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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Not Everyone Loves White House Title I/Standards Proposal Politics K-12 - Education Week

Politics K-12 - Education Week

Not Everyone Loves White House Title I/Standards Proposal

Yesterday, we heard from governors who either praised the proposal to tie Title I money to rigorous college and career-readiness standards in a renewed Elementary and Secondary Education Act ... or said they were still "studying" it.
But last night, the National School Boards Association put out its own statement. And that group is not happy with what it sees as federal "coercion" (Catherine Gewertz over at Curriculum Matters has more.) Meanwhile, David Shreve over at the National Conference of State Legislatures also told me he's worried about the feds stepping on what has been a state and local issue. It seems the farther you go down the chain of government, the more concern there is over this proposal, although a number of groups have yet to weigh in.
And we still haven't heard from another key constituency: Congress. Tomorrow, I'm planning to attend the House Education and Labor Committee's very first hearing on the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The topic is charter schools, probably the issue most likely to have Republicans and Democrats joining in a kumbaya chorus of bipartisan agreement.
But I'm wondering if there may be some off-topic reaction to the Title I proposal. If there is, I'm particularly interested in what Republicans have to say. After all, the Obama administration has stressed that it wants this reauthorization to be 
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Learning about Default Rates along the Texas I-20 Corridor � The Quick and the Ed

Learning about Default Rates along the Texas I-20 Corridor � The Quick and the Ed



The private historically-black colleges and universities lining the Texas I-20 corridor east of Dallas may not be the first place policymakers think to look for examples of best practices. These institutions, including Wiley College, Texas College and Southwestern Christian College are small and operate on limited resources. But they also have a strong sense of history (Wiley College is the home of the “Great Debaters”) and an unwavering dedication to their mission of serving first-generation college students who can benefit from the small, familial college atmosphere. And ten years ago these three schools, along with three other Texas HBCU’s, banded together to create a model of success in preventing student loan defaults: the Texas HBCU Default Management Consortium.
The Texas Consortium, which was created with help and encouragement from Texas Guaranteed and the Department of Education, was established in response to “big panic” over high default rates. The panic was caused by a rule change in the 1998 Higher Education Act amendments which removed the default rate exemption for HBCU’s—starting in 2004, HBCU’s with default rates above the 25 percent cut-off were at risk of losing eligibility for federal student financial aid. Without access to loan or grant funds, the very survival of these institutions was at risk.
In response, the HBCU’s did not turn away from their historical mission to serve 
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Es el momento - Educacion, Becas, Universidades, Aprendizaje

Es el momento - Educacion, Becas, Universidades, Aprendizaje

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Black History: Remembering W.E.B. Du Bois � Davey D’s Hip Hop Corner-(The Blog)

Black History: Remembering W.E.B. Du Bois � Davey D’s Hip Hop Corner-(The Blog)

Black History: Remembering W.E.B. Du Bois

 William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. He became a naturalized citizen of Ghana in 1963 at the age of 95. 
The late Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee drop lots of science about W.E.B. Du Bois on thisBill Moyers show.. 
Remembering W.E.B. Du Bois 
 On Feb. 23, 1868, W. E. B. Du Bois was born in Great Barrington, Mass., where he grew up. During his youth he did some newspaper reporting. In 1884 he graduated as valedictorian from high school. He got his bachelor of arts from Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn., in 1888, having spent summers teaching in African American schools in Nashville’s rural areas. In 1888 he entered Harvard University as a junior, took a bachelor of arts cum laude in 1890, and was one of six commencement speakers. From 1892 to 1894 he pursued graduate studies in history and economics at the University of Berlin on a Slater Fund fellowship. He served for 2 years as professor of Greek and Latin at Wilberforce University in Ohio. 
In 1891 Du Bois got his master of arts and in 1895 his doctorate in history from Harvard. His dissertation, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870, was published as No. 1 in the Harvard Historical Series. This important work has yet to be surpassed. In 1896 he married Nina Gomer, and they had two children. 
In 1896-1897 Du Bois became assistant instructor in sociology at the University of 
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NIEA - National Indian Education Association

NIEA - National Indian Education Association

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We are the Membership that Matters.

In March of 1969, Sparlin Norwood, Cherokee, a teacher at Central Junior High School in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, organized a National Conference of Indian teachers at the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in Oregon, as part of his NEA position.

In 1969, Rosemary Christensen organized a National Conference on Indian education as part of her work at the Midwest Regional Educational Laboratory (UMREL) located in Minneapolis. The planning committee members were primarily from the greater Minneapolis area but the participants came from different parts of the country and agreed that such a conference should be held again. At the conclusion of this first conference Rosemary Christensen was asked by the Minnesota group to discuss the idea of national organization of Indian educators while at the Convocation of American Indian Scholars, held at Princeton University, March of 1970.

Jeannette Henry Costo and Rupert Costo with a Ford Foundation grant helped plan the First Convocation of American Indian Scholars. This brought together a mix of Indian educators that were actively involved in the education of Native students in elementary, secondary schools, and university programs. Sparlin Norwood, William Demmert, Rosemary Christensen attended this conference. The mix of Indian educators found a common interest and formed a discussion group to consider future activity that would bring them together periodically to address national Indian education issues and to learn from each other. The leading organizers of this discussion group included Sparlin Norwood, Hershal (Ace) Shamant, Marigold Linton, Rosemary Christensen, John Winchester, Liz Whiteman, Dillon Platero, and William Demmert and Ned Hatathli, who would all become members of the first “National Indian Education Association” Board of Directors). There were other participants that participated as observers and discussants including George Scott, Carl Downing, Sam Billison, Lee Antell and several others.

This group decided on being an independent organization and chose “National Indian Education Association” as the name under which it would be incorporated. Rosemary Christensen was assisted by Gordon J. Amundson to file papers for incorporation. The officers, the board members, and other organizational requirements were carried out at the 1970 National Indian Education AssociationConference.
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