38th Annual Conference
November 17-21
Fort Worth, Texas
EARLY BIRD SPECIAL EXTENDED TO JUNE 1!!!!
Register today ... 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 June 1 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.
Obama at Hampton Says Education Is Responsibility of All Americans
from Diverse Issues in Higher Education
President Barack Obama, recently addressed graduates at historically Black Hampton University, saying it is the responsibility of all Americans to offer every child the type of education that will make them competitive in an economy in which just a high school diploma is no longer enough.
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Can "Bad" Schools Teach Us Good Things?
from Public School Insights
Here's a message that rings out loud and clear in the current debate on school reform: If we can learn anything from struggling schools, it's what not to do. Those schools teach lessons about indifference, fecklessness and bull-headed resistance to change. It's best to wipe the slate very, very clean.
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An Opportunity for Education Reform
from Center for American Progress
Education reformers could be forgiven for suffering a minor bout of attention deficit disorder between debating the merits of the Race to the Top winners and runner-ups, examining the president's blueprint reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and speculating on the prospects of completing ESEA reauthorization this year. The Obama administration has done much to shake up the federal education landscape.
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Advice Given on Single-Sex Schools for Boys of Color
from Education Week
Single-sex schools for Latino and African-American males use such interventions as fostering a feeling of "brotherhood" among students, providing relevant instruction, and countering negative messages in the media and in their daily lives - among them that school is more suitable for girls.
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Bullying and Teen Suicide: How Do We Adjust School Climate?
from The Christian Science Monitor
There are no reliable statistics that break out the number of teen suicides attributable to bullying. In most cases it may not be possible to definitively attribute a teen's suicide to a particular cause, be it bullying, a broken heart, a bad test score, or simply chronic depression. Nevertheless, the cases of so-called "bullycides" have drawn attention to the overall problem of bullying and the responsibility of schools to put a stop to it.
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Full-day Preschool Found to Benefit Boys, Black Students More
from The Washington Post
Montgomery County boys as well as African Americans of both sexes benefit more from full-day pre-kindergarten programs, according to a study announced by school officials. The findings come at a time when educators increasingly are using programs aimed at the youngest students as the surest way to close persistent gaps in performance between economic and racial groups.
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FCC Plan Could Revive 'Net Neutrality'
from eSchool News
The head of the Federal Communications Commission thinks he has come up with a way to salvage his ambitious national broadband plans and his hope for "net neutrality," a principle favored by many school technology advocates, without running into legal obstacles that have threatened to derail him.
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