Parent Power! Back Issue Library Community Colleges Educating Today s High schoolers. Character Education What to Look for in Your school. ··. August2000 / back to school Edition http://edreform.com/parentpower/library.htm
Extractions: The First of a Two-Part Guide to No Child Left Behind January 2002 November 2001 Building a Great School Culture What Parents Can Do To Keep Good Teachers Cornerstones for School Excellence Ten Traits of Highly Successful Schools: How You Can Know If Your School Is A Good One Focus on Character Development Minimizes School Problems Link to .pdf file of November 2001 issue (a good format to print out).
Independent Women's Forum: Freshmen Shortchanged a final decision on where to go to college. Six of the top 10 schools have strayed from with fashionable examinations of pet social and environmental issues. http://www.iwf.org/issues/issues_detail.asp?ArticleID=166
AACN - Media Relations - Nursing Shortage Resource survey was conducted by the Harvard school of Public the scope of the problem, discuss issues contributing to by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Media/shortageresource.htm
Extractions: In January 2004, the Bernard Hodes Group released the results of a recent poll of 151 health care recruiters to determine turnover rates, cost-per-hire and vacancy rates for a range of health care professionals, including registered nurses. The survey found that the average RN turnover rate was 15.5%, the vacancy rate was 13.9% and the average RN cost-per-hire was $2,651, which is approximately 11% higher than the average cost for recruiting allied health workers. In the November/December 2003 issue of Health Affairs, Dr. Peter Buerhaus from Vanderbilt University and his colleagues found that over 100,000 new RNs were hired in 2002; the majority of which were foreign-born nurses and nurses over age 50 returning to the workforce in tough economic times. Though the new hires and a sharp increase in RN salaries are having a positive effect on the current workforce supply, Dr. Buerhaus cautions that the current nursing shortage is far from over and called for immediate federal attention to address the growing crisis, including setting national goals for annual nursing school enrollment increases.
Extractions: On Common Ground Currently Available Issues: On Common Ground is published two or three times a year by the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, with support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. It is concerned with the development of teachers and of their curricula through school-uni versity partnerships. Its title, which derives from that of the first book on the Institute's work, Teaching in America: The Common Ground , is intended to suggest that university and school teachers across the country have a strong mutual interest in the improvement of teaching and learning in schools. The periodical focuses on the issues that have arisen and continue to arise in university-school partnerships of many kinds throughout the United States. Each number of On Common Ground Contact YNHTI
Dickinson College - Weigh In On The Issues SAT is that it lets strong students in weak high schools show their Morton Owen Schapiro is president of Williams college. BackBack to Weigh In on the issues . http://www.dickinson.edu/weighin/satwp.html
Extractions: Sunday, October 1, 2000 The recent surge of interest in selective colleges that have dropped the SAT requirement is, we fear, more likely to sow confusion than to promote understanding of the proper role of standardized tests in college admissions. Not even schools such as Mount Holyoke and Dickinson that have dropped the requirement deny that the SAT is a useful tool in choosing among students. That's why these schools invite students to send scores and continue to use the available scores in making admissions decisions. Further, most students who withhold SAT scores from a school will actually have taken the testthey simply judge that their admission probability will be higher if they don't submit the score. It's certainly true that SATs don't measure everything that matters in judging a candidate for college admissiona point that is not lost on high school seniors who are laboriously writing essays, soliciting teacher recommendations and polishing their high school transcripts. The challenge selective colleges face is to weigh all those differentand sometimes contradictorypieces of information in deciding whom to admit. It is certainly inviting to students who judge that their SAT results show that they "test poorly" to be excused from sending the scores along. But the idea that students should be permitted to edit their admissions files to leave out those things they do poorly at is, a little odd. For every student who judges that her SAT scores don't show her full potential, there is another who thinks his high school transcript was marred by a "bad semester" or a feud with a teacher. Should we invite students to edit out their bad grades or to screen their recommendation letters so they can delete ones that include any hints of doubt?
Archives Service Learning in schools and Colleges Rita Yerkes; Moral Local school Change The View from Inside, Part II Looking back to the Future Linda O Neill http://www.cedu.niu.edu/epf/thresholds/arch.htm
Extractions: Volume I (1975) Sex Role Changes Leonard Pourchot The School as an Instrument for Peace Joseph E. Ellis The Proper Role of Moral Values in a Philosophy of Education Arthur Hoppe Year Round Education, Pupil Punishment and Due Process Roy Bragg Volume II (1976) The Compleat School Clive Veri Teaching the Latino Student Donald Reyes Secondary Special Education The School as an Instrument for Population Control Joseph Ellis Volume III (1977) Violent Schools in a Violent Society Leonard Pourchot Humonics Dimensions of Non-Traditional Education Ethnic and Multiethnic Studies in the School Volume IV (1978) Communications-The Key Education of Native Americans Today Teacher Education-Which Way Nutrition Education: Transforming Traditions Volume V (1979) Year Round Education Middle School/Junior High School: Theory and Practice ToÖYearÖ2000 Lowell Horton Special Education Jay Gottlieb Volume VI (1980) Standardized Testing Education for Unity within a Diverse Community Doctoral Dissertations at Northern Illinois University Judith Bischoff Volume VII (1981) Curriculum for Survival Staff Development Improving Content Area Reading: Subject Matter Issues Graduate Education James A. Rutledge
The New York Times Education News school board has disciplined two high school teachers for SAT s By TAMAR LEWIN The revised college Board exam Series Mixed Legacy Part II Issue Is Often Money http://www.nytimes.com/pages/education/
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The Chief Illiniwek Dialogue Report educational organizations have addressed the issue of Indian list of universities and colleges that have That list, together with schoolrelated organizations http://www.uiuc.edu/dialogue/report_files/VII.html
Extractions: Table of Contents VII. HOW OTHER SCHOOLS HAVE DEALT WITH ISSUE OF INDIAN DESIGNATIONS Many schools and educational organizations have addressed the issue of Indian logos or references with regard to team names. There has been a long list of universities and colleges that have changed their logos, mascots or names. That list, together with school-related organizations speaking out on the subject, is included below: Dartmouth- "Indians" to "Big Green" Marquette University retired "Willie Wampum" mascot and later changed name from "Warriors" to "Golden Eagles" Stanford - "Indians" to "Cardinal" Dickinson State (North Dakota) - "Savages" to "Blue Hawks" University of Oklahoma retired "Little Red" mascot Syracuse University retired "Saltine Warrior" Southern Oregon University ceased using Indian depictions to promote its "Red Raiders" Sienna College (Loudonville, New York) - "Indians" to "Saints"
Extractions: Reasons to Vote Democratic 2001 - 2003 National Platform Education Young Democrats of America believes that public education at all levels and for all abilities, is that wisest investment we can make for the future of our nation. Quality public education for every person is essential to equal opportunity for success. 1. We recognize that smaller classroom size allows students to have more individual attention from teachers thus translating to an accelerated learning curve, especially in pre-secondary education, and therefore actively support the funding of programs designed to reduce classroom sizes. 2. We believe in every child's right to attend pre-school and full day kindergarten. We also recognize every qualified student's right to attend Head Start. 3. Because students and teachers hail from different ethnic, cultural, and religious backgrounds, and because the Bill of Rights must be protected, we support the separation of church and state. While religious studies have and important place in literature and history classes, public schools should refrain from implicitly or explicitly endorsing a particular religion or religious belief.
Extractions: Ms. Slama works in the Public Information Office of Salt Lake Community College in Salt Lake City, Utah. More and more Utah law enforcement officers are college-bound as part of a new venture between Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) and a number of Utah police departments. While the idea of officers' pursuing college degrees certainly is not unique, how many of them can say that they attended college classes held at the police station or a police training facility? On any given day, Utah citizens can see officers of all ranks walk into the department with textbooks under their arms. Law enforcement administrators recognize that the complex demands of the job dictate that officers receive as much training and education as possible. Officers themselves realize the value of learning and understanding the attitudes, views, and perspectives of others. Bringing the college classroom to the officers shows citizens an agency's commitment to law enforcement professionalism and its desire to have educated officers serving the community. Program Inception The partnership between the college and the police departments began when SLCC's criminal justice coordinator and the Sandy City police chief met to discuss the idea of bringing the college's program to the officers. The agency had an on-site classroom equipped with CD-ROMs, TV/VCR units, and other instructional technologies. With this learning environment already in place, the chief realized that very little stood in the way of implementing a program that would give officers an avenue to higher education. Sandy City's officers enthusiastically welcomed the opportunity to attend college. As word of the program's success spread, five other law enforcement agencies-Salt Lake City, South Salt Lake City, Murray, and the West Valley City police departments and the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Department-joined in the venture.
