38th Annual Conference
November 17-21
Fort Worth, Texas
EARLY BIRD SPECIAL!!!!
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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 1, 2010 under the "INDIVIDUAL" category will receive a deduction of $15!! INDIVIDUAL registrants who register ONLINE will receive an additional $10 off the current Registration Rate.
ALL registrants who REGISTER ONLINE will automatically receive a deduction of $10 from the Registration Rate!!!
National Lab Day (NLD) is more than just a day. It's a nationwide initiative to build local communities of support that will foster ongoing collaborations among volunteers, students and educators. NLD is the ultimate educational matchmaker.
Volunteers, university students, scientists, engineers, other STEM professionals and, more broadly, members of the community are working together with educators and students to bring discovery-based science experiences to students in grades K-12. When an educator posts a project, our system will help them get the resources needed to bring that project to fruition.
NLD is already underway! We currently have projects throughout the country - Interactive Map.
In the first week of May, 2010 (May 5th is the actual day) we will celebrate this collaboration with National Lab Day activities across the country.
Please visit www.nationallabday.org to learn more about National Lab Day
National Lab Day is sponsored by the following:
Remembering Dr. Dorothy Height
from The New York Times
 Dorothy Height, a leader of the African-American and women's rights movements and considered both the grande dame of the civil rights era and its unsung heroine, died on April 20 at age 98. One of the last living links to the social activism of the New Deal era, Ms. Height had a career in civil rights that spanned nearly 80 years, from anti-lynching protests in the early 1930s to the inauguration of President Obama in 2009. That the American social landscape looks as it does today owes in no small part to her work.
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Getting Students Ready by 21
from Public School Insights
No one disputes the powerful role that schools play in children's lives. But schools shouldn't go it alone in eliminating poverty and inequity in America. Recent years have witnessed a surge of interest in efforts to create much stronger ties between schools and other providers of services for children. The Harlem Children's Zone has captured the nation’s attention for its "cradle to career" focus on children's well being. President Obama has pledged to support similar models to bring schools and communities together around the needs of young people.
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Black Woman Leads Former Whites-Only School
from Education Week
The private boarding school for underprivileged students now led by Autumn Adkins, who describes herself simply as "a black girl from Richmond, Virginia," would have excluded her in years past. The one-time white boys-only institution in Philadelphia did not admit its first black student until 1968 — and that was only after numerous legal challenges, months of protests, a visit from Martin Luther King Jr. and a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court. Girls weren't allowed until 1984.
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Six Technologies Soon to Affect Education
from eSchool News
Cloud computing and collaborative learning environments are set to take hold in K-12 schools in the very near future, with mobile devices, game-based learning, and other education technologies to follow suit in the next few years, according to the 2010 Horizon Report's K-12 Edition, released by the New Media Consortium.
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Brooklyn School Scores High Despite Poverty
from The New York Times
To ace the state standardized tests, Public School 172 in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, finds money for coaches in writing, reading and math. Teachers keep detailed notes on each child, writing down weaknesses and encouraging them to repeat tasks. There is after-school help and Saturday school. But at the start of this school year, seven or eight students were still falling behind.
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Blacks Have Heaviest College Debt
from Diverse Issues in Higher Education
A College Board study released has found that undergraduate student debt is heavier among African-American bachelor's degree recipients than among graduates from other racial and ethnic groups. Twenty-seven percent of 2007-08 Black bachelor's degree recipients borrowed $30,500 or more, compared to 16 percent of Whites, 14 percent of Hispanics/Latinos, and 9 percent of Asians.
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Improving Minority Achievement Should Start Early
from School Board News
If school boards want to better prepare high school students for college and career, their policy decisions cannot be limited to what's happening in the high school. "We have to start [college readiness] as soon as possible," Efrain Mercado Jr., director of outreach for the National Center for Educational Achievement, told attendees in a conference session, "What School Board Members Should Know About the Academic Performance Gap: Policy Implications for Students of Color."
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