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Posted December 12, 2007 Fall 2007 - The Rural Education Dilemma - New technologies remove the middle-man from knowledge, opening the door to new education delivery models that focus on students as learners (actors) with teachers as advisors (guides). Traditional institutional models and funding streams create barriers to innovation, Rural Minnesota Journal. Fall 2007 - Questioning Conventional Wisdom About Minnesota’s Public Schools - Describes the need to redefine the goals of public education in Minnesota and develop broader indicators of progress; provides summaries of eight model high schools, Rural Minnesota Journal. Posted December 11, 2007 October 2007 - Justice, Where Art Thou? A Framework for the Future - To successfully implement the Framework, Minnesotans will need to build bridges across racial, ethnic and socio-economic divisions in new and effective ways – ways that have so far escaped us, Council on Crime and Justice.
All at Engaging Parents > Learning at School > Achievement Gap > About Both > Community Reform > Institutional Racism Posted December 7, 2007 December 7, 2007 - Segregation is back, and our future is on the line - Swift changes in the Twin Cities area hurt students and have a ripple effect, Star Tribune. (More from Myron Orfield, University of Minnesota Institute on Race & Poverty.) Posted December 1, 2007 Race Matters Toolkit - The approach described in the toolkit deals specifically with policies and practices that contribute to inequitable outcomes for children, families, and communities. The toolkit presents a specific point of view on addressing unequal opportunities by race and simple, results-oriented steps to help you achieve your goals, Annie E. Casey Foundation. Fall 2007 - The Right to the City Tides Foundation Report: From policy to poverty: a structural racism analysis (pages 18-19)- Our challenge as a nation is to tackle fundamental community issues on the frontend: bringing the housing activists, the transportation activists, the education activists, and the health care activists together to create vital communities from the ground up, the Tide Foundation. Posted November 26, 2007 July 2007 - Educating Minnesota’s Immigrant Students: Phase I: Challenges and Opportunities - The first phase of the Study Committee on Immigration and Higher Education, a joint project of the Citizens League and the MACC Alliance of Connected Communities. Posted November 19, 2007 September 2007 - Snapshots - Information, statistics and data from numerous sources to create a comprehensive picture of the experiences of young people aged 10 to 18 in Minnesota, Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) and Department of Public Safety (DPS). Posted November 16, 2007 September 2007 - America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline® - There's an urgent national crisis at the intersection of poverty and race that puts Black boys at a one in three lifetime risk of going to jail, and Latino boys at a one in six lifetime risk of the same fate. Tens of thousands of children and teens are sucked into the Pipeline each year, Children's Defense Fund.
at Engaging Parents > Learning at School > Achievement Gap > About Both > Community Reform > Institutional Racism Posted November 12, 2007 September 24, 2007 - Education and Economic Competitiveness - Education fundamentally supports advances in productivity, upon which our ability to generate continuing improvement in our standard of living depends. If we are to successfully navigate such challenges as the retirement of the baby-boom generation, advancing technology, and increasing globalization, we must work diligently to maintain the quality of our educational system where it is strong and strive to improve it where it is not. Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben S. Bernanke speech at the U.S. Chamber Education and Workforce Summit, Washington, D.C. Posted November 2, 2007 October 2007 - Into the Eye of the Storm: Assessing the Evidence on Science and Engineering Education, Quality, and Workforce Demand - Recent policy reports claim the United States is falling behind other nations in science and math education and graduating insufficient numbers of scientists and engineers. Review of the evidence and analysis of actual graduation rates and workforce needs does not find support for these claims, Urban Institute. Posted October 31, 2007 Fall 2007 - Prioritizing Education in Community Development Efforts - This issue of Community Investments, a publication of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Department of Community Development, explores the links between community development efforts and educational reform. December 2006 - Let Us Meet You Where You Are: Securing the Educational Accomplishments of Migrant Students (SEAMS) - A Comprehensive Needs Assessment for migrant students in Minnesota, Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment through Research (HACER). Posted October 16, 2007 October 2007 - ‘Restoring Value’ to the High School Diploma: The Rhetoric and Practice of Higher Standards - Several recent high-profile reports calling for the “reinvention” of the American high school are simplistic and seriously flawed. The current push for “rigor” fails on several levels. Recommends “multiple pathways” structured around themes, some drawn from occupational areas, others drawn from broad, multidisciplinary concepts, EPRU/Education and the Public Interest Center. Posted October 8, 2007 Fall 2007 - Freshman Year: The Make-it or Break-it Year - Here’s what really matters far more than anything: Grades and Attendance, University of Chicago Consortium for Chicago School Research (Parent Brief: English Spanish). October 2007 - The 17th Bracey Report on the Condition of Public Education - Educators paid a terrible price for the success of Sputnik, Phi Delta Kappan. U.S. Scores Arranged by Percentage of Students in Poverty in the Schools In the October 2007 17th Bracey Report on the Condition of Public Education published in Phi Delta Kappan, author Gerald Bracey arranged U.S. Scores based on the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) and the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)concentrations of poverty within the schools (page 15). Accordingly,
- Chart - International comparisons touting all U.S. schools are failing clearly overstate their case when the data is disaggregated by poverty. The international data reflects the strong correlation between student achievement and poverty . Posted October 3, 2007 June 2007 (Updated) - Did You Know 2.0 - What are we doing to prepare for the future? - Watch this video on YouTube to get just an inkling of what's going on in the world. Then join the conversation at shifthappens.wikispaces.com [FYI: 10/03/2007 2:59PM Views: 400,584 |Comments: 273 |Favorited: 2534 times - see below for links to original Fischbowl files] January 2006 - Report to the Saint Paul City Council on Mind the Gap: Reducing Disparities to Improve Regional Competitiveness in the Twin Cities, City of Saint Paul Department of Planning and Economic Development. Posted September 26, 2007 September 2007 - Education Pays 2007: The Benefits of Higher Education for Individuals and Society - Higher education yields significant rewards to its recipients and society as a whole, The College Board (Press Release). Posted September 6, 2007 August 2007 - Comparative Indicators of Education in the United States and Other G-8 Countries: 2006 - Provides information about academic performance (2003 PISA and TIMSS), education expenditures and good descriptions of the education programs in G-8 countries, National Center for Education Statistics. October 2004 - A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America’s Brightest Students - Provides research to debunk myths about acceleration: moving through the traditional curriculum at rates faster than typical by matching the level and complexity of the curriculum with the readiness and motivation of the student, University of Iowa. Minnesota 2007 SAT Total Mean Scores by Ethnicity (table) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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