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No Child Left BehindHats off to Lake Chelan High School!By maureen on 17 Jan | 0 comments
This week we tip our
hats to Lake Chelan High School
for being nominated as a Department of Education Blue Ribbon School!
Hats Off to Maple Elementary School!By maureen on 20 Dec | 0 commentsGraduation Matters: Improving Accountability for High School GraduationPosted on 19 Oct | 0 commentsThis report contends that most states are setting low goals for improving graduation rates, and for ensuring that more low-income, minority, disabled and English language learner students earn a high school diploma.
All teachers are not created equalBy allisonm on 01 Oct | 0 comments“In teaching, you go as fast as the slowest person,” summed up George Miller, House Education Committee Chairman in this article. He's introduced a new NCLB bill that gives federal grants to exemplary teachers and principals based on performance. Our Nation's Report Card DayBy allisonm on 27 Sep | 0 comments
Ah, report cards.
Displayed on the refrigerator when it's filled with good grades, hidden from
your parents as long as possible when bad grades prevail. But unlike those report cards
that can conveniently get misplaced, there's no hiding from our Nation's
Report
Card.
One Baltimore School Struggles to Get Tests Scores UpBy barbara on 21 May | 0 comments
This is an interesting NPR piece on a Baltimore high school's effort to raise test scores. There are voices on both sides of the debate here. Some say that the method this high school is using (pulling kids out of class to study for the Maryland test) is wrong, while others are saying that the test is in fact, too easy, and the kids should be able to pass it without extra help.
Maple Elementary Great Model for High Performing SchoolBy barbara on 18 May | 1 commentTwo-Week Chat on Global CompetitivenessBy barbara on 16 May | 0 commentsGLAD Helps Spanish-Speaking Elementary School Rise to the TopBy barbara on 16 May | 0 commentsFelipe Guzman wandered around this 4th grade class, gently guiding his students through a sentence contruction lesson in generalizations. In Spanish. And about the Spanish language. |
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