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See which books were most frequently challenged in American libraries in 2013

See which books were most frequently challenged in American libraries in 2013

Are Utah public schools failing kids or are kids, parents failing school? OGDEN - Are students being graded fairly in state-mandated testing? The scores are part of what determines whether a school receives an 'A' grade or a failing grade and that often reflects on the performance of teachers and staff. Several schools in Ogden City School District received failing grades from the state last year. This has resulted in the current administration using more forward approaches, including implementing new curriculum and tutoring students double-time to ensure they walk the stage at graduation. "I'll be satisfied when 10 percent of the graduates at Ben Lomond High School and Ogden High School are going to Ivy League schools," said Ogden School District Superintendent Brad Smith. Yet, some critics worry the administration's approaches are not meeting kids halfway. "I'm worried that the thing that most governs Mr. It's a complicated game of numbers. Others feel more skeptical. "We feel concerned on multiple levels," said Stacey Briggs, principal of Ogden High School.

La Verkin, Utah (UT) Hotels, Yellow Pages, Homes, Weather, Apartments, Jobs, and more Early Concerns About E-Books' Effect on Reading Comprehension, Researchers Say - Digital Education Philadelphia Digital devices and online reading materials are flooding U.S. schools, but there are some early reasons to worry whether they are helping children better learn to read. That was the message from a husband-and-wife research team from West Chester University who presented two studies here as part of the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association. The first study found that a small sample of students comprehended traditional books at "a much higher level" than they comprehended the same material when read on an iPad, said Heather Schugar, an assistant education professor at the university, located in southeastern Pennsylvania. And the second study found that while students in 18 classrooms were "highly motivated by their interactions" with interactive e-books created using Apple's iBooks Author software, they "often skipped over text, where the meat of the information was." "It's not necessarily that e-books are bad for reading," Ms.

Utah IMC AP American History Goes Socialist, Founding Fathers Depicted As Rich White Elites Branco cartoon via Legal Insurrection We have a new set of AP American history standards and it’s only the first out of 33 AP course standards to be written. We can give thanks to the Architect of Common Core and College Board president, David Coleman. He has taken the five page outline currently given to teachers and has turned it into a 98 page Framework. The new standards interpret American History for us. Jane Robbins describes a few problems: “The new Framework inculcates a consistently negative view of American culture. She goes on to note: “A particularly troubling failure of the Framework is its dismissal of the Declaration of Independence and the principles so eloquently expressed there. It has been said that whoever wins gets to write the history and that is true of David Coleman in his war against traditional America and the constitution. Some of the Founding Fathers have been left out of Coleman’s version of American history. He has omitted Ben Franklin from his standards.

Alleged plot to 'take over' and run schools on strict Islamic principles | UK news Birmingham city council is investigating an alleged plot to oust headteachers in the city, replacing them with people who will run their schools on "strict Islamic principles". A letter, passed to the Birmingham city council late last year as well as various schools in the area, outlines a plan dubbed "Operation Trojan Horse" and claims up to four schools in the city have already been "taken over". The West Midlands counter-terrorism unit said it was aware of the letter and was working with the council to identify whether a police investigation is warranted. A copy of the undated and unsigned letter, seen by the Guardian, offers a five-step plan to take over schools in communities with large Muslim populations with the help of what it calls "hardline" parents who follow the strict Salafi branch of Islam. The letter names four Birmingham schools where they have already had "success": Adderley Primary, Saltley School, Park View School and Regents Park Community Primary School.

Teachers to shred Pearson contract in protest against privatization ALBANY, N.Y. August 8, 2014 - Union leaders from across the state will shred a contract Monday in a grassroots protest aimed at giant testing company Pearson and others who are trying to privatize — and profit from - public education. The protest by leaders of New York State United Teachers will be held Monday, August 11, on the steps of the State Education Department, 89 Washington Ave., Albany, from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. During the protest, teachers will feed the symbolic Pearson contract into paper shredders. NYSUT President Karen E. Click here to learn more about the protest. NYSUT noted that Pearson, for example, holds a $32.8 million testing contract with the State Education Department, which prohibits teachers from talking about test questions or pointing out problems with the exams. New York State United Teachers is a statewide union with more than 600,000 members in education, human services and health care.

The Man Behind Common Core Math : NPR Ed Jason Zimba, one of the writers of the Common Core, waits while his daughters play. Julienne Schaer for The Hechinger Report hide caption itoggle caption Julienne Schaer for The Hechinger Report Jason Zimba, one of the writers of the Common Core, waits while his daughters play. Julienne Schaer for The Hechinger Report Every Saturday morning at 10 a.m., Jason Zimba begins a math tutoring session for his two young daughters with the same ritual. If she gets the answer "lickety-split," as her dad says, she can check it off. "I would be sleeping in if I weren't frustrated," Zimba says of his Saturday-morning lessons, which he teaches in his pajamas. But Zimba, a mathematician by training, is not just any disgruntled parent. Zimba and the other writers of the Common Core knew the transition would be tough, but they never imagined conflicts over bad homework would fuel political battles and threaten the very existence of their dream to remodel American education. The Inner Circle

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