Houston Independent School District Leading The Way!

Kudos!  All it takes is just one district to break away from the business as usual and take a stand on this platform that everyone is calling “education reform”.  Well one district did!  An article by Greg Meyers entitled “Key to Student Achievement?  ASPIRE to it” is just the movement that’s needed.  It’s not education reform but education transformation as Meyers calls it.  It not only reviews statistical growth in specific metrics on how the Houston Independent S

AP Tests Are Good No Matter What!

Here’s a hot issue in education…this article was written by Jack Gillum and Greg Toppo entitled “Failure Rate for AP Tests Climbing.”  It’s interesting how the two camps perceive results in two very different ways…sometimes that leads me to believe that the answer should never be so black and white but addres

Overhauling “No Child Left Behind”

Yesterday on Talk of the Nation, NPR’s Larry Abramson and Claudio Sanchez explain Obama’s proposed education overhaul and assess his new Race to the Top initiative.  Since the Bush Administration’s No Child Left Behind Act brought sweeping changes to our education system, many argue it emphasizes testing over learning.  You can listen to the Story below:

Bill Gates Talks Twitter, Education and Global Health

Earlier this week, Bill Gates (@BillGates) sat down with Jon Stewart, host of The Daily ShowThe Gates Foundation grantmaking focus is backing innovations in education, food, and health as well as some related areas like savings for the poor.  Gates describes the foundations plan for the US.

Getting Those College Applications To School Even Easier!

I hate to admit this because I didn’t think it would actually happen…this soon but I’ve been a blog less writer for almost a week and a half!  Up until then I’ve had no problems finding topics to comment on or respond to but all of a sudden it’s like the blog wall hit me, and it hit me hard.

So just when I thought about how to refuel my writing, this article shows up in my outlook email today!  Yes…I’m back in the passion of blogging and I really do like this article…so here goes.

LA Talk Radio - Troubled Teen Help Interview

LA Talk Radio is the brainchild of Sam Hasson, a Southern California entrepreneur who built a mainstream radio station offering a variety of light, entertaining programs in the form of live streaming and on-demand archives.  Last week, Dr.

Top Five Books In 2009

This time last year, encouraged by my board of directors I embraced social networking and decided I was long overdue for one of those social networks, so I joined LinkedIn.  Building a network of professionals, staying in touch and collaborating in a virtual way is something I have enjoyed.  One particular feature I like with LinkedIn is the ability to add a reading list.  This has been a valuable application to share and watch other lists within my network allowing me to

990... Its more than a number

I have worked in accounting for Blueprint Education since 1988.It is a non-profit education organization.During that time I have signed a lot of IRS 990’s. The 990 is the form non-profits use to report financial activity for the year.Since there are no tax consequences, often the report gets very little attention.For years, my focus was simply to get the report mailed in on time.

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“The Secrets of Charter School Success” by Diane Ravitch

If you’ve got some time, this is a great article by Diane on evaluating the success of charter schools…are they helping to enhance the system or are they just pulling more of the overachieving students away from the mainstream?  Are they improving test scores or not? 

What Makes a healthy lunchbox?

Having three children who bring their lunch to school 98% of the time creates an assembly line in our home most mornings.  My wife and I figure we make close to 2,250 individual lunches over the course of a school year.  No small task and well worth mentioning a recent article in BBC News, What’s in a Healthy Lunchbox?

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