There is a lot of buzz about the new movie "Waiting for Superman". The educational system is not meeting the standards inside the United States of America. Bill Gates and others are putting together a plan to push American schools to the next level so that they can compete globally with nations. Oprah has made a big push with this new movie to a national audience to help reform the school system in America. Waiting for Superman has begin to open some eyes about how the U.S. competes globally with education.
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Geoffery Canada
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Can You Read
A lot of kids in school can't read and now one is really addressing the problem to help these kids learn better. I think schools should put phonics back into the schools. Many reading programs in the middle schools and elementary schools have more of a remote memory learning process for reading. Kids are not being taught how to read correctly in my opinion which is causing a lot of youngsters to not have a good foundation for learning.
Home life plays a role in the learning of our children. We must look at alternative approaches to how kids learn so we can better their overall ability to read.
Why Kids Cant Read
Home life plays a role in the learning of our children. We must look at alternative approaches to how kids learn so we can better their overall ability to read.
Why Kids Cant Read
Friday, September 10, 2010
Re: Teacher Pay Cuts
Schools force teacher furloughs to trim budgets
The schools all across the U.S. are losing teachers do to money woes and budget crisis. In addition to some teachers being laid off they are also making teachers take days off without pay to help curve the budget and regain the millions of dollars the some how has come up missing in the school budget.
ATLANTA — High school librarian Melissa Payne is starting her new school year with $1,000 less in her paycheck and three days that she'll be forced to stay home from her job.
It's the same story across the country, where teachers — once among the groups exempted from furlough days — are being forced to take unpaid days off amid massive state budget cuts.
Georgia is the only state so far to impose statewide furloughs for educators this fiscal year, though others are considering it. But furloughs are happening in individual districts in states such as New Mexico, Florida and California, said Ed Muir, deputy director of research and information services for the American Federation of Teachers.
For teachers like Payne, furloughs hurt a salary that already stretches thin most months.
Frustration
She took a pay cut to move to a new school district in metro Atlanta this year, shortly before her new employer announced that all educators would be furloughed for three days. Now with student loans from graduate school and a brand-new home mortgage, Payne is frustrated.
The schools all across the U.S. are losing teachers do to money woes and budget crisis. In addition to some teachers being laid off they are also making teachers take days off without pay to help curve the budget and regain the millions of dollars the some how has come up missing in the school budget.
ATLANTA — High school librarian Melissa Payne is starting her new school year with $1,000 less in her paycheck and three days that she'll be forced to stay home from her job.
It's the same story across the country, where teachers — once among the groups exempted from furlough days — are being forced to take unpaid days off amid massive state budget cuts.
Georgia is the only state so far to impose statewide furloughs for educators this fiscal year, though others are considering it. But furloughs are happening in individual districts in states such as New Mexico, Florida and California, said Ed Muir, deputy director of research and information services for the American Federation of Teachers.
For teachers like Payne, furloughs hurt a salary that already stretches thin most months.
Frustration
She took a pay cut to move to a new school district in metro Atlanta this year, shortly before her new employer announced that all educators would be furloughed for three days. Now with student loans from graduate school and a brand-new home mortgage, Payne is frustrated.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
School Systems in Peril
100 Atlanta school employees implicated in test cheating scandal
Atlanta Public Schools are in peril due to the city wide cheating scandal. Most of the schools in the district have been under evaluation for cheating on the CRCT. Dr. Beverly Hall has been asked to step down because of the cheating test scandal.
An investigation of suspected cheating at Atlanta Public Schools has concluded that as many as 100 employees at 12 schools violated testing protocols, the chairman of a special investigative committee told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Thursday.
Gary Price, chairman of the independent panel that was formed to investigate irregularities on state standardized tests at city schools, did not detail the violations, which could range from inadvertently violating test security rules to outright cheating. Price’s committee will release the key findings and recommendations from its exhaustive three-month inquiry on Tuesday.
"I'm outraged, primarily because I think about 50,000 kids in this system," said Price. He has also declined to name the schools where these employees work, although school names will be included in the findings, he said. "If [students] don't perform well on these tests, if we've been passing people along through the system, that's the important issue.
DeKalb fires 2, demotes 2 over sales of books written by administrators
What is it for a principal to make a 100,000 a year and want a little more money.
Several principals in the Dekalb county school system wrote books and then sold the books to the county totaling up to thousands of dollars. Princiapls who wrote books took it upon themselves to buy and sale copies of their own books which brought about the investigation.
DeKalb County’s top school official is firing two principals and demoting two other officials after an internal investigation found school funds were used to purchase thousands of dollars worth of books that school administrators had written. The personnel moves came in response to an investigation into the book sales by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
All told, the school system found three educators-turned-authors raked in a total of almost $100,000 in sales to district schools. One principal used her school’s funds to buy more than $11,000 worth of copies of her own book.
Interim Superintendent Ramona Tyson said the investigation uncovered a misuse of school funds that was “alarming,” “disturbing” and “unethical.”
In addition to the firings and demotions, Tyson outlined policy recommendations to the school board so the problem won’t happen again.
Atlanta Public Schools are in peril due to the city wide cheating scandal. Most of the schools in the district have been under evaluation for cheating on the CRCT. Dr. Beverly Hall has been asked to step down because of the cheating test scandal.
An investigation of suspected cheating at Atlanta Public Schools has concluded that as many as 100 employees at 12 schools violated testing protocols, the chairman of a special investigative committee told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Thursday.
Gary Price, chairman of the independent panel that was formed to investigate irregularities on state standardized tests at city schools, did not detail the violations, which could range from inadvertently violating test security rules to outright cheating. Price’s committee will release the key findings and recommendations from its exhaustive three-month inquiry on Tuesday.
"I'm outraged, primarily because I think about 50,000 kids in this system," said Price. He has also declined to name the schools where these employees work, although school names will be included in the findings, he said. "If [students] don't perform well on these tests, if we've been passing people along through the system, that's the important issue.
DeKalb fires 2, demotes 2 over sales of books written by administrators
What is it for a principal to make a 100,000 a year and want a little more money.
Several principals in the Dekalb county school system wrote books and then sold the books to the county totaling up to thousands of dollars. Princiapls who wrote books took it upon themselves to buy and sale copies of their own books which brought about the investigation.
DeKalb County’s top school official is firing two principals and demoting two other officials after an internal investigation found school funds were used to purchase thousands of dollars worth of books that school administrators had written. The personnel moves came in response to an investigation into the book sales by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
All told, the school system found three educators-turned-authors raked in a total of almost $100,000 in sales to district schools. One principal used her school’s funds to buy more than $11,000 worth of copies of her own book.
Interim Superintendent Ramona Tyson said the investigation uncovered a misuse of school funds that was “alarming,” “disturbing” and “unethical.”
In addition to the firings and demotions, Tyson outlined policy recommendations to the school board so the problem won’t happen again.
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