| Career Education drops, Stamps.com up
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of Career Education Corp. (CECO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) dropped 11.5 percent before the bell on Friday after a brokerage cut its rating on the stock, a day after the for-profit education company posted a drop in quarterly profit. Prudential cut the stock to "underweight" from "neutral weight," according to theflyonthewall.com. The stock fell to $26.24 in electronic trade, from a close of $29.64 on the Nasdaq. But shares of Stamps.com Inc. (STMP.O: Quote, Profile, Research) rose 12 percent to $16 before the bell after First Albany raised its rating on the stock to "buy" from "neutral." .
Impressive growth in secondary, higher education- Survey
New Delhi:There has been an impressive growth secondary and higher education with the total enrolment touching 30 percent with a significant rise in the enrolment of women students, says the Economic Survey 2006-07. The survey, tabled in the Lok Sabha Tuesday, said in the higher education sector, there has been an increase in annual student enrolment from 7.26 million in 1997-98 to 10.48 million in 2004-05. The number of women students rose from 2.45 million in 1997 to 4.04 million in 2004-05, constituting 40.4 percent of the total enrolment. The survey added that the number of secondary and higher secondary schools have increased from 7,416 in 1950-51 to 152,049 in 2004-05. The corresponding increase in total enrolment has been from 1.5 million in 1950-51 to 37 million in 2004-05.
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.
Focus on Elementary Education
In 2005, professors Tim Slekar, Leigh Ann Haefner, and Brad Slonaker began a new project to help their elementary education students integrate social studies, science, and math in a hands-on, out-of-classroom experience. With the resource of the nearby Fort Roberdeau Historic Site, an eighteenth-century lead mine fort used during the American Revolution, Slekar, Haefner, and Slonaker took more than two dozen seniors on a three-day, two-night adventure at the Fort. Each year, Fort Roberdeau welcomes many local fifth grade classes to its grounds for field trips. The professors plan was to have the student teachers observe the volunteers give tours and lessons to the fifth graders one day, and then give these tours and lessons on their own the next day. Arriving on a Wednesday evening, the students pitch their tents, build a fire, receive their period clothing to wear the next day, and meet the volunteers to gain an understanding of what they will be doing.
Board of Education submits $466.4M budget
FREDERICK -- In a perfect world, the Frederick County Board of Education would get every cent of its $466.4 million request for the fiscal 2008 operating budget. In reality, the amount of money the school system receives from county, state and federal funds likely will fall below the initial request. "(There is) almost no likelihood of full funding of our budget," Executive Director for Fiscal Services Harold Keller, Jr. told the board Wednesday during a planning session where they discussed and amended the budget. The budget, which is $54.7 million, or 13.3 percent, more than last year's, includes: $8.4 million in administration costs $175.7 million in instructional salaries $19 million for transportation The school board forwarded the proposed budget to the county commissioners Thursday.
About immigration and migration
My first immigrant experience was a 12th year birthday present when my Swedish grandmother told about her arriving at Ellis Island at her age of 12 with her mother who was totally terrified because she could not find Charlie. Ah, but that 12-year-old just grabbed her mothers hand and introduced her to anyone who looked even slightly official.
They made it. Charlie Anderson, her coal miner husband-to-be, was waiting and waving, but seeing a 5-foot 4-inch, 115-pound coal miner in a boisterous crowd was tough.
Second incident was recent. Wife Jan and I, returning from Washington, kept seeing and discussing the umpteen new housing developments when suddenly it was Where did they go? Why surely they greened into grass?
Third event was embarrassingly simple.
Students not products on an assembly line
I am a teacher here in Broward County. I have been teaching for 13 years and I have never even remotely considered leaving the field of education. I work with a wide range of students, teaching all of them equally how to read and write at a higher level. I am hard-working, respectful of my administrators, dedicated to my students and I am special.
I am special for a number of reasons, none of which will be determined by the Florida Department of Education, the FCAT, or my students' scores. Because, in all honesty, none of that really matters to me.
On a daily basis, I enrich the lives of 120 students regardless of what they look like, where they come from, how much money they have, or how high or low their academic skills are. I make them smile and laugh, I make them want to come to school and be successful in spite of the immense pressure placed on them by state mandates and the over-testing by the district.
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