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CCLD Kentucky Literacy News

July 2008

Jul 23: The Next Kind of Integration (New York Times)
Jul 23: A minute a day can improve reading skills (United Press International)
Jul 22: Reading First program expected to die out of classrooms (Arizona Central)
Jul 22: WKU Finish makes progress for older students: Program designed to bring back students who had not finished their degree work (Bowling Green News)
Jul 22: Master's In Elementary Education Degree Available Online (WNKY.NET)
Jul 21: Funding the reading foundation (State Journal)
Jul 18: New ETS Report Offers Highlights From Achievement Gap Symposium (Yahoo)
Jul 18: ‘Imagination Library’ Dolly Parton’s program coming to Madison County (Richmond Register)
Jul 18: Economy Takes Toll On Education Funding (NPR)
Jul 18: In Iraq, Pilot Program Aims To Teach Basic Literacy (NPR)
Jul 18: Need for Common Vision in PreK-3rd Grade Education (NASBE)
Jul 18: Textbooks, free and illegal, online: (Boston Globe)
Jul 18: The Wrong Education Fix (Wall Street Journal)
Jul 17: Ed. Dept. Releases Guide for Evaluating Online Learning (Education Week)
Jul 17: States Eye Research to Shape Pre-K Priorities (Education Week)
Jul 10: READING READINESS: School districts find gaps in kindergartners' readiness skills (The Plain Dealer)
Jul 10: Getting Past Black and White (Times)
Jul 2: Getting to Know Sharon Washington (Diverse Education)
Jul 2: Report calls for $20 billion for adult literacy (Post Gazette)
Jul 2: Groups urge older adults to push for pre-school (Lexington Herald Leader)
Jul 2: Reading First program could be on its last legs (USA Today)
Jul 2: Early-Education Research Viewed as a Policy Tool (Education Week)
Jul 2: Six States to Design Own Plans for Fixing Schools (Education Week)
Jul 1: Board-certified teachers boost student scores (USA Today)
Jul 1: Hager Preschool among four in state named 'Centers of Quality' (The Center for Public Education)

June 2008

Jun 25: Ready to Learn goes for depth instead of breadth (Current)
Jun 25: Educational Benefits Of Social Networking Sites Uncovered (Science Daily)
Jun 25: Report: Racial gap narrows, but what did No Child law do? (USA Today)
Jun 25: Report lists some declines in reading proficiency (Education Week)
Jun 25: New Reading First Data From States Shows Impressive Gains in Reading Proficiency (Department of Education)
Jun 25: Senate Panel Also Votes to Kill Funds for 'Reading First' (Education Week)
Jun 25: House Panel Would Kill ‘Reading First’ Funding (Education Week)
Jun 25: Is the Internet Making Us Stupid? (NPR)
Jun 25: Digital Divide? What Digital Divide? (T.H.E. Journal)
Jun 23: Passing on his passion for reading (The State Journal)
Jun 23: Literacy Program Shows Success in Kentucky (University of Kentucky News)
Jun 23: Small-school experiment doesn't live up to hopes (The Seattle Times)
Jun 23: Denver School Tries Reinvention as Reform (National Public Radio)
Jun 20: Reviewing E-Books: The Benefits and Drawbacks of Virtual Textbooks (Education Week)
Jun 20: Friend or Foe? Balancing the Good and Bad of Social-Networking Sites (Education Week)
Jun 19: Majority of Youths Found to Lack a Direction in Life: Researcher Calls on Schools, Communities to Address Malaise (Education Week)
Jun 19: On Educating Educators: Top Training Is the Bottom Line (Edutopia)
Jun 19: Google Lit Trips: Bringing Travel Tales to Life: Follow along for a multidimensional literary adventure (Edutopia)
Jun 19: U.S. Economy Could Have Gained $320 Billion if all Students Who Entered High School in 2004 Had Graduated on Time, According to Alliance for Excellent Education (Alliance for Excellent Education)
Jun 19: Study Shows How to Maximize Adult Literacy Classes (Newswise)
Jun 18: Jump Start (Education Week)
Jun 18: Kids who need preschool the most aren't enrolled, HFR (Education Week)
Jun 18: Top Students Said to Stagnate Under NCLB (Education Week)
Jun 18: Report Sees Cost in Some Academic Gains (New York Times)
Jun 18: Civil Rights Activists, Teachers Call on Candidates to Address Reforming Education System (Black America Web)
Jun 18: State Testing Mandates Swell Summer School Ranks (Education Week)
Jun 12: Kentucky gains in rate of graduation: 'WE'RE GRADUALLY ... CRAWLING OUT OF THE NATION'S CELLAR' (Lexington Herald Leader)
Jun 10: Patton named to postsecondary education council (Lexington Herald Leader)
Jun 10: Candidates Are at Odds Over K-12 (Education Week)
Jun 10: Black-White Gap Widens Faster for High Achievers (Education Week)
Jun 9: Schools: Reading reforms working (Bowling Green Daily News)
Jun 3: Childhood's End: Growing Up Too Fast (Edutopia)
Jun 3: Summer Reading (Reading Rockets)
Jun 3: Generation R (R Is for Reader) (Newsweek)
Jun 3: Readers' Survey 2008 (Edutopia)
Jun 3: Teacher-Pupil Link Crucial to Pre-K Success (Education Week)
Jun 3: Schools Spelling Out New Strategies to Boost Word Skills (USA Today)
Jun 3: Fewer students drop out of Kentucky schools (Courier Journal)
Jun 3: Reading Scores Get 'Bump' From Student Incentives, Study Finds (Education Week)
Jun 3: Hurdles Remain High for English-Learners (Education Week)
Jun 3: Teachers Say NCLB Has Changed Classroom Practice (Education Week)

May 2008

May 28: Private firm hired to help struggling students: Alternative program to cost Metro millions (Tennessean)
May 28: Experts Discuss School Integration (KY Post)
May 28: Wake Forest dumps SAT, ACT tests: SCORES NOT BEST PREDICTORS, OFFICIALS SAY (Lexington Herald-Leader)
May 28: Wake Forest joins schools dropping SAT requirement (Lexington Herald-Leader)
May 28: Last Surviving Brown v. Board Plaintiff Dies (Education Week)
May 28: Reading Scores Get 'Bump' From Student Incentives, Study Finds (Education Week)
May 16: Governor Beshear Appoints Members to the Kentucky Board of Education (Governor Steve Beshear's Communications Office)
May 15: Blogging helps encourage teen writing (E School News)
May 15: A New Literary Hero: Comics Make for Colorful Learning (Edutopia)
May 15: School Districts Start to Face Sanctions Under Landmark Law (Education Week)
May 15: Reading First Doesn't Help Pupils 'Get it'; Other factors skewing results of study, federal officials posit (Education Week)
May 15: Returning to the Classroom (Teacher Magazine)
May 8: How To: Use Social-Networking Technology for Learning (Edutopia)
May 2: Writing, Technology and Teens (Pew Research Center Publications)
May 1: U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings Announces Public Meetings to Discuss New Title I Regulations for No Child Left Behind (U.S. Department of Education)
May 1: Study: 'Reading First' Program Fails to Boost Reading Skills (Washington Post)
May 1: Striving for Excellence in Diverse Classrooms (Washington Post)
May 1: Catching problems early, schools try to avoid special ed (USA Today)
May 1: Against Odds, New Orleans Schools Fight Back (New York Times)
May 1: Middle School College Programs Target Young Students Early (District Administration)
May 1: Teachers, Testing, & Civil Disobedience (Teacher Magazine)

April 2008

Apr 30: Informal Style of Electronic Messages Is Showing Up in Schoolwork, Study Finds (New York Times)
Apr 30: Bedtime stories now available on children's iPods (Associated Press)
Apr 30: Parents’ Role in Schools Earns Fresh Respect (Education Week)
Apr 28: Museums teach society lacking in science literacy (USA Today)
Apr 28: 'Nation at Risk': The best thing or the worst thing for education? (USA Today)
Apr 28: Districts Cultivate Common Ground on English-Learner Curriculum (Education Week)
Apr 28: Leagues Revive Debate in City Schools (Education Week)
Apr 17: Study: Dyslexia Differs by Language (Washington Post)
Apr 17: Western to offer new ESL certification program: Students without education degree will be able to teach English as a second language (Bowling Green Daily News)
Apr 17: Things Can't Go Back (Newsweek)
Apr 17: Black-White Gap Widens Faster for High Achievers (Education Week)
Apr 17: We Can Solve Our Problems (Success Magazine)
Apr 17: Bridge the Gap (Success Magazine)
Apr 17: Help your teen develop good reading habits (Courier Journal)
Apr 17: Teaching Better Together (Teacher Magazine)
Apr 17: Teacher Coaches Find a Growing Role (Teacher Magazine)
Apr 11: Pre-K: Looking at Economic Development Through a New Lens (Prichard Committee)
Apr 11: Lawmakers Draw Attention to Accountability; Tenets of 1990 Reforms Rooted in Supreme Court Ruling (Prichard Committee)
Apr 10: U.S. to Require States to Use a Single School Dropout Formula (New York Times)
Apr 10: Working Smarter By Working Together (Education Week)
Apr 10: NAEP WRITING SCORES SHOW SOME PROGRESS (Kentucky Department of Education)
Apr 10: EDUCATION COMMISSIONER RELEASES BUDGET ANALYSIS (Kentucky Department of Education)
Apr 2: States Seeking Proper Balance in Use of ELL Test Scores (Education Week)
Apr 2: Student Engagement Found to Rise as Class Size Falls (Education Week)
Apr 2: Kentucky Lawmakers Take Aim at State Tests: GOP leadership in Senate would swap current exams for norm-referenced tests. (Education Week)
Apr 2: Are We Smarter Than a (Russian) 4th Grader? (Teacher Magazine)
Apr 2: New Thoughts On Language Acquisition: Toddlers As Data Miners (Science Daily)
Apr 2: The Writing Road: Reinvigorate Your Students' Enthusiasm for Writing (Reading Rockets)
Apr 2: Benchmarks Momentum on Increase: Governors’ group, state chiefs eyeing international yardsticks. (Education Week)
Apr 2: Spellings: States Will Have to Follow Uniform Graduation-Rate Formula (Education Week)
Apr 2: Bookshare.org Partners With Don Johnston To Provide Free Text Reader For Print Disabled Students (Bookshare.org)

March 2008

Mar 19: Teacher Coaches Find a Growing Role (Teacher Magazine)
Mar 19: Selecting school tests a matter of competence (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Mar 19: Iraqi Schoolchildren: 5 Years of War (Education Week)
Mar 12: Reading and Math Curtailing Other Topics, Study Finds (Washington Post)
Mar 12: Survey Finds Teenagers Ignorant on Basic History and Literature Questions (New York Times)
Mar 12: Gutting KERA (Daily Independent)
Mar 12: Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location (New York Times)
Mar 12: If It's Wednesday, It Must be Study Groups (Teachers.net)
Mar 12: Top circulators: Handley Regional Library reveals 2007 checkouts (Winchester Star)
Mar 12: Sorry, Boys, This Is Our Domain (New York Times)
Mar 12: Are Students Working Too Hard for a High School Diploma? (US News)
Mar 12: Turning Young Lives Around (Success Magazine)
Mar 12: Listening to Literature: Struggling Readers Respond to Recorded Books (Edutopia)
Mar 12: Reading Round Table: Literature Circles Expand Thought: Discussing books creates a full learning process for students. (Edutopia)
Mar 12: In Final Months, Ed. Dept. Seeks Teachers’ Advice (Education Week)
Mar 12: Market for K-12 Course-Management Systems Expands (Education Week)
Mar 12: Good measures for good schools: At-a-glance (The Center for Public Education)
Mar 12: Student Exchange, Without the Jet Lag: Educational Collaboration in a Virtual World (Edutopia)
Mar 12: Teaching Writing to Diverse Student Populations (adlit.org)
Mar 12: Writing Next: A Writing Proficiency Crisis (Adolescent Literacy)
Mar 12: TASK FORCE TO REVIEW STATE’S ASSESSMENT & ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM (Kentucky Department of Education)
Mar 12: What Keeps Good Teachers in the Classroom? Understanding and Reducing Teacher Turnover (Alliance for Excellent Education)
Mar 12: Motivation and Reading; Creating early, engaged learners (District Administration)
Mar 12: Directors of Reading First Plagued by Anxiety Over Budget Cuts (Education Week)
Mar 12: Benchmarks Momentum on Increase; Governors’ group, state chiefs eyeing international yardsticks (Education Week)
Mar 9: Investment in early childhood will pay off (Lexington Herald Leader)

February 2008

Feb 29: Gutting KERA (Daily Independent, Ashland)
Feb 22: Kids' Books with Lessons for Life (NPR)
Feb 22: Old-Fashioned Play Builds Serious Skills (NPR)
Feb 22: Higher Education Gap May Slow Economic Mobility (New York Times)
Feb 22: 'Stinky' Jon Scieszka has a read on kids (USA Today)
Feb 22: How to Make Great Teachers (Time Magazine)
Feb 22: Best Practices: Getting to Comprehension in the Classroom (Teacher Magazine)
Feb 22: NCLB Restructuring Found Ineffectual in California (Education Week)
Feb 22: Learning Landscape: J.A. Hughes Elementary School (Edutopia)
Feb 20: Longer School Days a Hot Idea Facing Big Obstacles in Mass. (Education Week)
Feb 20: More Time for Math and Reading Equals Less for Other Subjects, Study Finds (Education Week)
Feb 20: When ‘Unequal’ Is Fair Treatment (Education Week)
Feb 14: Thinking Is Literacy, Literacy Thinking (ASCD)
Feb 14: All Our Students Thinking (ASCD)
Feb 14: Middle School Performance; What Makes Middle Schools Work (Education Week)
Feb 14: Staff Development Tied to Literacy Gains for Students (Education Week)
Feb 13: How Swede It Is: Are Practical (and Affordable) Swedish Preschools Better? (Edutopia)
Feb 13: MIT Orients Course Materials Online to K-12 (Education Week)
Feb 13: Pulitzer Winner/Author/Newsweek Columnist and Emmy-Winning CBS National Correspondent to Speak at NCFL's 2008 Conference (National Center for Family Literacy)
Feb 13: Adults Lag Behind Teens in Technology Skills (Education Week)
Feb 13: Reading Is Fundamental budget cuts proposed by Bush (International Reading Association)
Feb 13: Update Feb. 10: Illiterate children are poor beyond words (Buffalo News)
Feb 8: Pulitzer Winner/Author/Newsweek Columnist and Emmy-Winning CBS National Correspondent to Speak at NCFL's 2008 Conference (National Center for Family Literacy)
Feb 7: A Launch Pad for Tykes (National Educaiton Association)
Feb 1: Online Schooling Grows, Setting Off a Debate (New York Times)

January 2008

Jan 31: EXPLORE AND PLAN RESULTS RELEASED (Kentucky Department of Education)
Jan 31: Results of two tests released: N.Ky. participated in Plan, Explore (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
Jan 31: Tests of Tech Literacy Still Not Widespread Despite NCLB Goals (Education Week)
Jan 30: Schools spared severe cuts (Lexington Herald Leader)
Jan 30: Bullitt schools seek reading coaches: Volunteers to help struggling students (Courier Journal)
Jan 30: Jefferson wants income, race, education as criteria (Courier Journal)
Jan 30: LeapFrog Hopes for Next Hit With Interactive Reading Toy (New York Times)
Jan 30: Rethinking Remedial Education (Inside Higher Education)
Jan 30: Bush Calls for NCLB Renewal, ‘Pell Grants for Kids’ (Education Week)
Jan 30: Grants Would Finance Private Schooling (New York Times)
Jan 28: By the Numbers: Online Learning (edutopia.org)
Jan 28: Programming: The New Literacy (edutopia.org)
Jan 28: As the World Learns: Global Education 2008: Explore the many ways students are taught around the world. (Edutopia.org)
Jan 28: EKU to Host Diversity Conference Feb. 6-7 (EKU)
Jan 28: ‘Corvette’ has readers on same page (Bowling Green Daily News)
Jan 28: Beshear Honors Inductees to Teacher Hall of Fame (Kentucky Post)
Jan 25: The Knowledge Gap (Education Week)
Jan 25: Fla. schools approve free, online reading program (USA Today)
Jan 25: Plan Alters Method Of Teaching: Classrooms In Some Schools To Be Divided Into Learning Stations (Courant)
Jan 25: ETS, La Raza Conference: English-language Learners Fastest-growing Segment of U.S. School Population (Diverse Education)
Jan 24: No substitute for absent teachers Research Finds Students Lose When Sub Called In Full-Time Vacancies Complicate Classroom Study (Lexington Herald Leader)
Jan 23: The Knowledge Gap (Education Week)
Jan 23: Sharper Focus on K-12 Expected After Shift at Carnegie (Education Week)
Jan 23: 'Response to Intervention' Sparks Interest, Questions: Critics say approach depends on too many complex factors (Education Week)
Jan 23: Digital-Age Assessment: e-portfolios are the wave of the future (www.techlearning.com)
Jan 23: Synching Up with the iKid: Connecting to the Twenty-First-Century Student: Educators must work to understand and motivate a new kind of digital learner. (Edutopia)
Jan 23: 21st Century Literacies: A Changing World for Literacy Teachers (www.adlit.org)
Jan 18: Lessons from a coach: We created our community (Teachers Teaching Teachers)
Jan 18: Lessons from the kitchen table (Teachers Teaching Teachers)
Jan 18: Technology keeps little Dani connected to her classmates (Fayette County Public Schools)
Jan 18: Read-In Celebrates Works of African-American Writers (www.eku.edu)
Jan 18: Pre-school seen as key to raising scores (www.nola.com)
Jan 18: Underperforming schools get grants: 40 in Kentucky share $1.8 million (Courier Journal)
Jan 18: Study: Funds Up for Poor Schoolkids (The Enquirer)
Jan 18: Study Says Schools Still Slight Poor Kids (San Antonio Express News)
Jan 11: Teacher Support Can Help Cut Pre-K Expulsions, Report Finds (Education Week)
Jan 11: Coaching Teachers to Help Students Learn (Education Week)
Jan 11: New Agenda for Kentucky ideas revealed (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Jan 11: Kentucky ratings mixed in report on education (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Jan 4: A Loss for Literacy; Funding for Reading First gets slashed. (National Review Online)
Jan 4: States getting serious about pre-K programs; Playtime is over: Delaware explores ways to improve preschool education (Delaware News Journal)
Jan 4: Spotlight: Boys and Literacy (Stenhouse)
Jan 4: The Shift to 21st-Century Literacies (NCTE)
Jan 4: Social-Skills Programs Found to Yield Gains in Academic Subjects (Education Week)
Jan 4: Creating Readers: Part I (Teacher Magazine)
Jan 4: Bush OKs Budget; Hikes Title I, Cuts Reading First (Education Week)
Jan 4: Texas Pre-K Training Effort Shows Tepid Results (Education Week)
Jan 4: The power of inclusion; Delavan-Darien puts English learners into mainstream (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Jan 4: Pre-school attracts more education dollars (USA Today)

December 2007

Dec 18: Secret to literacy is all in the story (Frontiersman News)
Dec 18: Get Kids Interested in Science (Benton Evening News)
Dec 18: Calls Grow for a Broader Yardstick for Schools (Washington Post)
Dec 18: Diverse Group Agrees on Early Education Plan; Panel of 50 Unifies Around Expanded Pre-K Access, Quality (www.prichardcommittee.org)
Dec 13: Secretary Spellings Invites Eligible States to Submit Innovative Models for Expanded Growth Model Pilot (www.ed.gov)
Dec 13: Policy Focus Turning to Principal Quality (Education Week)
Dec 13: Coaching Teachers to Help Students Learn (Education Week)
Dec 13: The Rankings Game (Teacher Magazine)
Dec 12: Cash-short schools scrimp on textbooks (Detroit News)
Dec 12: Report Finds Better Scores in New Crop of Teachers (New York Times)
Dec 12: Plans for Federal Reading Panel Hit a New Roadblock (Education Week)
Dec 11: Verizon Teams With Long Beach Education Foundation to Bring the Free Educational Resources of Thinkfinity.org to Elementary School Classrooms (yahoo.com)
Dec 11: Education commissioner wants businesses to help improve schools (Lexington Hearald-Leader)
Dec 11: Academy Expands Facility, and Hope; Modernized Center at NE Housing Complex Is Unveiled (Washington Post)
Dec 11: Adult education bringing hope to young dropouts (The Post and Courier of Charleston SC)
Dec 11: Early alerts should help shape education; Computer-based system gives tests to gauge students' achievements (www.indystar.com)
Dec 11: An Interview with Sunil Iyengar: Researching Reading (educationnews.org)
Dec 7: Special-needs kids need extra special touch (USA Today)
Dec 5: Kids help other kids with reading: Cane Run starts mentoring program (Courier Journal)

November 2007

Nov 30: Study Links Drop in Test Scores to a Decline in Time Spent Reading (New York Times)
Nov 30: Students Use Technology For Critical Thinking (TBO.com)
Nov 30: Head Start Measure Expected to Launch New Era for Program (Education Week)
Nov 30: States On Board With English-Proficiency Tests (Education Week)
Nov 30: Teachers Swamp a Parley on Preschool (New York Sun)
Nov 30: More nations pass US in reading skills: American scores flat since 2001 (Boston Globe)
Nov 30: Mixed Progress On 'Education For All' Goal - UNESC (Scoop Independent News)
Nov 28: Draud named Ky. education chief; State legislator is unanimous choice (Courier Journal)
Nov 28: Beshear names education secretary, other top aides (Business First)
Nov 21: Center helps learning disabled (Community Press)
Nov 21: How Do We Make Sense Of What We See? (Science Daily)
Nov 21: WETA Launches New Website for Adolescent Readers (PNN Online)
Nov 21: First-Ever Gold-Standard Study of Adolescent Reading Intervention Reveals Significant Gains With READ 180(R) - The Treatment That Works (Scholastic Corporation)
Nov 21: Get Kids Interested in Science (Beaver County Times)
Nov 21: Core Subjects in Danger of Being Axed From National Assessment (www.edweek.org)
Nov 21: Young People Seen Losing Love of Reading (www.edweek.org)
Nov 19: Henderson Leadership Initiative: Education (Evansville Courier & Press)
Nov 19: Conference vow: 'World class' Think globally or fall behind, group told (The Enquirer)
Nov 19: Education summit lauded for its 'size' and 'energy' (Cincinnati Post)
Nov 19: These students write their own tickets: 3 Louisville teens win literary award (Courier Journal)
Nov 19: Education chief will be named Nov. 25 (Evansville Courier & Press)
Nov 19: Needed: Education Commissioner (WSAZ.com)
Nov 19: Commonwealth improves in latest KIDS COUNT report (Ledger Independant)
Nov 15: 'Doing What Works' Web Site Launched to Help Educators (www.ed.gov)
Nov 15: U.S. Department of Education, First Book® and Townsend Press Launch 2007 Adolescent Readers Initiative (www.ed.gov)
Nov 15: 1 education finalist might have the edge: BOARD ISN'T RELEASING NAME (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Nov 15: Achievement Gap ‘Summit’ in Calif. (www.edweek.org)
Nov 15: Congress OKs Head Start Renewal (www.edweek.org)
Nov 15: Urban Leaders Assess Methods for Integrating Schools (www.edweek.org)
Nov 15: QUEST FOR EXCELLENCE: High-quality professional learning transforms two Boston elementary schools (The Learning Principal www.nsdc.org)
Nov 9: Alexander NCLB Bill Offers Pilot Project on Flexibility (Education Week)

October 2007

Oct 31: Education board picks semifinalists: Top Ky. post may be filled in weeks (Courier-Journal)
Oct 31: Education reform progress reported: NATIONAL SURVEY LIFTS KENTUCKY FROM 43RD TO 34TH (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Oct 31: Hello, India? I Need Help With My Math (New York Times)
Oct 31: One-Tenth of High Schools Are 'Dropout Factories' (www.edweek.org)
Oct 31: ‘Universal Design’ Concept Pushed for Education (Edweek.org)
Oct 30: Initiative Focuses on Expanding Quality Early Education (Prichard Committee)
Oct 30: New Thinking on Staff Development (Teacher Magazine)
Oct 30: One Size Doesn’t Fit All (Teacher Magazine)
Oct 30: Giving Teachers the Reins: “Teacher-Directed Professional Development“ (Teacher Magazine)
Oct 29: Team targets struggling students (Palm Beach Post)
Oct 29: Dads and Early Literacy Workshop aims to make fathers active readers (Worthington Daily Globe)
Oct 29: Stop the Narrowing of the Curriculum by ‘Right-Sizing’ School Time (Education Week)
Oct 29: Maine’s Laptops Found to Aid Writing Scores (Education Week)
Oct 29: National Education Organizations Applaud Sen. Obama’s Introduction of Success in the Middle Act (www.all4ed.org)
Oct 18: 'Reading First' Panel Awaits Studies (www.edweek.org)
Oct 18: Push to Revamp High Schools Off Track, Scholars Say, Overemphasis seen on ratcheting up standards at expense of broader view of academic ‘rigor.’ (edweek.org)
Oct 18: Grammar Interrupted (Teacher Magazine)
Oct 15: The New Literacies: Students are immersed in 21st century "new literacy" technologies, but are schools preparing them for the future? (District Administration Magazine)
Oct 12: In Some Schools, iPods Are Required Listening (New york Times)
Oct 8: Congress Weighs Bills on Early-Childhood Education (Education Week)
Oct 8: Varying Standards May Hurt 'No Child' (Washington Post)
Oct 8: Teaching With the Test, Not to the Test (edweek.org)
Oct 5: CATS scores expose learning gaps (Courier Journal)
Oct 3: On education bills, Yarmuth is not about to be left behind (Louisville Courier Journal)
Oct 3: Yarmuth Receives “Legislator of the Year” Award (Kentucky Congressman Yarmuth's website for 3rd Congressional District)
Oct 2: Change in KTIP program designed to strengthen teaching and learning (Kentucky Teacher)
Oct 2: Our Schools Must Do Better (New York Times)
Oct 2: KENTUCKY CORE CONTENT TEST SCORES RELEASED (Kentucky Department of Education)
Oct 2: Schools across Ky. see big jumps: Experts debate effect of changes (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Oct 1: School accountability data scheduled for Tuesday release (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Oct 1: Changes in CATS 'hard to explain' (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Oct 1: EIGHTH-GRADERS' READING SCORES SHOW DEFICIENCIES (Lexington Herald-Leader)

September 2007

Sep 27: Kids get clicking: Howard schools have enhanced their instruction in technology for elementary students (Baltimore Sun)
Sep 27: A new way of learning - SEK high school experiments with project-based learning (Morning Sun)
Sep 27: Students' 'Evolving' Use of Technology (Inside Higher Ed)
Sep 27: Back to School: Reading, Writing, and Internet Safety (NPR)
Sep 26: NAEP Reading and Math Scores Rise (edweek.org)
Sep 25: Eighth-Grade and Fourth-Grade Math Scores Rise in Area and Nation (Washington Post)
Sep 25: High School Teaching for the Twenty-First Century: Preparing Students for College (Alliance for Excellent Education)
Sep 25: NYC public schools win education prize (USA Today)
Sep 13: NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND - 'We've broken some records' in Fayette - Two-thirds of schools meet federal standards (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Sep 6: Creating Readers: Part I (Teacher Magazine)
Sep 6: Definition of Teacher Quality Varies (Teacher Magazine)
Sep 5: The Supreme Court's Decision on School Desegregation: Research, Advocacy, and the Future of Race-Based Assignment Policies (Education Week (On-line chat))
Sep 5: Draft NCLB Bill Intensifies the Discussion (Education Week)
Sep 5: With More State Money, Pressure's On to Make Pre-K Programs Succeed (Education Week)
Sep 5: Growing an Achievement Gap (Education Week)

June 2007

Jun 6: Chasing the Achievement Gap in American Education (Education Sector)
Jun 6: Researchers study ways to perfect the science of teaching (Lansing State Journal)
Jun 6: How to fix 'No Child' law (USA Today.com)
Jun 6: National Evaluation of Early Reading First: Final Report to Congress (Institute of Education Sciences, US Department of Education)
Jun 6: Study finds dramatic math, reading gains (Stateline.org)
Jun 6: How to Fix No Child Left Behind (TIME)
Jun 6: New Striving Readers legislation focuses on older students (IRA, Reading Today)
Jun 6: State Tests Show Gains Since NCLB (Education Week)

April 2007

Apr 3: Teens buying books at fastest rate in decades (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Apr 3: Boot camp Buddies (Morehead News)
Apr 3: Reading is the password: Book club's guy atmosphere designed for boys (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Apr 3: Ky. students not making the grade (Lexington Herald-Leader)

March 2007

Mar 28: Out-of-Favor Reading Plan Rated Highly (Education Week)
Mar 28: Prichard Committee launches pre-k initiative focusing on quality, access (Prichard Committee)
Mar 26: Report: Patient illiteracy threatens health care (USA Today)
Mar 22: BILL GATES TESTIFIES BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE: Microsoft Chairman Pushes for High School Reform, Says Every Child Should Graduate from High School Prepared for College, Career, and Life (Alliance for Excellent Education)
Mar 21: Program teaches literacy (Richmond Register)
Mar 12: In War Over Teaching Reading, a U.S.-Local Clash (New York Times)
Mar 11: The journal begins: Frank X Walker creates Affrilachian literary magazine (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Mar 11: Exemplary elementary: Highland overcame obstacles similar to Johnson's (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Mar 6: Kim Edwards, Univeristy of Kentucky English Professor, has #1 NY Times Best Selling Paperback (interview) (Book Browse)
Mar 6: Heritage honored for literacy advancements (Sentinel News)
Mar 6: TWELFTH-GRADE NAEP MATH AND READING SCORES FINALLY RELEASED: 2005 Average Reading Score is a Disappointing Six Points Lower than 1992 Score (Alliance for Excellent Education)
Mar 2: See Sharon bring Arbuthnot lecture to Kentucky! Hooray! (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Mar 2: Happily Ever Before... (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Mar 2: Our New Poet Laureate (third highlight in section) (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Mar 2: The Scott County Way: Educators take a page from 'The Toyota Way' to boost curriculum (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Mar 2: Road to Reading (Lexington Herald-Leader)

February 2007

Feb 15: What's Hot, What's Not for 2007 (IRA, Reading Today)
Feb 7: Taking teens back to basics of reading (The Denver Post)
Feb 7: Evidence of Literacy in Every Classroom (NCTE)
Feb 7: Oregon researchers at center of dispute over reading program (The Oregonian)
Feb 7: The Bush Budget, 2008 (Inside Higher Ed)
Feb 7: Survey of Educators Finds Lack of Focus on 21st Century Media Literacy Skills (EducationNews.org)
Feb 4: A school on a mission (Lexington Herald-Leader)

January 2007

Jan 31: Vikings defensive end helps promote literacy locally (The Minnesota Daily)