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CCLD Kentucky Literacy News

March 2010

Mar 4: 15 States Plus D.C. Are Named Race to the Top Finalists (Education Week)

February 2010

Feb 26: First U.S. Conference on Adult Basic Education and Literacy (dBusinessNews)
Feb 26: Bible Literacy Bill Clears Kentucky Senate (TristateHomepage.com)
Feb 25: Teaching Reading ‘Behind the Glass’ (Teacher Magazine)
Feb 25: Creating Young Teacher Leaders (Teacher Magazine)
Feb 25: Best Practices in the Middle Grades Identified (Education Week)
Feb 18: Gates Awards 15 Grants for Common-Standards Work (Education Week)
Feb 18: The Bunk of Debunking Learning Styles (Teacher Magazine)
Feb 17: Plan Would Let Students Start College After 10th (The New York Times)
Feb 15: Education Was Also Leveled by Quake in Haiti (The New York Times)
Feb 11: Kentucky First to Accept Core Academic Standards (Kentucky School News and Commentary )
Feb 11: In National First, Kentucky Adopts Common Standards (Education Week)
Feb 11: These Things We Believe (Teacher Magazine)
Feb 11: The Case for Literature (Education Week)
Feb 10: Superintendent: Schools must educate a new kind of student (Louisville Courier Journal)
Feb 10: Kentucky to be first to endorse national education standards (Louisville Courier Journal)
Feb 10: Early-graduation bill clears Senate (Legislature Briefs) (Lexington Herald Leader)
Feb 10: Bill would let schools teach Bible literacy (Lexington Herald Leader)
Feb 9: KY First Lady Makes Pitch For Dropout Bill (WTVQ-Channel 36 (ABC) Lexington, KY)
Feb 8: Dueling Objectives Mark Stimulus at Halfway Point (Education Week)
Feb 4: Professional Development: How to Reset Your Attitudinal Dial (Teacher Magazine & Teacher Leaders Network)
Feb 4: State School Boards Raise Questions About Standards (Education Week)
Feb 4: Digital Tools Expand Options for Personalized Learning (Digital Directions: Education Week)
Feb 2: President's Education Budget Signals Bold Changes for ESEA (US Department of Education)
Feb 2: Recovery Act Recipients Report Funding Continues to Support over 300,000 Education Jobs (US Department Of Education)
Feb 2: Obama to Seek Sweeping Change in ‘No Child’ Law (New York Times)
Feb 2: Obama Budget Calls for Major Shifts on ESEA (Education Week)

January 2010

Jan 29: The Draft K-12 Common Standards: A Work in Progress (Education Week)
Jan 28: Obama to Seek Up to $4 Billion Boost for Education (Education Week)
Jan 28: Statement From Bob Wise, President of the Alliance for Excellent Education, on the State of the Union Address (Alliance for Excellent Education)
Jan 22: RTI Said to Pay Off in Gains for English-Learners (Education Week)
Jan 21: Teaching Secrets: Creating Positive Classroom Management (Teacher Magazine)
Jan 21: Putting New Standards Into Practice a Tough Job (Education Week)
Jan 21: Passion, money bring Harrison Elementary to new level (Kentucky.com)
Jan 20: Duncan Carves Deep Mark on Policy in First Year (Education Week)
Jan 19: Obama to Seek $1.35 Billion Race to Top Expansion (Education Week)
Jan 7: Focus on Instruction Turns Around Chicago Schools (Education Week)
Jan 7: Obama Unveils Projects to Bolster STEM Teaching (Education Week)
Jan 6: Is Reading Comprehension a Skill? The Debate Goes On (Education Week)
Jan 6: Reading Aloud to Teens Gains Favor Among Teachers (Education Week)

December 2009

Dec 18: Reassurance Offered on 'Race to Top' Availability (Education Week)
Dec 18: New Jobs Bill Offers $23 Billion for Education (Education Week)
Dec 16: Major Study Gives Edge to Scripted Reform Models (Education Week)
Dec 3: Stimulus Aid’s State-Level Impact Seen Mixed (Education Week)
Dec 3: PTA Launches Campaign Backing Common Standards (Education Week)
Dec 3: Duncan Stresses Commitment to Teachers (Teacher Magazine)
Dec 2: Duncan Aims to Make Incentives Key Element of ESEA (Education Week)

November 2009

Nov 30: New Head of U.S. Research Agency Aims for Relevance (Education Week)
Nov 25: Called to Teach (Teacher Magazine)
Nov 24: Changes Urged in Rules for Federal Innovation Aid (Education Week)
Nov 24: Bill Would Replace Key Federal Literacy Programs (Education Week)
Nov 24: Stimulus Rules on 'Turnarounds' Shift (Education Week)
Nov 5: Creating Learning Organizations (Teacher Magazine)
Nov 5: Twitter Lessons in 140 Characters or Less (Education Week)
Nov 5: Turning the Digital Page (Digital Directions: Education Week)
Nov 5: E-Learning's Gender Factor (Digital Directions: Education Week)
Nov 4: When Teachers Are the Experts (Education Week)
Nov 3: Policies Target Teacher-Student Cyber Talk (Education Week)
Nov 2: Conflict of Interest Arises as Concern in Standards Push (Education Week)
Nov 2: One to One with Bill Goodman: Interview with Terry Holliday, Kentucky Commissioner of Education (Kentucky Educational Television)

October 2009

Oct 29: NCES Finds States Lowered 'Proficiency' Bar (Education Week)
Oct 21: Experts, Public to Weigh In on Common Tests (Education Week)
Oct 16: U.S. illiteracy: Why Johnny still can't read (USA Today)
Oct 14: Pre-K Lessons Tied to TV Shows Found to Spur Gains (Education Week)
Oct 14: ARE ACHIEVEMENT GAPS CLOSING AND IS ACHIEVEMENT RISING FOR ALL?: Report Finds State Progress is Evident but Lacking at the High School Level (Alliance for Excellent Education)
Oct 14: Prioritizing the Nation's Dropout Factories: Alliance Brief Calls For "Legislative Triage" To Address Nation's Lowest-Performing High Schools (Alliance for Excellent Education)
Oct 14: ECONOMIC SCARRING: Report Examines Long-Term Impacts of an Economic Recession on Education, Opportunity, Investments, and Entrepreneurial Activity (Alliance for Excellent Education)
Oct 13: The Cost of Dropping Out: Particularly High for Young Black Men (Education Week)
Oct 12: 'Dropouts Happen' Commentary by John W. Myres (Education Week)
Oct 12: Adolescent-Literacy Program's Impact Tough to Gauge (Education Week)
Oct 12: Kentucky Receives Striving Readers Funding (Kentucky Department of Education)
Oct 8: States Face Budget Hurdles on Testing, GAO Says (Education Week)
Oct 8: 'Common Core' Standards Earn a B From Think Tank (Education Week)
Oct 8: The Online Option (Teacher Magazine)
Oct 8: Why Good Teaching Matters (Teacher Magazine)

September 2009

Sep 30: Race to the Top Grants: Not Just a K-12 Thing? (Education Week)
Sep 29: The World's Largest English Department (Education Week)
Sep 22: Resource: Research Brief on RTI for ELLs (Education Week)
Sep 22: Online Teacher Training Seen as Trend to Watch (Education Week)
Sep 15: Summer Institutes Focus on Improving Literacy and Writing (University of Louisville: College of Education & Human Development)
Sep 15: Summit focuses on keeping Ky. students from dropping out (Prichard Committee)
Sep 15: 24 SELECTED AS TEACHER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD WINNERS (Kentucky Department of Education)
Sep 15: How Obama's Pep Talk Became a Publicity Headache (Education Week)
Sep 10: SESSIONS TO PROVIDE INFORMATION ABOUT HSE PROGRAM (Kentucky Department of Education)
Sep 10: Teaching quality: Henderson County checks leadership focus (Prichard Committee)
Sep 10: Reluctant students of the classics, lend me your earbuds! (USA Today)
Sep 9: Educators share stories in ‘Teaching Hope’ (Fayette County Public Schools)
Sep 9: Research: Pupils don't aim high enough for college (Education Week)
Sep 9: ELL Graduation Rates Often a Mystery (Education Week)
Sep 9: What the Public Thinks of Public Schools: High-school graduation rates are lower today than in 1970. (Wall Street Journal)
Sep 9: Obama education chief to parents: Step up (USA Today)
Sep 9: Obama to kids: 'You can't drop out of school and into a good job' (USA Today)
Sep 4: High School Child Care: Teenagers in Deerfield, Illinois, learn about and tend to young children in a unique day-care program. (Edutopia)
Sep 4: The National Preschool Debate Intensifies Educators rave about the benefits of early childhood schooling. So, why don't we support it more? (Edutopia)
Sep 4: Teaching Secrets: How to Maximize Hands-On Learning (Teacher Magazine)
Sep 4: Kennedy Gone; Power Shuffles Likely on K-12 (Education Week)
Sep 4: Officials Move to Quell Furor Over Obama Speech (Education Week)
Sep 1: Little Red Schoolhouse: gone, but unforgettable (The San Francisco Chronicle)
Sep 1: Spend early on children, says OECD (International Reading Association)
Sep 1: Bush daughter Jenna Hager becomes 'Today' reporter (The Associated Press)

August 2009

Aug 31: COMMISSIONER TO BLOG ABOUT HIS ACTIVITIES (Kentucky Department of Education)
Aug 31: MORE PUBLIC SCHOOL GRADUATES TAKE ACT (Kentucky Department of Education)
Aug 31: Advancing education Why isn't this happening everywhere? (Lexington Herald Leader)
Aug 31: Tutoring tots? Some kids prep for kindergarten (MSNBC)
Aug 31: Scores on ACT Show Majority of Students Not College-Ready (Education Week)
Aug 31: Reputation Without Rigor (Inside Higher Ed)
Aug 31: Big lag in test scores for blacks, Hispanics (San Francisco Chronicle)
Aug 31: Openness of Common-Standards Process at Issue (Education Week)
Aug 31: Kindergarten crunch: Lack of playtime killing joy of learning, say advocates (Salt Lake Tribune)
Aug 31: Does all-day kindergarten work? Figuring it out isn't kids' stuff (Salt Lake Tribune)
Aug 31: At troubled schools, more reform Educators, kids view latest push to fix campuses with hope, skepticism (Chicago Tribune)
Aug 31: Academy for Principals Helped Raise English Scores, Study Says (New York Times)
Aug 31: Gates Foundation Focuses on Teacher Quality (New York Times)
Aug 31: Teacher quality under the microscope: Policy makers grapple with how to define successful teaching -- and whether financial incentives can help spur excellence (ecampusnews.com)
Aug 31: Site spurs debate over required courses: ACTA's web site WhatWillTheyLearn.com grades colleges and universities by how many core subjects they require (ecampusnews.com)
Aug 28: How to Deal with Teenage Learning Fatigue (Edutopia)
Aug 28: How to Keep Kids Engaged in Class (Edutopia)
Aug 28: How Colleagues Can Help New Teachers (Teacher Magazine)
Aug 28: 'Reading Rainbow' Reaches Its Final Chapter (NPR Radio)
Aug 27: Engaging Students Through Art (Teacher Magazine)
Aug 27: How Colleagues Can Help New Teachers (Teacher Magazine)
Aug 26: NEA at Odds With Obama Team on Stimulus (Education Week)
Aug 24: Kentucky's Priority: No Dropouts (Business Lexington)
Aug 23: Lunch with Helen Mountjoy (Louisville Courier-Journal)
Aug 22: Openness of Common-Standards Process at Issue (Education Week)
Aug 20: Studies Weigh NCLB's Broad Impact (Education Week)
Aug 11: NAEP Draft on Technological Literacy Unveiled (Education Week)
Aug 11: Poor are hurt when schools rely on standardized tests (Lexington Herald Leader)
Aug 11: Most Ky. juniors aren't ready for college, ACT says (Lexington Herald Leader)
Aug 10: Experts Eschew Narrow Reading of Early-Literacy Study (Education Week)
Aug 10: Five-Year-Olds Pilot Their Own Project Learning (Edutopia)
Aug 10: The Puente Project Prepares Hispanic Teens for College Success (Edutopia)
Aug 10: Class sizes grow as school budgets shrink (USA Today)
Aug 10: Business Is Brisk for Teacher Training Alternatives (Washington Post)
Aug 10: Transparency of Common-Standards Process at Issue (Education Week)
Aug 10: Are Shakespeare and Texting Compatible? (Education Week)
Aug 10: Making Professional Learning Teams Work (Teacher Magazine)
Aug 10: Going Home (Teacher Magazine)
Aug 10: Tennessee tightens diploma standards (The Leaf Chronicle)
Aug 6: Making Professional Learning Teams Work (Teacher Magazine)

July 2009

Jul 29: A $4 Billion Push for Better Schools (Washington Post)
Jul 29: Draft Content Standards Elicit Mixed Reviews (Education Week)
Jul 29: Open Letter from NCTE President on Common Core State Standards (National Council of Teachers of English)
Jul 28: WHOLE-SCHOOL REFORM: New Alliance Brief Calls for Comprehensive Approach to Transform the Nation’s Low-Performing High Schools (Alliance for Excellent Education)
Jul 28: PREPARING THE WORKERS OF TODAY FOR THE JOBS OF TOMORROW (Alliance for Excellent Education)
Jul 28: President Obama, U.S. Secretary of Education Duncan Announce National Competition to Advance School Reform (Alliance for Excellent Education)
Jul 27: SREB Urges Greater Focus on Middle Grades in South (Education Week)
Jul 27: Black-White Achievement Gap Narrows on NAEP (Education Week)
Jul 27: Draft Content Standards Elicit Mixed Reviews (Education Week)
Jul 23: Bill Gates Stresses the Importance of Good Teachers (Teacher Magazine)
Jul 21: The District Leadership Challenge: Empowering Principals to Improve Teaching and Learning (The Wallace Foundation)
Jul 20: Preparing Students for College and Career: California Multiple Pathways (Alliance For Excellent Education)
Jul 20: Moving Beyond AYP: High School Performance Indicators (Alliance For Excellent Education)
Jul 20: Commentary: What parents can do for their kids (CNN)
Jul 17: Digital Voice Recorders Turn Students Into Interviewers (Digital Directions - Education Week)
Jul 17: A GPS for Teacher Leaders (Teacher Magazine)
Jul 17: Should High Schools Bar Average Students From Rigorous College-Level Courses and Tests? (Washington Post)
Jul 17: Racial Gap in Testing Sees Shift by Region (New York Times)
Jul 16: Districts keep preschools going (New Jersey Star-Ledger)
Jul 16: Racing for an Early Edge (Education Week)
Jul 16: Black-White Achievement Gap Narrows on NAEP (Teacher Magazine)
Jul 16: GOP Leaving 'No Child' Behind (Washington Post)
Jul 16: ED: Blended learning helps boost achievement (eSchool News)
Jul 16: Achievement Gap Still Splits White, Black Students (ABC News)
Jul 14: HOUSE BEGINS WORK ON FY 2010 APPROPRIATIONS: Subcommittee Shoots Down Obama Proposal to Shift Title I Funds to School Improvement (Alliance for Excellent Education)
Jul 13: Managing Instruction in a Virtual World (Education Week)
Jul 13: How Should We Teach English-Language Learners? (National Public Radio)
Jul 13: NECC Airs Ideas About Best Ed-Tech Practices (Education Week)
Jul 13: Teachers are key for students who like learning and remain curious (USA Today)
Jul 13: Remarks of Arne Duncan to the National Education Association - Partners in Reform (Department of Education)
Jul 13: Rethinking professional development: How states can lead the way (National Staff Development Council)
Jul 13: Both sides flawed in student achievement vs. whole child debate (National Staff Development Council)
Jul 13: Expert Panels Named in Common-Standards Push (Education Week)
Jul 13: Closing the Student Information Gap (Teacher Magazine)
Jul 13: Graduation Rates: No more dropouts—every student counts (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Jul 13: Meaningful Measurement: The Role of Assessments in Improving High School Education in the Twenty-First Century (Alliance For Excellent Education)
Jul 13: The Don't-give-up Kid, a children's book on learning disabilities (Examiner.com)
Jul 13: Eagle Eyes, a children's book on Attention Deficit Disorder (Examiner.com)
Jul 13: Obama Names Picks for High-Ranking Education Posts (Education Week)
Jul 13: International Education Leader Offers Tip from Top Achievers (Prichard Committee)

June 2009

Jun 30: Linchpin to education: teaching (Lexington Herald Leader)
Jun 27: Draft Literacy Bill Would Boost Funds for Older Students (Education Week)
Jun 25: Adding a Touch of Technology (Teacher Magazine)
Jun 23: Little red schoolhouse in DC is gone, reflecting new day for education reform (International Reading Association)
Jun 23: Prichard press release: Bold actions for education improvement (Prichard Committee)
Jun 22: THE PRINCIPAL STORY Field Guide: A Companion to the PBS Documentary for Promoting Leadership for Learning (The Wallace Foundation)
Jun 22: Strong Leaders Strong Schools: 2008 State Laws (The Wallace Foundation)
Jun 22: Secretary Arne Duncan Testifies on the Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Request Before the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees (Department of Education)
Jun 22: Active Summer, Active Minds: Educators Seek Ways to Prevent Learning Losses During Vacation (Washington Post)
Jun 22: Education chief hopes stimulus will push standards (USA Today)
Jun 22: Studies Explore Whether the Internet Makes Students Better Writers (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Jun 22: Draft Literacy Bill Would Boost Funds for Older Students (Education Week)
Jun 22: Data-Driven Schools See Rising Scores (Wall Street Journal)
Jun 18: Best-selling author donating book proceeds to NCFL (National Center for Family Literacy)
Jun 18: Summertime and Teachers Have It Easy (Teacher Magazine)
Jun 18: Draft Literacy Bill Would Boost Funds for Older Students (Alliance in the News)
Jun 18: Subject-Matter Groups Want Voice in Standards (Education Week)
Jun 18: NCLB Found to Raise Scores Across Spectrum (Education Week)
Jun 15: Promoting literacy 2 wheels at a time (Lexington Herald Leader)
Jun 12: A need to read: What parents can do to encourage summer reading (Knoxville News)
Jun 12: GOVERNOR/KDE SIGN AGREEMENT TO WORK ON CORE STANDARDS (Kentucky Department of Education)
Jun 12: PRESCHOOL PROGRAMS CITED FOR HIGH-QUALITY PRACTICE AND INSTRUCTION (Kentucky Department of Education)
Jun 12: Congress Works on 'Reading First 2.0' (Education Week)
Jun 12: Push is on for a ‘common’ education standard for US schoolchildren (CS Monitor)
Jun 12: Ky.'s high school graduation rate rises (Lexington Herald Leader)
Jun 12: Open letter to Kentucky Teachers, Superintendents, Principals and School Boards (Prichard Committee)
Jun 12: Kentucky ranks 35th on Education Index (Prichard Committee)
Jun 12: Edutopia Profiles the Digital Generation; Public education has much to learn from today's technologically tuned-in youth. (Edutopia)
Jun 12: Kids Create -- and Critique on -- Social Networks (Edutopia)
Jun 12: Literacy requirements debated; Board questions the promotion of students who lack reading skills (Post and Courier )
Jun 12: Online Safety for Children with LD (LD Online)
Jun 12: What I Want When I Teach (Education Week)
Jun 12: Schwarzenegger Seeks Online Revolution in Schools (Education Week)
Jun 12: Time to Kill 'No Child Left Behind' (Education Week)
Jun 8: School Rulings By Sotomayor Eyed Carefully (Education Week)
Jun 8: Grade Inflation Seen in Evaluations of Teachers, Regardless of System (Education Week)
Jun 2: Developmentally Appropriate Practice in the Age of Testing (Harvard Education Letter)
Jun 2: Turning Around Troubled Schools (US News)
Jun 2: Preventing High School Dropouts Can Start in 4th Grade (Education Week)
Jun 2: U.S. Effort to Reshape Schools Faces Challenges (New York Times)
Jun 2: Strides Made In Adult Education (Kentucky Post)
Jun 2: Barnes & Noble Launches Blog To Promote Child Literacy (Web Pro News)

May 2009

May 27: SCHOOLS SUCCESSFUL IN CLOSING ACHIEVEMENT GAPS (Kentucky Department of Education)
May 14: Chamber urges school leaders to keep public informed about school, student progress (Kentucky Chamber of Commerce)
May 13: New interim state education commissioner named (Lexington Herald-Leader)

April 2009

Apr 16: State’s pre-K accessibility among best (Bowling Green Daily News)
Apr 16: Va. Governor to Present New SREB Report Calling for States to Improve Students' Reading in Middle, High School (Southern Regional Education Board)
Apr 16: First Education Stimulus Aid Flows to States: Teacher-quality reporting, capital-spending flexibility outlined in new guidance (Education Week)
Apr 14: Silberman shares his take on testing (Fayette County Public Schools)
Apr 14: Kids in Kentucky will get 50,000 free books, thanks to contest (Courier Journal)
Apr 14: Celebrities help promote Library Week (NKY.com)
Apr 14: Ky. Lottery pays out millions to Bell County, celebrates 20 years (The Middlesboro Daily News)
Apr 14: Child development: Early literacy learning — just 15 minutes a day! (Sea Coast Online)

March 2009

Mar 27: Beshear signs bill to end CATS testing (Courier Journal)
Mar 27: Teacher training: what's the best way? (The Christian Science Monitor)
Mar 27: Beshear wants to step up KY college preparation (Channel 14 News Daily Headlines)
Mar 27: Never too old to learn KCTCS program provides aid to displaced workers looking to make the transition into a new career (The News Enterprise)
Mar 27: Beshear urges `top-to-bottom' review of education (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Mar 26: Federal High School Graduation Rate Policies and the Impact on Kentucky (Alliance for Excellent Education)
Mar 26: Every Student Counts: The Role of Federal Policy in Improving Graduation Rate Accountability (Alliance for Excellent Education)
Mar 26: Short Sighted: How America’s Lack of Attention to International Education Studies Impedes Improvement (Alliance for Excellent Education)
Mar 26: Crisis in the Kindergarten Why Children Need to Play in School (Alliance for Childhood)

February 2009

Feb 5: BET Black History Month briefs to feature Lexington author (Lexington Herald Leader)
Feb 4: 'The Graveyard Book' Wins Newbery Medal (NPR)
Feb 4: South Oldham High uses podcasts for literary chats (Courier Journal)

January 2009

Jan 30: Stimulus Plan Aids Education: House Bill Could Provide $100 Billion to K-12 Schools (Education Week)
Jan 15: Panel to explore why black students lag peers (San Francisco Chronicle)
Jan 13: IRA offers policy recommendations to U.S. President-elect Barack Obama (International Reading Association)
Jan 8: Early education ensures America's future (Miami Herald)
Jan 8: The Parent-Teacher Talk Gains a New Participant (New York Times)
Jan 8: Obama's Education Wish List May Have To Wait (NPR)
Jan 8: Budget Pain Dampening K-12 Efforts (Education Week)
Jan 8: '21st-Century Skills' Focus Shifts W.Va. Teachers' Role (Education Week)

December 2008

Dec 22: Popularity of junior kindergarten soars (Journal Sentinel)
Dec 18: Becoming a Leader: Preparing Principals for Today’s Schools (The Wallace Foundation)
Dec 18: Need help with class? YouTube videos await (Associated Press)
Dec 18: Laptops May Change The Way Rural Peru Learns (National Public Radio)
Dec 18: Tech trends every school leader should know Webcast ponders education's future--and the skills CTOs will need to succeed (eSchool News)
Dec 18: Plot Twist: The Newbery May Dampen Kids' Reading (Washington Post)
Dec 18: Research Effort Aims to Bury 'Nothing Works' Image (Education Week)
Dec 18: Teach For America Said Boon to D.C. (Education Week)
Dec 18: Obama Pledge Stirs Hope in Early Education (New York Times)
Dec 18: New England States Team Up on High Schools (Education Week)
Dec 18: Obama: Duncan 'Doesn't Blink' on Tough Decisions (Education Week)
Dec 11: Potential cuts could jeopardize goals (Lexington Herald Leader)
Dec 11: 17,000 kids have no school library (NY Daily News)
Dec 11: Study flunks 49 states in college affordability (USA Today)
Dec 11: College degree vital, top educators say (USA Today)
Dec 11: 'Response to Intervention' on NEA's Agenda (Education Week)
Dec 11: Spellings' Worldview: There's No Going Back on K-12 Accountability (Education Week)
Dec 8: Measures that Matter - Making College and Career Readiness the Mission For America's High Schools (The Education Trust)
Dec 4: Groups want preschool for more children (Louisville Courier Journal)

October 2008

Oct 29: Social Promotion or Retention? (Education Week)
Oct 29: Maker of SAT Aims New Test at 8th Graders (Education Week)
Oct 29: Bob Wise, President of the Alliance for Excellent Education, Reacts to Secretary Spellings’s Announcement of Regulations for Uniform Graduation Rate Calculations (Alliance for Excellent Education)
Oct 29: U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings Announces Final Regulations to Strengthen No Child Left Behind (Department of Education)
Oct 29: In tough times, more turn to two-year schools (Hattiesburg American)
Oct 29: States, schools will have to improve dropout rates (Orange County Register)
Oct 22: The Anti-Schoolers (New York Times)
Oct 22: Balancing act with books: Schools try to find right mix to keep students interested (Chicago Tribune)
Oct 16: Latest 'Reading First' Study Reports Limited Benefits (http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2008/10/15/08reading.h28.html?tmp=935954082)
Oct 16: NCLB Debate at the Sidelines (Education Week)
Oct 1: Effort nets 50,000 books for disadvantaged kids (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Oct 1: Absences in Early Grades Tied to Learning Lags (Education Week)
Oct 1: U.S. Education Budget Roiled by Financial Crisis (Education Week)
Oct 1: English period: Some educators say pushing immersion before bilingual classes may do more harm than good (Boston Globe)

September 2008

Sep 29: Could the Cubs Bring School Funding Reform? (Chicago Public Radio)
Sep 29: Research Yields Clues on the Effects of Extra Time for Learning (Education Week)
Sep 29: Consensus on Learning Time Builds (Education Week)
Sep 25: First Ladies Join Campaign To Expand Quality Pre-K (Prichard Committee)
Sep 25: Ky. Schools’ Next Goal: Top 20 Status - Prichard Marks Progress, Sets Achievement Targets (Prichard Committee)
Sep 25: Check mate! Idaho tries chess to boost math, reading skills (USA Today)
Sep 25: I’ll Take My Lecture to Go, Please (Inside Higher Education)
Sep 25: Reading Between the Lines—and Everywhere Else: Where Literacy Is Headed (NCTE)
Sep 23: Teaching Secrets: What Kids Wish Teachers Knew (Teacher Magazine)
Sep 23: Making a Difference: Carol Ann Tomlinson explains how differentiated instruction works and why we need it now. (Teacher Magazine)
Sep 23: National poll gives mixed messages on standards but not NCLB (The Center for Public Education)
Sep 23: School organization: structuring schools so students succeed (The Center for Public Education)
Sep 19: Congressional Briefing Shows Early Reading + Early Writing = School Success (National Writing Project)
Sep 19: Colleges spend billions to prep freshmen (Washington Post)
Sep 19: Panel to Spur International Benchmarks (Education Week)
Sep 16: Assessing Student Learning: A Work in Progress (Change Magazine)
Sep 12: Kentucky Trains Parents to Help Schools Bolster STEM Subjects (Education Week)
Sep 12: Middle School Reading Coaches Found to Make Impact (Education Week)
Sep 10: KENTUCKY CORE CONTENT TEST SCORES RELEASED 594 SCHOOLS MEET OR EXCEED GOALS; 26 IN ASSISTANCE (Kentucky Department of Education)
Sep 10: Virtually all Lexington schools improve state achievement scores (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Sep 10: Learn to be a Learner (LD Online)
Sep 10: Helping Children with Learning Disabilities Understand What They Read (LD Online)
Sep 10: Advocating for Your Preschool Child (LD Online)
Sep 10: Should we relax English spelling rules? (BBC Radio)
Sep 10: Brave New World of Digital Intimacy (New York Times)
Sep 10: The Mystery of the Struggling Reader (Minnasota St Paul Magazine)
Sep 9: Community Colleges: Special Supplement to The 2008 Condition of Education (National Center for Education Statistics)
Sep 9: Using Early-Warning Data to Improve Graduation Rates: Closing Cracks in the Education System (Alliance for Excellent Education)
Sep 9: United States to be “Majority-Minority” by 2050, According to New Analysis (Population Reference Bureau)
Sep 9: Dropouts, Diplomas, and Dollars (Alliance for Excellent Education)
Sep 9: From No Child Left Behind to Every Child a Graduate: Defining a Federal Role in Improving America’s Secondary Schools (Alliance for Excellent Education)
Sep 8: CU to host state committee on education (Central Kentucky News Journal)
Sep 8: 24/7 School Reform (New York Times)
Sep 8: Ky. urged to build on academic successes (Courier Journal)
Sep 8: ACT scores show Ky. juniors aren't ready for college (Courier Journal)
Sep 8: Every 1 Reads raises $8 million (Courier Journal)
Sep 8: A Match Made in Cyberspace: The Next Generation of Teachers Will Seek Virtual Support (Edutopia)
Sep 8: Better education through innovation (Los Angeles Times)
Sep 8: Kids' protest highlights rich-poor schools gap in Illinois (www.csmonitor.com)
Sep 8: Prichard Committee celebrates education progress, sets ambitious goal for Kentucky schools (Prichard Committee)
Sep 5: DRAUD OUTLINES KENTUCKY’S PROGRESS IN P-12 EDUCATION (Kentucky Department of Education)
Sep 5: PBS Launches An ABCs Offensive With New Shows (NPR)
Sep 5: Computer Time Doesn't Have To Replace Reading Time (WBZTV - Boston MA)
Sep 5: Learning by DOING: Teachers dive into writing at a recent WL-WV School District sponsored workshop (WestLinn Tidings)

August 2008

Aug 27: New Research Center to Focus on Ed. Technology (Education Week)
Aug 26: Improving schools is everyone's job (Courier Press)
Aug 26: Schools respond to those in need (Bowling Green Daily News)
Aug 26: 10 City Schools to Focus Reading Skills on Content (New York Times)
Aug 26: Five Priorities for the Next President (Alliance for Excellent Education)
Aug 22: Poll of U.S. Teens Finds Heavier Homework Load, More Stress Over Grades (Education Week)
Aug 22: Chandler announces $71,725 grant for schools (Richmond Register)
Aug 22: Hiseville shares literacy strategies around the world (Glasgow Daily Times)
Aug 22: Jefferson, other school districts may raise taxes (Courier Journal)
Aug 22: Welcome, Freshmen. Have an iPod (New York Times)
Aug 22: A Teachable Moment (New York Times)
Aug 21: State Policies Ensuring School Readiness (Education Week)
Aug 21: ‘Reading First’ Event Draws 6,000, Despite Woes (Education Week)
Aug 20: Creating a home reading program (podcast) (IRA)
Aug 20: Expert Teachers: The Risk of Becoming Knowledge Workers (The Journal)
Aug 20: Kindergarten Goes Virtual (The Journal)
Aug 20: Entrepreneurs Transform Chicago Schools (NPR News)
Aug 20: Instant Messaging Found to Slow Students' Reading (Education Week)
Aug 19: KENTUCKY ACT SCORES MOVE UP FOR 6TH CONSECUTIVE YEAR (Kentucky Department of Education)
Aug 19: Fayette County Students’ ACT scores at an eight-year high (Fayette County Public Schools)
Aug 19: U. S. pre-school falls short of U. K. standards (Niagra Falls Review)
Aug 19: At ESU, teachers teach teachers to teach reading (Pocono record)
Aug 19: “Highly Skilled Educators Week” brings KDE educators to Pineville (Middlesboro Daily News)
Aug 19: Could bumpy economy lead to slumping education? (USA Today)
Aug 19: Utah schools make a change: Third-graders reading better (Salt Lake tribune)
Aug 18: Olympics Coverage: Gymnastics and Reading (Alliance for Excellent Education)
Aug 18: Studies of Popular Reading Texts Don't Make Grade (Education Week)
Aug 14: High schools get reading help: Computer-based program hopes to improve abilities, boost academic performance (The Indianapolis Star)
Aug 14: A Taste of Failure Fuels an Appetite for Success at South Korea’s Cram Schools (New York Times)
Aug 14: ACT scores show 3 in 4 need some remedial help for college (USA Today)
Aug 14: More African-Americans Being Home Schooled (NPR)
Aug 14: Assessing Preschoolers: “Early Childhood Assessment: Why, What, and How” (Education Week)
Aug 13: A storybook achievement: Defying the odds, Clay County builds reading program, and scores zoom (Lexington Herald Leader)
Aug 13: State's ACT news is good (Lexington Herald Leader)
Aug 13: Fayette schools reopen (Lexington Herald Leader)
Aug 13: Human Capital Management: A New Approach for Districts (Annenberg Institute)
Aug 13: Developing Human Capital (Annenberg Institute)
Aug 12: NCLB "Recess" Bill Seeks to Support Schools (NAESP)
Aug 12: Middle Schools : Kentucky : A Head Start on the Future (The Journal)
Aug 12: More Than Gatekeepers: High school guidance counselors have extraordinary influence in steering Black males to college or to the streets (Diverse Education)
Aug 12: Problem: Boys Don't Like to Read. Solution: Books That Are Really Gross (Wall Street Journal)
Aug 12: College Board to Debut an 8th-Grade PSAT Exam (District Administration)
Aug 8: Principal Makes House Calls (Teacher Magazine)
Aug 8: Full-day Kindergarteners' Reading, Math Gains Fade By 3rd Grade (Science Daily)
Aug 8: Instructional Coaching (Reading Rockets)
Aug 8: Video: Kids Learn How to Navigate the Multimedia World (Edutopia)
Aug 8: NEEDED: Federal Action for Fair Funding of High-Poverty Schools (Education Week)
Aug 8: Education as a Civil Rights Issue (New York Times)
Aug 6: At This Summer School, Those Who Teach, Learn (New York Times)
Aug 1: Good News (and Some Bad): A Report Card on U.S. Education (and NCLB) (Britannica Blog)

July 2008

Jul 30: Teaching to students' minds, not just to the test (The Virginian-Pilot)
Jul 30: Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading? (New York Times)
Jul 29: New Fayette kindergarten screening worries some (LExington Herald Leader)
Jul 28: Engaged citizens make a difference (Courier Journal)
Jul 28: Educators Assess 'Open Content' Movement (Education Week)
Jul 24: The challenge: Literacy in everyday life (Fayette County School District)
Jul 24: Teacher-Coaches in Training (Teacher Magazine)
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)