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 [...]
Obama Gets Economic Tour Underway
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George Bush called it the Ownership Society, but it’s little more than a worn dogma that says we should give more to those at the top and hope that their good fortune trickles down to the hardworking many. For eight long years, our President sacrificed investments in health care, and education, and energy, and infrastructure [...]
Senator Kennedy Spokesman On Declining Job Numbers
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Anthony Coley, spokesman for Senator Edward M. Kennedy, released the following statement concerning today’s jobs numbers, which showed a dramatic jump in the unemployment rate from 5.0 to 5.5 percent and an increase by 861,000 in the number of unemployed Americans (to a total of 8.5 million).
Kennedy, Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions [...]
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 [...]
Former Singapore Re Head Learns From Experience
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Crucial to the efficient functioning of modern economies are reinsurance companies that, for a fee, insure policies sold by other insurers, essentially to spread the risk. A founding father of Singapore’s reinsurance industry is Hwang Soo Jin, 72 years old, chairman emeritus and senior adviser at Singapore Reinsurance Corp., or Singapore Re as it is [...]
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 [...]
