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Apr 15 2024
News
‘A new day.’ Kentucky Senate confirms education commissioner for first time
For the first time, the Kentucky Senate on Monday approved the confirmation of the state’s education commissioner. In voting for the confirmation of Lawrence County Superintendent Robbie Fletcher, Sen. Stephen West, R-Paris, head of the Senate Education Committee, called Fletcher “the Mark Pope of Kentucky Education.” He was referring to the popular, newly hired University of Kentucky men’s
Lexington Herald-LeaderApr 25 2024
News
Rep. Vernon G. Smith: Indiana Republican education policies have failed to address the root of our problem
Hoosier children deserve better than the education system that nearly 20 years of Republican control has left us with in Indiana. Instead of robust solutions, the legislative supermajority churns out a patchwork of special interest-backed policies year after year. While our state drops in rank when it comes to academic performance, the policies passed by the General Assembly fail to address
Chicago TribuneApr 03 2024
News
Harford County students, educators honored at Sacco Awards
The William J. Sacco Critical Thinking Foundation honored 13 high school students and nine educators from Harford County at its 13th annual awards ceremony on March 10 at The John Carroll School. Swan Creek had its first scholarship winner. The foundation gave out $12,250 in scholarships and grants. Bel Air math teacher Susan Taylor was named the 2024 Educator of the Year. She became the first
Baltimore SunApr 11 2024
News
How a Memphis High School Built a Model for Education From Scratch
What if high schools didn’t adhere to decades-old standardized curriculums? What if they tried something new to mirror the complexities of the real world? These are the questions the founders of Crosstown High, a public charter school in Memphis, Tennessee, asked when they initially embarked upon building a radically different type of high school in a segregated and struggling school district
BloombergApr 17 2024
News
'Know Two Protect' campaign aims to educated children, parents about dangers online
A legislative push is focusing on protecting your child's data online.
The Department of Homeland Security announced a campaign on Wednesday that aims to prevent child exploitation and abuse.
The "Know Two Protect" campaign focuses on educating children and parents about the dangers online.
The program has partnered with major sports leagues and the parent companies of
CBS News (Online)Apr 02 2024
Opinion
The push for bilingual education will doom migrant kids to failure
New York City, Denver, Chicago and other cities are urgently recruiting bilingual education teachers as the children of migrants enroll in school.
Bilingual ed will doom most of these kids to failure.
All too often it’s an educational ghetto, producing dropouts who can’t speak English and face a lifetime of poverty.
Non-English-speaking students should be given intense
New York Post (Opinion)Apr 14 2024
News
Alsobrooks speaks on crime, education, healthcare after Trone backs out of debate
Community members filed into the Sollers Point Multipurpose Center in Dundalk, Md. on April 7 to see two of the top candidates in Maryland’s Congressional senate race face off against each other. However, most learned when they arrived that U.S. Representative David Trone had taken ill and was unable to meet his opponent, Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks, on the Southeast
AfroApr 10 2024
News
Waiakea High teacher receives $25,000 Milken Educator Award
Apr. 10—Rory Inouye, a 35-year-old Waiakea High School class of 2007 alumnus and math teacher, was awarded a $25, 000 Milken Educator Award in Hilo on Tuesday. Rory Inouye, a 35-year-old Waiakea High School class of 2007 alumnus and math teacher, was awarded a $25, 000 Milken Educator Award in Hilo on Tuesday. Inouye is the first Milken Educator Award recipient based on Hawaii island since
Yahoo NewsMar 19 2024
News
Measurement Expert Jiaqi Zhang: Empowering Educational Evaluation Reform with New Models of Psychological and Educational Measurement
Psychometrics refers to using certain operating procedures based on psychological theory to determine a quantitative value for a person’s psychological characteristics and behaviors such as ability, personality, and mental health, based on psychological theories and specific operational procedures. Through scientific, objective, and standardized measurement methods, psychometrics analyzes and
LA WeeklyApr 14 2024
News
Mississippi on track for record education funding, but House could still derail the plan
The Mississippi House’s proud proclamation earlier this session that they had voted to spend the most money in the history of the state on public education is no longer true. Now the state Senate can make that boast — by a smidgen. The Kindergarten through 12th grade appropriations bill approved last week by the Senate provides about $6 million more for local schools than the House proposed
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