|
|
|
ASCA Weekly Wrapup A roundup of the week's education-related headlines
Friday, Oct. 30, 2009
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Influence Game: Bill Gates' Sway on Ed Policy
Associated Press
Not content with shaping education directly through schools, the biggest player in the school reform movement has an eye on moving education policy. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has spent around $200 million a year on grants to elementary and secondary education. Now the foundation is taking unprecedented steps to spend millions to influence the way the federal government distributes $5 billion in grants to overhaul public schools. Read more.
|
|
Counselors Must Adapt to Address Students' 21st-Century Needs
PressofAtlanticCity.com
They know students who can't concentrate in class because a parent lost his or her job. They know students who have been cyber-bullies and -bullied.
They know how much a divorce or home foreclosure can affect a student's grades. School counselors know more about some aspects of children's lives than their parents do. And they want to help. Read more. |
Teachers Say Texting Can be Good for Teens
The Charlotte Observer
|
|
Denver Public Schools Aims to Make Charter Schools More Diverse
The Denver Post
In most other charter schools, 8-year-old Cal Crum wouldn't be sitting in a second-grade classroom learning about geometric shapes with his typically developing peers. Cal, a student at Odyssey Charter School, has cerebral palsy, a severe enough disability that most charter schools say they don't have the capacity or funding to accept students with the condition. That charter schools exclude students with more intense disabilities is, perhaps, the loudest complaint against the publicly funded, autonomous schools that are supposed to serve all children. Read more. |
|
Schools Working to Curb Drug Use
Brewtonstandard.com
Getting a drug-free message out to students and the community is a daunting task but it is one that school counselors, community educators and prevention coordinators take on every day. With Oct. 25-31 named as Red Ribbon Week across the United States, counselors and other officials are targeting the week for comprehensive education plans for students, faculty, parents and the community. Read more. |
|
School Counselors Give Tips on Meeting College Deadlines, Getting Students Organized
Knoxville News Sentinel
School counselors know what's on the minds of children and parents alike. In this monthly series, we ask counselors about the issues facing students today, and they offer their insights and solutions. Read more. |
|
White House Says Stimulus Saving Education Jobs
Reuters
The Obama administration said its economic stimulus had saved or created 250,000 education jobs, as it sought to push back against Republicans who contend the package was wasteful and had not worked. Faced with pressure to help spur job growth with the U.S. unemployment rate at 9.8 percent, President Obama is considering new steps to help the economy, on top of the $787 billion stimulus package passed earlier this year. Read more. |
|
$6.7 Million Grant Will Help ASU Train Native American Teachers
Arizona Republic
Arizona State University received a $6.7 million grant to enable more students in the Arizona Native American communities to earn teacher certification. The grant is part of a five-year teacher quality partnership that will be used to reform traditional university teacher preparation and teacher residency programs. The total amount for the five-year grant is $33.8 million. Read more. |
This weekly e-bulletin is brought to you by the American School Counselor Association.
1101 King St., Suite625
Alexandria, VA 22314
(703) 683-ASCA
www.schoolcounselor.org
|
|
|
|
|
|
