| Board to revisit librarian question
LONG BEACH - For the second consecutive meeting, the Long Beach Board of Education on Tuesday is scheduled to consider increasing the number of credentialed librarians. Board members Michael Ellis and David Barton have proposed that the district gradually increase schools' librarian-to-student ratios over the next four academic years until they match those recommended by the California School Library Association. The ratios would differ from school to school depending on the grades served and student enrollment. Under the proposal, the five-member board would revisit the issue each February during the next three academic years and decide whether to continue with the planned increases. A similar proposal by Ellis and Barton at the Feb. 20 board meeting failed 3-2 after other board members said they wanted to wait until district staff provided a cost estimate before supporting the motion.
Kenya: Policy Shot in the Arm for Early Childhood Education
With the launch of the much - awaited Early Childhood Development Education policy by Vice-President Moody Awori, there is now a ray of hope in this part of the education sector, which has been neglected for too long. The policy framework has explicitly defined the role of parents, communities, various government ministries and departments and development partners in provision of ECD services. .
MC gets grant for program
Marietta College will begin a course this summer that may benefit local elementary school students.
The colleges education department was recently awarded a $30,000 grant from the Special Education Personnel Development Advisory Committee of the Ohio Department of Education Office for Exceptional Children. The grant will be used to help future teachers learn how to assess students with reading and behavioral problems.
Were going to work with students to teach them how to work with at-risk students, said Carolyn Backus, assistant professor of education at Marietta College. If youre having problems with reading, you might be having behavior problems, and if youre having behavior issues, its highly probable youre having reading problems.
Part of the goal of the project is to show that some children have increased behavior issues due to the frustration of reading difficulties, said Bill Bauer, associate professor of education.
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.
IT Vision and Pearson Phoenix Announce Partnership Agreement
(OPENPRESS) March 6th, 2007 -- IT Vision, the asset management specialists, today announced a strategic partnership with Pearson Phoenix, a leading supplier of management information systems (MIS) and finance systems to the education sector. IT Visions software Parago Asset Manager, which allows schools and local education authorities to record and track all ICT assets automatically, will become part of the Phoenix Pearson portfolio under the terms of the agreement. Currently almost 5,000 schools across 27 Education Authorities are using Pearson Phoenix systems as well as a growing number of international schools. Parago Asset Manager is the first web based online asset discovery and license management system designed to help organisations discover, improve, utilise and manage all their resources more efficiently.
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