0000-00-00 - Reading First does not improve reading scores

Reading First doesn't help students read any better than their peers at schools that don't participate in the federal program, according to an interim report released by the U.S. Education Department's Institute of Education Sciences, the agency's research arm. U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, who recently likened the reading initiative to "a cure for cancer," had no comment on the report Thursday, although a department official said Spellings would examine the study "to inform our efforts" and await the final report; meanwhile, U.S. Rep. David R. Obey, D-Wis., chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, declared the program a "failure."

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0000-00-00 - No Quitters in High School

No Quitters in High School

Education policy talk these days has centered on the education stimulus, but important high school redesign legislation was introduced by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Representative Dave Loebsack (D-IA) earlier this month. The Secondary School Innovation Fund Act, formerly known as the GRADUATES Act, would provide critical resources for innovative secondary school redesign to dramatically raise high school graduation rates and stem the flow of high school dropouts.

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0000-00-00 - High School Redesign: Quitting Is Not an Option

By Gene R. Carter, Executive Director, ASCD

Four years ago, 30 students entered a high school classroom. This month, nine of those students won't walk across the stage to receive their diplomas because they've dropped out. Out of those nine, four will be unemployed, three will receive government assistance, two won't have health insurance, and each will be eight times more likely than their peers to go to jail.

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0000-00-00 - California Names Digital Textbooks That Meet Standard

State education officials on Tuesday named the first 10 digital textbooks that meet California academic standards for high school math and science.

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0000-00-00 - AP Teachers Hit The Books

By Hattie Brown Garrow
The Virginian-Pilot
© August 10, 2009

WILLIAMSBURG
  Rookie teacher Morgan Stevens watched as her lab partner Eileen Pascucci twisted shut a floppy cylindrical tube filled with glucose and starch.

By fall, Stevens will need to know the ins and outs of this lesson on diffusion and osmosis. It is a requirement for the Advanced Placement biology course she will teach at Norfolk's Booker T. Washington High School.

That's why, on a sunny August day, Stevens and about 360 other teachers from at least 15 states were gathered at the College of William and Mary, hoping to become better AP teachers.

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2007-11-01 - Joan Hurley Named Connecticut 2008 Educator of the Year!

Joan Hurley, teacher at the University of Hartford Magnet School was named as the state's new teacher of the year.

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2007-11-19 - Did You Know?

Schools are working very hard to ensure all students have an opportunity to achieve at higher levels than ever before. Do you know why it is so important reinvent our schools.

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2008-01-01 - CASCD Celebrates 50th Anniversary with Release of CASCD History

Connecticut Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development is celebrating its 50th anniversary during the 2007-2008 school year.

 

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2008-01-01 - New Compact To Educate The Whole Child

Current education practice and policy focus overwhelmingly on academic achievement. This achievement, however, is but one element of student learning and development and only a part of any complete system of educational accountability.

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2008-01-09 - SDE Releases Secondary Reform Document

The SDE has recently released the new Secondary School Reform proposal. Beginning in January, the proposal will be shared with educators around the state for reflection and feedback.

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2008-02-21 - Did You Know Today...

Today in America

Today 6,000 talented young people will drop out of school.

Today over 9 million children do not have health insurance.

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2008-02-25 - Teacher Salaries Going Up

Hartford teachers and administrators agreed to a series of landmark changes in their contracts that allow for performance bonuses and incentives for Hartford residency. The deal was sealed Tuesday night with a unanimous vote of the school board.

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2008-02-25 - Democrats' K-12 Views Differ, Subtly

Throughout the presidential campaign, the leading Democrats have been speaking from a similar script on education—until this month, when U.S. Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois suggested that he could be persuaded to support private school vouchers.

"If there was any argument for vouchers, it was 'Let’s see if the experiment works,' " Sen. Sen. Obama told the editorial board of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Feb. 13. "And if it does, whatever my preconception, you do what’s best for kids."

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2008-02-25 - Report: Focus on reading and math leaves other subjects behind...

Some 44% of U.S. school districts have increased reading and math instructional time in elementary schools at the expense of other subjects, according to a new Center on Education Policy schools survey. "School people are feeling the pressure to do better and raise scores. But they are stuck with the amount of time they have," center President-CEO Jack Jennings said. "It certainly puts the question before Congress. Is there a price being paid for raising kids' math and reading scores. Read the entire story at the Washington Post

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2008-03-27 - Social and Emotional Learning Matters!

Hot off the presses, our Whole Child partner the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) has released a preliminary report about the impact of school-based social and emotional learning (SEL) programs on academics. Its meta-analysis of 207 studies involving nearly 300,000 children concludes that students who experience SEL programming improve significantly.

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2008-06-19 - Good News and Bad News

A recently released congressionally mandated report by the National Center for Education Statistics, The Condition of Education 2008, offers both good and bad news for the whole child at school.

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2009-01-05 - 240,000 Adults In State Said To Lack Basic Reading Skills

More than 240,000 adults in Connecticut — or 9 percent of those 16 and older — lack even the most basic reading skills, according to estimates released Thursday by the National Center for Education Statistics.

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2009-01-05 - Education and the New Administration - LISTEN TO A PODCASTS OF EXPERTS DISCUSSING OUR NEW ADMINSTRATION

President-Elect Barack Obama and his Education Secretary nominee, Arne Duncan, face a host of education issues, with the rewrite of NCLB at the top of the list. Complicating matters are the severe budget deficits that are forcing dramatic cuts in education programs and services.

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2009-01-26 - Opponents Of Education Bills Fear Loss Of Local Control

By KATE FARRISH | The Hartford Courant
January 23, 2009
Proposed education bills that would standardize curriculum, regionalize some school services and open all public schools on the same day — after Labor Day — have opponents worried about a loss of local control.

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2009-06-05 -

Next Test: Value of $125,000-a-Year Teachers

So what kind of teachers could a school get if it paid them $125,000 a year?

An accomplished violist who infuses her music lessons with the neuroscience of why one needs to practice, and creatively worded instructions like, “Pass the melody gently, as if it were a bowl of Jell-O!”

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2009-09-24 - CASCD Visits Capitol Hill

CASCD members attended the ASCD LEAP Legislative Institute in Arlington VA.  While attending the institute participants had the opportunity to meet with congressional staffers to learn about current federal educational initiatives under consideration; the most important being the re-authorization of ESEA (NCLB).  Following the Institute CASCD members visited five of our seven Congressional delegates, actually meeting with Congressman Courtney (Pictured left), Congressman Murphy, and Congressman Himes.  We also met with senior staff members of Congressman Larson and Senator Leiberman's offices.  After seveal attempts, we were unable to coordinate schedules with Senator Dodd's office and again this year Congresswoman DeLauro's office was not cooperative in scheduling time for us to discuss educational issues.

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2009-12-07 - Tony Wagner is coming to Connecticut

 

Register today....click on the link + More Information which can be found below the conference description

 

Tony Wagner has served as Co-Director of the Change Leadership Group (CLG) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education since its inception in 2000. An initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, CLG is an "R & D" center that helps teams to be effective change leaders in schools and districts. He is also on the faculty of the Executive Leadership Program for Educators, a joint initiative of Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, Business School, and Kennedy School of Government. Tony consults widely to public and independent schools, districts, and foundations around the country and internationally and served as Senior Advisor to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation from 1999-2008.

 

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2010-06-02 - Save the Dates

CASCD is proud to present the 2010-2012 fall and spring conference presenters.  Click on the new "Save the Date" tab on the top of the home page for upcoming events.

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2010-06-14 - New Policy Page

CASCD is proud to begin posting new policies for members.

In an effort to keep CASCD members connected to Learning and Teaching activities, events, workshops etc. the CASCD Board of Directors has adopted a new policy which outlines how we will keep connected to other professional organizations.  Click on the newtab on the top of the home page "CASCD Policy."

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2010-06-25 - Four-Day School Week = Improved Student Performance in Some Schools

School districts looking for ways to cut costs have embraced a four-day school week, with some surprising results. Peach County Schools, a rural Georgia district of 4,000 students which implemented the cost-saving measure last year as an alternative to laying off dozens of teachers, saw its test scores and student attendance increase. Furthermore, the graduation rate is likely to be the highest in years, at 80%. Webster County School District in Kentucky also has seen similar results.
 

 

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2010-06-25 - More Job Cuts Come Despite Federal Stimulus Funds

Despite federal stimulus education funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), school districts across the nation are expected to continue to lay off record numbers of teachers and support personnel for the 2010-11 school year. That's according to a report that analyzed survey results of school superintendents which was recently released by the American Association of School Administrators (AASA).
 

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