Obama: We Must Fix Education in Black Communities
from Essence Magazine via CNN
With all the unique challenges facing African-Americans, identifying just one problem as the most fundamental issue sounds like the beginning of a long, nuanced conversation. It's not so complicated, however, for President Barack Obama. In a recent conversation with reporters, Obama easily cited education as the most important issue for the black community.
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Dangling Money, Obama Pushes Education Shift
from The New York Times
Holding out billions of dollars as a potential windfall, the Obama administration is persuading state after state to rewrite education laws to open the door to more charter schools and expand the use of student test scores for judging teachers.
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School Board Members in Georgia Work to Ensure Education Quality
from The Fish-Wrap News
Georgia was among the first states in the nation to require that local school board members receive training to ensure quality education leadership. Board members receive training on topics such as Georgia's Quality Basic Education Act, budgeting and financing, legal and policy issues, school and community relations and the roles and responsibilities of the school board.
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D.C. School Database is Behind Schedule
from The Washington Post
A $12 million project to compile critical information about District schools - including students' academic growth, teacher quality and graduation rates - in one database available to policymakers and parents is several months behind schedule, and officials aren't prepared to say when it will be back on track.
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Environmental Education Gets a Push in Congress
from Mother Nature Network
Getting children outside may seem like a simple notion, but the implications are vast, adds Brian A. Day, director of the North American Association for Environmental Education, who says that when children become more earth-savvy, they're better prepared to make wise individual and societal choices.
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Demystifying the Title I, Part A Funding Formulas
from Center for American Progress
Title I, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act authorizes grants to help with the education of children in low-income areas, but the formulas used to determine the grants need to be improved.
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Fitting Special Education to Students' Needs
from The Washington Post
Miguel Landeros is a lanky, well-spoken 12-year-old about to begin seventh grade. He is severely learning disabled, with reading, writing and math skill levels at least two years below his peers, and needs special teaching, according to a licensed clinical psychologist at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore.
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Northern Virgina Students Improve, But Schools Fall Short
from The Washington Post
Roughly nine of every 10 public school students in northern Virginia passed the state's reading and math tests in the spring, with achievement gaps narrowing and passing rates edging upward or holding steady across the region.
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Why the Racial Unemployment Gap Hasn't Gone Away
from iStockAnalyst
At a news conference last month, President Barack Obama got hammered about one of the recession's ripple effects: "Why not target intervention now," the questioner asked, "to stop the bloodletting in the black unemployment rate?"
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Pride and Peril: Historically Black Colleges and Universities
from Diverse Issues in Higher Education
Once a beacon of hope for thousands of Black students denied access to higher education by predominately White institutions, historically Black colleges and universities have educated generations of black scientists, doctors, lawyers, educators and social activists.
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Influential: James Robert Dixon
from News-Press
James Robert Dixon was Dunbar High School's first principal and was known as the "Father of Dunbar High," according to The First 100 Years, a 1987 history book of the Lee County school system in Florida. "He was a political giant. Wherever he went he built schools," quoted Richard Stebbins, a retired teacher.
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Sound Advice for the Classroom
from Diverse Issues in Higher Education
Today's emphasis on the uses of computer technology and audio-visual materials in the classroom obscures an equally effective, cost-efficient means of communication: sound.
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