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Southern Schools Mark Two Majorities
By SHAILA DEWAN Published: January 6, 2010 
ATLANTA - The South has become the first region in the country where more than half of public school students are poor and more than half are members of minorities, according to a new report.
The shift was fueled not by white flight from public schools, which spiked during desegregation but has not had much effect on school demographics since the early 1980s. Rather, an influx of Latinos and other ethnic groups, the return of blacks to the South and higher birth rates among black and Latino families have contributed to the change.
The new numbers, from the 2008-9 school year, are a milestone for the South, "the only section of the United States where racial slavery, white supremacy and racial segregation of schools were enforced through law and social custom," said the report, to be released on Thursday by the Southern Education Foundation, a nonprofit group based here that supports education improvement in the region.Read more |
Unions v. Race to the Top
States are waiting for Arne Duncan.
Is the Obama Administration going to side with school reformers, or will it reward state and local teachers union affiliates that defend the status quo? This is a question states are asking as they prepare their applications for $4.35 billion in Race to the Top competitive grants. Some guidance from Education Secretary Arne Duncan would be helpful.
Teachers unions in Minnesota and Florida are currently threatening to withhold support for their state Race to the Top applications, which are due later this month.
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Obama to announce teacher training initiative
By Julie Pace
Associated Press Writer / January 6, 2010
WASHINGTON-President Barack Obama is announcing a $250 million initiative Wednesday to train math and science teachers in an effort to reach his administration's goal of moving American students from the middle to the top of the pack in those subjects over the next decade.
"The quality of math and science teachers is the most important single factor influencing whether students will succeed or fail in science, technology, engineering and math," Obama said in a statement. The money will help prepare 10,000 new teachers and train 100,000 more, the administration said.
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White House announces $250M effort for science and math teachers
By Nick Anderson
Wednesday, January 6, 2010; 4:33 PM
President Obama announced a $250 million public-private effort Wednesday to improve science and mathematics instruction, aiming to help the nation compete in key fields with global economic rivals.
With funding from high-tech businesses, universities and foundations, the initiative seeks to prepare more than 10,000 new math and science schoolteachers over five years and provide on-the-job training for an additional 100,000 in science, technology, engineering and math.
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