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Volume 6, Issue 35
September 6, 2007
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Education Humor with Regina Barreca:
Reflections from a Recovered
Teenage Girl
Regina Barreca writes: "When reading through my old diaries, I was horrified by what I wrote in the green-lined notebooks
from sixth and seventh grades. These are, in essence, a catalog of judgments about everyone I’d ever met. This is
not good news."
Source: Education World
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/columnists/barreca/barreca022.shtml
This Week's Fit To Be Taught Page:
Fit To Be Taught Vol.6
A filmmaker's fast-food warning for kids; tonsillectomies and ADHD; teens cite school as their major cause of stress;
and school nutrition programs.
Source: Education World
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/fittobetaught/fittobetaught006.shtml
This Week's Wire Side Chat:
AACTE Defends Teacher Education
Teacher education programs may have their flaws, but schools and states need to build on their strengths rather than
start from scratch, according to Dr. Sharon P. Robinson, president and CEO of the American Association of Colleges
for Teacher Education.
Source: Education World
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/chat/chat198.shtml
This Week's School Issues Article:
Program Helps Middle Schoolers GEAR UP for College
as early as sixth grade. That program provides a wide variety of information and experiences for students. It also
puts much-needed information into the hands of parents who might not have time to gather it on their own.
Source: Education World
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/issues145.shtml
This Week's Read About It Article:
Project-Based Learning
What is project-based learning?
Source: Education World
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/readit/readit032.shtml
This Week's News for Kids Article:
Coming Soon: Sodas With Vitamins
Will adding vitamins and minerals help beef up sagging soda sales?
Source: Education World
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/newsforyou/newsforyou063.shtml
This Week's Administrator's Desk Articles:
It's Back-to-School Time for Administrators
Too!
Education World has gathered great resources from our archive that offer advice, tips, and resources all principals
should have at their fingertips.
Source: Education World
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/admin/admin231.shtml
Paul Young's Young @ Heart:
Preventing Gridlock: The "Principal"
Traffic Cop's Job
The job of a principal is not all that different from the job of a traffic cop. When gridlock forms in our schools,
it is the principal -- the school's traffic controller -- who must make the quick decisions that "drive" achievement
and remove barriers to improvement.
Source: Education World
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/columnists/young/young003.shtml
This Week's Turnaround Tales Article:
Reading Focus Pays Off for Seattle
Investment in reading instruction techniques paid off for the Seattle Public Schools this year, when students in all
the grade levels tested posted gains in reading and the gaps between racial groups decreased as well.
Source: Education World
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/nclbwork/nclbwork048.shtml
This Week's No Educator Left Behind Article:
Arts
Does NCLB force schools to stop teaching art and music?
Source: Education World
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/NELB/NELB119.shtml
This Week's School Doodle:
Anyone up for mouse-to-mouse
resuscitation?
Source: Education World
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/school_doodles/school_doodles68.shtml
This Week's School Issues Spotlights
Issues Spotlight 1Effects of Hurricane
Katrina on schools
Issues Spotlight 2 Fathers in schools
Issues Spotlight 3Critical thinking
Issues Spotlight 4Sleep issues
Source: Education World
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/glossary/h.shtml#hurricane
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/glossary/f.shtml#fathers
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/glossary/c.shtml#critical
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/glossary/s.shtml#sleep
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How much did you spend this year on your own back-to-school clothes?
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Study: Up to 2.4 Million Kids Have ADHD
About 2.4 million American children ages 8 to 15 have ADHD, according to a recent study, but fewer than 40 percent
of those children are taking medication for it. But some experts still believe the condition is diagnosed too often.
Source: Newsday
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/orl-adhd0407sep04,0,7657318.story
Schools Get Stuck With Lunch Tabs
Some districts are losing thousands of dollars a year because parents fail to provide money for their childrens' lunches.
When children without lunch money charge meals, the school ends up picking up the tab if the parents don’t reimburse
the district.
Source: Arkansas Democrat Gazette
http://www.nwanews.com/adg/News/200407
Schools Wrestle with Camera
Phone, Cyberbullying Issues
While many districts have policies regulating cell phone use during school hours, administrators are finding it difficult
to prevent students from taking pictures in school and posting them on the Web or texting harassing messages.
Source: The Seattle Times
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003867370_techpolicies04n.html
U.S. Schools More
Segregated
U.S. public schools are becoming more racially segregated and the trend is likely to accelerate because of a Supreme
Court decision in June, barring most existing voluntary local efforts to integrate schools, according to a report.
Source: The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/29/AR2007082902111.html
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District Pays for School Uniforms
The Elizabeth, New Jersey, school system not only requires students to wear uniforms -- it buys them. Since January
2006, the district has spend more than $2 million to buy navy blazers, khaki pants, polo shirts, gym shorts, and even
socks.
Source: The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/04/nyregion/04uniforms.html
Schools Offer Bonuses to Cut Teacher Absenteeism
To reduce the number of teacher absences, some schools in Florida are offering a bonus to staff members if the number
of absences is lower than the previous year or allowing teachers to cash in unused sick time when they retire.
Source: Palm Beach Post
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2007/09/03/s1b_skattendance_0903.html
More Schools Teaching Online Safety
In some Minnesota homerooms, classrooms, computer labs, and workshops, police and school officials are ramping up
efforts to teach students, parents, and teachers how to safely use social networking Web sites such as MySpace.
Source: The Pioneer Press
http://www.twincities.com/allheadlines/ci_6794265
Grade 8.5 Readies Kids for
High School
The Pinellas County, Florida, School District has a new program to keep eighth-graders are not quite ready for high
school on track for graduation: grade 8.5. More intense than eighth grade, 8.5 won't be quite as daunting as ninth
grade for about 100 students who otherwise would have been held back.
Source: St. Petersburg Times
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/08/22/Northpinellas/Grade_85_offers_half_.shtml
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