Tuesday, June 15, 2010

PhillyInc: Study: More jobs will require higher education | Philadelphia Inquirer | 06/15/2010

PhillyInc: Study: More jobs will require higher education

By Mike Armstrong

Between 2008 and 2018, employment is expected to increase by 15.3 million, according to projections by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Coming after a recession that destroyed 8 million jobs, that sounds encouraging.
But a different forecast being released Tuesday by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce shows that there is a growing disconnect between the types of jobs that employers must fill and the number of Americans with the education and training to do them.
Georgetown researchers project that 63 percent of all jobs will require at least some postsecondary education. In all, employers will need 22 million new workers with associate's degrees or higher. Unfortunately, that's about 3 million more than the report indicates the United States is expected to produce.
In an interview, Jeff Strohl, director of research at the Center on Education and the Workforce, said the new analysis confirms that "we're moving away from our grandfather's high school-

“Top 10 Places To Find Alien Life” | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

“Top 10 Places To Find Alien Life” “Top 10 Places To Find Alien Life” is a slideshow from Discovery News. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About Possible Life On Other Planets.

Excellent Video On Making & Using Word Clouds Russell Stannard from Teacher Training Videos has just made a “how to” video on creating and using different Word Cloud generators. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About “Word Clouds.”

More On The World Cup Here are the latest additions to The Best Sites For Learning About The World Cup: Breaking News English has new daily lessons on the World Cup. Castrol has a pretty wild-looking site on the World Cup. Check it out. The Denver Post is posting a ...

The Educated Guess � No relief for CSU students: higher fees coming

No relief for CSU students: higher fees coming

Posted in Advocacy organizations, UC and CSU

California State University fees are about to increase again. On Friday, CSU trustees will decide whether it’s 10 percent or only 5 percent now with the possibility of at least another 5 percent in November.
False optimism may steer trustees toward the easier-to-swallow 5 percent increase. But prudence calls for 10 percent, however upsetting that will be for students and their families. And many will be angry.

The 23-campus system has been reeling as a result of budget cuts of $625 million – 21 percent – over the past three years. Despite a 32 percent increase in fees, course sections have been eliminated, class sizes expanded, and faculty members were forced to take 18 furlough days.
Without a 10 percent fee increase now, there will be more of the same – or worse next year.
Gov. Schwarzenegger is proposing to restore $305 million, but his overall budget assumes the 10 percent CSU fee increase, no other taxes and painful cuts to social services. The Senate budget plan assumes the 10 percent fee increase and higher taxes without naming them.
That leaves the Assembly Democrats’ budget plan, which would match a 5 percent fee increase with additional state money. That’s appealing, but dicey. First, it’s

Foster Kids Find Success At Philly Charter School : NPR

Foster Kids Find Success At Philly Charter School

by ELIZABETH FIEDLER

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June 15, 2010 from WHYY

In Philadelphia Tuesday, ten students will graduate from the nation's only charter high school designed specifically to serve children in foster care. All of this year's graduates at Arise Academy will go on to college.

Federal Reminder on File Sharing Quick Takes: June 15, 2010 - Inside Higher Ed

Quick Takes: June 15, 2010 - Inside Higher Ed:

Federal Reminder on File Sharing

The U.S. Department of Education has written a letter notifying colleges that the copyright provisions attached last fall to the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 will take effect in July. The provisions, meant to help curb illegal sharing of copyrighted material such as music files on campus networks, require institutions to educate their students on what constitutes illegal sharing; deter them from engaging in such sharing; and develop plans to “offer alternatives to illegal downloading.”

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Daily Spotlight on Education 06/15/2010

Daily Spotlight on Education 06/15/2010

by coolcatteacher@gmail.com (Victoria A Davis, Cool Cat Teacher)

Collaborative Research Project
Online collaborative research project by Dr. Leigh Zeitz with his masters students. Great sample for those looking for examples of this type of project at the masters level.
tags: education, web2.0, worldonline
flatclassroom10-2 - Rubrics
These are the revised wiki rubrics that I highly recommend using. They are on Flat Classroom 10-2.

Catholic University names BC law dean as president Education news - Boston Globe - MCAS results - latest education news - Boston.com

Education news - Boston Globe - MCAS results - latest education news - Boston.com

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Catholic University names BC law dean as president

WASHINGTON — John H. Garvey, a Boston College Law School dean with a long record of scholarship on some of the most divisive issues in the Catholic Church, will be named president of the Catholic University of America today. . (By Daniel de Vise, Washington Post)

Cherie Jimenez has turned her life around from drugs, prostitution, and abusive relationships and is helping other women to do it, too.

A lot of people knew Cherie Jimenez in the 1970s. They just didn’t all know about each other. (By Linda Matchan, Globe Staff)

Students at Flag Day celebration reflect on meaning of Stars & Stripes

While political pundits speculate whether the country seems more divided than ever these days, Isabel Basow answers this seemingly complicated question with a simple metaphor. (By Alex Katz, Globe Correspondent)

Salem plans Horace Mann charter high school

Salem is preparing to seek state approval to open its own charter school even as organizers of the Road to Success Charter High School ready a revised plan for a charter school serving Lynn and Salem. (By John Laidler, Globe Correspondent)

Metco students, parents upset by school cutbacks

School officials in Lincoln and Sudbury voted last week to merge two of their three Metco programs, a cost-saving measure that has angered Boston students and parents who say they were excluded from the process and are worried about the future of the program. (By James O’Brien, Globe Correspondent)

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Schools Matter: Real Reform

Real Reform

by skrashen

Sent to the Christian Science Monitor, June 14, 2010
Real Reform in Education

The Monitor thinks that our problem in education is not money, because we spend more on education than other industrialized countries ("Teacher Bailout, Teacher Reform," 6/14). (Not quite: According to UNESCO, Norway, France and South Africa spend more per capita than we do).
Not mentioned is the fact that the US has a higher percentage of children in poverty than other industrialized countries (25%, Denmark has 3%). American children from high-income families score at the top of the world on

Rise & Shine: Disproportionately few Hispanics at city charters | GothamSchools

Rise & Shine: Disproportionately few Hispanics at city charters

by Philissa Cramer

Hispanic students are severely underrepresented at city charter schools. (Times)
Local students sometimes videotape their fistfights and post them on YouTube. (Daily News)
Scholars to Work, a year-old city program, sets students at vocational schools up with real jobs. (NY1)
Guardians aren’t happy that some students at In-Tech Academy were made to clean toilets. (Daily News)
All over the country, schools are cutting the programs that helped them improve. (Wall Street Journal)
Budget cuts and politics don’t bode well for Newark’s teachers union’s negotiations. (Wall Street Journal)
Some New Jersey school districts are having to charge tuition for summer school this year. (AP)
A Philadelphia school designed by Microsoft has taken a while to hit its stride. (AP)

Sacramento City schools, teachers union reach deal - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee

Sacramento City schools, teachers union reach deal

By Melody Gutierrez
mgutierrez@sacbee.com

Published: Tuesday, Jun. 15, 2010 - 12:00 am | Page 1B

A stalemate between the Sacramento City Unified School District and its teachers union ended Monday after officials signed an agreement with considerable concessions by the Sacramento City Teachers Association.

The givebacks include pay cuts over two years, changes in health benefit payments, increasing how many years employees must work before becoming vested, and giving the district more flexibility over the calendar.

The two-year agreement ends months of contentious negotiations, which had appeared to be deadlocked until the last two weeks. SCTA members will vote this week on whether to accept the agreement before it moves on to the school board for approval.

SCTA President Linda Tuttle said the union decided to give because it had "real concerns that schools stay open."

SCTA, known for its hard-line tactics, becomes the latest teachers union to offer concessions to cash-starved school districts. Earlier this month, Elk Grove Unified teachers overwhelmingly

Human-animal bond draws UC Davis students into veterinary medicine

By Hudson Sangree - Published: 11:36 am

Jessica McAfee remembers one case in particular among the many she saw in the past year. Her patient was a young Labrador retriever that was dying of kidney disease and suddenly had gone blind.

Year-round schools return to traditional schedule in Sacramento area

By Diana Lambert - Updated: Sunday, June 13 2010 - 4:00 pm

You've heard the debate for years: Year-round school vs. a traditional calendar with that nice long summer vacation built in – which is better for learning? How about for families?

Grant High program uses sports references to teach basics

By Melody Gutierrez - Updated: Saturday, June 12 2010 - 9:03 pm

Students in the Sports Health Academy at Grant High School are learning that they don't have to be a professional athlete in order to have a sports career.

Sacramento city schools, teachers may announce contract deal Monday

By Melody Gutierrez - Published: Saturday, June 12 2010 - 12:00 am

The Sacramento City Unified School District and the Sacramento City Teachers Association are expected to announce a two-year agreement Monday that preserves class sizes and saves pink-slipped teachers and counselors.

Jesuit High School president to step down

Published: Saturday, June 12 2010 - 12:00 am

The president of Jesuit High School informed board members and parents Thursday he will step down as head of the all-boys Catholic high school next year.

New York Charter Schools Attract Few Hispanics - NYTimes.com

New York Charter Schools Lag in Enrolling Hispanics

By JENNIFER MEDINA and ROBERT GEBELOFF

Librado Romero/The New York Times

Second graders at the Carl C. Icahn Charter School 1 in the Bronx.

Although Hispanics are the largest demographic group in the city’s public schools, there are almost twice as many blacks among the 30,000 charter school students.

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More Employers to Require Some College, Report Says

By JACQUES STEINBERG

Jobs requiring at least a two-year associate’s degree will outpace the number of qualified applicants by at least three million in 2018, according to a report set to be released on Tuesday.

Frank W. Ballard, Who Trained Puppeteers at UConn, Dies at 80

By MARGALIT FOX

Mr. Ballard helped introduce puppetry to the university curriculum.

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Exactly how many shares of BP does the Gates Fund really own?

Exactly how many shares of BP does the Gates Fund really own?

by Mike Klonsky

H/t to commenter David C. for telling me that I badly understated the BP stock holdings of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation which I reported first as 4 million

Bloomberg's N.Y. charters still excluding Latino & ELL students

by Mike Klonsky

Tuesday's New York Times reports that Bloomberg's privately-managed charter schools in N.Y. greatly under-enroll Latino and Spanish-speaking immigrant students.

Charter schools have proportionately fewer Hispanic students — as well as fewer students learning English, regardless of their ethnicity — than nearby schools, including schools that share the same building.

That's not big news. The news is that the equity gap between charters and

LA charter school operators face embezzlement charges | California Watch

LA charter school operators face embezzlement charges

by Corey G. Johnson

Corey G. Johnson

Los Angeles prosecutors have accused the Russian operators of a successful San Fernando Valley charter school with stealing more than $200,000 in taxpayer funds.
On Thursday, Ivy Academia's Eugene Selivanov, 38, and his wife, Tatyana Berkovich, 33, were charged with committing multiple counts of embezzlement, money laundering and filing false tax returns at the school from 2004 to 2009.
Ivy Academia serves roughly 1,100 students from preschool to 12th grade. The charter was started in 2004 by Berkovich and Selivanov.
The investigation by the Los Angeles County district attorney's office was triggered by the findings of a 2007 audit by LA Unified School District's Office of the Inspector General.
That audit found numerous instances where Selivanov transferred public funds from the charter to private businesses he and Berkovich controlled. The transactions were allegedly done online and were never recorded in

Harman, others in Congress hold stock in companies they oversee

by Chase Davis

Chase Davis

Members of California's congressional delegation have invested millions of dollars in companies that their congressional committees oversee, according to a Washington Post story that dropped yesterday.
The story specifically calls out Rep. Jane Harman, the California Democrat who is among Congress' most wealthy representatives:

Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), for instance, served as chairman of a subcommittee responsible for overseeing technology-oriented efforts to improve homeland security, intelligence, information sharing and risk assessment in 2008. At the time, she disclosed more than $1 million in holding

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