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September 17, 2007
September 17, 2007
UT is OK with 28% failing, standards for online education released, school choice advocates call for more parental options, ...
Deseret Morning News, UT: Voters, approve vouchers in November - Because I'm a public school advocate, I'm also an enormous voucher supporter. I am absolutely convinced that by every measure Utah's public schools, students, parents, teachers and taxpayers will be much better off if vouchers are approved by voters in November.
Deseret Morning News, UT: 28% of Utah schools 'left behind' - 18% failed AYP last year, 28% failed this year... can we expect 38% next year?
dBusiness News, OR: Aventa Learning Announces College Board Approval of 22 Advanced Placement® Courses - Aventa Learning, a leading provider of online learning content and services to K-12 educational institutions, announced today that the College Board has approved all 22 of Aventa Learning’s Advanced Placement (AP) courses. Now that the College Board must approve AP offerings due to the inconsistency of content and rigor across the nation's high schools, some schools are turning to distance learning to ensure adequate coursework for students.
PR Newswire: NACOL Releases National Standards of Quality for Online Courses - NACOL released National Standards of Quality for Online Courses, an important measuring tool to help policy leaders, schools, and parents across the nation evaluate course quality and implement best practices.
Emediawire, WA: School Choice Advocates Call for Effective Parental Options in No Child Left Behind - 18 State and National Groups Urge Congress, President Bush to Include Effective, Meaningful Choice in Reauthorization of No Child Left Behind.
Daily Camera, CO: Demanding unions - Denver's school system is facing diminishing academic performance along with losing around 30,000 students. Critical infrastructure shortcomings have also forced it to consider closing up to 40 schools. f Denver's school officials and union bosses paid a bit more attention to what was going on a hundred miles away in Pueblo, they might pick up a clue on how to achieve their primary goal of improved student performance - Cesar Chavez Academy, a charter school.
Denver Post, CO: Teachers want more red lights - More than 900 Denver third-graders earned "unsatisfactory" scores on state reading tests two years ago, yet only 39 repeated the grade, according to the district. Under an education reform plan offered by the Denver teachers union, however, hundreds of those students would have been held back.
Dallas Morning News: Sue Blanchette: Let's get at the core issues of education reform - As the furor over American education increases, the demand for simple answers to complex issues escalates.
Worchester Telegram, MA: It’s working - In Massachusetts, scores improved across racial and ethnic lines. It's working, but the 73% versus 90% achievement gap is a problem that state and local education officials must make a top priority.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA: The state of education - Members of Congress who adamantly deny Americans the right to choose their children's schools still don't walk the talk. If they did, school choice today would be the rule -- not the exception.
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