| ASU-Guanajuato pact assesses migration issues
For more than 100 years, the state of Guanajuato in the central highlands of Mexico has been a major point of departure for migrants. It continues to account for a disproportionately large share of the economic migrations of workers to the United States and Canada. Researchers at ASU's Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center (SIRC), in partnership with Mexican institutions, have developed a research partnership to better understand how different psychosocial, health and educational factors are associated with the decision that Guanajuato's youth make about migration. Flavio Marsiglia, SIRC's director, Stephen Kulis, SIRC's director of research, and postdoctoral fellow Hilda Garcia Pérez were in León, Guanajuato, recently to sign an agreement with the Sistema Avanzado de Bachillerato y Educación Superior (SABES), the community-based secondary and post-secondary education system of the government of Guanajuato state.
Student reassignment plan approved
NASHVILLE — The Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools Board of Education voted Monday to divide two sets of schools by kindergarten through second grade and third through fifth grade. By votes of 8-3 each, the two approved proposals will divide Red Oak Elementary School and Swift Creek Elementary School in one district, and Winstead Avenue Elementary and Englewood Elementary in another district. System administration will decide possibly by the end of this month which school will house which grades. "We have not spent enough time on this issue to look at all the ramifications," said board member Bob Jenkins before the vote. Parents of students who likely will be affected by the plan packed the board auditorium as they have at past meetings and addressed the board one last time before the board took action.
New effort to bolster workforce training
School districts in Central Texas are getting some help from regional planners to prepare the next generation of Austin's workforce. The Capital Area Council of Governments, or CAPCOG, and the Rural Capital Area Workforce Development Board have launched a new program to help school districts implement Achieve Texas, a Texas Education Agency initiative to redesign career and technology education programs by 2012. The program uses so-called career clusters and pathways, recommended course sequences based on student interests, to prepare graduates for careers in the 21st century global economy. .
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.
SCHOOL CALENDAR ONLINE
Enterprise Elementary chili feed and bingo night, 5 to 7 p.m. March 9, 3605 S. Gold. Open to families and community members. OK Elementary fourth and fifth grade music program, 7 p.m. March 8, 1607 N. West St. Drug resistance education program graduations, marking the completion of drug resistance education programs and students' commitment to a drug-free life, 3 p.m. March 9, Gammon Elementary, 3240 N. Rushwood; 3 p.m. March 12, Irving Elementary, 1642 N. Market; 9:15 a.m. March 15, Spaght Accelerated Magnet, 2316 E. 10th; 3 p.m. March 15, Isely Traditional Magnet, 2500 E. 18th. High schoolsMetro-Boulevard Art of Perception art exhibit and poetry reading, 6 to 7:30 p.m. March 8, 751 George Washington Blvd. Open to families and the community. Districtwide Maize public schools bond information meetings, 6:45 p.m.
Home Care Continuing Education Now More Accessible
Naples, FL, February 07, 2007 --(PR.COM)-- The Council of State Home Care Associations and National Educational Video (NEVCO) are making professional continuing education more accessible to member state associations and individual home care provider organizations. Though a unique national partnership program, the two organizations are offering access to reduced-cost training programs to help meet staff education requirements. In support of the partnership, Warren Hebert, Chair of the Council of State Home Care Associations, remarks, "In light of growing state and federal education requirements in the home care arena, nurses and staff need access to quality training that deals with current healthcare issues." Such training programs, in the form of accredited continuing education courses, will be provided by NEVCO. Describing how the training programs meet the specific needs of home health agencies, NEVCO President Ted Wolfendale cites one example where a training program on Alzheimer’s disease created in cooperation with Associated Home Health Industries of Florida has been written into Florida law concerning mandated staff training.
Crews To Head Continuing Education At Community College
Derek Crews begins next month as the new associate vice president for corporate and continuing education. He replaces Floretta Bush, who left the position last fall to pursue an advanced degree.Shortly after Crews' arrival, however, a new opening will appear in the college's administrative ranks, as Stephen Hofmann, vice president for advancement, resigned effective at the end of the month. Hofmann came to the college last fall, and has focused on working with state and federal officials to affect policy decisions involving higher education and college funding.Crews comes to the area from Texas Woman's University's Keller Graduate School of Business. He has been involved in continuing education programs and work force training in Texas, Florida and West Virginia.The corporate and continuing education faculty at the college specialize in skill-specific training requested by workers or companies.
Henley-Putnam University Earns National Accreditation by the DETC
Henley-Putnam University received accreditation for its undergraduate and graduate degree programs from the Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council ("DETC") (http://www.detc.org). The Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council is listed by the U.S. Department of Education as a nationally recognized accrediting agency and is a recognized member of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA). Henley-Putnam University is highly specialized and confers Bachelors and Masters degrees in Management of Personal Protection, Intelligence Management and Terrorism and Counterterrorism Studies to students from law enforcement, military, intelligence and private sectors. San Jose, CA (PRWeb) February 15, 2007 -- Upon completing a comprehensive study and peer examination, Henley-Putnam University received accreditation for its undergraduate and graduate degree programs from the Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council ("DETC") (http://www.detc.org).
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