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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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Would changes to California’s color-coded school ratings lower the bar? |
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After seeing this year’s standardized test scores, state education officials want to change the way those scores translate to school ratings — in a way that likely would make more schools look better. The statisticians and administrators advocating for the change say it’s necessary as they calibrate the state’s new color-coded school accountability system. |
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http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-academic-colors-change-20171108-htmlstory.html |
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SI&A CABINET REPORT
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Teacher turnover remains high in low-income districts |
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Although teacher turnover has been an issue for districts throughout the United States in recent years, schools in high poverty neighborhoods and those that serve predominantly minority students continue to fare much worse, according to a report from the Learning Policy Institute. In Title I schools which serve more low-income students, turnover rates are 50 percent higher than non-Title I schools, researchers found. |
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https://www.cabinetreport.com/human-resources/teacher-turnover-remains-high-in-low-income-districts |
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KPCC
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How LAUSD oversees charter schools just changed in a big way |
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An eleventh-hour deal that saved nearly a dozen charter schools from rejection by the Los Angeles Unified School Board on Tuesday is remarkable not only for the number of schools whose futures it preserved.
In fact, details released Tuesday outline a deal that could fundamentally alter how school district leaders regulate charter schools for years to come — no small matter, given that L.A. Unified oversees more charter schools than any other single school district in the U.S.
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https://www.scpr.org/news/2017/11/07/77498/the-way-lausd-oversees-charter-schools-just-change/ |
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SACRAMENTO BEE
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Student exhibits and space industry execs to be featured at this year’s OC Pathways Showcase |
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There’s still time to register for the third annual OC Pathways Showcase.
The Nov. 29 event, highlighting collaborative efforts by educators and industry leaders to establish career pathways in science, technology, engineering and math — or STEM — will be held from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. at the Marconi Automotive Museum in Tustin, where dozens of student-led exhibits will be on display. We’re talking robotics, a flight simulator, a cube-shaped satellite and much more.
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http://newsroom.ocde.us/this-years-oc-pathways-showcase-will-feature-student-exhibits-and-space-industry-execs/ |
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NPR
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Baby's Got Mail: Free Books Boost Early Literacy |
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"A busybody." That's how Raven Judd describes her 10-month-old daughter Bailey.
There is one thing, though, that will get her baby girl to stop what she's doing: when her mother reads her favorite book, the aptly named My Busy Book. That book — and the others stacked in her favorite drawer — are from Books From Birth, a D.C. Public Library program that mails a book a month, every month, to enrolled children from birth to age 5. All children in the district are eligible.
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http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/11/06/552885008/baby-you-ve-got-mail-free-books-boost-early-literacy |
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