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Bill would require four years of math for Oklahoma students

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.tulsaworld.com (Views: 14, Clicks: 3)
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Oklahoma high school students would be required to take four years of mathematics before graduating high school under a bill approved in the Oklahoma Senate.

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Panel Proposes Single Standard for All Schools

PiGuy sumitted ago via http://www.nytimes.com (Views: 26, Clicks: 9)
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A panel of educators convened by the nation’s governors and state school superintendents proposed a uniform set of academic standards on Wednesday, laying out their vision for what all the nation’s public school children should learn in math and English, year by year, from kindergarten to high school graduation.

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Draft K-12 Common Core State Standards Available for Comment

Newman sumitted ago via http://www.nga.org (Views: 16, Clicks: 1)
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The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) today released the first official public draft of the K-12 standards as part of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, a process being led by governors and chief state school officers in 51 states, territories, and the District of Columbia.

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The problem(s) with the Common Core standards

nitajo sumitted ago via http://voices.washingtonpost.com (Views: 18, Clicks: 2)
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Valerie Strauss -- "The fact that few if any classroom teachers were involved in the drafting of the standards--(none were asked to help draft the No Child Left Behind law)--doesn’t necessarily make them inadequate, but it makes me wonder. The fact that much of the drafting process was done in secrecy doesn’t necessarily make them inadequate, but it makes me wonder."

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Governors, state school superintendents to propose common academic standards

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 36, Clicks: 16)
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The nation's governors and state school chiefs will propose standards Wednesday for what students should learn in English and math, from kindergarten through high school, a crucial step in President Obama's campaign to raise academic standards across the country.

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How Oklahoma's capitol moved from Guthrie to Oklahoma City

Sculb sumitted ago via http://www.examiner.com (Views: 14, Clicks: 3)
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Combine a power-hungry cabal with a compliant governor. In the dead of night sneak the state seal through a window, carry it by horseback across red dirt roads 30 miles to hide in a closet at a hotel. Declare by proclamation that the hotel is the de facto state capitol building.

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From his sickbed, Garfield High legend is still delivering

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.latimes.com (Views: 17, Clicks: 5)
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Jaime Escalante, 79, the math teacher who was the basis for the 1988 film 'Stand and Deliver,' is battling cancer. But he still has some lessons to impart.

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"Gotta Keep Reading" music video gets Ocoee Middle School students on Oprah show

Newman sumitted ago via http://www.orlandosentinel.com (Views: 15, Clicks: 2)
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Oprah Winfrey had a segment of her show filmed on the campus this morning, where she announced that she and Target would pay for a "wall-to-wall" makeover of the school library, including new furniture, new computers and 2,000 books.

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At universities, is better learning a click away?

Newman sumitted ago via http://www.google.com (Views: 15, Clicks: 2)
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Clickers — not unlike gadgets used on television game shows — first appeared in college classrooms over a decade ago and have since spread to just about every college and university in the country thanks to cheaper and better technology.

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Kansas City wants to close half its public schools

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 10, Clicks: 0)
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Kansas City was held up as a national example of bold thinking when it tried to integrate its schools by making them better than the suburban districts where many kids were moving. The result was one school with an Olympic-sized swimming pool and another with recording studios. Now it's on the brink of bankruptcy and considering another bold move: closing nearly half its schools to stay afloat.

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Success adds up for D.C. schools' math program

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 32, Clicks: 19)
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Rising NAEP scores attributed to new "Everyday math" curriculum.

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Officials Step Up Enforcement of Rights Laws in Education

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.nytimes.com (Views: 7, Clicks: 0)
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Seeking to step up enforcement of civil rights laws, the federal Department of Education says it will be sending letters in coming weeks to thousands of school districts and colleges, outlining their responsibilities on issues of fairness and equal opportunity.

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Top home-school texts dismiss Darwin, evolution

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.tulsaworld.com (Views: 12, Clicks: 1)
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Home-school mom Susan Mule wishes she hadn't taken a friend's advice and tried a textbook from a popular Christian publisher for her 10-year-old's biology lessons.

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KIPP helps worst students, study says

nitajo sumitted ago via http://voices.washingtonpost.com (Views: 8, Clicks: 2)
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Jay Mathews -- "Among the many controversies surrounding the Knowledge Is Power Program, the nation's most successful charter school network, is the suggestion that KIPP scores look good because their weakest students drop out. A new and unusually careful survey has found that in the case of at least one KIPP school, that's not true."

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Schools struggle to pay for program

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.tulsaworld.com (Views: 9, Clicks: 0)
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While state officials have helped curb this year's deep education cuts with federal stimulus money and some state reserve funds, school districts are still working to fill at least one budget hole left — employee flex benefit allowance plan funding.

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Bill would require four years of math for Oklahoma students

Panel Proposes Single Standard for All Schools

Draft K-12 Common Core State Standards Available for Comment

The problem(s) with the Common Core standards

Governors, state school superintendents to propose common academic standards

How Oklahoma's capitol moved from Guthrie to Oklahoma City

From his sickbed, Garfield High legend is still delivering

"Gotta Keep Reading" music video gets Ocoee Middle School students on Oprah show

At universities, is better learning a click away?

Kansas City wants to close half its public schools

Success adds up for D.C. schools' math program

Officials Step Up Enforcement of Rights Laws in Education

Top home-school texts dismiss Darwin, evolution

KIPP helps worst students, study says

Schools struggle to pay for program

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