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Blog Posts
Minority kids expected to be U.S. majority by 2023
WASHINGTON -- About one-fourth of the nation's kindergartners are Hispanic, evidence of an accelerating trend that is expected to see minority children become the majority by 2023. Census data to be released today also show that Hispanics make up about
Mar. 05 6:20 pm
Full Story at Detroit Free Press
Minority kids expected to be U.S. majority by 2023
WASHINGTON -- About one-fourth of the nation's kindergartners are Hispanic, evidence of an accelerating trend that is expected to see minority children become the majority by 2023. Census data to be released today also show that Hispanics make up about
Mar. 05 4:16 pm
Full Story at Detroit Free Press
Early Math Curricula Study ? Making it All Add Up
Educators are paying more attention to early math these days, in part spurred by NCLB math assessments beginning in grade 3. Researchers have been paying more attention to early math skills too, and the results of their work have shown us that young
Mar. 05 4:07 pm
Full Story at New America Blogs
Charter School Statistics: Philanthropy
Can you give us more than just the average? What was the median? What was thet top? Or, it being such a short list, can you just cut and paste it so we can see it? And last, are the ones you didn?t understand possibly more complicated because there
Mar. 05 2:06 pm
Leave teacher licensing as is ? for now
Transferring teacher-licensing authority to the state Board of Education, as an audit report recommends, could slow start-up of the program even more. However, the panel currently responsible for licenses clearly needs help. Rather than dismantling the
Mar. 05 1:38 pm
Full Story at Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Teachers in Peters star in videos to promote anti-bullying
When students at McMurray Elementary School say their teachers "rock," they mean it. Four teachers at the Peters Township School District school are using rock 'n' roll to teach anti-bullying techniques. The teachers have formed the No Tune Left Behind
Mar. 05 1:32 pm
Full Story at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Hispanic enrollment in schools up
WASHINGTON ? Roughly one-fourth of the nation?s kindergartners are Hispanic, evidence of an accelerating trend that now will see minority children become the majority by 2023. Census data to be released today also shows that Hispanics make up about one-
Mar. 05 11:36 am
Full Story at Wilkes-Barre Weekender
Hispanic enrollment in schools, colleges rising
...to $5, 550. Yet his administration has been sketchy when it comes to improving classroom performance and overhauling the No Child Left Behind Act. It sets goals for schools so every student can read and do math on grade level by 2014. The education law has...
Mar. 05 10:07 am
Full Story at Reno Gazette-Journal
New test touted as boon for students
Educators say these are a few of the benefits a proposed state assessment could bring students, teachers and parents who have long complained the state's current exam is time-consuming and offers little instructional guidance. A Legislature-formed task
Mar. 05 9:01 am
Full Story at The Delaware News Journal
Stalemate broken on school tests
...be equally rigorous. Eventually, the state would like to see the Keystone Exams replace the 11th-grade PSSA - the state's No Child Left Behind Accountability tests, Zahorchak said. In January 2008, the state Board of Education proposed that all districts must...
Mar. 05 8:52 am