October 12, 2011

Education Week, Vol. 31, Issue 07
Law & Courts News in Brief Alaska Settles Over Rural Schools
Alaska has agreed to settle a 14-year-old lawsuit that alleged inequities in funding for rural public schools.
The Associated Press, October 11, 2011
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When hooked up to a computer, the Palatometer can provide speech-and-language therapists with a real-time image of students' tongue and mouth movements as they form words. A half-dozen school districts across the country are using the device.
When hooked up to a computer, the Palatometer can provide speech-and-language therapists with a real-time image of students' tongue and mouth movements as they form words. A half-dozen school districts across the country are using the device.
Classroom Technology Speech Therapists Get Inside View With New Device
With the Palatometer, speech teachers get a "mouths-eye" view of where students' speech patterns go wrong.
Nirvi Shah, October 11, 2011
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Eight year-old Gianna DeTara, who lives in a rural community outside Scranton, Pa., participates from home in an online speech-therapy session. Gianna takes the lessons through her online charter school, Commonwealth Connections Academy. School districts nationwide are starting to turn to online speech therapy as a way to save money and ensure that hard-to-find therapists are available to their students.
Eight year-old Gianna DeTara, who lives in a rural community outside Scranton, Pa., participates from home in an online speech-therapy session. Gianna takes the lessons through her online charter school, Commonwealth Connections Academy. School districts nationwide are starting to turn to online speech therapy as a way to save money and ensure that hard-to-find therapists are available to their students.
Sean Simmers for Education Week
Special Education One-on-One Speech Therapy Goes Digital
When therapists are scarce, some schools are turning to online speech lessons.
October 11, 2011
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Teaching Profession Letter to the Editor 'Talking Back' To Alfie Kohn
To the Editor:
I found Alfie Kohn’s Commentary offensive and useless ("Corridor Wit—Talking Back to Our Teachers," Sept. 28, 2011). He must have attended terrible schools and had incompetent teachers. His essay, accompanied by a caricature of a 19th-century schoolmarm, makes the assumption that teachers spend their time copying worksheets, torturing students with boring and irrelevant lessons, and peppering them with snide and sarcastic comments and questions. He assumes that homework is a waste of time, and that it’s OK to come to class unprepared.
October 10, 2011
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Special Education Letter to the Editor Writers Highlight CEC Spec. Ed. Resource
To the Editor:
We read with interest the Commentary titled "Where Are The Autism Teaching Competencies?" (Sept. 21, 2011). The teaching program developed by the authors is very interesting, and we applaud their work. With the increasing incidence of autism spectrum disorders, we are in complete agreement that educators need training and competencies to more effectively educate this population.
October 10, 2011
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BRIC ARCHIVE
Jonathan Bouw
Teaching Profession Opinion Getting Serious About Teacher Evaluation
Contrary to popular opinion, senior teachers can support new teachers and evaluate them well, Julia Koppich and Daniel Humphrey write.
Julia E. Koppich & Daniel C. Humphrey, October 10, 2011
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Federal Flexibility on Tutoring Pleases Districts, Worries Industry
Some $800 million in money set aside for Supplemental Education Services is being freed up under the Obama administration's NCLB waiver plan.
Michele McNeil, October 10, 2011
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Freshman Kilee Henry, center, waits for fisherman to haul up a net in Virginia Beach, Va. She and classmates from Ocean Lakes High School attended the launch of one of the environmental-literacy efforts making a splash in schools.
Freshman Kilee Henry, center, waits for fisherman to haul up a net in Virginia Beach, Va. She and classmates from Ocean Lakes High School attended the launch of one of the environmental-literacy efforts making a splash in schools.
Photo by Rich-Joseph Facun for Education Week
Federal Environmental Literacy Making a Splash
The U.S. Education Department unveils criteria for a "green schools" competition, while states and districts move forward with plans for the topic.
October 10, 2011
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Mothers arrive to pick up their children from Flowers School in Montgomery, Ala. Hispanic students have started vanishing from Alabama public schools in the wake of a court ruling that upheld the state's tough new law cracking down on illegal immigration. Education officials say scores of immigrant families have withdrawn their children from classes or kept them home, afraid that sending the kids to school would draw attention from authorities.
Mothers arrive to pick up their children from Flowers School in Montgomery, Ala. Hispanic students have started vanishing from Alabama public schools in the wake of a court ruling that upheld the state's tough new law cracking down on illegal immigration. Education officials say scores of immigrant families have withdrawn their children from classes or kept them home, afraid that sending the kids to school would draw attention from authorities.
Dave Martin/AP
Equity & Diversity Ala. Immigration Law Puts Squeeze on Schools
Officials move to reassure parents with new law in effect requiring data collection on immigration status of students.
October 7, 2011
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School & District Management Better Data Urged to Link K-12 and Postsecondary
Politicians, educators, and nonprofit leaders meet to discuss the importance of using data to support the college- and career-ready agenda.
Caralee J. Adams, October 6, 2011
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School Climate & Safety Study Finds Minority Students Get Harsher Punishments
A new report finds that African-American and Hispanic students are suspended or expelled more often than white students—even for minor offenses.
October 5, 2011
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College & Workforce Readiness Pilot Aims to Ready High Schoolers for Community College in 2 Years
Schools in four states are restructuring their academic programs into "lower division" and "upper division" courses aimed at readying all students for community college by the end of their sophomore year.
Catherine Gewertz, October 3, 2011
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