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9-13-11 News 14 highlights
4-21-11 News & Record Life Section front page
I tutor a third-grader. Let's call her Jane. She hates tests.
We were squeezing
in some reading this
week minutes before she
started her Benchmarks
— countywide tests that
gauge a student’s proficiency
in math and reading
— when she blurted
out how she felt. 4-2-11 News & Record
By Nora Carr
Despite the current trend of holding teachers and principals solely accountable for student learning, research underscores the power of parents.
In fact, most top scholars note that, while teachers have significant influence on student achievement, non-school factors outweigh those controlled by educators by a two-to-one margin. Bringing Parents to School article 3-9-11
Not that Guilford County Commissioner Paul Gibson is any expert, but he’ll happily share his impression of Erwin Montessori, a school he visited for the first time Tuesday. “You need to get out there,” Gibson told someone after his visit. “It was quite impressive.” 3-2-11 News-Record
Parkview Elementary Book Donation
The pressure is on our educators. Throughout our country, there are calls for school reform. We want higher academic achievements for our students, lower school dropout rates, higher graduation rates, "meaningful" high school diplomas that reflect students' being career- or college-ready. We want our students to be educated to be internationally competitive to lead our country forward. Over and over in the litany of concerns and ways to address them is the need for high-quality teachers. 1-30-11 News-Record
Click here to read an update on the North Carolina State Budget from Representative Pricey Harrison
On the eve of the release of the 2010 census information, the Guilford Education Alliance released a report on the increased diversity in our schools, “Faces of Change: Addressing Diversity in Our Schools” (for the full report, go to www.guilfordeducationalliance.org). The 2010 U.S. Census will provide a “formal” accounting of our community and tell us what we observe on our streets, in our stores and in our schools: Guilford County has a very diverse population. Read More
In partnership with Citi, Communities In Schools of Greater Greensboro (CISGG) held its 18th Annual Student Awards Luncheon at the Greensboro Coliseum Special Events Center on April 29, 2010. Over 470 students and guests attended. CISGG is a United Way member nonprofit organization with 21 years of success in helping kids stay in school and prepare for life, utilizing the best community resources and partnerships.Read More
On Saturday, March 13, the Obama administration released its blueprint revising the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which would ask states to adopt college - and career - ready standards and reward schools for producing dramatic gains in student achievement. The proposal challenges the nation to embrace educational standards that would put America on a path to global leadership. Read More
The Joint Select Committee on Public School Funding Formulas (Committee) is pleased to announce it has awarded a contract to the educational consulting firm Augenblick, Palaich and Associates, Inc. (APA) to conduct a comprehensive review of North Carolina's current system for providing State support to school districts for K-12 education. The study will evaluate the efficiency, equity, and efficacy of North Carolina’s public school investments. Read More
The South has become the first region in the country where more than half of public school students are poor and more than half are members of minorities, according to a new report. The shift was fueled not by white flight from public schools, which spiked during desegregation but has not had much effect on school demographics since the early 1980s. Rather, an influx of Latinos and other ethnic groups, the return of blacks to the South and higher birth rates among black and Latino families have contributed to the change. Read More
A local education advocacy group says Guilford County Schools is not doing enough to reach academically gifted students. The Guilford Education Alliance released a report Thursday (Sept. 24th) that outlines how students who are academically gifted are being overlooked in the classroom. Margaret Arbuckle, the alliance’s executive director, said as schools have tried to raise achievement among low-performing students, gifted students have not received all the attention they deserve. Read More
Are Guilford County's public schools doing right by their very brightest students? And with so many other concerns to address -- a rising tide of poor students, the racial achievement gap, surging numbers of children who arrive in local classrooms speaking not one syllable of English -- should we even care? Absolutely we should. While the school district rightly focuses much of its attention and many of its resources on struggling students, it shouldn't forget what it owes to the academically gifted. Read More
All of us in North Carolina face significant challenges from the national economic crisis - and our state's budget is not immune from these effects. In fact, our state faces its largest shortfall on record - $4.7 billion. As legislators attempt to close this enormous gap, we have seen brutal cuts proposed to our children's public edcation. But in North Carolina we must act boldly to protect the classroom.
High school graduation ceremonies are just around the corner, and this year, about 6,700 seniors will receive their diplomas from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. Getting a degree should mean that those young men and women are prepared to successfully enter post-secondary education or the job market. But are they? If past trends continue, nearly 2,350 of those seniors will enroll in one of the schools within the University of North Carolina system. However, only about 1,300 will actually graduate by the spring of 2014. Read More
Part I of Study: To a Culture of No Excuses
Part II of Study: To a Culture of No Excuses
For more information on Guilford County High School student performance, click here to read an article in the News & Record that includes a link to data charts.
The North Carolina General Assembly is considering many budget cuts to children’s education and other programs. This is an update on Children’s Issues posted on Tuesday, May 26th. Guilford Education Alliance asks that you read this and respond to our Legislative Delegation with your concerns. The proposed cuts in early childhood programs and in public education are large and can be very damaging to our children’s future. Margaret Arbuckle, Executive Director. Read More
It is very disturbing that the critical need to invest in education to prepare our students for the challenges of the 21st-century economy, which was top of mind six months ago, has now been overshadowed by the current financial crisis. There is no doubt that local and state government incomes are impacted by this deep recession. However, in many ways, the change in our economy warrants even more attention to the importance of investment in our future through support for education. Read More
Two local students have been honored as recipients of the 50th annual Student of the Year Award. They are Tara Foster, a student at Eastern Guilford High School and daughter of Gloria Foster of Greensboro, and Michael Raymond Blische, Jr. of Jackson Middle School, son of Michael and Anna Blische of Greensboro. Foster was nominated by Mary Townson, and Blische was nominated by Keith G. Pemberton. Read more
Both the House and the Senate have passed policy and budget provisions which would dramatically and drastically alter North Carolina's nationally recognized early childhood education programs. This paper presents information on both of these proposals, and recommends alternatives to preserve and protect services to children in the early childhood education programs. Read More
Compared to a high school principal, UNCG Chancellor Linda Brady's job entails overseeing a much larger population of students and educators. But Brady recently discovered she has more in common with her peers in education than she realized. "I was impressed with the shared values and challenges facing secondary education and facing universities," said Brady, who spent Wednesday shadowing Page High School principal Marilyn Foley as part of the Guilford Education Alliance's third annual Principal for a Day initiative. Read More
Assistive Technology for Individuals
Assistive technology (AT) has the potential to
enhance the quality of life for students with
learning disabilities (LD) by providing them
with a means to compensate for their difficulties,
and highlight their abilities. Because students
with learning problems have individual
strengths, limitations, interests, and experiences,
a technology tool that is be helpful in
one situation or setting may be of little use
under different circumstances. Read more
President-elect Barack Obama will name Arne Duncan, the superintendent of schools in Chicago, to be his Secretary of Education, a senior Democratic official and a second person close to the decision said. He ranked it fifth among his priorities, and if it is being downplayed, that's a mistake. Read more»
Guilford Education Alliance's education summit Thursday was a time of uplift, of focusing on programs both here in Guilford County and throughout the nation that benefit kids. Under the theme "What Works," the several hundred community members who attended the conference at the Koury Convention Center heard syndicated newspaper columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winner Leonard Pitts Jr. speak about programs he sees as valuable in helping children get ahead, from the Sunflower County Freedom Project in rural Mississippi to the Harlem Children's Zone in New York. Read more»