JOSÉ RICO APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF WHITE HOUSE INITIATIVE ON EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE FOR HISPANICS
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan today announced the appointment of José Rico as the new director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics. The Initiative is in charge of expanding academic excellence and improving educational opportunities for Hispanics for President Obama and Secretary Duncan. “For the last two years as the Initiative’s [...]
2007/8 graduation rate of black males was only 47% According to Schott Report
The Schott Foundation for Public Education blackboysreport released their 50 State Report on Public Education and Black Males 2010 today. The report finds that while many districts are successfully improving the achievement of black males in the classroom, it also “highlights that the overwhelming majority of U.S. school districts and states are failing to make [...]
Hispanic Graduation Rate Increasing At Some Colleges 6/11/10
By The Associated Press Riverside, Calif. When Roberto Rodriguez arrived at the University of California campus here four years ago, he felt the emotional tug home so many other Hispanic first-generation college students talk about. His parents wanted him out of their battle-scarred south-central Los Angeles neighborhood and in college. But his mother also didn’t [...]
President Obama Urges High School Graduates To Purse their Passions 06/11/10
By Lori Higgins, Detroit Free Press (MCT) President Barack Obama told graduates of Kalamazoo Central High School on Monday to work hard in pursuing their passions, to not make excuses for their failures and to serve their communities. Without that commitment to serve, he said, there likely wouldn’t be a Kalamazoo Promise, the groundbreaking scholarship [...]
Chinese teens compete for entry to elite schools 6/11/10
BEIJING (AP) — The 14-hour study sessions were over but the nerves remained for Tong Dan as she squeezed in some last-minute cramming during a lunch break Monday from the most important test she and millions of other Chinese teens will ever take. Each year, about 10 million high school seniors across China take the [...]
Arizona Gov. Signs Bill Targeting Ethnic Studies 5/17/10
By The Associated Press Phoenix Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed a bill targeting a school district’s ethnic studies program, hours after a report by United Nations human rights experts condemned the measure. State schools chief Tom Horne, who has pushed the measure for years, said Tuesday that a Tucson school district program promotes “ethnic chauvinism” and [...]
Judge Blocks Layoffs at 3 Inner-City L.A. Schools 05/17/10
By The Associated Press Los Angeles Calling it a “major victory,” Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa hailed a judge’s decision to issue an injunction blocking district-mandated layoffs at three Los Angeles Unified middle schools where civil rights groups said job cuts would deprive inner-city children of their right to an education. Wednesday’s order by Los Angeles Superior Court [...]
Report: Few Hispanic High School Dropouts Earn GED 05/17/10
By The Associated Press Miami A report released Thursday by the Pew Hispanic Center found that one in 10 Hispanic students who drop out of high school go on to earn a General Equivalency Development degree. Educators and students say limited outreach, immigration and pressure to work may be to blame. Using data from the [...]
N.C. Judge Gives Green Light to Neighborhood Schools 5/17/10
North Carolina’s largest school district is set to give final approval next week to a plan to end its busing for diversity program after a judge dismissed a lawsuit seeking to block the move. Judge Bill Pittman said in his ruling Friday that the Wake County school board was taking reasonable measures to accommodate the [...]
Low-Income L.A. Schools Looking for Lost Gifted Kids 05/11/10
By The Associated Press Los Angeles Some city schools with low-income and minority students are putting new emphasis on finding gifted kids, and the search is proving fruitful. Under an initiative overseen by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and launched by the nonprofit Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, four city schools last year began testing nearly every second [...]
Obama: Education a Responsibility of All Americans 05/11/10
By The Associated Press Hampton, Va. President Barack Obama, addressing graduates at historically black Hampton University on Sunday, said that it is the responsibility of all Americans to offer every child the type of education that will make them competitive in a global economy in which just a high school diploma is no longer enough. Obama [...]
Massachusetts launches teacher recruitment effort 5/11/10
BOSTON (AP) — Education officials are launching a plan to recruit Massachusetts’ top teachers to work at the state’s worst schools in an effort to boost student achievement. State Education Commissioner Mitchell Chester tells The Boston Globe the goal of the plan scheduled to be announced Monday is to put the most talented teachers in [...]
Poll: Black U.S. Teens More Optimistic Than Peers 5/8/10
By The Associated Press Chicago Bria Fleming has been through a lot in the last year, including her mother’s hospitalization and job loss and a fire in their home. It’d be enough to get most 18-year-olds down. But the black high school student is surprisingly optimistic about the future and her chances for a better life [...]
Meet the Unemployable Man 5/8/10
by David Wessel Saturday, May 1, 2010 provided by The betting is that the Labor Department’s Friday snapshot of the job market will show that employers added workers in April, perhaps even that the unemployment rate fell. That would be good news, but not good enough. It’s hard to exaggerate how bad the job market [...]
Chinese Gov’t School Grant Divides U.S. Community 04/29/10
Cedarlane Middle School student, Sarah Burchardt, 12, assists her teacher counting numbers in Chinese during a Chinese Language and Culture class in the Hacienda Heights area of Los Angeles. —Damian Dovarganes/AP Hacienda Heights, California Bobby Fraker is taking a stand against what she perceives to be a sinister threat from across the Pacific, right here [...]
Study: Better teachers help children read faster 04/29/10
SEATTLE (AP) — Genetics play the biggest role in determining how fast a child learns to read, but a good teacher can make a measurable difference as well, according to a study released Thursday. Florida State University used twins assigned to different classrooms to develop the conclusions. Researchers studied more than 550 first- and second-grade [...]
Gov. seeks law to curb inner-city school layoffs 04/29/10
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants a state law that would help prevent massive teacher layoffs at inner city schools. Schwarzenegger will appear Tuesday morning in Los Angeles to endorse a bill that would give school districts flexibility in how they lay off teachers. The issue drew attention in February when the ACLU [...]
Black Woman Leads Former Whites-Only School 04/29/10
By The Associated Press The private boarding school for underprivileged students now led by Autumn Adkins, who describes herself simply as “a black girl from Richmond, Virginia,” would have excluded her in years past. The one-time white boys-only institution in Philadelphia did not admit its first black student until 1968 — and that was only after [...]
College Board Report Examines State of Minority Male Students 04/23/10
College Board Document, Forum Stress Pressure of Demographic Changes Posted on EdWeek By Ian Quillen Washington Male students who are members of minority groups continue to face overwhelming obstacles to pursuing their academic aspirations, according to a report from the College Board. The result, it says, is a little-talked-about “third America” that is predominantly male, [...]
Program Helps Students Consider a Teaching Career 4/22/10
By The Associated Press Morgan Davis wants to be a math teacher someday. So the 17-year-old senior at Woodbury High School decided Teacher Cadet, a course that lets students see what it’s like to work in education, was the perfect fit for her. “This class seemed like a good opportunity to see how this career [...]
Helping Boys in Reading Without Starting a Gender War 04/15/10
By Jack Jennings Reprinted from Edweek.com Over the last several decades, concerns about differences in academic performance between boys and girls have typically focused on the performance of girls in mathematics and why they lagged behind their male peers. In particular, studies indicated that high school girls trailed boys in math achievement and took less [...]
Busing Fight Highlights Struggles With Diversity 04/15/10
By Dakarai I. Aarons Reprinted from Edweek.com More than a half-century after the U.S. Supreme Court ordered schools desegregated, districts are still grappling with how best to create the kind of demographically diverse public schools that many experts believe improve outcomes for disadvantaged students. The recent decision by a North Carolina district to move from [...]
“Hawaiian Cultural Influences in Education: School Engagement Among Hawaiian Students” 4/15/10
Culture-Based Education By Mary Ann Zehr Reprinted from Edweek.com A study of both private and public schools in Hawaii has found that students of teachers who frequently infuse their lessons with Hawaiian culture-based strategies have higher educational aspirations than students of teachers who don’t. In the study, 87.9 percent of students of teachers who used [...]
Hispanic Group Rips Texas Education Board 04/15/10
By The Associated Press Austin, Texas Hispanic lawmakers and academic experts blasted the Texas State Board of Education for minimizing the contributions of minorities as it attempts to rewrite guidelines for the teaching of history and social studies. Democratic state Rep. Trey Martinez Fisher of San Antonio, chairman of the Mexican American Legislative Caucus said [...]
Sen. Harkin proposes $23 billion bailout for schools 04/15/10
By Nick Anderson Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, April 14, 2010; As public schools nationwide face larger class sizes and cuts in programs, the Senate’s leading Democrat on education issues proposed a $23 billion bailout Wednesday to help avert layoffs of tens of thousands of teachers and other school personnel in the coming academic year. The [...]
Some Latino Students Choose Family Over College 4/8/10
By Khalil Abdullah New America Media Dec 06, 2009 Nine in ten young Latinos think that college education is important for success in life. But only half that number – about 48 percent — say they themselves plan to get a college degree. That’s according to the 2009 National Survey of Latinos released by the [...]
More Low-Income Pupils Taking AP 4/1/10
College Board data show drop in percentage of passing scores. Continuing a pattern from recent years, more students from low-income families are taking—and earning what is considered a passing score on—at least one Advanced Placement exam, an analysis of results for the public high school graduating class of 2009 shows. At the same time, significant [...]
U.S. Gets Poor Grades in Nurturing STEM Diversity 3/25/10
Reprinted from Edweek: By Erik W. Robelen The nation’s K-12 education system gets an average grade of D for the job it does “engaging and nurturing” minorities to pursue careers in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, and a D-plus for such performance with girls, based on results released today from a [...]
College Board Report Examines State of Minority Male Students 3/25/10
College Board Document, Forum Stress Pressure of Demographic Changes Published in Print: February 3, 2010, as Report Examines Obstacles for Minority Male Students By Ian Quillen Male students who are members of minority groups continue to face overwhelming obstacles to pursuing their academic aspirations, according to a report from the College Board. The result, it [...]
Once a Leader in School Diversity, N.C. Retrenches 3/24/10
By The Associated Press Raleigh, N.C. When North Carolina’s Wake County decided to do away with race-based busing to desegregate schools, local officials came up with a novel solution to maintain balance. The new method of assigning students by their socio-economic background rather than race helped to keep campuses integrated. Adopted in 2000, it quickly [...]
Census Campaign Targets Tech-Savvy Hispanic Youth 03/23/10
By The Associated Press Los Angeles Groups pushing for robust Hispanic participation in the 2010 census are enlisting a new corps of foot-soldiers in their battle to reach that hard-to-count demographic: tech-savvy, smart-phone-toting young people. The “Be Counted, Represent” campaign offers music downloads and a chance at concert tickets to cell phone users who share [...]
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