Extractions: States have made considerable progress in public education reform by developing standards, assessments, and accountability systems and by improving teacher quality. States continue to build on these reforms by using multiple policy strategies to improve academic performance. For many students, test performance will over time with the implementation of new standards, assessments, and curriculum, and the introduction of better trained teachers and new teaching techniques. For other students, performance may be lower than expected because they are not prepared to learn when they arrive at school. Policymakers need to focus on eliminating barriers that affect these low-performing students' readiness to learn. Among these barriers are physical and mental health conditions that impact students' school attendance and their ability to pay attention in class, control their anger, and restrain from self-destructive impulses. To assist schools in ensuring that students come to school ready to learn, policymakers can review the burgeoning research linking student health with student achievement and design data-driven programs. They can also provide technical assistance to help schools incorporate health into their curricula and increase interagency partnerships between the health and education communities. Many of the programs profiles in this Issue Brief use these strategies to meet student health needs and improve student academic performance.
SchoolGrants Links - Federal Agencies Federal agencies. Regional Educational Laboratories States Served, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina http://www.schoolgrants.org/Links/fed_agencies.htm
Extractions: Index to Grant Opptys Sample Proposals ... Join the SchoolGrants Team! Links - Federal Agencies G et into the habit of regularly checking the various federal Web sites. These agencies frequently publish grant information as well as other useful data. If you know of links that should be included here, please let me know . If you encounter a "dead" link, I would appreciate it if you would let me know - please include the Web page on which you encountered the problem so I can find it to correct it. (Links on SchoolGrants always open in their own windows so you will always be able to return to your spot on this site.) Federal Agencies Regional Educational Laboratories Federal Agencies Department of Education Education Publications Related to ESEA Programs
Links And Resources STATE education AGENCY RURAL REPRESENTATIVE Walter H. Moore Department of education mississippi Families As Allies for Children s Mental Health http://www.cerebralpalsy.org/cerebral_palsy_links_resources/state pages/mississi
Afterschool Alliance State education Agency Contacts. mississippi Department of education The mississippi Forum on Children and Families http//www.mfcf.org http://www.afterschoolalliance.org/states/states_facts.cfm?state_abbr=MS
Neglected - Delinquent.org mississippi is participating in the Office of Justice Program s Serious and Violent State educational agencies (SEAs) must deduct mandated state http://www.neglected-delinquent.org/nd/States/MS.asp?state=MISSISSIPPI
IJive.com Search Engine: Mississippi: Education Supporting education and educators throughout mississippi. http//www.mpsa.org/. mississippi State Board for Community and Junior Colleges http://ijive.com/Mississippi/Education/
NFPA :: Learning :: Public Education The mississippi Project, Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition, Talking About Disasters Working to expand Risk Watch® in communities through multiagency http://www.nfpa.org/displayContent.asp?categoryID=196
Mississippi Crescent Initiative mississippi Development Authority The state agency having primary responsibility for assisting mississippi University For Women - Continuing education http://www.mscrescent.org/links.asp
Questionable Organizations: An Overview The US Secretary of education has recognized agencies that accredit schools of chiropractic, StopSIDS.org; Swedish Association for the Electrosensitive http://www.quackwatch.org/04ConsumerEducation/nonrecorg.html
Extractions: Home Search Your Guide to Quackery, Health Fraud, and Intelligent Decisions Send This Page to a Friend Promoters of questionable health practices often form organizations to multiply their effectiveness. How can one tell which groups are reliable and which are not? There is no sure way, but nine precautionary questions may help: 1. Are its ideas inside the scientific mainstream? Some groups admit that they were formed because their founders felt alienated from the scientific community. One group that made no secret of this was actually called the American Quack Association , whose main purposes were to provide emotional support to its members, poke fun at their critics, and stimulate positive public feelings toward unconventional practitioners. The group was founded in 1985 by Jonathan Wright, M.D., who became its president, and Roy Kupsinel, M.D., a "holistic" practitioner from Florida, who became its vice-president. It attracted about 300 members but no longer appears active. 2. Who are its leaders and advisors?
Mississippi Center For Justice The mississippi Center for Justice aspires to reignite the movement for State education policy on school discipline suggests this problem is pervasive. http://www.mscenterforjustice.org/
Extractions: fax 601-352-4769 DONATE TO KATRINA VICTIMS LEGAL RELIEF FUND NOW! In the wake of Hurricane Katrina Mississippi Gulf Coast residents, organizations and small businesses have immediate and long term legal needs, including: A grandmother now caring for her grandchildren and needing legal guardianship Children who have special needs getting access to essential services in their new schools Insurance being denied because companies deem damages caused by flood not hurricane Families losing their homes because they can't access their bank accounts Veterans not getting their medical and other benefits Elderly homeowners being scammed by predatory lenders Families needing to file for bankruptcy protection Newly disabled individuals who need help getting SSI benefits Immigrant workers displaced from jobs at poultry plants and casino hotels Lawyers are in a unique position to understand the depth and breadth of the legal services needed by the hurricane's victims whether they were pushed further into poverty or are newly poor and displaced.. We know you may have already given to organizations provided general disaster relief. But we still ask you to dig deeper to help the Mississippi
State Resources For Gifted Education mississippi State Department of education Gifted education Programs Texas education Agency 1701 N. Congress Ave. Austin, TX 78701 512.463.9581 (phone) http://ericec.org/fact/stateres.html
Extractions: This list includes State Department of Education offices responsible for gifted education and state-wide advocacy groups. For technical assistance, contact the individual listed for your state. State of the States, a book that provides state-by-state statistics and information, is available from Kristy Ehlers, listed under Oklahoma. State advocacy groups offer members a variety of services, including newsletters, conferences, and local resources. For current and detailed information on US State mandates governing gifted education, please visit Tennessee Initiative for Gifted Education Reform (TIGER) , and review their National Survey on the State governance of K-12 Gifted and Talented Education Reform (http://giftedtn.org/tiger/releases.htm). (70+ pages in .pdf format; Adobe Acrobat Reader required.) Alabama
Public Education Forum Of Mississippi Historically, education advocates in mississippi have not acted with one voice compile, and disseminate objective, interagency educational data while http://www.columbiagroup.org/images/public_education_forum_of_missis.htm
Extractions: The Forum Award for Excellence is based upon the belief that the affirmation and encouragement of excellence in educational practice will promote efforts to improve the education systems in the state. The Public Education Forum of Mississippi is committed to the identification and recognition of exemplary education practice in Mississippi through its awards program. The Public Education Forum of Mississippi recognizes examples of excellence in leadership in the implementation of best practices within our state. Recognition is featured at the Forum's annual Spring Awards Luncheon. Categories recognized are: A Distinguished Service Award is given annually to individuals who have made a major contribution to education in Mississippi. Legislators, business leaders, and educators may be nominated. Current Forum Board of Directors members may be considered for this award, but consideration is not based upon their service to the Forum. The Distinguished Service Award winner(s) are honored at the Awards Luncheon as well. Fall Legislative Forum The Public Education Forum of Mississippi increases collaboration and consensus building among educational advocates through an annual Fall Legislative Forum. In late Fall, educational advocates and representatives of government, business and the media are invited to a one-day forum. Participants have the opportunity of sharing their educational plans through panel discussions and brief presentations. Mississippi Educational Television provides state-wide coverage of the forum and produces two public information programs. One is aired in conjunction with the opening of the legislative session, and the other is shown as a reflection on the session after its conclusion. A legislative agenda report is prepared following the event and is distributed to key legislators prior to the upcoming legislative session.
Surveys Of Enacted Curriculum Method of Selection State education agencies SEA Directory Membership Meetings Profiles of State education Systems for Use with NAEP http://www.ccsso.org/projects/Surveys_of_Enacted_Curriculum/
Extractions: select Alabama Alaska American Samoa Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Col... DoDEA Florida Georgia Guam Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Northern Marian... Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virgin Islands Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Tools for Aligning Instruction, Standards, and Assessments The Surveys of Enacted Curriculum (SEC) offer a practical method for collecting, reporting, and using consistent data on instructional practices and subject content taught in classrooms. Surveys are now available for English language arts and reading, mathematics, and science (K-12). The survey instruments and reporting tools provide an objective approach for schools, districts, and states to analyze instruction in relation to content standards. Data and reports from the Surveys of Enacted Curriculum system are intended to assist educators and policy makers in several ways: alignment among instruction, standards, and assessments
CCSSO.org - Chief State School Officers Method of Selection State education agencies SEA Directory Membership Meetings MS, educational Administration, University of Tennessee http://www.ccsso.org/chief_state_school_officers/meet_the_chiefs/results.cfm?sta
CCFY | Initiatives: Out Of School Time mississippi Department of education PO Box 771 Suite 162 Jackson, MS 39205-0771 Texas education Agency 1701 North Congress Austin, TX 78701 http://www.ccfy.org/21cclc/21cclc_agencies.htm
State Approving Agencies State Approving Agency for Veterans Training education 2020 W. Third Street mississippi State Approving Agency 3466 Highway 80 East PO Box 5947 http://www.gibill.va.gov/education/SAA.htm
Our Vision Is Changing Lives Developing Resources for education in America, Inc., (DREAM) was founded in 1981 In 1991, DREAM emerged from its mississippi cocoon through its official http://www.dreaminc.org/
