Archive for September 2017 - Page 3
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September 12, 2017
Building soft skills through summer internships
(Ga.) High school students will have access to internship programs meant to aid in improving soft skills coveted by employers under a new summer program that partners local business with Georgia’s Richmond County School System.
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September 11, 2017
More states focused on subgroup performance
(District of Columbia) Although fewer than half of all states have submitted plans to the U.S. Department of Education for carrying out the nation’s new education law, just two have proposed using 25 as a minimum subgroup of students for accountability purposes.
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September 11, 2017
High schoolers earning college credit spikes
(Calif.) In the past five years, the number of high school students in California earning college credit has more than doubled, as the traditional lines between secondary schools and community colleges increasingly blur.
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September 07, 2017
CA will look to other states for career readiness answers
(Calif.) After spending much of the last two years trying to invent the best way to measure student readiness for the work place, California officials appear finally willing to consider what other states are doing.
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September 07, 2017
Ed. leaders call for lower compulsory attendance age
(Ind.) Indiana legislators could make another attempt in the coming session to lower the age at which a child must be enrolled in school after state education officials signaled that they would support such a bill.
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September 06, 2017
The challenge of college readiness in rural schools
(Colo.) Although the number of high school students attending rural districts who took advanced placement exams has more than doubled over the last decade, students in urban schools are still almost twice as likely to participate in the college readiness testing.
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September 06, 2017
CA simplifies credentialing for foreign-trained teachers
(Calif.) Gov. Jerry Brown and state lawmakers have moved to streamline the credentialing process for foreign educators interested in working in California.
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September 05, 2017
Analysis: Dustup over CA’s ESSA plan might be semantics
(Calif.) Next week, the California State Board of Education is scheduled to give its final blessing to its controversial plan for meeting new federal education requirements.
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September 05, 2017
Wyoming voters prefer tax increases to education cuts
(Wyo.) With the state facing a multi-million dollar deficit over the next two years, a majority of Wyoming voters wouldn’t mind an increase in taxes–as long as the money is directed toward schools, according to a new poll.
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