Well, this is my first blog post ever. I am used to just mulling things over in my head, grumbling to my pals, or telling students what to read. Today, though, my topic is a few overlooked gems I would like to assign as reading to aides to members of Congress regarding decisions they will soon have to make about our nation’s testing policies.My expectation is that Congress will, at least some time in 2013, resume debating whether to keep mandated state testing in grades 3 through 8 under No Child Left Behind, and what kind of stakes to require states to attach. So once...
Hindi Rhymes
Machhli jal ki raani hai...Watch the videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHy03Uk7...
Students with Disabilities and Charter Schools – Legal Watch
Three weeks ago, I attended the Education Law Association Annual Conference. Over the course of the three-day conference there were many discussions regarding whether charter schools are appropriately serving student with disabilities. These conversations were quite intriguing considering that I handled special education legal matters for almost ten years. Over the last decade, the number of students enrolling in charter schools has increased. Many education professionals see charter schools as a way to fix some of America’s failing schools. To date, much research...
Don't Give up Hopes : Inspirational Thoughts in English and Hindi
Haariye Na HimmatBeautiful pictures are Prepared in a dark room. So if you see darkness in your life, believe that god is making A beautiful future for you.JindgiAajmati Hai Jindgi Usi KoJo Kathin Raston ParChalna Janta HaiZindgi Me Jeet Usi Ki Hoti HaiJo Sab Kuchh Kho Kar BhiMuskurana Janta Ho...Agr Aapne Mushkil Parishthitiyon me Bhi Muskurana Seekh Liya To SamjhoAapne Aadhi Ladaaee Jeet Lee.Kathin SamayJindgi me apne aur paraaye ki pehchaan bure waqt me hi hoti hai.Kathin samay hame apne aapka vishleshan karne ka mouka deta hai.Koun apna hai, koun...
SWEET SMS
WAQT SE LAD K JO.....Waqt Se Lad K Jo Apna Nasib Badal leInsan Wahi Jo Apni Taqdir Badal le Kal Kya Hoga Kabhi Na SochoKya Pata Kal Waqt Khud Apni Tasvir Badal le....YAH SAFAR DOSTI KA......Yah safar dosti ka kabhi khatm na hoga, Doston se pyaar kabhi kam na hoga, Door rah kar bhi jab rahegi mahak iski, Humen kabhi bichadne ka gum na hoga.'''TANHA THI ZINDAGI LAMHO.....'''Tanha Thi Zindagi Lamho Ki Bheed Me...Socha Koi Dost Nahi Takdeer Mein...Par Jab Aap Dost Bane To Aisa Laga...Jaise Kuch Khas Tha Kismat Ki Lakeer Me.MANG KAR BHI RAB SE......Mang...
HAPPY TO SCHOOL
A new concept to make our school happy and pleasantest.In several schools many teachers feel unhappy to go to school. It is a problem to them that how to pass their time there.If the students say this, we may try to find out the reasons but if teachers say this, we have to think on the problem…!Tips for Happy Schools How to make a school "Happy School"?Happiness is one of the most attractive plus point for schools. A happy environment is always attracts the students and teachers both. Schools should be a pleasantest place. So it is important to maintain...
Reasons of Low Attendance in Schools
Why do students not like to go to school?It is a burning issue of almost all government schools that the attendance of the students is very low in the school, while government is giving more and more facilities to the students and spending a huge amount on education. The more important factor is that the schools have been facing this problem for recent one or two decades. The arising questions are:- Is our new education policy is fail to adjust to face the new generation society? Or Is our government is not able to administrate the education...
Freedom to be College Ready? Reforming Community College Developmental Education
I am fresh off the fall conference season having most recently attended the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), the leading scholarly organization on all things postsecondary education. The conference theme was “Freedom to Learn,” which ASHE President Anna Neumann eloquently defended in her keynote and further challenged the association membership to consider how teaching and learning touches their work, including work in the policy domain. This challenge could not be more central to the predominant policy conversations and research related to college readiness...
Last week, I wrote a post for the Office of Community College Research and Leadership. This post focuses on the need for state education agencies to collaborate around establishing research agendas. As states begin developing state longitudinal data systems for collecting student information, it is important that a coherent and developed research agenda exists as a framework for conducting educational research.You can read the entire post here: http://occrl.illinois.edu/collaboration-and-statewide-research-agend...
Earlier this year, Zócalo Public Square asked several higher education policy experts: Will America’s public universities remain competitive with elite private universities in their teaching and research? Several researchers and experts responded (you can view the full discussion here). Among them was Forum Fellow and University of Illinois Assistant Professor, Dr. Jennifer Delaney. Dr. Delaney’s response:Only if funding is properly restored–which is unlikely. Both public and private institutions suffered in the last recession, but there is increasingly cause to be concerned about a growing stratification...
Turnaround, Transformation, and now Trigger: Repositioning parents in reform recipes
It is worthwhile to think about the ways parents are positioned in school reform models, old and new ones. Until 2010, parents were engaged in education policy primarily, if at all, through School Site Councils, in Chicago known as Local School Councils, which are local decision-making bodies of parents, teachers, and community members that make school policy such as but not limited to curriculum, principal hiring and termination, and budget. This has changed in some ways with the US Department of Education School Improvement Grants Programendorsed school...
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