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Why is Maryland spending millions in public funds for private school books, computers?

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 49, Clicks: 4)  
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There's an interesting item in the 2014 supplemental budget that Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley has submitted: A request for $500,000 in "additional funds for non-public school textbooks." What is this all about?

1 comments | Tags: valerie strauss maryland private schools school funding maryland nonpublic student textbook program | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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List of Maryland private schools getting publicly funded books, other materials

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 29, Clicks: 4)  
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Valerie Strauss -- Some well-known private schools in Maryland are getting books and computers that are being paid for by public funds.

1 comments | Tags: valerie strauss maryland private schools school funding maryland nonpublic student textbook program | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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Race to the Top: D.C., Maryland and Georgia way back in the field

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 46, Clicks: 6)  
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In the second year of Race to the Top, the Obama administration’s signature effort to improve public schools, nine of 12 jurisdictions that received $4 billion in federal grants made good progress. But three — the District, Maryland and Georgia — have stumbled, federal officials said.

1 comments | Tags: race to the top maryland georgia arne duncan | Topic: Grants BAD >_<

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Maryland rejects Montgomery’s teacher evaluation plan and 8 others

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 47, Clicks: 5)  
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The Maryland State Department of Education has rejected new teacher-evaluation proposals from nine of the state’s 24 county school systems, saying that the proposals do not align with state law, federal education reforms or, in some cases, either. Among school systems that failed to meet the state’s criteria were Montgomery and Frederick, two of the top performing districts in Maryland and the only two counties in the state to reject Race to the Top funds.

0 comments | Tags: montgomery county maryland maryland teacher evaluations race to the top | Topic: Teaching Jobs BAD >_<

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National public high school graduation rate at a four-decade high

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 59, Clicks: 4)  
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The percentage of students at public high schools who graduate on time has reached its highest level in nearly 40 years, according to the most recent federal government estimates released Tuesday. Based on data collected from the states for the Class of 2010, the National Center for Education Statistics estimated that 78 percent of students across the country earned a diploma within four years of starting high school. The graduation rate was last at that level in 1974, officials said.

2 comments | Tags: maryland national center for education statistics high school graduation rates virginia | Topic: Secondary BAD >_<

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States Show Spotty Progress on Education Gauges

MrGreen sumitted ago via http://www.edweek.org (Views: 30, Clicks: 5)  
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Amy M. Hightower -- The 17th edition of Education Week's Quality Counts continues the report's tradition of tracking key education indicators and grading the states on their policy efforts and outcomes. Each year, Quality Counts provides new results for a portion of the policy-and-performance categories that form the framework for the report's State-of-the-States analysis.

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Maryland schools ranked number one — again (2012)

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 62, Clicks: 5)  
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Michael Alison Chandler -- Maryland’s public school system achieved top-in-the-nation status for the fourth consecutive year, according to an analysis of state-by-state education policies and student achievement released January 2012.

0 comments | Tags: michael alison chandler maryland editorial projects in education national assessment of educational progress poverty | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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Which state has the best public schools?

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 74, Clicks: 5)  
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Valerie Strauss -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has boasted repeatedly that the public schools of Massachusetts, the state where he was once governor, are “ranked number one of all 50 states.” Yet an annual state ranking by Education Week has given the top spot to Maryland for four straight years. So which state has the best schools? Matthew Di Carlo, senior fellow at the non-profit Albert Shanker Institute in Washington, D.C., takes a look at this question.

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Delegation from Singapore learns strategies for teaching at-risk children

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.baltimoresun.com (Views: 94, Clicks: 4)  
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Though 99 percent of Singapore's students pass national exams, a delegation of the city-state's educators recently traveled the globe to Anne Arundel County schools to learn innovative ways to help the other 1 percent succeed.

1 comments | Tags: singapore maryland student performance mainstream secondary education anne arundel county maryland | Topic: Special Education BAD >_<

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Maryland: Why we need the Common Core Standards

PiGuy sumitted ago via http://schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com (Views: 70, Clicks: 4)  
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Jon Wray -- The Common Core State Standards represent an admirable set of standards, but implementing them has its challenges. With the willingness of so many to adopt the standards for mathematics, this means teachers everywhere are suddenly saddled with a broad spectrum of new standards to teach. Some of these standards are unfamiliar even to the teachers.

1 comments | Tags: jon wray common core state standards core challenge maryland | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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Share Our Strength

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.strength.org (Views: 70, Clicks: 4)  
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Share Our Strength’s goal is to end childhood hunger in America. Working with others, we believe we can do this by 2015. It’s not enough to make sure America’s children have enough to eat; we must make sure they are getting the nutrition they need to live healthy, active lives.

0 comments | Tags: maryland share our strength student performance poverty childhood hunger | Topic: Elementary/Primary BAD >_<

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Teachers see more hungry students

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 84, Clicks: 4)  
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Three out of five public school teachers in Maryland say they have students who regularly come to school hungry because they are not getting enough to eat at home, according to a new survey.

1 comments | Tags: poverty student performance share our strength maryland childhood hunger | Topic: Elementary/Primary BAD >_<

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Is the U.S. Catching Up?

eduK8 sumitted ago via http://educationnext.org (Views: 74, Clicks: 4)  
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To find out whether the United States is narrowing the international education gap, we provide in this report estimates of learning gains over the period between 1995 and 2009 for 49 countries from most of the developed and some of the newly developing parts of the world. We also examine changes in student performance in 41 states within the United States, allowing us to compare these states with each other as well as with the 48 other countries.

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Virginia wins waiver from some No Child Left Behind provisions

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 109, Clicks: 11)  
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The Obama administration on Friday granted Virginia and four other states relief from the most burdensome provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind law. The news means that schools in a total of two dozen states — including Maryland, which received a waiver in May — will no longer face sanctions if they fail to ensure that all students are proficient in math and reading by 2014.

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Maryland wins ‘No Child’ waiver

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 93, Clicks: 9)  
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The Obama administration granted Maryland and seven other states waivers from the most onerous requirements of No Child Left Behind, the main federal education law, but declined Tuesday to approve similar requests from Virginia and the District.

2 comments | Tags: no child left behind act waivers maryland virginia teacher evaluations | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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