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August 30, 2006
Education News for Wednesday, August 30
National Education Foundation to provide $400 million in online scholarships to disadvantaged U.S. high schools - CyberLearning has over 3,000 courses including courses that lead to business skills, IT certifications and high-paying jobs. It also has a complete digital literacy curriculum for teachers and students leading to an international (IC3) certification.
SAT reading and math scores show a significant decline - The drop confirmed earlier reports from puzzled college officials that they were seeing lower scores from applicants.
Why we're losing ground - Efforts to reform our public education system received a blow recently when a federal court reopened a challenge to the testing procedure the State of New York requires as part of the certification process for new teachers.
Upon further reflection, a few random thoughts - Dear teachers and students, dear principals and counselors, as the new school year begins, let us reflect. Let us reflect on our reflections about reflecting.
Check back later for more education news.
UPDATE:
Privaticizing New Orleans' schools - Opinion: After seeing how public education is being drastically altered there, she said she feared that very system would spread.
40 Percent of NH Schools Don't Make Grade -New Hampshire released revised test results for elementary, middle and high schools, and an unhealthy minority are not making the grade under No Child Left Behind.
Performance data driving education now - James Turner is flooded by so much data on schools and kids that he is reminded of the ancient mariner who was stuck on a windless sea, surrounded by undrinkable salt water.
Utah's school funding paradox questioned - Stephen Kroes, executive director of the Utah Foundation, said his group aimed to gather many perspectives, ensuring that conservative voices such as Utah Taxpayer Association and Parents for Choice in Education would be heard, along with representatives of the education community like the Utah Education Association.
Ed Week: CA lawmakers grant LA mayor partial control over school system - (subscription required) The plan would give him considerable sway over the hiring of the superintendent, but falls short of the strong mayoral control in cities like New York City and Chicago.
Ed Week: In every core class, a qualified teacher - (subscription required) A year from now, every academic class must be headed by what is considered to be a “highly qualified” teacher. Federal officials say the vast majority of states are well on their way to that goal. Others, however, are skeptical the resources are there.
Ed Week: NCLB reauthorization hearing tackles flexibility, standards - (subscription required) The key House subcommittee studying the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act held its first field hearing here this week in what is normally a federal courtroom.
Ed Week: NCES calls for sticking to the stats - (subscription required) In discussing a new federal study on charter schools last week, the commissioner of statistics for the U.S. Department of Education reiterated that his office should not be initiating analyses such as that one and a recent comparison of public and private schools, both of which he believes rely too much on subjective judgments.
Ed Week: Reanalysis of NAEP scores finds charter schools lagging - The average reading score for the 150 charter schools examined, taking into account a range of background characteristics of students and schools, was 4.2 percentage points lower than in a pool of more than 6,700 regular public schools...
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