The Pennsylvania State Board of Education has adopted new regulations that will implement the Pennsylvania Common Core Standards in English language arts and math in all public schools by July 1, 2013.
Minnesota will join three other states participating in a national effort to bolster graduation rates, known as GradNation, spearheaded by America's Promise Alliance.
In Oklahoma, 188 school districts received the Governor's ACE Award, recognizing those in which 100 percent of seniors in the Class of 2012 completed all graduation requirements.
This week in Chiefline: Wallace Foundation releases new report on Principal Effectiveness; PARCC Releases new tool to prepare schools for new assessments.
This week in Chiefline: Wallace Foundation releases new report on Principal Effectiveness; PARCC Releases new tool to prepare schools for new assessments.
At a recent luncheon sponsored by the Mooresville – South Iredell Developer’s Council, North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction June Atkinson talked about the importance of businesses and schools working together "on behalf of economic development."
According to Harlem Village Academies Founder and Chief Executive Deborah Kenny, upper-income schools were found to focus on active play and crafts in kindergarten, while lower-income schools engaged in regimented academics, reward-and-punishment behavior systems, and top-down instruction.
Massachusetts is one of 22 states preparing to roll out the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) test, an online test aligned with the Common Core State Standards that will replace standardized tests in English language arts and math in the 2014-15 school year.
At the American Association of School Administrators' National Conference on Education on Feb. 22, Linda Darling-Hammond, the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University, talked about the need for high-quality professional development to prepare teachers and students for the next-generation assessments aligned with the Common Core State Standards that are being developed by the Partnership for the Assessment of College and Career Readiness and the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium.
New Jersey Education Commissioner Chris Cerf recently presented proposed regulations for the state's new teacher evaluation system to the State Board of Education. The proposal indicates that for teachers in grades and subjects evaluated by state tests, 35 percent of their rating in the first year would be tied to student progress on the tests, while 50 percent would be tied to supervisors' evaluations of teacher practice and 15 percent to undefined achievement measures.
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