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6 colleges from Empire State in mag's top 50
Date CapturedFriday August 17 2007, 9:20 AM
NY Daily News reports, "Six New York universities, including Columbia, Cornell and NYU, are among the 50 best schools in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report."" Additionally, "Seven New York colleges made the top 50 liberal arts list, including Vassar, Colgate and Hamilton. Also making the liberal arts list for the first time this year was the U.S. Military Academy at West Point."
Choices, Changes, and Challenges: Curriculum and Instruction in the NCLB Era
Date CapturedMonday July 30 2007, 8:44 AM
This CEP report examines the amount of time spent during the school week on core academic subjects and how that allocation of time across subjects has changed since school year 2001-02 when NCLB was enacted. The report finds that approximately 62% of school districts increased the amount of time spent in elementary schools on English language arts and or math, while 44% of districts cut time on science, social studies, art and music, physical education, lunch or recess.
Picture the arts in schools
Date CapturedSunday July 29 2007, 9:07 AM
NY Daily News opines, "Building on an existing plan detailing curriculums in music, dance, theater and visual arts, ArtsCount adds accountability to the mix. It spells out, year by year, what arts training every student must receive. It will measure how good that instruction is. And it will note the results in annual school report cards, just like reading and math."
Bloomberg Announces Plan to Shore Up Arts in Schools
Date CapturedTuesday July 24 2007, 10:24 AM
NY Times reports, "Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced yesterday that the city’s Department of Education will require all schools to maintain arts programs, and that principals will be rated in their annual reviews on how well they run those programs. The announcement came just months after the department infuriated arts groups by eliminating a multimillion-dollar program to finance arts education. Under a new set of city standards, the arts curriculums will be judged for comprehensiveness, and potential pay bonuses for principals could be affected."
SCHOOLS BRUSHING UP ON THE ARTS
Date CapturedTuesday July 24 2007, 7:02 AM
NY Post Chuck Bennett reports, "'I didn't want the arts to be a throwaway. I didn't want the arts to be some add-on, some feel-good thing. I think arts education is critical,' Klein [NYC schools chancellor] said. He added that $250 million in this year's school budget will go toward arts education, including the hiring of 141 new teachers. More students also will be eligible to receive an Arts-Endorsed Regents Honors diploma for taking a concentration in arts classes."
Colleges Pull Out of 'U.S. News' Rankings
Date CapturedSunday June 24 2007, 7:18 PM
Day to Day, June 22, 2007 · A group of liberal arts colleges has announced that they will stop participating in the annual U.S. News and World Report college rankings. Opponents say the rankings mislead students. Doug Bennett, president of Earlham College in Richmond, Ind., talks with Anthony Brooks.
Ithaca Central School District programs extend academic support
Date CapturedMonday May 21 2007, 7:13 AM
Ithaca Journal Op-ed contributors Lisa Harris, director of Academic Intervention Services and others write, "Money from the Consolidated Grants is continually being cut. However, the ICSD has done its best to provide instructional enrichment in after-school/extended-day programs. These programs offer field trips, exposure to arts, sciences and crafts, as well as assistance with homework practice and review or previewing of key concepts, including vocabulary. Mentoring and tutoring provided by trained community volunteers augment our staff's resources."
How School Testing Got Corrupted
Date CapturedThursday May 03 2007, 10:31 PM
Huffington Post contributor Diane Ravitch writes, "If we want better schools, we must have a solid, knowledge-rich curriculum, one that includes history, science, geography, the arts, civics, and other disciplines, not just reading and math. We must have effective instruction based on that curriculum. Our assessments should be based on the curriculum. Sadly what we are doing today is to use the tests as a substitute for curriculum and instruction. This won't work, and it will only damage American education. We may get higher scores -- short-term -- but we won't get better education."
Teachers want change in education policy
Date CapturedThursday April 26 2007, 9:36 AM
Observer-Dispatch reports, "New York teachers are asking Congress to: •Allow states to develop appropriate language-arts tests for English-language learners and special-education students. English-language learners have to take the same language-arts tests as their peers, even though they may not have a full command of English. •Distinguish struggling schools from those that are successful but need limited assistance, rather than putting all schools with problems into the same category. •Stop punishing entire schools and districts based on the low test scores of a small number of students. •Adequately fund testing and accountability mandates in the law. New York received $911 million less in funding last year than what Congress authorized when it passed the legislation in 2002, NYSUT said."
Charter school finds home, still needs state approval
Date CapturedFriday April 20 2007, 9:22 AM
Kingston Freeman reports, "Washington [co-applicant for the Teaching Wisdom and Responsibility Charter School of Higher Learning] said she has been working on the charter school plan for two years and has secured space on O'Neil Street to house the school. The school would target students at risk of being left behind academically and will only admit students who scored at Levels 1, 2 or a low 3 on New York state's four-level English language arts or math exams. Washington hopes the school eventually will serve grades kindergarten through eight but said it will start with just kindergartners and fifth-graders. The following year, those students would become first and sixth graders and new classes of kindergartners and fifth-graders would come in, she said. The process the would continue until the school served all grades."
P-16 Education: A Plan for Action
Date CapturedWednesday April 04 2007, 9:10 AM
Improve high school attendance and graduation rates by setting performance targets, promoting promising practices that remove barriers to graduation, and holding schools accountable for dramatic improvements. Problem: Since higher standards were adopted in 1996, the number of high school graduates each year has increased. However, only 64% of students who entered 9th grade in 2001 graduated in four years; 18% were still enrolled and 11% had dropped out. Rates for Black and Hispanic students were below 45%. Data show that graduation rates are closely tied to attendance rates. As attendance declines below 95%, graduation rates decline significantly. And both attendance and graduation rates decline with poverty. New York’s current graduation rate standard is only 55%, one of the lowest in the nation. Schools need to focus on the least served students, such as Black males, English Language Learners, and students with disabilities. Actions: ¦ Set a State graduation rate standard, publish four- and five-year graduation rates by school, and specify a schedule of improvement targets for schools to close the gap between their graduation rate and State standard. Set targets now for the students who entered 9th grade in 2004 and will graduate in 2008. This action is especially important to ensure that more schools intervene to help the most underserved students, such as Black males, English Language Learners, and students with disabilities Research and benchmark other states for effective, innovative strategies that improve high school graduation and attendance rates. Include strategies that begin in middle school and focus on the transition from middle to high school. Emphasize a meaningful curriculum that includes the arts, music, physical education and career and technical programs. Provide effective strategies to schools to enable them to achieve the State targets through regional networks
Rochester City School District expects more aid
Date CapturedFriday March 23 2007, 9:00 AM
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reports, "When the smoke clears, the City School District could use the additional funds for initiatives that: Extend the school year from 180 to 200 days for students in first through eighth grades who are not meeting state language arts and math standards. Provide funding for a pilot program in some currently unnamed city schools to lengthen the school day. Provide intervention programs for three high schools — Jefferson, Monroe and the International Finance & Economic Development Career school at Franklin — recently cited by the state for registration review. Establish an African-American studies program. Convert Frederick Douglass from a middle school — which the state has recently threatened to close — to a high school with grades 7 through 12. The district has a pending partnership agreement with the State University College at Brockport that will make Douglass an early college high school, [City School Superintendent ]Rivera said."
Marist poll finds little support for school property taxes
Date CapturedFriday March 09 2007, 7:18 AM
Times Herald reports, "Other highlights of the findings, which were released today: 59 percent of Ulster residents rate local education as good or excellent, compared with 72 percent in Dutchess. 20 percent overall found the best thing about their district is the teachers. 12 percent find the size of schools the worst thing about their local system. One in 10 mentioned taxes. Only 41 percent think school districts negotiate contracts well. 55 percent believe their district is controlled by a small group of people with their own agenda. Many of those polled want more money for science labs, computers, the arts and libraries. Voters supported a school budget because they thought it was fiscally sound. Voters opposed a school budget because they thought it was wasteful and irresponsible. 54 percent of voters do not think increased funding means better schools; 46 percent think it does. 61 percent think any funding alternatives should not include vouchers for private or parochial schools."
Expert flunks school testing
Date CapturedFriday March 09 2007, 7:03 AM
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reports, "[Foundation for Education Reform and Accountability president] Carroll said New York needs to: Measure students' gains over a period of time, rather than just use a 'snapshot approach' of comparing students in a single grade each year. Use letter grades or a 0-100 grading system, rather than sorting performance into four levels, so the public can better understand results. Label school performance more accurately. Currently, a school with kindergarten through grade 8 with poor performance in just one or two areas will get the same classification — in need of improvement — as a school that fails in a multitude of areas. That 'simply makes no sense and substantially undermines the overall system's credibility,' Carroll said. Remove conflicts of interest by prohibiting teachers, schools and districts from scoring their own exams. Ensure that exam results are reported sooner. The state Education Department reported results of math and English/language arts exams last fall from the previous school year. The agency has promised to release this year's scores before the school year ends. Provide financial incentives for districts that do well, in addition to having serious consequences for those that do not. The recommendations are in a report the foundation is releasing this week."
Bilingual school embraces both its languages
Date CapturedThursday March 08 2007, 10:44 AM
Post-Standard reports, "Seymour needs to prove itself with the state Education Department. In January 2006, the state put Seymour 'under registration review' because its scores were too low on the state fourth-grade English language arts test. The dual-language program should help those scores, and the state has agreed to the expansion of Seymour's program, Perkins said. The benefits of the dual-language program go beyond academics, Perkins said. 'We're seeing our students being able to integrate together, no separation of our racial or ethnic groups,' she said. Lowengard envisions the Seymour program to be a model."
Yates principal gets UAlbany award
Date CapturedThursday March 08 2007, 9:51 AM
Times Union reports, "Valarie Scott, principal of Yates Arts-in-Education Magnet School, will be the 2007 recipient of the Bertha Brimmer Medal. The award, which was established in 1934, is given annually by the University at Albany to an alumnus for excellence in teaching and dedication to the profession."
East Ramapo and Clarkstown districts honored for music education
Date CapturedFriday March 02 2007, 9:33 AM
Journal News reports, "A survey by leading music and educational organizations places the Clarkstown and East Ramapo school districts among the nation's top 100 communities for music education."
Arts education program can serve as model for school districts
Date CapturedFriday March 02 2007, 9:30 AM
Journal News reports, "In a time of one-size-fits-all testing, the arts have been wrongfully shoved aside as irrelevant "fluff." Your view that arts education is vital and your specific suggestions as to how the arts can be given the status they deserve validated all of our efforts: artists, teachers, administrators. Much of what the editorial suggests (referenced below) is already part of our district's unique story, Literacy through the Arts, one we wish to share with others."
San Francisco Unified School District focuses on the arts
Date CapturedTuesday February 27 2007, 9:56 AM
The Examiner reports, "While schools throughout California struggle to maintain arts education programs, the San Francisco Unified School District is beginning to see the effects of a massive plan to beef up its arts curricula across The City. District educators are in the first year of implementing the Arts Education Master Plan, an ambitious road map to give arts education to each student at every school."
Maryland truancy bill offers no real solutions
Date CapturedFriday February 23 2007, 7:54 AM
Maryland Gazette.net reports, "The truancy problem is an urban or inner city problem as a result of failed education policies. It begs the question, why we do not understand that our kids know what they need and what they want? Why are we punishing them for a system that has failed? Why are we not including the truancy offenders at the table to address the problem and solutions? Why are we not engaging our parents, churches, community, social workers and nonprofits to help us solve this problem? We have stripped our schools of vocational training, our county lacks a performing arts center and we do not have state-of-the-art technology training centers. In addition, our schools are overcrowded and many of our children are becoming frustrated when they cannot get the extra help needed to stay on pace. We have failed to provide positive alternatives to the truancy problem."
Inner-city Buffalo students 'nudged' toward college
Date CapturedFriday January 12 2007, 11:23 AM
Buffalo News reports, "African-American high school students in Buffalo are getting a nudge toward higher education under a new initiative at Hilbert College. The small liberal arts college in Hamburg is partnering with two Buffalo churches to bring high school juniors to the Hamburg school. The students will stay for three weeks during the summer, get a dose of campus life and receive tutoring to sharpen the academic skills they will need for college."
NEW DATA SHOW: NEW YORK STATE RAISES PERCENT OF HIGHLY QUALIFIED TEACHERS IN EVERY SUBJECT EXCEPT ARTS
Date CapturedMonday January 08 2007, 3:30 PM
NYSED PRESS RELEASE: The gap narrowed especially at the elementary school level, from a 16 percent gap in 2004-05 to a 7 percent gap in 2005-06. In middle and high school, the gap narrowed by 1.7 percent, to a 15.5 percent gap. New York City especially improved, with more highly qualified teachers in every subject. Despite the improvement, several of the Big 5 Cities still have relatively high percentages of teachers in some subjects who are not considered highly qualified under the federal rules of the No Child Left Behind Act
The 65% solution -- a closer look in Vermont
Date CapturedTuesday January 02 2007, 9:03 AM
Burlington Free Press opined, "The 65 percent solution would require that schools spend a minimum of '65 percent of their funds directly on classroom instruction.' The National Center for Educational Statistics' (NCES) definition of 'classroom instruction' would serve as the basis for determining what constitutes 'in the classroom' activities. Briefly, it would includes teacher and para-educator salaries, instructional materials, extracurricular activities including athletics, arts and music, and tuition paid to out-of-district and private educational providers. The remaining 35 percent of school spending would be divided between all other expenditures, including transportation, professional development for educators, administrative costs, guidance counseling, libraries, heat, lights and food services."
NYSED Update on Limited English Proficient/English Language Learner (LEP/ELL
Date CapturedTuesday January 02 2007, 8:09 AM
New York state education Commissioner Mills has issued a field memorandum regarding the Regents and Department's efforts to advocate for change in the federal policy that requires all English language learners (ELLs) who have been in this country for more than one year to take their state's English language arts tests. Even as the Department works to change the U.S. Department of Education's policy, we must follow the law and implement the policy during this coming year. The field memorandum identifies a number of additional steps the Department has undertaken at various levels to help our ELL students.
Art and soul of schools
Date CapturedSunday December 31 2006, 7:35 AM
NY Daily News reports, "Thanks to the WPA [Works Progress Administration of the 1930s and early '40s], the government's most ambitious effort in history to provide employment for the jobless, countless artists were put to work creating paintings and sculptures for libraries, post offices, hospitals, parks and even public housing. The biggest beneficiaries of this effort were public schools, particularly in big cities such as New York."
Face the music
Date CapturedFriday December 29 2006, 4:20 AM
Daily News columnist Errol Louis writes, "Right now, there's no guarantee that a nickel of the new billions from the Campaign for Fiscal Equity will go to putting arts back in New York City schools. Whatever else they do, Bloomberg and Spitzer must not blow this historic opportunity to revive art in the souls of our city's children."
Culture groups, schools studied
Date CapturedThursday December 28 2006, 5:32 AM
Post-Standard reports, "Officials with Partners for Arts Education, a nonprofit that awards grants across Central New York, said this month they plan to embark on a yearlong research project to assess the relationships between local schools and cultural organizations. Among the six schools selected for the study are Hamilton and Madison Central high schools and Madison Central elementary school."
Professor flunks schools' curricula
Date CapturedThursday December 14 2006, 7:44 AM
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reports, "Making the learning experience relevant to black and Hispanic students, said [UCLA Professor] Howard, requires teachers to take the time to learn where a kid is coming from, value cultural differences to better relate to students, and inject students' cultural and community points of reference into math, language arts, science and social studies. Greater parental involvement and communication between teachers and parents is also a key, said Howard."
Whitney’s Expansion Plans Are Shifting South, to the Meatpacking District
Date CapturedTuesday November 28 2006, 7:18 AM
NY Times reports, "The museum’s director, Adam D. Weinberg, said the new museum would not only offer more gallery space but would also be less expensive. 'We know it will be cheaper per square foot than uptown, but we don’t know what it will cost,' he said. (The uptown expansion was expected to cost more than $200 million.) Mr. Piano has agreed to design the new museum. Although no architectural plans have been drawn up, the future museum is loosely estimated to afford at least 200,000 square feet."
New Project to Send Musicians Into Schools
Date CapturedTuesday November 28 2006, 7:14 AM
NY Times reports, "Two pillars of the classical musical establishment, Carnegie Hall and the Juilliard School, have joined forces to give birth to a music academy whose fellows will go forth and propagate musicianship in New York public schools. The city’s Education Department is opening its arms to the new program, seeing an inexpensive but valuable source of teaching for a system deprived of comprehensive music training. And the leaders of Carnegie and Juilliard see an opportunity to promote their conviction that a musician in 21st-century America should be more than just a person who plays the notes."
Students prepare for working world
Date CapturedFriday November 17 2006, 5:49 AM
Times Union reports, "The Career Center at Steinmetz aims to prepare its students for entry into the workplace by providing them with life skills and career-building opportunities. About 200 students in ninth through 12th grades attend the center on Oakwood Avenue. The students pursue a major in one of four career and technical education programs: office management, culinary arts, media arts or property management and maintenance."
Hands off our school!
Date CapturedThursday November 16 2006, 4:55 AM
NY Daily News reports on plans to tear down an upper East Side [New York City], "Supporters say the building, once known as Julia Rikers for its dangerous reputation, has reinvented itself as a home for six notable schools, including a performing arts high school, a school for autistic children and a school created to serve children of people who work in the area. Their objections were highlighted yesterday by Daily News columnist Juan Gonzalez.."
The Progress of Black Student Enrollments at the Nation’s Highest-Ranked Colleges and Universities
Date CapturedSunday November 05 2006, 1:33 PM
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education writes, "For the fourteenth consecutive year, JBHE publishes its survey of the percentages of black first-year students at the nation’s highest-ranked universities and liberal arts colleges. This year, for the sixth time in the last eight years, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill leads the other universities in the percentage of black students in its first-year class. The Ivy League schools did well with Columbia leading the group. Among the nation’s highest-ranked liberal arts institutions, there is a new leader. This year, Swarthmore College in suburban Philadelphia has the largest percentage of black students in its entering class."
New York City kids deserve more same-sex schools
Date CapturedSunday November 05 2006, 7:05 AM
NY Daily News contributors Joel Klein (NYC schools chancellor) and Dennis Walcott (deputy mayor for Education and Community Development) write, "Creating good educational choices is another powerful reason for supporting single-sex schools. We believe New Yorkers should be able to select from a wide array of high-quality public schools: large high schools and small high schools, schools focused on the performing arts and schools focused on business, charter schools and traditional public schools. Single-sex schools ought to be part of that mix."
Albuquerque Public Schools OK military charter school
Date CapturedThursday November 02 2006, 5:50 PM
The Albuquerque Tribune reports, "Year-round opportunities include sailing, survival training, marksmanship, military police, honor guard, music, pilot's license, air ground crew, scuba certification, culinary arts, seamanship on board Navy, Coast Guard and Merchant Marine ships and exchange programs with cadets from England, Germany and Japan."
A higher bar for future teachers
Date CapturedTuesday October 31 2006, 7:15 AM
Boston Globe contributor Arthur Levine, president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and president emeritus of Teachers College, Columbia University opined, "Teaching is a profession. It requires deep content knowledge, a familiarity with ways to teach that knowledge effectively, and an understanding of how young people learn and grow. Future teachers should complete a traditional arts and sciences bachelor's degree in a content area such as math, history or English, and then undertake a year of graduate study to learn how to communicate their subject in ways that promote student learning. Scholarships will also be necessary to encourage our most talented students to choose teaching careers over high -profile, better-paying professions."
Funding Arts In Education Workshop: November 15th, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Date CapturedSunday October 29 2006, 6:06 AM
Westchester.com reports, "On November 15th, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., classroom teachers, school representatives and administrators will have the opportunity to come together to brainstorm creative ways to keep the funds flowing for enhanced arts education in their schools. The Funding Initiative will feature pointers on how to secure funding for arts in education programs, and offer participants a chance to meet representatives from key funding sources such as the New York State Council on the Arts and the Empire State Partnership. This funding info-fest, hosted by the Westchester Arts Council, takes place at the Arts Exchange, 31 Mamaroneck Avenue in downtown White Plains. For more information, please contact Katie Guilbeau at (914) 428-4220 x333."
To curb dropout rate, develop new paths for learning and careers
Date CapturedFriday October 20 2006, 6:46 AM
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle opined, "At least 27 of the nation's 100 top liberal arts schools that scrapped their SAT or ACT requirements have decided that students' high school performances should weigh as heavily as test scores. With this growing realization, educators also need to provide more alternatives to students who may be interested in vocational and technical education."
NFL Joins Fight Against Child Obesity
Date CapturedThursday October 19 2006, 3:35 PM
AP KAREN MATTHEWS reports, "Some 25,000 middle schools that are participating in the nationwide effort will get lesson plans intended to broaden physical activity in schools. A language arts lesson has students create and perform a rap that demonstrates action verbs. A science lesson has kids play scooter tag, with one group of students representing cholesterol and another representing healthy hearts."
Behind the Barriers at Gallaudet
Date CapturedSaturday October 14 2006, 3:16 PM
NPR reports, "What are the underlying reasons for the turbulent protests at Gallaudet University? At least two dozen people were arrested after three days of student demonstrations at the liberal arts college for the deaf in Washington, D.C." AUDIO LINK
New Rochelle museum to open with Rockwell exhibit
Date CapturedSunday October 01 2006, 10:16 AM
THE JOURNAL NEWS reports, "The city's [New Rochelle] newest public space for displaying art, historical artifacts and other cultural works is scheduled to open in just over a week at New Rochelle High School. Filling two gallery rooms in the school's new wing, the museum will be free and open to the public. The first exhibit in the Museum of Arts and Culture will display dozens of works by New Rochelle notable Norman Rockwell, the painter famed for his depictions of small-town Americana."
Rochester area colleges light the way to economic vitality for region
Date CapturedThursday September 28 2006, 6:34 AM
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle guest essayists Joel Seligman, president of University of Rochester and Braveman, president of Nazareth College write, "Area colleges contribute to the quality of the community's social, educational and cultural life. Recent studies have shown that knowledge workers are drawn to a climate in which the arts are thriving. The myriad arts offerings from the Eastman School of Music, the Nazareth College Arts Center and other local colleges provide affordable access to some of the world's most renowned performers and artists, bring thousands of visitors to the area and create an atmosphere that can help attract and retain talent. As local leaders discuss economic development, it is important that they recognize the tremendous opportunities and potential offered by Rochester area colleges. By taking full advantage of university research, university-generated human capital, local business creativity and the full support of all local entities, we can create the kind of environment in which the Rochester economy can flourish and our talented young people will want to build their lives."
Now read this
Date CapturedMonday September 25 2006, 5:56 AM
Journal News opined on New York State Education Department results of English Language Arts test, "State Education Commissioner Richard Mills worried Thursday about the slacking off in literacy instruction. It apparently begins in fifth grade — not the abrupt nosedive New Yorkers had come to expect in eighth. Said Mills: 'Adult literacy scores are too low, but this is where it begins.' So must the response, starting with unplugging students from electronics, and plugging them into reading books, writing clearly and speaking their minds, coherently."
Participation in High School Sports Increases Again; Confirms NFHS Commitment to Stronger Leadership
Date CapturedTuesday September 19 2006, 10:12 AM
IMMEDIATE RELEASE: For the 17th consecutive year, the number of student participants in high school athletics increased in 2005-06, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS). Announcement of the increase comes as the NFHS, the national leadership organization for high school athletics and fine arts activity programs, launches new initiatives toward becoming a more proactive force for the future of high school activity programs nationwide.
New standards unveiled for Illinois kindergarteners
Date CapturedTuesday September 12 2006, 11:57 PM
AP MEGAN REICHGOTT reports, "The standards, which go into effect immediately, cover eight subjects, including language arts, math, science, social science, physical development, the fine arts, foreign language, and social or emotional development. They are the product of a four-year collaboration between the ISBE and more than 500 teachers from districts around the state, including Decatur, Springfield, Champaign, Rockford, Peoria and Charleston, ISBE officials said."
Nearly 1 in 5 Massachusetts schools not making adequate yearly progress
Date CapturedTuesday September 12 2006, 1:42 PM
AP reports, "In Massachusetts, the progress is measured using attendance rates, graduation rates and participation of and performance on the state's MCAS math and English/language arts tests."
SUNY Orange proposal to teach the business side of art
Date CapturedMonday August 28 2006, 8:30 AM
Times-Herald reports, "The program could begin as early as the spring semester, with plans to expand in the following semesters, said proposal author Richard Heppner, associate vice president for liberal arts. But Heppner stressed that nothing is definite and plans to retool it after speaking with Sugar Loaf artists as well as students."
Federal grant to fund arts education research
Date CapturedThursday August 24 2006, 9:20 AM
The Star Bulletin reports, "The grant will be given to Arts First Hawaii, a consortium of organizations including the Hawaii Arts Alliance, DOE, University of Hawaii College of Education, UH College of Arts and Humanities, Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, and Hawaii Association of Independent Schools."
New College of Florida shares title for top public liberal arts college with Virginia Military Institute
Date CapturedSaturday August 19 2006, 7:35 PM
Herald Tribune reports ,"Among other things, the ranking reflects New College's small class sizes, a high graduation rate and an average SAT score of 1331 for incoming freshmen."
Giving students a taste of life on campus
Date CapturedSaturday August 12 2006, 8:25 AM
Times Union reports, "Siena's Urban Scholars Program brings gifted and talented students from the Albany city schools to the campus for Saturday seminars throughout the year. Each seminar runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and is focused around a particular theme in science, liberal arts, or business."
Commission on the Future of Higher Education Report Urges Higher Education Shake-Up
Date CapturedFriday August 11 2006, 12:29 AM
NY Times reports on concerns of some commission members, "Another council member, the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, which represents 900 private institutions including liberal arts colleges, major research universities and church- and other faith-related colleges, attacked the recommendation to develop a national database to follow individual students’ progress as a way of holding colleges accountable for students’ success. The association called the proposal a dangerous intrusion on privacy, saying, 'Our members find this idea chilling.'”
New York changing test requirements for immigrant kids
Date CapturedMonday August 07 2006, 7:25 AM
The Journal News reports, "Education Commissioner Richard Mills outlined the changes in a letter last week to Assistant Secretary Henry L. Johnson of the U.S. Department of Education. Immigrant students who have been enrolled in U.S. schools for at least a year, as of January 2007, will begin taking the standard English language arts test in grades three to eight."
More Students in New York Will Take Regular English Test
Date CapturedSaturday August 05 2006, 12:58 AM
NY Times DAVID M. HERSZENHORN reports, "Ordered by the federal government to improve its testing of students who speak limited English, New York State said yesterday that all children enrolled in school in the United States for at least a year would be required to take the state’s regular English Language Arts exam. The test is given annually in the third through eighth grades.
Sullivan County Community College says cuts imminent without $1M from county
Date CapturedFriday August 04 2006, 9:10 AM
Times Herald-Record reports, "Some of the possible impacts: closing the Monticello Center, closing the Elderhostel program, cutting work-force education and training, slashing sports programs, leaving an admissions position vacant, not filling positions in nursing and culinary arts and not going ahead with planned health-care programs."
How to apply to Empire State College
Date CapturedSunday July 30 2006, 3:20 PM
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle writes, "Empire State College has everything from undergraduate degrees in 11 areas of study from the arts to science, mathematics and technology; to six master’s degree programs, including three Master of Arts in policy studies programs, a Master of Arts in liberal studies, a Master of Business Administration degree and Master of Arts in Teaching program for career changers."
Guggenheim Study Suggests Arts Education Benefits Literacy Skills
Date CapturedWednesday July 26 2006, 11:11 PM
NY Times reports, "The results of the study, which are to be presented today and tomorrow at a conference at the Guggenheim, are likely to stimulate debate at a time when the federal education law known as No Child Left Behind has led schools to increase class time spent on math and reading significantly, often at the expense of other subjects, including art."
Duke professor plans for-profit college with classic curriculum
Date CapturedSunday July 23 2006, 8:05 PM
AP reports, "Hull, who teaches at Duke University, plans to start a liberal-arts college in the fall of 2007. His plan is to operate it as a for-profit business, with investors, a copyrighted curriculum and a bottom line."
Sun shines in 'No Child' - a class act about NYC schools
Date CapturedWednesday July 19 2006, 7:24 AM
The Daily News reports, "Sun, a native New Yorker who is half-black, half-Puerto Rican, based the work on her outer-boro teaching experiences. It's about a naive instructor (named, natch, Ms. Sun) struggling to stage a 10th-grade class production of 'Our Country's Good,' Timberlake Wertenbaker's drama set in 1788 about Australian convicts doing a play."
Arts Instruction of Public School Students in the First and Third Grades
Date CapturedTuesday July 18 2006, 10:46 AM
This Issue Brief examines the changes over time from first to third grade in how often young children are exposed to arts education in the general classroom. The Brief also looks at differences in these characteristics by level of poverty and/or urbanicity of the school.
Old Man on Campus
Date CapturedSunday July 16 2006, 8:14 AM
NY Times (registration) op-ed contributor and SUNY Purchase president Schwartz writes about adult student housing, "This project is at the heart of the college’s mission: lifelong learning, student engagement for all ages, building audiences for the performing and visual arts and studies of the aging process. Moreover, it offers desperately needed housing for people 55 and older, who make up a significant portion of Westchester County."
Buffalo Dissolves Informatics School, Returns LIS to Education
Date CapturedSaturday July 08 2006, 8:34 AM
ALA reports, "The State University of New York’s University at Buffalo announced June 16 that it was dissolving its School of Informatics, with its two components—the Department of Library and Information Studies and the Department of Communication—moving back to their former homes in the Graduate School of Education and the College of Arts and Sciences, respectively."
Test scores vary, cloud students' progress; Group says results of state and federal exams differ, making it hard to gauge achievement
Date CapturedWednesday July 05 2006, 9:00 AM
CONTRA COSTA TIMES reports, "The study found a drop in the number of fourth-grade students passing federal reading tests in roughly half the states analyzed from 2002 to 2005. Yet those same states showed improvements in language arts on their own separate standardized tests. States also made more gains in math on state tests than on the national exam, called the National Assessment for Educational Progress."
Beyond technology; Engineering can be automated; the future belongs to artsy folks
Date CapturedSunday July 02 2006, 11:27 AM
Cool Community Colleges: Creative Approaches to Economic Development
Date CapturedWednesday June 21 2006, 8:46 PM
06/27/2006. Time : 11:00AM to 12:15PM (ET). This webinar will discuss the ways in which art, design, and culture are inegral to developing and strengthening an information- and technology-based economy. Learn how community colleges are fueling economic development and revitalization—locally, nationally, and internationally—while promoting creative industries such as crafts, high-end design, artisan foods, digital arts, media, and entertainment.
Will arts partnership boost a sagging Pennsylvania city school?
Date CapturedWednesday June 14 2006, 10:14 AM
Technology transforms voc-ed
Date CapturedFriday May 12 2006, 11:41 AM
Money needed for arts in SC schools
Date CapturedTuesday January 24 2006, 9:39 AM



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