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September 22-23 Session Planned Institute Will Help Administrators Develop Plans to Help Schools Exit Program Improvement The Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) and Total School Solutions are teaming up to offer an institute on strategies to exit Program Improvement. The event will take place in Fairfield on September 22-23. ACSA Legislative Advocate Adonai Mack noted this learning opportunity is geared toward any school that wants to improve its academic achievement. “We’re strongly encouraging any of the schools in the state that have been identified as persistently low-achieving, or schools that are on the verge of falling into this category, have someone attend,” Mack said... New York, Massachusetts Approve Common Core Final California Commission Recommendation on Common Core Standards to be Released Soon The California State Academic Content Standards Commission – which completed lengthy meetings last week at the Sacramento County Office of Education – is expected to release its formal recommendations regarding a transition to the proposed national Common Core Standards in the next few days – perhaps on Friday. The final recommendations will go before the State Board of Education (SBE) during a special meeting on August 2. The SBE can either adopt the final recommendations, or reject them... Reading Databases Offer Parents Tips On Books O'Connell Encourages Vacationing Students to "Read to Ride" at the California State Fair State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell is urging students to enjoy an added benefit of reading this summer by taking advantage of the California State Fair’s Read to Ride program. Children in kindergarten through grade eight are encouraged to read two books approved by their parent, guardian, or teacher. The children then fill out a form and summarize the two books. In return, they will earn two carnival rides at the State Fair. Children under the age of six may draw a picture that describes the books... Study Confirms Delayed School Start Time Leads To Improvement in Students Mood, Behavior A pilot study conducted in a small private high school in Rhode Island confirms what many have been touting for years: the benefits of a delayed school day start time. Judy Owens, MD, a sleep expert with Hasbro Children's Hospital, reports that a modest delay in school start time of only 30 minutes was associated with significant improvements in adolescent alertness, mood and health. Her findings are published in the July issue of the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine... African American Students Make Gains on State Tests, Achievement Gap Remains A new study released Wednesday by the Center on Education Policy (CEP) finds that African American students have made gains on state reading and math tests and have narrowed achievement gaps with white students since 2002, when the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act took effect. But despite this progress, African American students as a group often had the lowest performance among racial/ethnic groups on 2008 state tests at grades 4, 8, and the high school grade assessed for NCLB... Latino Students Generally Doing Better on State Tests – But Gaps Remain Large The performance of Latino students on state reading and math tests improved in most states between 2002 and 2008 at grades 4, 8, and the high school grade assessed for the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, according to a new analysis of test results released on Wednesday by the Center on Education Policy (CEP). But as a group, Latino students continue to achieve well below Asian American and white students on state tests. The study, Improving Achievement for the Growing Latino Population is Critical to the Nation’s Future, summarizes key results for Latino students on the state tests used for accountability under NCLB... Some Asian Subgroups Still Struggle Academically, But Study Finds Asian American Students Generally Outperform Other Subgroups A new study released Wednesday by the Center on Education Policy (CEP) shows that in 2008, Asian American students were often the highest performing racial/ethnic subgroup in math in grades 4, 8, and high school, and in reading in grades 4 and 8. Asian American students also made greater gains between 2002 and 2008 than the white subgroup, ending up further ahead of white students than when they started. Some Asian students are struggling academically, however—a reality that is sometimes overlooked because of the high achievement of the group as a whole... |
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