Nashville Schools Look For Ways To Deal With Underfunding The Nashville Schools are bracing for a budget cut. While costs are rising at about 3.4% due to inflation and other needed costs, the increase in the overall budget is only 1.1%. Despite the Nashville Schools best efforts to insure this deficit is not felt by students-there will certainly be changes felt by the loss of 40 classroom teachers and almost 100 custodians.While...more
Virginia Schools Level The Playing Field In Testing Students With Disabilities Previously, the Virginia schools were required to test, under the No Child Left Behind Act, many of its children with disabilities in reading, math and science, regardless of their ability to do so. Unless they were severely disabled, the children had to take state-required tests for their grade level - whether or not they had the skills and...more
NY Schools Implement Assessment Process, Give Educators Leway In Selecting Tools The necessity to assess students is irrefutable. In fact, a lot of people believe that formal assessments are the only way to tell how a student is progressing, and teachers feel pressured to teach to the test. For many educators, part of their paycheck is based on how well students score on standardized tests. Fortunately for students and teachers alike, New York Public Schools recognize the need to not only assess them fairly and accurately, but also see the necessity of offering various kinds of tests to be used at the teachers' discretion. New York Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein recently announced that all schools will have access to a range of flexible periodic assessment tools to help them track students' progress in English Language Arts and math starting in the 2007-08 school year. It's interesting and encouraging that the Chancellor recognizes the need for these tools. Perhaps even more interesting is the motivation behind them. "Teachers have always used assessments to monitor their students' progress. Now they'll be able to find out quickly exactly what [New York...more
Tampa Charter Schools Take The Lead Over Traditional Institutions In 1996, then governor Jeb Bush co-founded the first charter school within the state of Florida, when most educators across the nation thought of charter schools as nothing more than a fad. Now, there are more than 350 charter schools within the state of Florida; there...more
Innovative Efforts In Ohio Teacher Recruitment Each year Ohio Schools issue an end of the year report announcing the board approved priorities for the next academic year. The number one priority on the 2006-2007 End of Year Report for Ohio Schools was Educator Quality. According to the report, the board and administrators feel that...more
Atlanta Schools Form Task Force To Increase Parental Involvement No one can deny that it is important for parents to be involved in their child's education. It is a widely known and rarely disputed fact that kids whose parents are involved in their child's school do better than those whose parents are not. Parental involvement increases and boosts student achievement. End of story. Or is it?Many parents today have to work, whether they are heads of single-parent or two-parent families. Atlanta Public Schools parents are no exception. They know that if they want to give their children support by contributing to their child's learning environment, they must actually do something beyond telling the child in question to "go do your homework". While lots of students will do extremely well despite their parent's lack of involvement, all kids would do better WITH that involvement. Yes, helping with homework is important, and for the struggling student, is vital. For even the highest achieving Atlanta Schools student will benefit from parents who work on homework with them. The child will feel that their parent loves and supports them, and is interested in what he or she...more
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