Do We Really Need School Boards
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TROUBLE WAS predictable when, three years into their jobs, members of the Strait regional school board were ordered to write their own directive on ethics, responsibilities and how to behave with common courtesy.
Are these the folks we want running the system that teaches our children?
Over the weekend, Education Minister Karen Casey decided the answer to [...]
Local School Leaders Optimistic As Education Budget Passes Senate
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The state education budget passed out of the Alabama Senate Thursday, and local school leaders say they are now more optimistic about the upcoming year.
The budget still must make it pass the House of Representatives and Gov. Bob Riley, and Bazzell said not having the budget already has had an impact on Pike County Schools. [...]
Study Health Industry Growing
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Comparatively, employment in automotive manufacturing dropped by about 17 percent in that same three-year period and education jobs grew by only about 2 percent.
“The growth in health care employment was not enough to offset the losses in manufacturing,” said Charles Ballard, professor of economics at Michigan State University. “But clearly we’re a whole lot better [...]
Parliament Passes Education Law
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Slovak Parliament approved an Act on Education and Training that was drafted by the Education Ministry with the aim of revamping the school system. The new Act will substitute 20-year-old legislation that was introduced in the former communist Czechoslovakia.
Innovations at schools will be introduced via new curricula as the key element of the reforms. The [...]
Mesa Police Chief: Education Key To Preventing Crime
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George Gascón, who was named chief of the Mesa Police Department in August 2006, was the guest last week on aztalk Live Talk Wednesday.
Gascón oversees an agency of more than 1,400 employees that covers Mesa’s 133 square miles.
Gascón’s law enforcement career began in 1978 as an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department.
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“I left [...]
Many States Leave Behind Education Law
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More than 20 states have procrastinated in meeting the No Child Left Behind law’s requirement that all students reach grade-level proficiency by 2014 and will be hard-pressed to make needed improvements before the deadline, a report released today shows.
The Center on Education Policy (CEP) issued its report at the midway point of the 2002 NCLB [...]
Aims Pune To Be The First Institute To Get An Approval For A Research Journal Of National Repute
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The Allana Institute of Management Sciences, (AIMS) Pune to be the First Institute to get an Approval for a Research Journal of National Repute
Dr. Pandit Vidyasagar, Director BCUD, was present as the Chief Guest
Dr. Baba Sangle, Dean Faculty of Commerce UoP, was present as the Guest of Honour
The Allana Institute of Management Sciences, Pune takes [...]
Life Teaches Navy Vet Skills For Dream Job Late In Life
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Life teaches Navy vet skills for dream job late in lifeRubber bands keep the small, tattered notebook in James Long’s hands from falling apart.
By keeping the journal all these years, Long rekindles the memory of an earnest young sailor who made him the man he is today.
Long never wants to forget all the hours he [...]
Public Schools As Good As Private Schools In Raising Math Scores, Study Says
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Students in public schools learn as much or more math between kindergarten and fifth grade as similar students in private schools, according to a new University of Illinois study of multi-year, longitudinal data on nearly 10,000 students.
The results of the study appear in the May issue of the education journal Phi Delta Kappan.
“These data provide [...]
Govt To Ratchet Up Collections On Student Loans
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Due to the persistently high percentage of government student loans in default, Education Minister Carl Bethel said the government is contemplating ‘get-tough’ measures to increase collection.
Due to the persistently high percentage of government student loans in default, Education Minister Carl Bethel said the government is contemplating ‘get-tough’ measures to increase collection.
As of June 30, 2007, [...]
