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Making the Best Use of School Time
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Attempts to create remediation time during the school day invariably robs instructional time from all students for the sake of the few who might need the extra work, contends teacher leader Stuart Singer. The ideal solution, Singer contends, is to mandate that the extra work take place after the final
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2010 NASSP/Virco National Assistant Principal of the Year Finalists
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NASSP and Virco, Inc. are pleased to announce the three finalists for the 2010 NASSP/Virco National Assistant Principal of the Year award. Each finalist will be an honored guest at the 2010 NASSP Convention, March 12-14 in Phoenix, where a final round of interviews will determine the 2010 NASSP/Virco National Assistant Principal of the Year.
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Register Now for Summer Online Courses
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NASSP will offer two eight-week online courses during the summer 2010 session. The courses — Internet Safety and Data-Driven Decision Making — will run June 2-July 21 and participants can earn CEUs or graduate
credit.
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Join Us in Phoenix 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. Come a day early and
attend the Breaking Ranks School Showcase or apply to attend the Mobile Learning Institute. Register by February 18 for advance registration savings!
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Mobile Learning Institute - Deadline Extended
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Learn from
mobile-learning guru Elliot Soloway, principal Kipp Rogers, and others about how schools are enhancing instruction with the use of the cell phones students carry with them each day. With a generous grant from the Pearson Foundation, NASSP members can attend the Institute free of charge. A few spots remain, so apply today for this pre-Convention learning opportunity on March 11 in Phoenix.
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Make the CASE for School
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Comprehensive Assessment of School Environment (CASE) gives your stakeholders a valuable voice in school improvement conversations and provides your school leadership team with data on stakeholder satisfaction with the status quo, perceived strengths and weaknesses of the school, and areas for improvement. Costs range from $499 to $1,049 (based on school enrollment and member/nonmember pricing). Get $50 off the new CASE school climate survey if you order by February 26. Contact Anne
Knudsen, 703-860-7330, knudsena@principals.org to order.
With Federal Stimulus Money Gone, Many Schools Face Budget Gaps
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Federal stimulus money has helped avoid drastic cuts at public schools in most parts of the
nation, at least so far. But with the federal money running out, many of the nation’s schools are approaching what officials are calling a "funding cliff." Congress included about $100 billion for education in the stimulus law last year to cushion the recession’s impact on schools and to help fuel an economic recovery. New studies show that many states will spend all or nearly all that is left between now and the end of this school term.
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Four Things Every Student Should Learn...But Not Every School is Teaching
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An awareness of the views of those in other countries, an understanding of how Google ranks the results of a web search, a knowledge of the permanence of information posted online: These are some of the lessons that every student should be learning in today’s schools, says education technology consultant Alan November — but not every middle or high school is teaching these lessons.
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Education Groups 'Extremely Concerned' over EETT Cut in Obama Budget
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If adopted by Congress without alteration, President Obama's proposed fiscal year 2011
budget would pump an additional $3.5 billion into education. But it would also cut the sole source of dedicated federal funding for education technology, and that has three prominent ed tech advocacy groups worried. The three groups — the Consortium for School Networking, the International Society for Technology in Education, and the State Educational Technology Directors Association — issued a joint statement calling for the return of EETT to the federal budget.
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Failure Rate for AP Tests Climbing
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The number of students taking Advanced Placement tests hit a record high last year, but the portion who fail the exams —
particularly in the South — is rising as well, a USA TODAY analysis finds. Students last year took a record 2.9 million exams through the AP program, which challenges high school students with college-level courses. Passing the exams (a score of 3 or higher on the point scale of 1 to 5) may earn students early college credits, depending on a college's criteria.
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Obama Budget a Blueprint for Education Department Overhaul
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President Barack Obama's proposed $49.7 billion budget for the U.S. Department of Education is more than just a spending blueprint: Department officials portray it as a fundamental reimagining of the agency's structure and management. Under the fiscal 2011 proposal
unveiled this week, a roster of 38 relatively small, targeted grant programs would be regrouped into broader, more flexible funding streams — many of them competitive — aimed at furthering the administration’s education redesign goals.
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New Course for No Child Left Behind
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President Barack Obama is seeking a major overhaul of the U.S. education system, with a shift from an emphasis on testing to an emphasis on career preparation — a plan that he is backing up with billions in budget incentives. The administration has already pumped $100 billion into education and is now moving to rewrite legislation that has governed the nation’s schools for nearly a decade.
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Study Finds Wide Achievement Gaps for Top Students
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Achievement gaps
between students of different genders and racial, economic, and linguistic groups are large and persistent for the nation's top-performing students, even as they seem to be narrowing for K-12 students as a whole, according to a new report. For the analysis, released Feb. 4 by the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy at Indiana University in Bloomington, researchers analyzed data stretching back as far as 1996 from 4th and 8th grade reading and math tests administered by the National
Assessment of Educational Progress and from state assessments in those subjects.
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Rulings on MySpace Suspensions Leave More Questions Than Answers
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Federal appellate judges wrestling with whether school leaders can discipline their students for internet speech posted outside of school reached different rulings in two Pennsylvania cases on Feb. 4, further clouding an already murky area of the law. One 3rd U.S. Circuit Court panel upheld the suspension of a Schuylkill County, Pa., eighth-grader who posted sexually explicit material along with her principal's photograph on a fake MySpace page. However, a different
three-judge panel on the same appeals court ruled that school officials in Mercer County, Pa., cannot reach into a family's home and police the internet. That case also involves a MySpace parody of a principal created by a student at home.
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Student's Expulsion Feeds Debate on Online Rights
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The expulsion of a high school basketball player who posted angry messages on Facebook highlights a growing debate over students' privacy and free-speech rights online. Taylor Cummings, 17, a senior at
Martin Luther King Jr. Magnet High School, had been butting heads with his coaches. He logged onto Facebook at home on Jan. 3 and wrote, among other things, "I'ma kill em all."
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State Education Chief Targets Achievement Gap
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For years, schools
have struggled to close the persistent achievement gap between certain student groups by ratcheting up curriculum and academic programs. But it turns out, some of the keys to narrowing the chasm in student performance might be as simple as strengthening teacher-student relationships, addressing perceptions of bias and improving the general climate of a school, said State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell, who announced a new effort in San Diego to help educators improve their
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States Rethink Policies on National Board Teachers
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Since the nation
plunged into economic turmoil, a handful of states have scaled back pay bonuses and subsidies for teachers who earn certification through the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. But factors other than the economy have also played into the cuts, too. Officials in Georgia, for instance, contend that the state wants to turn its teacher-quality focus toward output-based measures of teacher effectiveness, rather than credentials.
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