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Test Experts Wary on 'Race to Top' Rules
from Education Week
 While the U.S. Department of Education finalizes its rules for doling out $4 billion to states in the 'Race to the Top' competition, a group of prominent testing experts is cautioning federal education officials on how they propose to use assessments to measure student achievement and teacher-quality improvements under the initiative.
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Report Shows Narrowing Achievement Gap Between Different Student Groups
from U.S. News & World Report
Finally, some good news when it comes to the educational prowess of America's public school students: The results of a recently released national study assert that the achievement gap - or the difference in achievement levels between various subgroups of students - is narrowing between advantaged and disadvantaged students on state reading and math tests.
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Standards Aren't Enough
from Education Week
In late September, a new draft of national end-of-high-school standards intended to demand of students a greater depth of understanding of math, reading, and writing was unveiled. But if the goal is to influence and inform teaching and learning, then standards, no matter what they say, are merely the starting point.
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Few Teachers Are Black Men
from USA Today
Only about 2 percent of teachers nationwide are African-American men. But experts say that needs to change if educators expect to reduce minority achievement gaps and dropout rates. American teachers are overwhelmingly white and female, despite minority student populations of about half, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Beyond 'Great,' to Exemplary
from The Washington Post
The opening of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice." Toni Morrison's 1993 Nobel lecture. Walt Whitman's poem "O Captain! My Captain!" The Declaration of Independence. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter From Birmingham Jail." Those were among a handful of texts chosen to illustrate proposed standards for skills and knowledge that every high school graduate should have in English language arts.
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Proficiency Gap Narrows for New Jersey Minority Students
from New Jersey News
New Jersey schools are narrowing the achievement gap for minority and low-income students on statewide standardized reading and math tests, reflecting a nationwide trend, according to a report from the Center on Education Policy, a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, D.C.
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Program to Help Minority Males
from Kent State University News
During his five years of undergraduate study at Kent State, Dametraus Jaggers felt Kent State was missing something. He didn't know what it was until he participated in Kent State's Columbus Program in Intergovernmental Issues in Fall 2007. He attended several programs dedicated to facilitate the academic achievement, leadership and development of black male undergraduate students. Jaggers felt Kent State could benefit from a program like this.
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At State Level, Power Over Schools a Contentious Issue
from Education Week
Who's in charge of education at the state level. The stakes keep getting higher, as pressure for education improvement continues and as states vie for money that will be distributed by the U.S. Department of Education under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. An August letter from the National Governors Association signaled the tension over state governance of K-12 education.
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A Wake-Up Call Sparks Action in Arizona
from Public School Insights
Administrators and staff at the Vail Unified School District recognized they had a problem back in 2003. Student scores on the new statewide AIMS test showed a downward trend as children in Vail schools moved up through the grades. Determined to turn things around, administrators and teachers worked together to build a cross-district curriculum, adopted as part of a broader effort called "Raising Expectations," based on a shared understanding of what mastery looks like in key subject areas including reading and math.
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AASA 2010 National Conference on Education
Even as spending is cut, your leadership team must remain skilled - and have the opportunity to analyze best practices and failures of other school systems - to know what techniques work during distressed times. Register today for the AASA 2010 National Conference on Education!
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