Education News and Bookmarking for Mathetude community http://www.mathetude.com:80/rss/stories/upcoming.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/images/logo.png http://www.mathetude.com:80/ vi-vn Copyright (c) 2007 Mathetude.com javacola@gmail.com Tue Feb 07 19:14:11 CST 2012 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.mathetude.com:80/ Valerie Strauss -- The Virginia Senate has approved a bill that would require that third graders take the Standards of Learning exams only in math and English, meaning they would no longer have to to take history and science SOLs. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14504.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14504.html Mathetude nitajo 29/01/2012 Jay Mathews -- Patrick A. Hope, a 39-year-old health-care attorney and member of the Virginia House of Delegates, recently observed his daughter learning to read at Barrett Elementary School in Arlington County. It was just an hour, he said, but “I found it incredibly rewarding to watch my child in this environment, and it gave me ideas and techniques to continue advancement at home.” http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14456.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14456.html Mathetude nitajo 23/01/2012 Washington and Lee University will hold classes Monday over the objections of David Knoespel and some of his law school classmates, who unsuccessfully petitioned their institution to shut down for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14363.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14363.html Mathetude Newman 15/01/2012 Valerie Strauss -- You’ve got to hand it to Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell. He knows how to jump on a bandwagon and firmly stay the course. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14327.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14327.html Mathetude PiGuy 11/01/2012 A Virginia company leading a national movement to replace classrooms with computers — in which children as young as 5 can learn at home at taxpayer expense — is facing a backlash from critics who are questioning its funding, quality and oversight. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/13881.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/13881.html Mathetude nitajo 30/11/2011 Editorial -- A student misbehaves and gets sent to the principal and then home. It’s a scenario that gets played out in countless classrooms every day; so commonplace is the practice that it’s generally seen as no big deal. But as a new report on school discipline in Virginia makes clear, the effects of lost school time can be devastating and — contrary to conventional thinking — do little to improve student behavior or make schools safer. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/13879.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/13879.html Mathetude nitajo 30/11/2011 Statistics from the Council of Graduate Schools show that women, overall, earned slightly more than half of the doctorates handed out in all disciplines in the United States in 2009 and 2010. When it comes to the STEM fields, women have been most successful in medicine and biology -- and least successful in engineering, math and computer science. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/13556.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/13556.html Mathetude nitajo 23/10/2011 The deadline came and went this week for states to apply for a chunk of $500 million in federal grants to improve pre-kindergarten opportunities. Virginia, which could have received up to $60 million, was one of 15 states that did not apply. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/13555.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/13555.html Mathetude nitajo 23/10/2011 Valerie Strauss -- Virginia students who took the ACT test in the 2011 high school graduating class did slightly better on average than their counterparts in Maryland, and a lot better than those in the District, according to scores released Wednesday. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/13076.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/13076.html Mathetude nitajo 18/08/2011 Valerie Strauss -- If we needed more proof — and we really didn’t — that Congress abrogated its responsibility by allowing No Child Left Behind to continue as the law of the land, we only have to look at Virginia. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/13061.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/13061.html Mathetude nitajo 14/08/2011