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Extractions: Who supports making schools places for real learning, Democrats or Republicans? The answer: school reform crosses political boundaries. People standing up to the education establishment include liberals, conservatives, Democrats, Republicans, and Libertarians. The ranks of school reformers also include African-Americans, Hispanics, whites, women, men, Protestants, Catholics, Jews, rich people and poor people. On this page: General Education Issues Liberal Conservative For those confused by such labels as "traditional", "progressive" and whether education reform has a liberal or a conservative agenda, this is MUST reading: "Why Traditional Education IS Progressive" by E. D. Hirsch, Jr., The American Enterprise, March/April 1997, and reprinted in his book, The Schools We Need, and Why We Don't Have Them
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Extractions: Putting the Fox in Charge of the Hen House; Or, Why School Reform Often Fails to Improve Education by J. Martin Rochester, Curators Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and author of Class Warfare: Besieged Schools, Betrayed Kids, Bewildered Parents, and the Attack on Excellence . Excerpt: "Progressive educators say they want to individualize instruction. The only way this stands any chance of working is if the teacher has very few students, which might then enable one-on-one 'facilitating.' Hence, the latest magic bullet solution for what ails education - smaller class size. Never mind that Korean classrooms, which employ traditional pedagogy, average 30-40 students and outperform ours. Never mind, also that smaller class size just happens to exacerbate teacher shortages and puts upward pressure on teacher wages and other educational costs borne by taxpayers."
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Extractions: Section 2: Other Funding Sources and Services YOU ARE HERE: WVATS Home Pathways To Funding For Children Home > Other Funding Sources and Services Other Funding Sources/Services A - C D - F G - L M - O ... Fundraising for AT The Volunteer Eye Surgeons Association sponsors this program to provide free cataract surgery to people of all ages who have no other means to pay. Surgeries are scheduled annually on one day, usually in May. The toll-free number is 800-391-EYES The Advocacy Project serves many West Virginia families with children with disabilities as well as the professionals who work with them. This project serves Monongalia, Taylor, Preston, Harrison, Marshall, Ohio, Marion, Doddridge and Lewis counties. The Advocacy Project has an entirely volunteer staff. Clients can be accompanied to medical appointments by an advocate and will assist clients in scheduling additional testing and second opinions if required. The Advocacy Project helps clients locate resources to provide education regarding medical problems and the latest information. For more information call This funding source will cover 50% of the retail price of adaptive devices or software. The ABC board of directors believes that this program will allow blind and visually impaired individuals' access to technology products that will have a significant impact on improving employment opportunities, increase the level of independence and enhance overall quality of life. Applications must be submitted by June 30th, September 30th and December 31st for each grant period. For more information e-mail
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Extractions: Last year, the Hampstead Elementary School PTA in Maryland had two goals: to replace the schools aging playground equipment and to install a state-of-the-art wireless computer lab. Toward those ends, children tromped through the rural town hawking candles and drumming up participants for run-a-thons, all contributing to a $60,000 take to fund the climbers, swings, and keyboards. Little did the children or their parents know, however, that as fast as the money was coming in, it was going out. In July, just as the PTAs treasurer was finishing his two-year term, he was arrested for stealing more than $62,000 from the organization. The staggering loss has put the schools long-awaited projects at risk. The situation at Hampstead is an example of one of the biggest but least-discussed threats to parent groups: embezzlement. That anger is fueling local prosecutor Melissa Hockensmith, whos handling the case, in which John N. Biggs faces 39 charges of theft. The kids earned this money, and theres a good lesson we can show them, says Hockensmith. You cant take someones hard-earned money and just get away with it. Theres a good lesson for parent groups to learn, as well. Embezzlement is a fact of life. This problem is pervasive, says veteran fraud investigator Joseph Whall, managing director of The Whall Group in Auburn Hills, Mich., whos seen cases in everything from church groups to multinational corporations.
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Extractions: By Michelle Bates Deakin But Falk wanted to reach out beyond the ring of usual suspects: upper-income parents with high-achieving kids. And he wasnt just looking for involvement in the PTA. The former research chemist turned stay-at-home dad was hoping to get parents intimately involved in the schools curriculum with an eye toward improving the performance of all the students, whether they spoke English or one of the schools nine other languages: Bulgarian, Cambodian, Chinese, French, Khmer, Pakistani, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian. For a model of how to involve parents in improving schools, Falk and the administration of Park Avenue Elementary turned to the National Network of Partnership Schools at Johns Hopkins University. The group provided a road map for Park Avenue to follow. The plan showed the school how to create five action teams for reading, writing, math, behavior, and partnerships. And in just four years the results of those teams have been dramatic. Standardized test scores have risen, and behavior problems with children have dwindled, with suspensions all but disappearing. Communication between parents and teachers has flourished, with multilingual volunteers sending newsletters and making phone calls to parents each month. The Network pointed the way for us, says Falk. It allowed us to go menu shopping and look at what other schools have done and whats worked.
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Extractions: Fundraising Gone Wild! How much is too much? Recent research indicates that 71% of parents are concerned and overwhelmed with having to do more fundraising. Not only are schools running multiple programs each year, parents are also tapped by the local little league, football teams, Girl Scouts, and so forth. Parents and kids are simply burned out on the subject. Naturally, concerned parents who question why they need to do more also will want to know what they are doing it for. Kukta advises organizations to concentrate on the fundraiser that makes the most money for the school. To return participation to effective levels, fundraising experts recommend that organizations considering schoolwide programs forego adding too many fundraisers to the calendar. PTAs, PTOs, parents and faculty need to talk to each other and work together to deliver a common fundraising program that accomplishes a worthwhile goal.
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Extractions: EXTREME SPORTS ATHLETES educate children about Drug Prevention, Anti-Tobacco and Bicycle Safety for school assemblies with an electrifying bmx bicycle stunt show and presentation targeting drug awareness and bicycle safety. We have provided our exciting school assembly programs to thousands of schools throughout Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, and New York. ROLE MODELS AND SUCCESS Kids recognize riders such as Tom Rokosz, Kevin Porter, Tom Haugen, Aaron Frost, Jason Rodriguez, and Chris Gerber because they have seen them at the X-Games, Gravity Games or read about them in the bicycle magazines. Students look up to them and consider them good role models. This helps them deliver a positive message to the students about succeeding in life by remaining drug and tobacco free and never giving up on their goals. Our extreme sports school assemblies are perfect for..
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Extractions: forwarded anywhere! Selected Search Results Page: :: Welcome to the Ohio PTA :: Every child. One voice. Find everything you need to know about the Ohio PArent teacher Association. Includes general news and events, online event registration, online forms, and much more. AKPTA Home page The mission of the California State PTA is to represent our members and to empower and support them with skill in advocacy, leadership, and communication to positively impact the lives of all children. Colorado PTA everychild. onevoice. Georgia PTA Home Page Illinois PTA Home of the Illinois PTA K. M. Smith PTA Sign up for easy-to-use templates to build a teacher, school, or community-group website. Improve communication with parents and students by having your own class website. National PTA: Common Sense homepage Common Sense: Strategies for Raising Alcohol and Drug-Free Children, from the National PTA and GTE Corporation, provides drug facts, positive parenting tips and family activities.
Extractions: Send a Letter to the Editor Since the publication of "A Nation at Risk" in 1983, Americans have become increasingly alarmed about the dismal results and soaring costs of their public schools. No group of citizens has a closer view of these problems or a more immediate stake in addressing them than the parents of the country's 48 million schoolchildren. Here and there, parents have won minor battles to influence curricula or oust mediocre school-board members. But as individuals, parents are no match for the forces that favor the status quo. The mission of the PTA has always been to "work on behalf of the best interests of all children on issues that affect their health, education, and welfare" and "to encourage parent involvement." With almost seven million members, the PTA offers great potential for promoting parental involvement in the educational welfare of children. But in the 1990s, that mission requires of the PTA something it has been unwilling to do: demand accountability for performance and spending at every level of the educational system. Local Control Decades ago, parents had significant influence over their neighborhood schools. Over the years, however, school districts consolidated, teachers and administrators came to see themselves as credentialed professionals, and state laws standardized educational practices and curricula. Today, many parents are less likely to get involved in their children's educational environment. Nevertheless, the impetus for reform will have to come from parents active at the grass roots.
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Extractions: by Charlene Haar Since the publication of "A Nation at Risk" in 1983, Americans have become increasingly alarmed about the dismal results and soaring costs of their public schools. No group of citizens has a closer view of these problems or a more immediate stake in addressing them than the parents of the country's 48 million schoolchildren. Here and there, parents have won minor battles to influence curricula or oust mediocre school-board members. But as individuals, parents are no match for the forces that favor the status quo. Parents' most promising forum to agitate for reform and hold their local educators accountable for failure already exists: the venerated National Congress of Parents and Teachers, commonly known as the PTA. Unfortunately, parents cannot count on either their local PTA or its national leadership to advance parental interests or even air diverse viewpoints. As it operates today, the PTA is useless to parents who want to play a meaningful role in educational reform. The mission of the PTA has always been to "work on behalf of the best interests of all children on issues that affect their health, education, and welfare" and "to encourage parent involvement." With almost seven million members, the PTA offers great potential for promoting parental involvement in the educational welfare of children. But in the 1990s, that mission requires of the PTA something it has been unwilling to do: demand accountability for performance and spending at every level of the educational system.
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Extractions: Alternatives to the PTA National PTA leaders are urging delegates to its Chicago convention next month to approve a 100 percent dues increase. The change is only from $1 to $2. But if it is approved, National PTA revenues will increase by more than $6 million. Why a dues increase? Lobbying. "With this increase, PTA can be everywhere you would like to be," promise PTA's leaders, "whether it's mentoring in the classroom, keeping neighborhoods safe, influencing legislative decisions or helping to bring needed resources into our schools." Already, four of National PTA's 68 full-time staff members work at its government relations office in Washington, D.C. lobbying for and against federal legislation on public schools. PTA sponsors a legislative conference at which state and local officers and members develop lobbying skills and then return home to train other members to lobby. Through its web site, National PTA provides members with sample messages and directions on how teachers, parents, students and others should lobby on issues of concern to the organization's leaders. According to its treasurer's report, National PTA had revenues of $8.4 million in fiscal year 1998. That's insufficient, say PTA's leaders.
