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Four-day School Weeks Gain Popularity Nationwide
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During the school year, Mondays in this rural Georgia community are for video games, trips to grandma's house and hanging out at the neighborhood community center. Don't bother showing up for school. The doors are locked and the lights are off. Peach County is one of more than 120 school districts
across the country where students attend school just four days a week, a cost-saving tactic gaining popularity among cash-strapped districts struggling to make ends meet. The 4,000-student district started shaving a day off its weekly school calendar last year to help fill a $1 million budget shortfall. More
NASSP Supports Newly
Released Common Standards
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Gerald N. Tirozzi, NASSP executive director, applauds the National
Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers for their June 2 release of the Common Core State Standards, a set of English-language arts and mathematics standards for grades K–12 intended to establish clear and consistent goals for learning.
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"Last Hired, First Fired" Policy Should Go
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The idea is deceptively simple. Place the best teachers possible into every classroom.
Recently we have spent a great deal of time discussing that objective. An evaluation system that identifies and removes weak teachers while also strengthening good ones has been proposed. There has been a lengthy discussion of what hiring practices ensure securing the best potential talents in the field. But there is one educational policy that continually works to thwart the goal of improving the teaching pool. The villain of this piece is the practice known as "last hired, first fired."
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Podcast: Helping Teachers
Maximize Common Planning Time
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Winner of the Dr. Ted Sizer Middle Level Dissertation Award, Richard Drolet, principal of North Cumberland (RI) Middle School, discusses how middle level principals can properly prepare and train their teachers to use more common planning time—and to help them
make the most of the time allotted.
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Take Advantage of the NASSP Store's Summer Sale
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Stock up at 15 percent off! Enjoy the NASSP online summer sale and receive 15 percent off your total purchase (use online promo code: SUMTEN). The NASSP Store offers hundreds of publications, all selected to support and inspire school leaders. Offer applies to NASSP merchandise as well. Valid through July 31.
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No Child Left Behind Challenge Rejected By U.S. Supreme Court
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The U.S. Supreme Court refused to reinstate a challenge to the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) education law, rejecting an appeal that said the federal measure is imposing an
impermissible financial burden on local school districts. The justices today left intact a lower court decision that threw out the lawsuit, which was pressed by nine school districts in Michigan, Texas and Vermont.
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Education Jobs Bill Faces Tough Climb in Congress
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Against a current of political resistance—including from some Democrats—the Obama administration and congressional leaders continue to seek new strategies to pass a
$23 billion measure aimed at helping schools stave off what could be massive layoffs. The effort to advance the bill before Memorial Day met with bipartisan opposition in both chambers, including from the fiscally conservative Blue Dog coalition of Democrats, who worried about the impact of the measure on the federal deficit. The legislation's sponsor, Rep. David R. Obey, the Wisconsin Democrat who chairs the House Appropriations Committee, decided to pull the bill from committee
consideration.
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Educators Are Opposed to Obama's School Plan
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When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that California was submitting a new bid for hundreds of millions of dollars in financing under President Obama's education initiative, Race to the Top, he could not resist a Hollywood joke. The school superintendents who prepared the bid deserved an Oscar "for
the great performance in putting this together," he said, thanking several by name, including Carlos A. Garcia, the San Francisco superintendent. Over the past few months, educators, the teachers unions and lawmakers have clashed so bitterly regarding the changes tied to Race to the Top that state officials privately say the weakened bid stands at best a 50-50 chance of gaining approval — and a sorely needed $700 million — from Washington.
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Pennsylvania to Test Graduating Students in as Little as Two Years
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Madeline Scanlon never bought into the idea of high school. As a freshman, the Moon teenager started taking college classes. She will graduate after just three years of high school. "College leads you to where you're going in life, but high school just leads you to college. Why wait to get there?" said Scanlon, 17, who will attend the University of Pittsburgh this fall. "It's not for everyone, though. You
really have to be dedicated to doing it." Starting in fall 2012, Pennsylvania will become a testing ground for the National Center on Education and the Economy, a Washington-based nonprofit that advocates allowing students to graduate from high school in as few as two years if they want to.
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Obama to High School Grads: "Don't Make Excuses"
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President Obama is telling high school graduates in Michigan not to make excuses, and to take responsibility for failures as well as successes. In excerpts of remarks delivered at
Kalamazoo Central High School, Obama says that it's easy to blame others when problems arise. "We see it every day out in Washington, with folks calling each other names and making all sorts of accusations on TV," the president says. He says the high school kids can and have done better than that.
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Major Cuts: High Schools Face Hard Economic Lessons
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Students graduating from high school this spring may be collecting their diplomas just in
time, leaving institutions that are being badly weakened by the nation's economic downturn. Across the country, mass layoffs of teachers, counselors and other staff members — caused in part by the drying up of federal stimulus dollars — are leading to larger classes and reductions in everything that is not a core subject, including music, art, clubs, sports and other after-school activities.
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States Up Ante on Applications for Race to Top
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After 39 applicants went home losers from the first round of the Race to the Top competition, many states regrouped and raised the stakes for round two—changing laws to revamp teacher evaluations, drumming up more support from districts and teachers' unions, and getting more aggressive about
turning around low-performing schools. The result is a field of 35 states, plus the District of Columbia, that have proposed what they assert are their boldest plans yet in hopes of capturing part of the remaining $3.4 billion in the second, and maybe last, round of the federal education sweepstakes.
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U.S. Court Weighs School Discipline for Lewd Web Posts
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A U.S. appeals court in Philadelphia heard arguments June 3 over whether school officials
can discipline students for making lewd, harassing or juvenile internet postings from off-campus computers, in a pair of cases that could help define the boundaries between students' free-speech rights and the rights of administrators to punish students for digital indiscretions that occur outside of school. Two students from two different Pennsylvania school districts are fighting suspensions they received for posting derisive profiles of their principals on MySpace from home computers. The
American Civil Liberties Union argued that school officials infringe on students' free-speech rights when they reach beyond school grounds in such cases to impose discipline.
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Researchers Study Cues to Predict Students' Math Performance
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While Shelby Lapinski worked to solve a geometry problem on her computer screen, her seat cushion monitored fidgeting and a camera registered uncertainty or concentration flitting
across her face. A bracelet measured sweat, and the mouse, fitted with pressure sensors, tracked her grip. Lapinski was taking part in a study that looks at whether a computer math tutoring program that can detect and respond to students' emotions — offering encouragement or hints at the right moment — can reduce frustration and anxiety. Initial results look promising.
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Public Comment Sought on Leadership
Standards
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The National Policy Board for Educational Administration (NPBEA), of which NASSP is a
member, is revising its national programs standards based on the ISLLC 2008 policy standards. NPBEA would greatly appreciate your assistance in providing feedback on the most recent set of Educational Leadership Program standards for use by NCATE accreditation in the evaluation of programs that prepare school and district leaders at colleges and universities. Please submit feedback by July 7. Choose either the ELCC Building-Level
Program Survey or the ELCC District-Level Program Survey. A copy of the full draft standards can be found under the posting for Educational Leadership Constituent Council. For questions, contact Honor Fede, ELCC Coordinator.
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