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Posted by education4and2parents on 8th October 2011
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Posted by education4and2parents on 23rd May 2011
Dr. Joe A. Hairston discusses student achievement in Baltimore County Public Schools.
A visionary and progressive leader, Dr. Joe A. Hairston has served since 2000 as Superintendent of Baltimore County Public Schools, the nation's 26th largest school system. Dr. Hairston’s administration is now among the longest in the modern day history of the school system. Dr. Hairston’s results-based leadership has yielded a growing list of achievements including greater student participation and success in Advanced Placement and national renown for the quality of high schools and arts education, use of technology, greater accountability, and resource conservation.
A career rooted in the classroom
A career educator, Dr. Hairston's ascent in education administration began and is rooted in the classroom. Over the years, he has developed and refined strategies that have proven successful in raising student achievement. Dr. Hairston began his career in 1969 as a teacher in Prince George's County. Within two years of entering the classroom, he was appointed department chairperson and five years after that he became administrative assistant to a principal. He was appointed vice principal in 1977 and was named a principal in 1981. While serving as the principal of Crossland High School, from 1982 to 1986, Dr. Hairston developed an organizational, instructional, and marketing model for high school reform that he next employed at Suitland High School. At Suitland, a low-performing school with almost 2,300 students, Dr. Hairston implemented a nationally recognized visionary magnet program, which increased achievement for all students in the school – not just those in the magnet program. His achievements in turning Suitland around were recognized by President Ronald Reagan, Vice President George Bush, and Secretary of Education William J. Bennett and led the school to receive a National Award of Excellence. Many of the elements of Dr. Hairston's formula for student success – developed throughout the 1980s – are echoed in the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
In 1989, Dr. Hairston was named assistant superintendent of Prince George's County Public Schools. Then in 1995, he became the first appointed (rather than elected) superintendent of Clayton County Public Schools in Jonesboro, Georgia. During his tenure in Clayton County, he earned praise for infusing technology into the administration and schools, increasing business partnerships, and developing community advocacy and fiscal support for the school system.A native of Virginia, Dr. Hairston earned a doctorate in education administration from Virginia Tech (1993), a master's degree in administration and physical education from American University (1976), and bachelor's degree in biology and physical science from Maryland State University (now the University of Maryland Eastern Shore) (1969).
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Posted by education4and2parents on 7th April 2010
The Journey Begins radio for the engaged parent and dedicated educator presents an interview with Mr. Scott Pearson. Mr. Pearson is the Associate Assistant Deputy Secretary of Education, where he serves as deputy in the Office of Innovation and Improvement. His portfolio includes issues of school choice and charter schools, innovation, and education for military families. Prior to joining the Department he was active in civic affairs in San Francisco, including co-founding and serving as board chair for Leadership Public Schools, a charter management organization serving low-income communities with college-preparatory high schools. Mr. Pearson has had a long career in business with America Online and Bain and Company, and served as a trade negotiator during the Clinton Administration. He is married to Diana Farrell and has two children.
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Posted by education4and2parents on 2nd April 2010
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Posted by education4and2parents on 19th February 2010
Dear Participants:
The staff at Forest of The Rain Production, Inc. would like to take this time to thank you for participating in our surveys. Your identity will be kept confidential. We will not share any information regarding your background to outside agencies.
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Posted by education4and2parents on 13th February 2010
This was the question posed by the Denver Public Schools (DPS) to parents. In an effort to measure just how engaged parents perceived themselves to be, DPS created a short quiz for parents to take.
We invite our parents to take the quiz. Feel free to comment on your results in our comment section for this posting.
1. YES NO Do you make sure your student completes his/her homework?
2. YES NO Are you a member of the PTA/PTO in your school?
3. YES NO Do you make sure your student reads everyday?
4. YES NO Do you volunteer at your child's school?
5. YES NO Are you on the CSC committee? (the decision making body for the school)
6. YES NO Do you regularly attend parent/teacher conferences?
7. YES NO Do you participate in parent trainings/workshops?
8. YES NO Do you attend family nights such as literacy and math?
9. YES NO Are you involved in the school improvement plan?
10. YES NO Do you communicate regularly with your child's teacher?
11. YES NO Do you know the reading level of your child?
12. YES NO Do you call the attendance line when your child is ill?
13. YES NO Are you on the interviewing committee at your school?
How to score your quiz can be found in the attachment.
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Posted by education4and2parents on 7th February 2010
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Addressing the American Male Imperative in Higher Education: Implications for Public and Research Universities A Discussion Paper of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
By Lorenzo L. Esters, vice president, Office for Access and the Advancement of Public Black Universities; with David E. Shulenburger, vice president, Academic Affairs
A۰P۰L۰U has developed a new draft discussion paper that builds upon the recommendations outlined in the earlier discussion paper, but focuses specifically on the need to address the issues of retention and graduation rates among American males and minority sub-populations. An increased understanding and emphasis on male students’ participation in higher education may help in achieving the goal of expanding higher education by 2025.
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Posted by education4and2parents on 27th January 2010
Dr. Sanders, earned her Ph.D. in education from Stanford University. She is a Professor of Education in the Department of Teacher Development and Leadership in the School of Education, Principal Research Scientist in the Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships, and Senior Advisor to the National Network of Partnership Schools at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of many publications on how schools and districts develop their partnership programs and effects of partnerships on African-American adolescents’ school success. Her most recent book, Principals Matter: A Guide to School, Family, and Community Partnerships (with Steven Sheldon, Corwin Press, 2009) focuses on principals’ leadership for developing effective partnership programs.
Other books include Building school-community partnerships: Collaboration for student success, (Corwin Press, 2005), and Schooling students placed at risk: Research, policy, and practice in the education of poor and minority adolescents (LEA, 2000). Dr. Sanders’ interests include how schools define and develop meaningful school-community connections and how district leaders guide their schools to develop partnership programs. Dr. Sanders also directs the Graduate Certificate Program in Leadership for School, Family, and Community Collaboration and teaches related leadership courses.
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Posted by education4and2parents on 8th January 2010
Brenda High discusses the issue of bullying and its impact on children and families in an interview on the news show Educational Gateway, heard on The Journey Begins, radio for the engaged parent and dedicated educator.
Brenda has now become a passionate crusader, a mom on a mission to stop school bullying and peer abuse. It is not uncommon to see Brenda doing email or on the phone talking about bullying as well as advising parents, students, teachers, state and federal lawmakers, media and community members about the emotional and physical dangers of bullying, which can lead to bullycide, (a suicide attributed to bullying).
Producers from The Oprah Show, FOX News, Good Morning America, CNN, The John Walsh Show, The Larry Elders Show, Video Production Companies, Inside Edition, Jenny Jones Show, Black Entertainment Television, NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation and News Documentaries, to name a few, have constulted and/or interviewed Brenda concerning bullying, depression, suicide, bullycide and how to heal from life changing traumas.
Jared's story
Jared High was 12 years old when older students bullied him in his middle school. The bullying came to a head when a well known bully assaulted Jared inside his middle school gym. Because of the bullying and the assault, Jared began to show signs of depression, which included lack of sleep and emotional outbursts.
On the morning of September 29, 1998, just six days after his 13th birthday, Jared called his father at work to say good-bye. While on the phone with him, Jared shot himself, dying instantly.
As a healing project, Brenda began to write Jared's story, which is now published as
www.jaredstory.com. Since 1999, JaredStory.com has attracted over two million visitors looking for information on bullying, depression, suicide and needing healing from the loss of a loved one.
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Posted by education4and2parents on 15th November 2009
Carmita Vaughan Chief Strategy Officer
Listen to an exclusive interview with Carmita Vaughan, of America's Promise Alliance October 23, 2009 on
The Journey Begins, radio for the engaged parent and dedicated educator.
Former Chief of Staff of Chicago Public Schools Office of High Schools and High School Programs, Carmita Vaughan joined America’s Promise Alliance in 2009. As Chief Strategy Officer, Vaughan leads Alliance efforts to improve the lives of disadvantaged youth. She oversees the Alliance’s Dropout Prevention Summits and the “Grad Nation” initiative, to help communities increase high school graduation rates and ensure that all students graduate high school-, college- and work-ready.
While at Chicago Public Schools (CPS), Vaughan worked closely with Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education, to develop a comprehensive strategy to increase Chicago’s graduation rate to 70 percent by 2010. Vaughan worked toward developing and implementing a systematic approach to address at-risk students, as well as those who already dropped out of school. She also managed all central high school operations and administrative services supporting 120 schools in areas including budget, human resources, data systems, and communications.
In addition to institutionalizing programs directed at Chicago’s students, Vaughan led efforts to support principals and teachers. She spearheaded an initiative to provide additional faculty support and compensation in 40 of the district’s highest-need schools through a performance-based pay initiative. This proposal led to CPS being awarded a $27.5M grant from the Department of Education – the largest competitive federal grant it had ever received.
Vaughan began her tenure with the Chicago Public Schools through the Broad Residency in Urban Education, a two-year, national program that builds leadership in urban public school districts. Prior to joining CPS, Vaughan served in global marketing, strategic planning, and engineering/operations management roles in several Fortune 500 companies, including Procter and Gamble and Danaher Corporation.
Vaughan holds a Master’s in Business Administration from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, and received her undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan.
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