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ASCA Weekly Wrapup A roundup of the week's education-related headlines
Friday, Sept. 18, 2009
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Colleges are Falling in Graduation Rates
The New York Times
If you were going to come up with a list of organizations whose failures had done the most damage to the American economy in recent years, you'd probably have to start with the Wall Street firms and regulatory agencies that brought us the financial crisis. From there, you might move on to Wall Street's fellow bailout recipients in Detroit, the once-Big Three. Public universities possibly should also be on this list. Read more.
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Gates Brings Education Message to MTV, Nickelodeon
Associated Press
Students who might be too glued to their televisions to keep up with homework are going to find channels like MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon prodding them to get on task and graduate. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is partnering with Viacom Inc.'s television networks, education leaders and celebrities to launch an awareness campaign to reduce the number of dropouts. Read more. |
New Campaign Questions Reliance on TestingUSA Today
If public schools were baseball teams, says Sam Chaltain, Americans wouldn't have a clue who should be in the playoffs. That's because the current rating system relies heavily on a single set of test scores for nearly 50 million students, showing how a sample of them perform on a one-day math or reading test each spring. As Congress gears up to reauthorize No Child Left Behind (NCLB), Chaltain is leading a new and unlikely campaign to shift the USA's education conversation away from one-day tests and toward a larger one, focused on "powerful learning and highly effective teaching." Read more. |
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9/11 Education to be Initiated in Schools
USA Today
Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani joined Sept. 11 family members and college professors last week at a hotel blocks from the World Trade Center site to unveil a plan to teach middle and high school students about the 2001 terrorist attacks. The 9/11 curriculum, believed to be the first comprehensive educational plan focusing on the attacks, is expected to be tested this year at schools in New York City, California, New Jersey, Alabama, Indiana, Illinois and Kansas. Read more. |
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Private Sector Investing in Charter Schools
Boston Globe
Private investors are showing an interest in charter schools as more students flock to them as an educational option. Kansas City-based Entertainment Properties Inc. recently bought 22 locations from charter school operator Imagine Schools for about $170 million. The real estate investment trust is acting as the landlord so Imagine can concentrate on what it does best -- run schools. Supporters say such partnerships reflect the growing popularity of charter schools and address the fact that they don't have access to the same financing as mainstream public schools. Read more. |
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Schools Aided by Stimulus Money Still Facing Cuts
The New York Times
Children are returning to classrooms across the nation during one of the most tumultuous periods in American education, in which many thousands of teachers and other school workers were laid off in dozens of states because of plummeting state and local revenue. Many were hired back, thanks in part to $100 billion in federal stimulus money. Read more. |
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Obama Education Chief to Parents: "Step Up"
USA Today
Classrooms are filling up as kids head back to school, and Education Secretary Arne Duncan's two children are among them. In an interview with the Associated Press, Duncan said students should take more responsibility for doing well in school, and he called on their parents to step up, too. Read more. |
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