State Board of Education

A short review of Thomas Friedman’s latest book, Hot, Flat and Crowded.
Effective Leaders
The Gates Foundation’s first annual letter - on education.
Ohio stakeholders issue a report, Beyond Tinkering, calling for dramatic changes for teaching and learning.
Texas superintendents lay out framework for reform, including moving significant control to principals and other local leaders, in a new report.
Effective […]

This hearing has been moved to April 30, 2009. See this page for more information.

Effective Leaders
Watch (or re-watch) President Obama’s inaugural address and consider how education, and your role in education fits into the commitment he asked us to make as citizens.
Two AZ legislators propose using students’ remediation rate as measure of high school performance.
Effective Teachers
Alabama Dept. of Education issues report on innovation in teaching:
“The current teaching model, which […]

The next meeting of the State Board of Education will be held on Friday, January 30th, 2009 8:30AM (CST)
1st Floor Conference Room
Davy Crockett Tower
500 James Robertson Parkway
Nashville, TN
January 30, 2009
8:30 a.m.
(615) 741 - 2966
See agendas below…
Friday, January 30, 2009 State Board Meeting: Agenda (8:30AM, CST)
Thursday, January 29, 2009 Board Workshop Agenda (12:00PM, CST)
The annual […]

Afghan schoolgirls undeterred by attack
“My parents told me to keep coming to school even if I am killed. The people who did this to me don’t want women to be educated. They want us to be stupid things.”
- SHAMSIA HUSSEINI, 17, who has returned to school in Afghanistan despite being
injured in an acid attack.
National […]

Effective Leaders
Largest GA district proposes five year contract with state which would give district “flexibility in 12 areas, including freedom from laws governing teacher pay, class sizes, and limiting the duties of aides in classrooms, among other things.”
Geoffrey Canada, from the Harlem Children’s Zone, interviewed on the Colbert Report:
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