State Pushes For Stricter Rules On Alternative Certification Teacher Programs
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The State Board for Educator Certification, or SBEC, which licenses teachers, is considering a new rule requiring alternative certification programs to accept only students who maintained a 2.5 grade-point average or better in college. So-called “alt-cert” teachers also would be required to go through a set amount of training hours before facing students in the [...]
Roll Call For Hamitlon County Teachers
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At 46 schools in Hamilton County, teachers had worse attendance than their students in 2007, according to figures provided by the Hamilton County Department of Education. At 18 schools, teacher attendance was about the same as student attendance, and at 13 schools, teacher attendance was better than student attendance, district data shows.
Hamilton County Board of [...]
Outlook Youth Balancing A Career With School
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The entertainment industry has become one of the many options that young people find themselves considering as a career. Often, they neglect finishing their education as they feel that their career is all they need. Many are of the impression that a tertiary education is a waste of time, as it is virtually impossible to [...]
16 Years Of Striving For Schools
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Coen is known among board members as someone who has made a concerted effort to understand education policies and curriculum and how those fit locally and nationally. She has attended a number of national education and school board conferences and chaired a task force on urban student achievement for the Council of Urban Boards of [...]
Who Will Fill These Shoes
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A new state report highlights 24 ideas for keeping young people in North Dakota, attracting workers and connecting education to employers.
However, the report’s findings are among the discussion items for Tuesday’s joint meeting in Bismarck of the Workforce, Higher Education and Education interim legislative committees.
Eight and 100. Graduates of North Dakota University System schools who [...]
Profiles In Education John Webster
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As headmaster of the San Antonio Academy, John Webster works for one of the most expensive private schools in the city. Some of San Antonio’s most successful business people attended the school — and have sent their sons there.
But Webster didn’t start his career in education teaching in elite private schools, he started in [...]
Nussbaum Center Uncg Launch New Program
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The Nussbaum Center for Entrepreneurship and UNC-Greensboro’s Bryan School of Business and Economics will partner on a new program to offer more assistance to entrepreneurs from students.
The Entrepreneur Assistance Support and Education program will use master’s-level interns in marketing and accounting who will work with clients of the Nussbaum business incubator. There are currently [...]
More Budget Allocations For Health, Education Demanded
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Members from both the treasury and opposition benches demanded an increase in the budget allocations for the health and education sectors, as the National Assembly held its second day of debate on the federal budget for the Fiscal Year 2008-09 on Sunday. They said that subsidies on oil and electricity should continue to control price [...]
Teachers Pest Top Health Official Sacked
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THE chief medical officer of HealthQuest, the medical screening body for all public servants, has been sacked after telling the Education Department a teacher it intended employing was being investigated by police for defamatory website postings about him.
An external investigation by the former NSW Police deputy police commissioner David Madden found that Dr Peter Dodwell [...]
Ymci Wants Media Education In Schools
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As the world marks the African Child today, Youth Media and Communication Initiative, (YMCI) an international organisation dedicated to children and media has called for the introduction of media education into the school curriculum in Nigeria as a way of giving voice to children. In a statement to mark the Day of the African Child, [...]
