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Screening Kids For Mental Health Critical
The Hartford CourantThe shootings in Newtown, Chicago and other communities raised concerns about mental health relative to those committing such crimes, but the discussion has missed a critically important point. Screening for early warning signs and providing accessible...Tags: Health, Mental Health, Family, Behavioral Conditions, Health Insurance
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Md. is flagged for Race to the Top delays
The Baltimore SunMaryland is among three states flagged by the U.S. Department of Education for significant delays in implementing federal Race to the Top programs in the last two years, namely in overhauling its evaluation system to tie educator effectiveness to...Tags: Barack Obama, Science and Technology, U.S. Department of Education, Arne Duncan, Washington, DC
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Imaginative Mayor Made New Haven Better
New Haven was struggling in the early 1990s. Schools were decrepit. Downtown was moribund, with litter wafting past empty storefronts. It looked like another once-bustling urban core that was dying of disinvestment, suburbanization, racism, lack of...Tags: Politics, Gun Control, Auction Service, National Rifle Association of America, Sales
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Deasy orders test scores to count for 30% of teachers' evaluations
L.A. NOWL.A. schools Supt. John Deasy announced Friday that 30% of a teacher’s evaluation will be based on student standardized test scores, setting off another round of contention in the nation’s second-largest school system just weeks before a... -
Anti-LAPD graffiti likely inspired by Dorner, police say
L.A. NOWA tagger who spray-painted an expletive about the LAPD across a wall in El Monte probably was inspired by Christopher Dorner, the fugitive who died in a gun battle, police said Friday.... -
Fl’s value-added model has “leveled the playing field,” DOE says
Sentinel School Zone - Orlando SentinelSince ushered in by a new law nearly two years ago, Florida's new teacher evaluations have prompted lots of complaints, worries and arguments. Recently, even Gov. Rick Scott and Republican lawmakers — who signed and voted for the law — have... -
Anxiety grows as CPS releases preliminary school closings list
Tribune reportersAfter trimming the number of schools that could be closed to 129, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's school administration has entered the latest and what is likely to be the most intense phase so far in trying to determine which schools should be shut. Chicago Public...Tags: Chicago Police Department, Health and Safety at School, Students, Chicago City Hall, Daniel Solis
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Teacher evaluations: DOE moves to set standards for test-score data (the valued-added or VAM piece)
Sentinel School Zone - Orlando SentinelFlorida's new, complicated teacher evaluation system crunches student test-score data (using a so-called value-added model, dubbed VAM) to help determine teacher quality. It is a required part of the 2011 teacher merit pay law passed by the Florida... -
Harper `harps' on needed education reform measures
Guest ColumnistDespite the fact that real spending on public education has doubled during the past 25 years, there remains an alarming number of bureaucrats and union bosses who propagandize that Kentucky is about to return to the days of the one-room schoolhouse...Tags: Education, Steve Beshear, Teaching and Learning, Teachers
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Skerry leads turnaround of Towson men's basketball program
Pat Skerry sat behind the big desk in his office at Towson University on Wednesday looking way better than I thought he would. Less than 12 hours earlier, the Tigers had dropped a tough 75-70 decision to James Madison, a team they beat by 26 at Towson...
Tags: Colonial Athletic Association, Root Canal, NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, College Basketball, Towson Tigers
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City school board revokes contracts of several schools
The Baltimore school board voted Tuesday night to not renew the contracts of several charter and other independently run schools — but deferred making decisions about whether most of them would close. In January, city schools CEO Andrés Alonso...
Tags: Financial Aid, Virginia Tech, Students, Carl Stokes, Teaching and Learning
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A new way to rate L.A. Unified's teachers
What kind of process for evaluating teachers can possibly be devised by a determinedly reform-minded administration, a stubborn union and plaintiffs in a hostile lawsuit? As it turns out, a better kind than they've had up to now. A tentative agreement...
Tags: U.S. Department of Education, School Examinations, Students, Teaching and Learning, Teachers
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Feb 12, 2013
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Dec 5, 2012
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