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New Presidents or Provosts: Art Institute of Charleston, Assumption College, Governors State U., Nebraska Wesleyan U., Northern Michigan U., U. of New Mexico, William Carey College Marilyn Burstein, dean of education at the Art Institute of Philadelphia, has been named vice president and dean of academic affairs at the Art Institute of Charleston. .
Child-care workers may get college funds
EAGLE COUNTY- Can giving child-care workers incentives to earn a degree in early childhood education help solve the child-care dilemma some parents face in Eagle County?
Pitkin County help its child-care workers with education expenses, and Eagle County is planning a similar program in which child-care workers would get grants to attend college. Eagle County Commissioners are expected to vote on the program, along with other initiatives for young children, within the next three weeks.
"We have been doing this program for five years, and we have had about 70 percent of our child care workforce apply and receive this incentive," said Shirley Ritter, director of Kid's First, which serves Eagle, Garfield and Pitkin Counties. "Of those who have or are participating, about 20 percent have been given promotions based on the credits they've earned and their time on the job."
Participants in Pitkin County program can receive as little as $100 for earning six college credits and as much as $3,500 for getting a master's degree.
Thousands upon thousands fight for the few jobs in public sector
Some of the 5,000 job-seekers from Kedah and Perlis who responded to a recruitment drive last year outside Wisma Persekutuan in Alor Star. The rush for jobs in the public sector is hotting up. Openings in the civil service are routinely attracting tens of thousands of applications, with the numbers rising rapidly in recent years.
WHEN Universiti Malaysia Kelantan advertised to fill 110 job vacancies, the Pengkalan Chepa post office in Kota Baru ended up being swamped with a whopping 30,000 CVs. The new public university, which will have its first intake of students in July, advertised online but invited applicants to write in. The university was looking only for support staff, such as security guards, clerks and assistant librarians. The number of people who went online to check out the ad alone came to 100,000.
Reauthorizing No Child Left Behind
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.
Patrick wants higher minimum dropout age in schools
WORCESTER, Mass. -- It's too easy for students to drop out of school in Massachusetts, Gov. Deval Patrick told educators on Monday, advocating for lawmakers to raise the minimum age. Students can drop out of school at age 16, which Patrick said is two years too soon for such a life-altering decision. He said he would support legislation to raise the minimum age. "Permitting young kids to drop out at 16 is another example of an antiquated education policy," Patrick said. Historical reasons for allowing 16-year-olds to drop out are no longer valid, he said, citing teenagers in the past leaving school to work on farms. Patrick spoke at a gathering called the "Graduation Rate Summit" at the DCU Center in Worcester. Nearly half of Hispanic high school freshmen and more than a third of black, urban and low-income freshmen in 2002 failed to graduate four years later, according to data released last month by the state Department of Education.
Fort Morgan Board of Education:
Fort Morgan's Board of Education will receive a recommendation Monday for a 2007-08 school year calendar that will have classes starting Aug. 21 and ending May 29.The board will convene at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the school support center at West Platte Avenue and West Street.Several proposed trips for students, including a possible trip to Costa Rica during the 2008 spring break for Spanish students to learn about biodiversity, handling tourism and other topics, are also on the agenda.Other high school trip proposals include a Distributive Education Clubs of America trip to Colorado Springs, a Future Business Leaders of America trip to Vail and an FFA trip to Boulder and Fort Collins, all for activities for those organizations.The board will also consider renewing health insurance with the Colorado Education Benefit Trust, a pool of school districts, municipalities and special districts.
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