Monday, May 15, 2006

NCLB and Highly Qualified Teachers

On Friday the US Department of Education "ordered every state to explain how it will have 100 percent of its core teachers qualified _ belatedly _ in the 2006-07 school year." In No States Meet Teacher Quality Goal, AP Education Writer Ben Feller tells of states efforts to meet the No Child Left Behind mandate to have "a bachelor's degree, a state license and proven competency in every subject they teach by this year."

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Spellings on Girls and Math and Science

Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings said Monday that low participation in math and science activities by girls is keeping them from achieving their full potential and weakening the nation's ability to compete. Spellings made the comments at a conference sponsored by the Education Department and the National Science Foundation. The Associated Press's Natasha T. Metzler tells of Spellings, former astronaut Sally Ride, and Senator Ron Wyden's comments in Encouraging girls key for improving science education.

Computerized Records and Reporting

The New York Times Sam Dillon tells of a serious, but underreported issue in States Struggle to Computerize School Records. Dillon tells of the problems schools and states are having finding workable software to collect and report all the data for the No Child Left Behind Act. Sadly, most of the data collection amounts to compliance with No Child Left Behind standards, with the use of data to improve instruction still some time away.

Anti-drug overdose? by Marnell Jameson

MacBooks Announced

Apple Computer yesterday introduced their new comsumer line of notebook computers, the MacBook line.

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