Wake County Superintendent Tony Tata hinted at lofty student assignment goals Thursday, saying he’s trying to preserve the magnet program, provide proximity and avoid creating low-performing schools. During a meeting with editors and reporters at The News & Observer, Tata gave a few more details about two new student assignment plans that are scheduled to [...]
State Superintendent of Schools Tom Luna broke the Idaho code of ethics for professional educators, according to a letterof complaint sent to the State Department of Education by a Vallivue High School English teacher. Luna sent a memo to school administrators last week that warned of possible teacher ethics violations for school-based efforts to recall [...]
What do you do when you read a research study related closely to the work you do? Do you share it? Save it? Discuss with colleagues? What makes a research study truly valuable is taking those results and turning them in to action. Recently the 2010 version of the Speak Up Survey was released. Studies [...]
The ceremony: 10 a.m. Sunday, Duke Universitys Wallace Wade Stadium, Durham. Number of graduates: 4,521, including graduate students and students who wrapped up their studies in September or December. Main speaker: John T. Chambers, chief executive of Cisco, who spent a year at Dukes engineering school before pursuing business and law degrees instead.
State-run technical schools, including Wilcox Technical High School on Oregon Road, could be forced to close if the state and unionized labor cannot nail down contract agreements. Wilcox teachers had not been given layoff notices as of Wednesday afternoon, however, according to a local union official. “Not a single layoff notice or pink slip has [...]
Friday El Paso Community College will have its 2011 spring commencement at 6 p.m. at the Don Haskins Center. The featured speaker will be Manny Medrano, an Emmy-winning broadcast journalist and trial attorney. Medrano is a Jefferson High graduate. Saturday The University of Texas at El Paso will have its 2011 spring commencement events throughout [...]
The University of Rhode Island has broken ground on Hillside Hall, a 429-bed residence hall for freshmen and sophomores. The university says the $42 million facility will be the most energy efficient residence hall on the Kingston campus.NOVEMBER 2010…from The Providence Journal: The University of Rhode Island‘s Kingston campus is no longer a ghost town on weekends, thanks to $225 million in [...]