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High School Grad Rate Falls for Second Straight Year
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The national high school graduation rate has slipped in recent years, despite an array of public and private efforts to boost the percentage of students going on to college. But some districts are beating the odds, succeeding with many students who otherwise may have fallen through the cracks. The percent of students earning a standard diploma in four years shifted from 69.2 percent in 2006 to 68.8 percent in 2007, according to an analysis of the
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Algebra 1, Timing Is Everything
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In a recent post, Mel Riddile discussed the Montgomery County (MD) Public Schools' findings for success in college. Of particular interest to me was the correlation between a student's performance in Algebra 1 and Algebra 2 and the likelihood of graduating from college. Based on my years of teaching and observing the performance of students in Algebra 1, I have found that depending upon the unique nature of a particular group of
students, somewhere between one-third and one-half of a class are capable of benefiting from Algebra 1 prior to the ninth grade. Those who are not ready at this point in their educational careers should take a rigorous eighth-grade course to prepare them for success in the next year. With such a background, Algebra 2 in the junior year (and pre-calculus as seniors) should be well within reach.
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At its most basic, differentiated instruction is simply good teaching. When teachers say they don't have time to differentiate instruction, they may be right -
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Seeking Manuscripts for Principal Leadership
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The editor of PL is seeking manuscripts for Fall 2010 and Spring 2011. Check the editorial calendars and see how you can contribute to shared knowledge in the field by writing about practices in your school. Take a close look at the November and December 2010 and January 2011 topics and think about sharing your expertise in building literacy, preparing all students for postsecondary education, and succeeding at reform.
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NASSP Seeks Comments on Draft Leadership Program Standards
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NASSP is asking members to provide feedback on draft educational leadership program standards for use by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education in the evaluation and accreditation of programs that prepare school and district leaders at colleges and universities. Download a copy of the Building-Level Standards or the District-Level Standards, and then submit comments by visiting the Building-Level Survey or the District-Level
Survey. All surveys must be completed by July 7.
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Newsweek Releases Best High Schools 2010 List
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Each year, Newsweek picks the best high schools in the country based on how hard school staffs work to challenge students with advanced placement college-level
courses and tests. Just over 1600 schools—only six percent of all the public schools in the U.S.—made the list.
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Budget Crises Force Detroit, Other Cities to Close Schools
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Cooley High School, Detroit's third-largest public high school and a neighborhood institution since it opened one year before the start of the Great Depression, will close its doors this week, ending a family tradition for students like RaShanda Sherrer. "This was our home, our family, our future," said RaShanda, a junior and A student. "Everyone in my family has graduated from Cooley. I'll be the first one in two generations to not
graduate from there. It's part of my history. It's not fair."
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Education Initiatives Hit Political Head Winds
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Two of the Obama administration's signature initiatives—the economic-stimulus program's Race to the Top competition and a massive expansion of federal School Improvement Grants—are running into some resistance on Capitol Hill. Key lawmakers charged with crafting a renewal of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act continue to argue that the four models offered in regulations for the $3.5 billion School Improvement
Grants are inflexible, unproven, and unrealistic, particularly for rural schools.
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Some Educators Question If High-Tech Tools Raise Achievement
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Under enormous pressure to reform, the nation's public schools are spending millions of dollars each year on gadgets from text-messaging devices to interactive whiteboards that technology companies promise can raise student performance. Driving the boom is a surge in federal funding for such products, the industry's aggressive marketing and an idea axiomatic in the world of education reform: that to prepare students kids for the
21st century, schools must embrace the technologies that are the media of modern life.
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Related item: Read a commentary on this article by Mel Riddile on The Principal Difference blog
Hosting the President: A Conversation With Kalamazoo Principal Von Washington
Public School Insights
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Kalamazoo Central High School in Kalamazoo, Michigan made news when it beat out thousands of other schools for the honor of hosting President Obama as its commencement speaker. The President spoke
before the school's 2010 graduates on June 7. His audience included scores of students whose lives have been transformed by a stunning promise: free tuition at any public university in the state. At a time when many towns in Michigan are losing people, the "Kalamazoo Promise" has drawn a flood of new families into the city and the school system.
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Arizona Immigration Law Creates Uncertain Role for Police on Campus
Education Week
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Nearly two months after Arizona enacted a controversial law requiring police officers to ask about the immigration status of suspected undocumented immigrants
involved in a "lawful stop, detention or arrest," educators, police agencies and advocates are beginning to sort out what the new requirements mean for the police officers who work in public schools. Meanwhile, at least one school district with a large Latino population saw a drop in enrollment right after Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican, signed the measure into law on April 23. It is scheduled to go into effect July 28.
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Six Technologies That Will Shape Education
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Cloud computing and gaming are among the six technologies that will have a major positive impact on K-12 education in the next few years, according to researchers. But education also faces some critical challenges in that timeframe, including challenges that may require fundamental changes to the way we educate in the United States. This according to a new report released by the New Media Consortium in collaboration with the
Consortium for School Networking, "The 2010 Horizon Report: K-12 Edition."
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New Paths to Diploma Possible
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Students at risk of dropping out could have new ways to earn a high school diploma or a GED diploma if West Virgina Board of Education members approve changes this summer. Debra Kimbler, state GED administrator, said the "very significant changes" introduce two new paths to reaching a high school diploma and one new path to a General Educational Development diploma. In all three cases, the students are expected to stay enrolled in
school until they finish.
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In Bold Move, Colorado Alters Teacher Tenure Rules
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Colorado is changing the rules for how teachers earn and keep the sweeping job protections known as tenure, linking student performance to job security despite outcry from teacher unions that have steadfastly defended the system for decades. Many education reform advocates consider tenure to be one of the biggest obstacles to improving America's schools because it makes removing mediocre or even incompetent teachers
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Nashville, TN, Offers Options for At-Risk Students
Education Week
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School leaders in Nashville, TN, quickly saw a pattern when they began reviewing data on students who dropped out of school there. Many were English-language learners or young parents, or were being raised by single parents, and most were working full or part time to help make ends meet. Jesse Register, the superintendent of the 76,000-student Metropolitan Nashville school district, says administrators realized they needed new and
different systems in place to make sure more of those students graduated.
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