Board Of Education Revamps Student Testing
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Working off the suggestions of teachers and school officials, the State Board of Education Thursday approved a host of changes to the testing system used to measure students’ skills.
Houston served as the chairman of the Blue Ribbon Commission on Testing and Accountability - Education Journal a special panel of educators, superintendents, principals and lawmakers charged [...]
Alternative Education To Get Boost
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Baltimore school administrators unveiled a plan yesterday to reduce violence and the dropout rate by overhauling alternative education, nearly doubling the number of alternative school slots by August and creating morning and evening programs for working students.
The plan calls for the creation of two new alternative schools and the redesign of existing alternative schools, where [...]
ATT CEO says hard to find skilled U.S. workers
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“We’re having trouble finding the numbers that we need with the skills that are required to do these jobs,” AT%26amp;T Chief Executive Randall Stephenson told a business group in San Antonio, where the company’s headquarters is located.
So far, only around 1,400 jobs have been returned to the United States of 5,000, a target it set [...]
UPDATE 2ATT CEO says hard to find skilled U.S. workers
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas, March 26 (Reuters) - The head of the
top U.S. phone company AT%26amp;T Inc (T.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Wednesday it was
having trouble finding enough skilled workers to fill all the
5,000 customer service jobs it promised to return to the United
States from India.
“We’re having trouble finding the numbers that we [...]
Conversation about education in Gaston County: Economic development perspective
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The Gazette sat down with Donny Hicks, executive director of the Gaston County Economic Development Commission, to find out more about how education plays a role in work world.
think it plays a huge role in economic development. If you look at recent site selection in corporate real estate executives, in a poll they’ll identify the [...]
Clinton Needs Texas Latinos to Bolster Her Faltering Candidacy
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Feb. 21 (Bloomberg) — Next to her gold medallion of the
Virgin of Guadalupe, Rosa Rosales of San Antonio wears a button
for the woman she considers another patron of Mexican-Americans:
Hillary Clinton.
The New [...]
AP stats may not be cause for joy
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While Utah is ninth in the nation for percentage of students passing Advanced Placement course exams in 2007, and Hispanic participation in AP testing is up statewide, an ethnic minority student advocate said the Hispanic figure is no reason to jump for joy.
That’s because while [...]
Funding sought to preserve native languages
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Teaching American Indian languages in schools is a tool that educators say has been tested as a way of raising the achievement bar.
To that end, the State Board of Education is seeking $275,000 to preserve and revitalize Utah’s indigenous languages to help narrow achievement gaps.
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Uncool gym kit puts girls off school sport
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Girls will continue to play sport into their teens if they can wear fashionable black and pink hoodies and tracksuit bottoms instead of pleated skirts, shorts or white T-shirts, says Dame Kelly Holmes, who today launches a prototype for the ideal modern PE kit.After speaking to girls across the country, the Olympic gold medallist argues [...]
