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President Seeks Additional $1.35 Billion for Education
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President Barack Obama will ask Congress for $1.35 billion to extend an education grant program for states, senior administration officials said. Obama was outlining the budget proposal at a Fairfax County, Va., elementary school, after joining Education Secretary Arne Duncan in a discussion with sixth-grade students. The $787 billion economic stimulus program Obama signed into law soon after taking office included $4.3 billion in competitive grants for
states, nicknamed the "Race to the Top" fund. States must amend education laws and policies to compete for a share of the money. More
From the Principal Difference Blog: Reading Aloud to Teens
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Reading aloud to teens may be one of the most effective and low-cost ways of raising student achievement. You probably have a mental picture of super-sized high school students sitting in elementary-sized chairs gathered in reading groups with a teacher reading Dick and Jane to them. Get rid of that image, because we are not talking about the old days where the teacher reminded students, “If you are good and finish your work, I will read to you.” Secondary teachers
all over the country report that for years they have been reading aloud to students to motivate and interest students in a book or topic.
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Register Now for the 2010 NASSP Convention
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Featuring such education luminaries as Robert Marzano and Pedro Noguera and strands specific to middle level leaders, assistant principals, and all school leaders looking to build their technology leadership, the 2010 NASSP Convention promises to further the professional growth of all
attendees. Plan to be one of them -- join us March 12-14 in Phoenix, AZ. Come in a day early to attend the Breaking Ranks School Showcase or apply for the NASSP-Pearson Foundation Mobile Learning Institute.
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Spring Session Online Courses
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In response to demand from busy educators, NASSP will offer interactive online professional development courses. These robust courses will offer participants the opportunity to learn from facilitators who are experienced in the challenges of education and improving student achievement. In addition, knowledge and skills from the cohort group will enhance the learning experience. Earn CEUs or graduate credit.
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Encourage Your Members of Congress to Co-sponsor Education Bills
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The Principals Legislative Action Center (PLAC) has calls for members to encourage their elected officials to cosponsor three major bills to improve education: the Principal Recruitment and Training Act, LEARN, and Success in the Middle. Your contact now could
help improve your school in the years to come. Visit PLAC for more details.
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Helping Haiti
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NASSP and its student programs, NASC, NHS, NJHS, and NEHS, join the world in noting the devastating impact of the recent
earthquake in Haiti. We are saddened by the toll this natural catastrophe has taken on the population of our Caribbean neighbor and send our wishes to our friends and colleagues in Haiti for strength and hope as they cope with the realities of this disaster. We encourage all of our members (principals and assistant principals, student councils, and Honor Societies) to respond, as you so often do when disasters strike, with fundraising and donations to the organization of your choice.
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A Shot at School Reform Fund Provokes Tensions, Fast Changes
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To compete for a share of $4 billion in federal education funds, California lawmakers approved a major school reform plan. But in Texas, the governor chose to opt out of the competition, arguing that it would give Washington too much power over education policy. The contrasting approaches from the two most populous states show the political tensions the Obama administration's initiative has provoked as the first application deadline for the Race to the Top school reform fund
approaches. Virginia and the District are competing in round one, but Maryland is waiting for round two later this year.
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State-Federal Tensions Loom in Standards Effort
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In the latest push for common academic standards, coming up with the standards themselves may be the easy part: The political sensitivities that scuttled virtually every previous attempt are very much on the minds of those leading the effort this time around. How much of a federal role is appropriate -- or even legal -- in a quest for common standards nationwide? Is local control in education an outdated tradition or an immutable political reality? And to what extent is there
societal consensus about the skills and knowledge every student should be expected to master?
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Texas Debates How History Should Be Taught
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The latest ideological battle over what gets taught in U.S. public schools is being waged in Texas, where the state board of education is considering new classroom standards that will determine how history is taught for the
next decade. Several students, parents, and lawmakers lobbied for more diversity in Texas’s social studies curriculum, while religious activists are pressing for more emphasis on the role of Christianity in how the nation was formed. The debate could have implications for schools outside the state as well, because Texas is one of the largest textbook markets in the nation.
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Maryland Bill Would Give More Power to Principals
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Lawmakers in Maryland are planning to crack down on unruly minors with a bill allowing school principals to
share information with the local police department. The bill would dissolve what one state legislator called the "artificial walls" of privacy laws that prevent school principals from divulging records of misconduct -- such as bullying or harassment -- to local law enforcement. This bill would give school principals the discretion to define the type of offenses likely to land a grade-school troublemaker on police radars.
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Indianapolis Public Schools Replace Textbooks with Digital Content
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In a pilot program announced at FETC 2010 in Orlando, 12 schools in the Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) system will replace traditional textbooks with digital content. The program also includes curriculum alignment services, professional development, and
hardware. The company's curriculum alignment team analyzed the IPS district pacing guides and chose the digital content that it determined was most appropriate for IPS, including audio and video segments, images, articles, games, and interactive resources.
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Cyberbullying Leads to Suspension of 28 Students at a Seattle Middle School
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Twenty-eight students at McClure Middle School in Seattle have been suspended for allegedly bullying a classmate on the Internet. School administrators learned about a Facebook page targeting the victim and investigated, said Seattle Public Schools spokeswoman Patti Spencer. The students were suspended for two to eight days, depending on their alleged level of involvement. Spencer said there were no threats involved, but if there
had been, the district would have contacted Seattle police. She said she didn't know how much, or what exactly, was written about the targeted student.
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Schools Mobilize for Haiti's Earthquake
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Schoolchildren and educators are organizing to respond to victims of the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated much of Haiti’s capital city, Port-au-Prince. UNESCO announced in a statement that the
university in Port-au-Prince and numerous primary and secondary schools in the city had been destroyed, and that many teachers and students had lost their lives.
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Public Schools in Massachusetts Will Calculate and Report Body Mass Index Scores for Students
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When a child gets a report card besmirched with lousy grades, no caring parent would ever dream of bellowing, “You’re a dummy!’’ So in a world of super-sized temptation, similar sensitivity will be warranted as every public school in Massachusetts during the next 18 months evaluates whether students weigh too much or too little.
It is not, specialists pleaded, a matter of a child passing or failing the fat test. Instead, their resulting body mass index scores can open windows into family dining and exercise habits - and spur parents and children alike to think about eating better and exercising more.
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Educators Say No Child Leaves Schools Behind
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The No Child Left Behind Act passed eight years ago this month has forced improvements, but some educators say facets of the law could be tweaked. "No Child Left Behind should focus on an individualized
student growth model or value-added model versus a single score, with the goal to target a performance standard to reach for each student," Richmond County schools Superintendent Dana Bedden said. Too often, some say, the legislation has painted a broad view of a system based on meeting overall standardized test scores and Adequate Yearly Progress, a goal that can be accomplished system-wide only if 100 percent of targets are met.
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Weigh In On National Broadband Plan
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To help provide broadband access to more citizens, the Federal Communications Commission should expand the eligible uses of e-Rate discounts to include after-school programs and community centers, many school leaders and
education groups say -- but only if the $2.25 billion-a-year funding cap also is raised. The federal stimulus package that Congress passed last year directed the FCC to submit a National Broadband Plan to lawmakers by Feb. 17, but FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has asked for a one-month extension so the agency can comb through the vast number of public comments it has received over the past year as it has gathered input on how to make universal broadband a reality.
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Good Science, Great Technology Will Drive Student Engagement
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It's up to America's teachers to get the country's youth involved in critical environment issues. But that's not going to happen if teachers aren't delivering the message in a way that engages students, according to Ed Begley Jr., who delivered the opening general address at this year's FETC conference in Florida. "We have to speak in a language young people understand. And that language," he said, "is technology."
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