| Courses change for next year
According to changes from Ohio Department of Education and former Gov. Bob Taft's Core Curriculum, high school students who participate in interscholastic sports, marching band and cheerleading will now be able to count one full sporting season as a quarter credit for physical education. Students would need to play two full sports seasons to take care of their physical education credit for the high school. More changes are coming for other courses as well. Foundations of art will be split into a two-semester course beginning next year. The classes will be foundations of art 2D and foundations of art 3D. .
Jonathan Gueverra
Position: Provost, Alexandria campus, Northern Virginia Community College, the largest institution of higher education in Virginia and the second-largest community college in the country. The school has six campuses -- Alexandria, Annandale, Loudoun, Manassas, Springfield and Woodbridge -- with more than 60,000 students. Career Highlights: Dean, school of business and public service, State University of New York at Canton; adjunct faculty, school of management & school of education, Lesley University; associate professor, management, Wentworth Institute of Technology; assistant professor and director of program development, school of management, Lesley University; associate dean, business and careers program, Massachusetts Bay Community College; chairman, department of business administration, Newbury College; instructor, business, hotel and restaurant management, Newbury College; accountant and consultant for small farms and business (self-employed); retail manager, Christy's Market, and assistant recruitment officer, Water & Sewerage Authority (Trinidad & Tobago).
The Deciders, Their Decisions
Many Clark County teens are growing wary of military service since 10 soldiers and Marines with ties to Southwest Washington have died in five years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Five of those deaths happened since late September. Yet interviews show other students in county high schools remain eager to serve. They see the uniform as both an educational opportunity and a way to express patriotism. Military service, after all, can bring a student some pride, $57,000 to $72,000 in paid college tuition, and a chance to learn a trade. At Washougal High School, career and guidance specialist Marsha Spencer said military recruiters haven't found a lot of takers. She doesn't see as much student enthusiasm for military service as she saw earlier. "My suspicion is there are not too many who are interested," she said, although she isn't keeping statistics.
Reaching a Deal on Education
The No Child Left Behind Act -- the education bill passed by Congress in 2001 and signed by George W. Bush in 2002 -- comes up for reauthorization this year. NCLB injected into the federal aid to education program important doses of accountability -- yearly testing of kids from grades 3 to 8, consequences for failing schools, disaggregation of data by race and ethnicity -- and it seems to have resulted in some modest improvements in test scores. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings is optimistic that it will be reauthorized. Sen. Edward Kennedy and Rep. George Miller have scheduled a bipartisan joint meeting of their committees for March 13 -- both played major roles in 2001 shaping the bill, which passed with bipartisan majorities. Yet 11 members of a bipartisan group of 12 Washington education law professionals surveyed in December by the Thomas B.
School board attends Louisville conference
All of it's part of the 71st annual conference of the Kentucky School Boards Association (KSBA), and the Grayson County School Board was there for the Louisville conference. About 1,100 school board members, superintendents, state officials and other education advocates took part in the more than 50 sessions and workshops during the conference. Topics covered such areas as research into raising math scores, reducing alcohol and drug use among youth, the ins and outs of merging school systems, effective superintendent evaluations, successful programs for gifted and talented students and preventing things like mercury spills in school science labs. Those attending heard presentations from Ken Kay, president of the Partnership for 21st Century skills, a consortium of Fortune 500 businesses focused on strengthening high school graduates' skills for today's jobs.
IBM Wins Bid To Build Data System for Schools
IBM has won an $80 million competitively bid contract to develop a new data system for the Department of Education over five years. The system will gather data on New York's 1.1 million students and make it accessible online to principals, teachers, and eventually parents and students, said the department's chief accountability officer, James Liebman. A cornerstones of the administration's overhaul of schools, the system will assist newly empowered principals and help the department judge performance. Comment on this article .
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