduism in school textbooks in USA
Hindus upset over mishandling of Hinduism in school textbooks in USA
Hindus have criticized the lopsided view of Hinduism provided by many school textbooks across USA.
Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, urged the United States Department of Education to form a committee of Hindu leaders and scholars to go through the Hinduism part of the content before the publishers brought out the book.
It was not healthy to feed the highly impressionable minds of teenagers with the biased view of the oldest and third largest religion of the world with about one billion adherents; Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, argued. Moreover, it could hurt the feelings of devotees, he added.
Rajan Zed further says that one such book, elaborating a “Cooperative Learning Activity” suggests the teacher for a “Role Play” by organizing the class into the four varnas and the “untouchables”. It also wants each group to discuss how its members should react to the following hypothetical situation: In ancient India, a cow from a small herd dies in a crowded street in front of a Hindu temple or shrine.
Zed points to another textbook, which talking about Hindu Beliefs, says: Many Hindu shrines are literally covered with stone sculptures of nymphs, dwarfs, serpents, and demons. Sometimes these figures represent one of the principal gods, often Vishnu or Siva.
Friday, September 3, 2010
Schools Matter: Yong Zhao on Arne
Schools Matter: Yong Zhao on Arne
Yong Zhao on Arne
From Zhao's blog:
Master of Myth: What Arne Duncan Says and Does
3 SEPTEMBER 2010
The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived and dishonest – but the myth – persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
—John F. Kennedy
U.S. Secretary of Education has been called the most powerful education secretary in history.
Evergreen district kindergarten classes go all day, every day | OregonLive.com
Evergreen district kindergarten classes go all day, every day | OregonLive.com
Brenda Parker welcomes her kindergarten students to their first day of school at Orchards Elementary School in Vancouver and begins teaching her students how to raise their hand when they have something to say. Kindergarten students will be in class from 9:15 a.m. to 3:35 p.m. like the other students.Lois Hinkley started teaching kindergarten so she could work half days, giving her more time to spend with her daughter.
Two years later, she found herself working full days again -- still teaching kindergarten, but in one of the first classes in a state-funded, full-time kindergarten program.
The difference, Hinkley said, was marked. While she might have expected children in half-day classes to write two or three sentences on a given subject, the full-time students could write a page or more.
"You really notice it right away," she said. "When you see them in October, you think, 'Wow, this is where they usually are in January.'"
The experience at Orchards Elementary School in northeast Vancouver, where Hinkley taught, and two others in Evergreen Public Schools persuaded the district to switch from half-time kindergarten to all-day, every-day classes this fall at all of its 21 elementary schools.
Kindergartners' first day of school Wednesday was Evergreen's first for full-time across the
Evergreen district kindergarten classes go all day, every day
Published: Friday, September 03, 2010, 3:00 PM
Brenda Parker welcomes her kindergarten students to their first day of school at Orchards Elementary School in Vancouver and begins teaching her students how to raise their hand when they have something to say. Kindergarten students will be in class from 9:15 a.m. to 3:35 p.m. like the other students.Two years later, she found herself working full days again -- still teaching kindergarten, but in one of the first classes in a state-funded, full-time kindergarten program.
The difference, Hinkley said, was marked. While she might have expected children in half-day classes to write two or three sentences on a given subject, the full-time students could write a page or more.
"You really notice it right away," she said. "When you see them in October, you think, 'Wow, this is where they usually are in January.'"
The experience at Orchards Elementary School in northeast Vancouver, where Hinkley taught, and two others in Evergreen Public Schools persuaded the district to switch from half-time kindergarten to all-day, every-day classes this fall at all of its 21 elementary schools.
Kindergartners' first day of school Wednesday was Evergreen's first for full-time across the
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