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OCDE NEWSROOM
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EDITORIAL |
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Still in deficit denial |
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Sacramento got a dose of reality last week when Legislative Analyst Elizabeth Hill announced that this year's supposed $4 billion state surplus instead will be nearly a $2 billion deficit, to be followed the next year by an $8 billion deficit. Decisions makers, Ms. Hill warned, must come up with $10 billion in "solutions." Almost simultaneous, two government bodies predictably, but unfortunately, were up to their same tired approach to governance: more taxing and spending. It's not progress to impose more taxes to feed an endless craving. It's time to reduce government's size. It's time for the Legislature and governor to choose to do less, not more. |
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http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/government-year-billion-1924867-percent-state |
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |
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Autism won't wait for 'cautious' approach |
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I believe Thomas Sowell, in his column "Crusading vs. caution in diagnosing autism" [Opinion, Nov. 16], is wrong to assume that a screening tool and a diagnostic tool are one and the same. Having a child "tested" by screening means highlighting any red flags that may be occurring. |
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http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/nov-high-illegal-1924862-santa-years |
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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LA study links child obesity to poverty, lack of parks |
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Health officials say affluent communities with public parks have the lowest rates of child obesity. By contrast, the new Los Angeles County Department of Public Health report shows there are more overweight kids in cities with larger numbers of low-income residents, such as Hawthorne, Lawndale, Carson and Gardena. |
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http://www.sacbee.com/114/story/502984.html |
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COLUMN |
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Technical education fight rages |
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The growing popularity – even trendiness – of what we used to call vocational education as an antidote to California's shameful high school dropout rate received another boost the other day when the Little Hoover Commission, a venerable state government watchdog agency, touted its benefits. |
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http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/501883.html |
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USA TODAY
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Recreational reading on the decline in the USA |
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Despite rising education levels, a decade of Harry Potter and the near-ubiquity of big-chain bookstores, Americans of every age are reading less and less for pleasure these days, according to an analysis being released today by the National Endowment for the Arts. The decline, the study warns, could have grim consequences as people tune out books, tune in popular culture and become less socially and civically engaged. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/life/20071119/d_nea19.art.htm |
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NEW YORK TIMES
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English, Algebra, Phys Ed ... and Biotech |
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More than a decade ago, after George Cachianes, a former researcher at Genentech, decided to become a teacher, he started a biotechnology course at Lincoln High School in San Francisco. He saw the class as way of marrying basic biotechnology principles with modern lab practices — and insights into how business harvests biotech innovations for profit. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/technology/18ping.html?ref=education |
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WASHINGTON POST
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A Troubling Case of Readers' Block |
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Americans are reading less and their reading proficiency is declining at troubling rates, according to a report that the National Endowment for the Arts will issue today. The trend is particularly strong among older teens and young adults, and if it is not reversed, the NEA report suggests, it will have a profound negative effect on the nation's economic and civic future. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/18/AR2007111801415.html |
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FCMAT
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This site, operated by the Kern County Superintendent of Schools, has additional educational articles that might be of interest. |
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http://www.fcmat.org |
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