21. Re: Risks Involved In Teachers Not Administering Standardized Tests : July 2001 tests a true community action, with Parent Councils, ptas and ptos, civil rights Nothinghas been negotiated with the massachusetts Board of Education, nor http://interversity.org/lists/arn-l/archives/Jul2001/msg00393.html

Join the ARN E-mail Discussion Group ARN Home FairTest Home Search the Discussion Archives Subscribe/ Unsubscribe Author Prev ... Thread Index Re: Risks involved in teachers not administering standardized tests Subject : Re: Risks involved in teachers not administering standardized tests From Date : Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:15:31 EDT Reply-to Sender In a message dated 7/22/2001 7:59:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time, bschaller@THERIVER.COM writes: Hi, Becky Let me try to answer some of your specfic questions about MassRefusal: This percentage hasn't been decided yet. We've kicked around various ideasa majority of the local; a certain percentage of the local; or perhaps just all or some of the teachers in a specific school or schools in a district. What it comes down to is people's comfort level: what percentage of your colleagues would have to agree to taking this action for you to participate? The most desirable approach, I think, would be for locals to vote not to administer the test. It is illegal for teachers to strike in Massachusetts, and before a strike vote is taken, there has to be a great deal of discussion

22. Re: [care] A Change Of Direction For FairTest? : February 2002 : ARN-L By Dave Stratman Recently a number of organizations in massachusetts, includingthe We will call on teacher union locals, ptos, ptas, and School Councils to http://interversity.org/lists/arn-l/archives/Feb2002/msg00633.html

Join the ARN E-mail Discussion Group ARN Home FairTest Home Search the Discussion Archives Subscribe/ Unsubscribe Author Prev ... Thread Index Re: [care] A change of direction for FairTest? Subject : Re: [care] A change of direction for FairTest? From Date : Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:24:19 EST Reply-to Sender Hi, Christina If "high standards" truly meant "believing all students can engage in higher order, in-depth thinking and learning, and all schools can become active, rigorous, and equitable places of learning," then I think that we would all support the concept (we might argue over the word "rigorous")and the Business Roundtable and the National Alliance for Business would not. "High standards" in the real worldthat is, the world in which these and other business organizations have mounted a sustained attempt to lower the educational attainment of many students and to stifle and distort the education of all of them who are in public schoolsmeans something very different. The corporate backers of Standards Based Education Reform (SBER)

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24. Links The massachusetts Department of Education regulations govern SiteBased SchoolCouncils. Active ptas and ptos coordinate enthusiastic parents, and conduct http://www.butterflyschool.net/think/links.htm

think lexington ... a web place to share facts and ideas The contents posted on this site are by and for Lexington community members, it is NOT a town-sponsored site. We try to be certain that information presented here is factual. If you notice an error, please let us know. We urge you to take an active role in making Lexington the best it can be. Home in print helpful links seen and heard Helpful Links Visit these sites to expand your perspective. STATE LEVEL: Massachusetts public schools are overseen by the Department of Education . The Department of Education is overseen by the state government . The major laws governing public education may be read on the web TOWN LEVEL: In Lexington, we have 6 public elementary schools, 2 middle schools and one high school. These schools are staffed by extraordinary educators. Visit an overview page to understand how schools are managed in town. We participate in the METCO program. Lexington Public Schools School Calendar Contact information for schools Lexington Town Site ... Snow Day?

25. AEI - News & Commentary it was unlikely that in educationconscious massachusetts only one How many of theschools without ptas in fact because no one collects data on ptos or other http://www.aei.org/news/newsID.16054/news_detail.asp

//window.open(""); //self.location = "/news/"; About AEI My AEI Support AEI Contact AEI ... Research Section Search The War on Terror Newsletter Browse by: Date Subject Author Type ... Home Bowling with Tocqueville Bowling with Tocqueville Print Mail Civic Engagement and Social Capital By Everett Carll Ladd Posted: Saturday, January 1, 2000 SPEECHES Bradley Lecture (Washington) Publication Date: September 15, 1998 If some public pleasure is concerned, an association is formed to give more splendor and regularity to the entertainment. Societies are formed to resist evils that are exclusively of a moral nature, as to diminish the vice of intemperance. In the United States associations are established to promote the public safety, commerce, industry, morality, and religion. . . .The Americans make associations to give entertainment's, to found seminaries, to build ins, to construct churches, to diffuse books, to send missionaries to the antipodes; in the manner they found hospital, prisons, and schools. . . .There is no end which the human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united into a society. . . . Alexis de Tocqueville

26. Projects Also, through our partnership with the ptos and ptas, we have Volunteers of the TelephonePioneers meet at the Friendly’s in Lee, massachusetts, as they http://wjdenverpioneers.org/ProjctsWJD.htm

Projects Click here for PROJECT ARCHIVES Talking Book Program The granddaddy of Pioneer Partnerships For 40 years, the talking book repair program has brought the joy of the printed word to those who cannot see. In cooperation with the Library of Congress and the Canadian National Institute for the Blind and under the guidance of the Talking Book coordinators, Pioneers are responsible for refurbishing the special cassette and record-player machines that deliver books, newspapers magazines and other reading materials via the spoken word for more than 800,000 blind, visually or physically impaired users. Pioneers help repair upwards of 135,000 machines a year and have processed over 2 million to date a contribution valued at over $4 million annually and in excess of $70 million overall. Recently recognized in the U. S. with a congressional proclamation, the program marked 30 years of service in Canada in 2001. There is much to be done in continuing our support of this invaluable free program, and we invite you to be a part of it! (PS: It only sounds technical!)

27. Bowling With Tocqueville Civic Engagement And Social Capital it was unlikely that in education–conscious massachusetts only one How many of theschools without ptas in fact because no one collects data on ptos or other http://www.ciaonet.org/conf/aei07/brad_lect01.html

28. DirZilla - Powered By The Open Directory Project massachusetts PTA A charity which supports literacy PTA - Resources for SouthCarolina ptas including leadership parent teacher groups (like ptos and ptas http://dirzilla.com/ODP/Society/Organizations/Education/PTA

ODP Society Organizations Education ... Councils (0 Topics - 153 Pages) Local Units (0 Topics - 106 Pages) Alabama PTA - PTO today is dedicated to helping parent teacher groups (like PTOs and PTAs) help their schools with information on fundraising, playgrounds, parent involvement and more. Alaska PTA - A charity which supports literacy, publishing and education in developing countries through grants. It also publishes a theological book review and is a source of literature for theological colleges. Find details about projects and grants, news, literac Arizona PTA - PTO today is dedicated to helping parent teacher groups (like PTOs and PTAs) help their schools with information on fundraising, playgrounds, parent involvement and more. Arkansas PTA - The official Web site for the Arkansas Congress of Parents and Teachers. California State PTA - A charity which supports literacy, publishing and education in developing countries through grants. It also publishes a theological book review and is a source of literature for theological colleges. Find details about projects and grants, news, literac Colorado PTA - Resources for South Carolina PTAs including leadership training, legislation updates, program information.

29. The American Enterprise: Summaries Of Important Research the League of Women Voters, ptas, and bowling controlled parentteacher organizations(ptos), which don Fall 1998), Cato Institute, 1000 massachusetts Avenue NW http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleid.17072/article_detail.asp

Search: Home Subscriptions Current issue Back issues ... Does Father Still Know Best? Digest Summaries of Important Research POLITICS Americans’ Ties Bind Everett Carll Ladd, The Ladd Report . Free Press, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10020. In a celebrated 1995 essay, Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam warned that Americans were far less likely to join groups than in the past. Citing declines in many major organizations—labor unions, the League of Women Voters, PTAs, and bowling leagues—Putnam concluded that Americans had become far less civic-minded, a trend that would inevitably lead to a fractured and balkanized America. Ladd, professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut, disagrees. A great deal of evidence, he contends, shows Americans are now more likely to join associations and aid charities. We are less likely to bowl than in the past—but more likely to join soccer leagues. Women have shifted their allegiance from the League of Women Voters to less political groups, such as the Soroptimists and local businesswomens’ associations. And while PTA membership is declining, parents aren’t abandoning the schools; they’re more likely to create independent, locally controlled parent-teacher organizations (PTOs), which don’t have to pay hefty dues to the PTA national headquarters or follow its political lead. Americans are also increasingly donating time to worthy causes. Polls show steady rises in the percentage of Americans who say they volunteer to help others. In 1977, for instance, 26 percent of Americans surveyed said they donated time to help the poor, the sick, and the elderly. By 1995, the percentage had more than doubled to 54 percent. Charitable donations are also rising, from $349 per person in 1970 to $524 in 1996 (measured in constant 1993 dollars).

30. New England Comprehensive Assistance Center: Resources: Parental Involvement parents to join Parent Teacher Associations (ptas) or Parent Teacher Organizations(ptos). Laurie Slobody at the massachusetts Department of Education http://www.edc.org/NECAC/resources/parents/parents-involve.html

New England Comprehensive Assistance Center (NECAC) at EDC, Inc. 55 Chapel Street Newton, MA 02158 Phone: 800-332-0226 Fax: (617) 969-7578 TDD: 617-964-5448 E-mail: CompCenter@edc.org URL: http://www.edc.org/NECAC/ We have done our best to make this site accessible. Please direct comments or questions about this site to Cyndi Plouff Parental Involvement June 1997 An update for Title I schoolwide program schools from the New England Comprehensive Assistance Center Parent Involvement In today's world, it is not always easy for parents, especially single parents, to find time and energy to get involved in their children's education. However, when parents become involved, both children and parents are benefit. Researchers report that parent participation enhances children's self-esteem, improves their academic achievement, improves parent-child relationships, and helps parents develop positive attitudes towards school. Two Types of Involvement One kind of parental involvement is school-based. It centers around school activities such as attending parent-teacher conferences and school functions, volunteering at the school, receiving and responding to written communications from the teacher, and encouraging parents to join Parent Teacher Associations (PTAs) or Parent Teacher Organizations (PTOs). Many schools try to make it easier for working parents to participate in school-based activities by scheduling conferences and school events at different times of the day. A second type of involvement focuses on parent-child interaction at home. Home-based activities allow parents flexibility in scheduling, provide opportunities for parents and children to spend time together, and offer a relaxed setting. The most beneficial home activities are deceptively simple. Many parents do not realize that when they involve children in day-to-day activities such as a trip to the gas station or grocery store, they can provide opportunities for learning. For example, although watching TV is viewed as noneducational, joint TV viewing can become educational if parents and children discuss what they saw.

31. Funding Opportunities members of Parent Teacher Associations (ptas) or Parent Teacher Organizations (ptos)are also Sun facilities in California, Colorado, and massachusetts. http://www.dubina.com/Fundsnet/Donors/notices08.asp

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32. The Fourth (4th mailings sent to local schools and ptas re starting to coming from farther away massachusetts, Remsen, NY contact elementary and middle school ptos and work http://membership.acs.org/E/ENY/EDCOM.htm

EDUCATION COMMITTEE Next Education Committee Meeting Late September 2001 (watch this space for date) 6:30 p.m. B 308 Roger Bacon Science Hall, Siena College NOTE: Minutes of all meetings from October 1999 are on this page. Just scroll down. Most recent meeting is first. Minutes 2nd Meeting 2001 The second (2nd.) meeting for 2001 of the Education Committee of the Eastern New York Section, Inc. of the American Chemical Society was called to order at 6:30 P.M. in room B306 (later moved to B308) of Roger Bacon Science Hall at Siena College in Loudonville, NY. Members present included Ms. Debbie Alber (N.Y. State Police Forensic Investigation Center), Dr. David Clarke (Albany College of Pharmacy), Dr. Kathleen Donnelly (Russell Sage College), Dr. Steven Frey (Skidmore College), Dr. David Hilker (Wadsworth Center), Mr.. John Nickles (Hudson Valley Community College), Ms. Marilou Pudiak-Town (Shenendehowa Central High Schools East and West), and Mr.. William R. Town (retired). The majority of the time was spent reviewing and discussing fifteen (15) mini-grant applications that were submitted. After careful review, three (3) were removed from consideration for funding. The remaining twelve (12) were evaluated for content, extent of chemistry goals, etc. The following summarizes the funding decision of the committee: Susan Alexander (Acadia Middle School, Shenendehowa) no funding

33. Questionnaire: Chris Simmons, School Board, At-Large - Loudoun Election - Electi I would look towards the ptas/ptos, HOAs, and elected County officialsas allied primary advocates for school issues. Homeowners http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=29774&paper=79&cat=167

34. Hunt Primary School comes down to it, all of the groups do the same things, notes the MassachusettsPTA s Bailey. In the meantime, local ptos and local ptas will continue to http://www.myschoolonline.com/folder/0,1872,12692-52123-16-46954,00.html

Home Page Calendar Imagination Station Reading Fun ... Coca-Cola Fundraiser PTO vs. PTA School Council Spring is in the Air Stakeholders State Resources ... Nominate this site for the Showcase Hunt Primary School PTO vs. PTA Article PTO vs. PTA "National PTA Faces Key Decisions As Local Groups Increasingly Turn to PTO" By Tim Sullivan It was perhaps the loudest reaction on the first day of the 2000 national PTA convention in Chicago this past June. Illinois Superintendent of Schools Dr. Glenn McGee remembered a day earlier in his career when he made the "mistake" of referring to parent groups as "PTOs." Almost on cue, the crowd of 1,500 or so PTAers roared their disapproval. Loud boos echoed through the cavernous meeting hall. He may as well have said that he hated the Cubs, the White Sox, the Bulls, and the Bears. For some groups the PTO vs. PTA debate is simply a matter of dollars and cents (either "we don't want to send any money out of our school" or "are we getting enough service for the money we send out of our school?"). For others, though, the debate takes on a significantly increased importance. "If we don't speak for all children, then who will?" the PTA's most loyal defenders often ask. Independence vs. Affiliation

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