38th Annual Conference
November 17-21, 2010
Fort Worth, Texas
EARLY BIRD SPECIAL!!!!
REGISTER NOW ... and receive up to $25 in savings!*
Join us for NABSE's 38th Annual Conference:
- Professional Development and Best Practice Workshops
- NEW Workshop Strands addressing Special Education and School Board Administration
- Unparalleled Networking Opportunities with over 4,000 Educators and Administrators
- Over 300 Exhibitors and Vendors
- Interactive School Tours
- Plenary Sessions Led by Nationally Known Education Leaders
*EARLY BIRD SPECIAL . . . Registrants who register by May 31, 2010 under the "INDIVIDUAL" category will receive a deduction of $15.00!! INDIVIDUAL registrants who register ONLINE will receive an additional $10.00 off the current Registration Rate.
ALL registrants who REGISTER ONLINE will automatically receive a deduction of $10.00 from the Registration Rate!!!
MLK's Dream and Education
from The Dallas Morning News
Here's the new reality for public schools in the South: For the first time, most of their students are poor and come from minority families. Soon, the rest of America will catch up with Texas, Louisiana, Georgia and the other Old South states.
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Arne Duncan's History Lesson to the American Federation of Teachers: Elevating the Teaching Profession?
from Dissident Voice
In this segment, Dissident Voicelooks at the historical rise of the factory school, industrialization and the new capitalist relations of power and how they configured both the ideological and material reality of teaching and learning.
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A National Yardstick for Gauging Math Progress
from Education Week
To complement Quality Counts 2010's exploration of reinvigorated interest in common standards and assessments on the national stage, the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center conducted an original analysis intended to help ground these dynamic debates in a firm understanding of state performance in one core academic area.
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Getting Buy-In from Everyone in the System
from Public School Insights
There is widespread consensus that family engagement is a critical ingredient for children's school success "from cradle to career." Research suggests that family engagement promotes a range of benefits for students, including improved school readiness, higher student achievement, better social skills and behavior, and increased likelihood of high school graduation.
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Patrick Signs Education Overhaul
from The Boston Globe
Sitting on a child's stool at the Children's Museum, Governor Deval Patrick signed a sweeping education bill that will greatly increase the number of charter schools, grant superintendents broad powers to overhaul underperforming districts, and make the state eligible for up to $250 million in federal stimulus money.
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Schools Mindset Starting Point for Turnaround
from Sowetan
If we want to turn around black education, we must start by changing prevailing anti-learning attitudes. There is a link between the rampant anti-intellectualism in the country and poor matric results. In dominant political circles, knowledge is rarely appreciated. In poorer black communities education is not seen strongly enough as a route out of poverty.
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Schools Try to Make Pupils Feel Welcome Amid Change
from The Chicago Tribune
In 1990, minorities made up less than five percent of the students at Chicago's Plainfield Community Unit District 202. Today, nearly two out of five students are nonwhite. Consider that some 69 languages are now spoken by students and a picture of one of Chicago's district's transformation becomes clear.
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