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 Sat May 19 18:56:54 CST 2012 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.mathetude.com:80/ The United States has reached a historic tipping point, with children born to Latino, Asian, African American and mixed-race parents now constituting a majority of all births, the Census Bureau reported Thursday. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15477.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15477.html Mathetude nitajo 18/05/2012 An emergency rule adopted Tuesday will lower the passing grade for Florida's standardized writing test to keep the failure rate about the same as last year after preliminary results showed it would have dramatically increased otherwise. The State Board of Education unanimously passed the rule. Without it, only about a third of students would have passed the writing portion of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, or FCAT, compared to 80 percent or better last year. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15476.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15476.html Mathetude nitajo 18/05/2012 Based on a history of grading errors, the National Center for Fair & Open Testing has called for an independent audit and investigation of Pearson, the company that designed and graded the state’s 2012 FCAT exams. “Pearson has a troubling history of testing errors, the worst in an unregulated, irresponsible industry,” said FairTest Public Education Director Bob Schaeffer, a Southwest Florida resident. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15475.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15475.html Mathetude nitajo 18/05/2012 The U.S. Department of Education will host the artworks of students from 15 major art museums’ education programs at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for Museums: pARTners in Learning on Tuesday, May 15 at the Education Department. The exhibit features 40 artworks created by K-12 students using a variety of media and highlights museum programs working in partnership with local schools to blend arts education with learning in several other subjects. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15474.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15474.html Mathetude nitajo 18/05/2012 A Broken Arrow legislator unveiled a plan Thursday night to ease the impact of the state's controversial graduation testing requirement, which could deny thousands of high school seniors their diplomas this year if it isn't altered. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15473.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15473.html Mathetude nitajo 18/05/2012 The Florida Board of Education on Tuesday decided to significantly reduce the FCAT writing proficiency benchmark — from 4.0 to 3.0 on a 6-point scale — in an effort to hold school districts harmless in the wake of plummeting scores. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15472.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15472.html Mathetude nitajo 18/05/2012 Teachers, pressured to better juggle disparate student needs, are finding that customized lessons help. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15471.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15471.html Mathetude nitajo 17/05/2012 School officials said the high passage rate reflected tight budgets and staff cuts as most districts fought to stay under the new limit. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15470.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15470.html Mathetude nitajo 17/05/2012 A study by researchers at John Hopkins University found that as many as 15 percent of students miss at least one school day in 10, and have gone undetected because of the way attendance is measured. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15469.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15469.html Mathetude nitajo 17/05/2012 The student's engineering projects ranged from a silent lawn mower, a device that turns two single bikes into a tandem bicycle, a trash bag attachment for leaf blowers and an automatic bed maker. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15468.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15468.html Mathetude nitajo 17/05/2012