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Archive for February, 2009

The Herald Leader Reports…

February 20, 2009 By: richard.ginn Category: Uncategorized

on Filipino teachers hired for hard to fill positions.

The Kansas City Star Reports…

February 20, 2009 By: richard.ginn Category: Uncategorized

on enrollment increases occurring in Kansas and Missouri universities.

Des Moines Register Reports…

February 20, 2009 By: richard.ginn Category: Uncategorized

on the local school district with an 8 million dollar budget deficit.

Keller’s Trinity Meadows Intermediate School…

February 20, 2009 By: richard.ginn Category: Uncategorized

is using the cellphone as the classroom computer.

The Houston Chronicle Reports…

February 20, 2009 By: richard.ginn Category: Uncategorized

on the local school district casting a nationwide search for a super superintendent.

Thomas B. Fordham Institute…

February 19, 2009 By: richard.ginn Category: Uncategorized

out with another study looking at the No Child Left Bill. This report finds that a school in one state could wind up as a failure, but stick that same school in another state and they would wind up passing.

For the study they used 28 states and 36 real schools.

One school they pointed out in the report is Clarkson Elementary School. Out of the 28 states they looked at the school would have met AYP goals in 8 states and almost made them in 4 other states.

That same school had around 18% of the student proficient in South Carolina, but a whopping 85% proficient in Colorado.

I fully agree with this report. What good is AYP standards if all states have different ones.