tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16093049757997064622023-11-15T22:07:17.930-08:00christo educationmorganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.comBlogger151125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1609304975799706462.post-41696212092409603022013-02-12T12:34:00.001-08:002013-02-12T12:34:21.585-08:00Online day loans
Sometimes you may ne'er grasp once suddenly you're in really want of cash, and you're in need of it. Then you would possibly suppose that you've got simply run out of any choices. Well, you'll be able to get a money loan. But, wherever are you able to get the most effective place for money loan? i would have an answer for you here. Whenever you're in want of fast money loan, you'll be able to morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1609304975799706462.post-55127104091931778342012-02-25T03:46:00.000-08:002012-06-24T04:02:21.985-07:00D.C. charter schools: Student expulsions reveal data problemThis from The Answer Sheet: For years the D.C. public schools system was publicly ridiculed for its inability to accurately maintain basic statistics, such as how many students were enrolled in the system. Now it’s the turn of the public charter schools — the alternative schools that were supposed to show the traditional public schools how education is done right — to have trouble with their morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1609304975799706462.post-53202741499115002102012-02-25T03:39:00.000-08:002012-06-24T04:02:21.986-07:00Pesky Constitution Foils Politics as UsualThis from Bluegrass Politics: Kentucky high court blocks use of newly-drawn legislative districtsThe Kentucky Supreme Court has blocked implementation of the newly drawn boundaries for state legislative districts, a move that will keep Democratic Sen. Kathy Stein’s district in Lexington.In a two-page order issued a few hours after hearing oral arguments in the case Friday morning, the morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1609304975799706462.post-60578158068836807422012-02-25T03:27:00.000-08:002012-06-24T04:02:21.986-07:00Another Report, Another Set of Mixed Results for ChartersCharters Near Top—and Bottom—of California Rankings This from State EdWatch: California charter schools are more likely than non-charters to be among the states' top performers—but also more likely to be among the laggards—a new report concludes.The second annual "Portrait of the Movement," released by the California Charter Schools Association on Thursday, offers a mixed picture ofmorganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1609304975799706462.post-33940195087686318762012-02-25T03:12:00.000-08:002012-06-24T04:02:21.986-07:00Supreme Court to Revisit Race in College AdmissionsThis from the School Law Blog: The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear a major new case involving the consideration of race in college admissions, in a dispute being closely watched by the K-12 community.The justices agreed to hear a challenge to a program in which the University of Texas at Austin considers race as one factor for admission after Texas students from the topmorganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1609304975799706462.post-90148701764188189942012-02-24T13:46:00.000-08:002012-06-24T04:02:21.986-07:00Santorum Would 'Eliminate' No Child Left Behind ActThis from Politics K-12: Rick Santorum is still regretting his vote in favor of the No Child Left Behind Act. Santorum, who reiterated that he regretted voting for NCLB [in the most recent Republican debate], said that law has led to increased federal education spending. And, indeed, according to the New America Foundation, spending on federal Title I (one of the big federal education morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1609304975799706462.post-10771452061325257442012-02-24T13:38:00.000-08:002012-06-24T04:02:21.986-07:00Gates Signals Moderation on Value-Added MeasuresThe Prichard Committee, a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grantee, recently sent messages to Kentucky educators alerting them to Bill Gates's recent New York Times Op Ed titled "Shame Is Not the Solution." Gates who supports value-added measures (and has supported them with millions of dollars in grant funds) had remained silent on the publication of teacher evaluation results by morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1609304975799706462.post-8476681535188810822012-02-24T12:57:00.000-08:002012-06-24T04:02:21.986-07:00Do Value-Added Models "Control For Poverty?"This from the Shanker Blog: There is some controversy over the fact that Florida’s recently-announced value-added model (one of a class often called “covariate adjustment models”), which will be used to determine merit pay bonuses and other high-stakes decisions, doesn’t include a direct measure of poverty. Personally, I support adding a direct income proxy to these models, if formorganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1609304975799706462.post-18422820001499006382012-02-24T12:53:00.000-08:002012-06-24T04:02:21.986-07:00Gates Weighs In as New York City Releases 'Value Added' ScoresThis from Teacher Beat: New York City will release to news outlets tomorrow "value added" reports that purport to estimate a teacher's impact on his or her students' standardized test scores—an action certain to thrust discussion of these measures into the public eye once again, and one that also raises big questions about journalism ethics. The city teachers' union, the United morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1609304975799706462.post-27340569841622256782012-02-24T12:46:00.000-08:002012-06-24T04:02:21.986-07:00Ed. Dept. to Closely Monitor Subgroups in NCLB Waiver StatesThis from Politics K-12: With 11 states now freed from some parts of the No Child Left Behind Act, and another round of states readying their waiver applications, the U.S. Department of Education has turned to perhaps the most important part of the process: holding states to their new accountability promises. To that end, the department is beginning to outline what it expects of states that morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1609304975799706462.post-13032439610505797082012-02-24T12:38:00.000-08:002012-06-24T04:02:21.987-07:00Unbridled Learning will help move Kentucky forwardThis from the Commish in C-J:Kentucky’s selection as one of 11 states to receive flexibility under the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act reinforces the commonwealth’s position as a leader in innovative P-12 education efforts. NCLB was implemented more than 10 years ago, and it had the right vision. It forced us to raise achievement and expectations for all children. However, it also morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1609304975799706462.post-72251529350723761852012-02-23T08:46:00.000-08:002012-06-24T04:02:21.987-07:00The Bully from ....Prestonsburg?If House Speaker Greg Stumbo harbored concerns over the administration of Morehead State University he should have expressed them, and sought information about the Morehead Regents and President Andrews before now. By tying his open records request to the regents' opposition to Stumbo's House Bill 260, the Speaker comes off as oppressive, and the Regents look like innocent victims of just anothermorganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1609304975799706462.post-21072290266982650132012-02-22T17:27:00.000-08:002012-06-24T04:02:21.987-07:00Ellis on the History of Education in KentuckyDr. Bill Ellis, the author of A History of Education in Kentucky (2011), will present “Whither Education in Kentucky: The Challenges and Promises of the 21st Century” on Thursday, February 23 at 7:30 p.m. in O’Donnell Hall of the Student Success Building. His presentation is part of Eastern Kentucky University’s year-long Chautauqua Lecture Series on “Living with Others: Challenges and morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1609304975799706462.post-32623436946493513782012-02-22T17:20:00.000-08:002012-06-24T04:02:21.987-07:00House panel offers compromise on school dropout billThis from the H-L: Local school districts would have the option of keeping students in school until age 18 through 2016, when the higher dropout age would become mandatory statewide under a bill a state House panel approved Tuesday. House Education chairman Carl Rollins, D-Midway, said the measure was a compromise between a House bill that would raise the dropout age from 16 to 18 and a morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1609304975799706462.post-83096271376943584342012-02-21T06:09:00.000-08:002012-06-24T04:02:21.987-07:00A smart ALEC threatens public educationThis from the Phi Delta Kappan:AbstractPublic education has historically been in the public and political eye. Then came 2011 and the high profile and well televised protests in Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana. In each case Republican Governors and Republican controlled state legislatures had introduced substantially similar bills that sought sweeping morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1609304975799706462.post-2221622259402667692012-02-21T05:57:00.000-08:002012-06-24T04:02:21.987-07:00States Try to Fix Quirks in Teacher EvaluationsThis from the N Y Times: Spurred by the requirements of the Obama administration’s Race to the Top competition, Tennessee is one of more than a dozen states overhauling their evaluation systems to increase the number of classroom observations and to put more emphasis on standardized test scores. But even as New York State finally came to an agreement last week with its teachers’ unions on morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1609304975799706462.post-86881550025491104002012-02-20T12:16:00.000-08:002012-06-24T04:02:21.987-07:00Quick HitsCreative opportunities of students soon may be measured: Several states are considering developing an index to gauge whether schools are fostering students' creativity. Supporters of such a measure -- proposed in California, Oklahoma and Massachusetts -- say opportunities for students to be creative would be measured in school curriculum, as well as in before- and after-school programsmorganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1609304975799706462.post-87764101886374353002012-02-19T16:33:00.000-08:002012-06-24T04:02:21.988-07:00Charters: Pro and ConToday’s Herald-Leader opinion page contained a Pro and Con feature on charter schools. Did either argument win? The pro side was held down by WKU’s Gary Houchins who declared that if we want to see bigger gains in student learning, schools need “autonomy and accountability.” And for some reason he thinks Brad Montell’s charter school bill will get us there.Writing in opposition JCTA President morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1609304975799706462.post-51678202370633591392012-02-19T13:26:00.000-08:002012-06-24T04:02:21.988-07:00Schools We Can EnvyThis from Diane Ravitch in The New York Review of Books:In recent years, elected officials and policymakers such as former president George W. Bush, former schools chancellor Joel Klein in New York City, former schools chancellor Michelle Rhee in Washington, D.C., and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have agreed that there should be “no excuses” for schools with low test scores. The “no excusesmorganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1609304975799706462.post-79639022087990114592012-02-18T05:37:00.000-08:002012-06-24T04:02:21.988-07:00Federal K-12 Footprint at Core of ESEA HearingThis from Education Week: Congressional lawmakers in charge of overseeing the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act are deeply divided on the right role for the federal government in K-12 education, a split on display at Thursday's hearing on a pair of bills before the House Education and the Workforce Committee. The measures, introduced Feb. 9 by the committee's morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1609304975799706462.post-13539502479207990192012-02-17T15:23:00.000-08:002012-06-24T04:02:21.988-07:00Duncan on the Daily ShowDuncan seems to blame NCLB (which he supported for years) and the states for poorly designed multiple choice testing, while denying that RTTT required it, or contributed to the high stakes environment that puts the thumbscrews to teachers.I gotta watch this again when I get the chance. Until then, what do you hear?Comedy Central Shows:This from The Daily Show by way of Governing: The Daily morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1609304975799706462.post-28039781471708056342012-02-17T11:58:00.000-08:002012-06-24T04:02:21.988-07:00Open rebellion against standardized school tests in TexasThis from the Dallas Morning News:Saying high-stakes standardized testing is "strangling our public schools," superintendents of several high-performing North Texas school districts have jointly signed a letter to top state officials and lawmakers warning about the deterioration of the education system. Call it open rebellion against the 25-year-old testing regimen. Wow. The letter goes out morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1609304975799706462.post-78054222344334237322012-02-17T11:51:00.000-08:002012-06-24T04:02:21.988-07:00The Way It Was S'posed To BeRare District -Charter Collaboration for InnovationFocuses on Kids Instead of PoliticsAn earnest Chelsea Clinton (showing flashes of Momma) reports at NBC about charter school as it was originally conceived. Rhode Island public and charter school teachers are meeting weekly to share and even adopt each others' techniques and challenges. The Gates Foundation says that nationally, out of ~16,000 morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1609304975799706462.post-90379363439331980532012-02-17T11:26:00.000-08:002012-06-24T04:02:21.988-07:00Study: Religion and Politics Affect Teen Birthrates More Than Sex Ed.This from Inside School Research: More comprehensive sexuality-education courses are correlated with slightly lower teenage birth rates—but that connection is not nearly as powerful as demographic, religious, and political factors in a student's home state. Students in states that are more politically and religiously conservative have significantly higher birth rates than students in morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1609304975799706462.post-15398248003290188342012-02-16T07:20:00.000-08:002012-06-24T04:02:21.989-07:00Scapegoating TeachersThis from Counterpunch:The first to discover that teachers make perfect scapegoats was George W. Bush. When he ran for president for the first time twelve years ago, Bush had a problem. He wanted lower taxes to be his rallying cry, but while taxes in Texas, the state where he was governor, were indeed low, the schools in Texas were notoriously bad.The numbers are no better today: Texas ranks morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892815926130156584noreply@blogger.com0