Education News Roundup: Aug. 1, 2012

Today’s Top Picks:

Is it the Sagebrush Rebellion vs. Outdoor Retailers?
http://goo.gl/nHu9t (SLT)
and http://goo.gl/OmOgy (KTVX)
and http://goo.gl/oFXlM (KSTU)

Prosperity 2020 aims to get 20,200 volunteers in schools.
http://goo.gl/2FMiI (SLT)
and http://goo.gl/IDwzQ (DN)
and http://goo.gl/Q8epl (Utah Business)
and http://goo.gl/TGxPw (KSL)
or the website
http://www.prosperity2020.com/
or an editorial from the Chamber’s Marty Carpenter.
http://goo.gl/Jel6y

Two questions: Was dim sum involved, and, if so, why wasn’t ENR informed of this ahead of time? ENR is all about the char siu bao. “Students in popular dual immersion program get closer to Chinese culture”
http://goo.gl/nR8yD (DN)
and http://goo.gl/d4TuS (PDH)
and http://goo.gl/5cSc8 (KUTV)
and http://goo.gl/gOu2i (KSL)

Legislative audit of adult ed and ed in corrections is completed.
http://goo.gl/pmKeI (SLT)
and http://goo.gl/3j7GD (DN)
or a copy of the audit
http://le.utah.gov/audit/12_11rpt.pdf

Daily Herald profiles new Provo Supt. Keith Rittel.
http://goo.gl/ZuyCT (PDH)

Reuters looks at AFT President Randi Weingarten and education reform.
http://goo.gl/fv7rY (Reuters)

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TODAY’S HEADLINES
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UTAH

Governor, outdoor industry leaders meet at time of big rifts Politics » Utah’s pro-development policies are at odds with the values of outdoor enthusiasts.

Utah leaders set goal of 20,200 volunteers in schools Prosperity 2020 chair: Business community ‘needs to step up.’

Students in popular dual immersion program get closer to Chinese culture

Utah spends more, gets less from education of inmates than regular adults Education » Audit calls for more funding parity between jails, prisons.

Rittel settling in as PSD superintendent

Child Poverty in Utah

Learning leadership skills at Utah Guard Freedom Academy

Players from the Ogden Raptors read to summer school students at Odyssey Elementary

School Lunch, School Breakfast and Special Milk Policy Announced

OPINION & COMMENTARY

Classless thieves in Lehi steal from the blind

Cheapskates on a Plane

With the iPad, Apple may admit smaller could work A 7-inch iPad mini may debut by the fall to battle tablet rivals.

Another bite at the “parent trigger”

Education is serious business

We love our teachers

Olympic effort needed for education

Education reform’s central myths
The education debate rests on two faulty premises: that public schools are failures, and choice is the solution

Education Advocacy Groups Seek to Engage, Tap Power of Parents

NATION

Teacher union boss bends to school reform winds

U.S. Department of Education Kicks Off Connected Educator Month All August. All Online.

Embattled education commissioner Gerard Robinson resigns Florida Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson’s tenure has been dogged by the public-relations pounding the department took after FCAT scores collapsed, followed a few months later by the school grades mix-up. His resignation is effective Aug. 31

Nevada superintendent outlines goals for public schools

Study Finds Timing of Student Rewards Key to Effectiveness

State agency says school laptop program on track

A New Kind of Hebrew School

Fact Of The Day #3: U.S. Far From Head Of Class In Effective Education Spending

Nonfiction Previews, Jan. 2013, Pt. 4: Tracy Kidder, Michelle Rhee, Ali Smith, and More

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UTAH NEWS
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Governor, outdoor industry leaders meet at time of big rifts Politics » Utah’s pro-development policies are at odds with the values of outdoor enthusiasts.

The showdown between Utah’s Sagebrush Rebels and the outdoor industry has been shaping up for months.
Peter Metcalf, a longtime leader in the burgeoning outdoor-recreation industry, recently accused Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and other political leaders in an op-ed commentary of “killing the goose that laid the golden egg. ” He claimed pro-development policies threaten to ruin the blue skies and pristine landscapes that draw billions of dollars in outdoor recreation spending in Utah.
Herbert responded by a casting Metcalf as an extremist who was unwilling to collaborate and invited Metcalf to resign from the Ski and Snowboard Industry Working Group — an invitation Metcalf accepted.
With their rift now seemingly as deep and wide as southern Utah’s Labyrinth Canyon, the Outdoor Industry Association is assembling in Salt Lake City this week for its bi-annual trade show.
The two sides come face to face Wednesday, when Herbert meets with the group’s leadership, which is exploring the idea of moving all or part of the twice-yearly convention out of the state — along with the $40 million in business and 40,000 visitors those meetings bring each year.
http://goo.gl/nHu9t (SLT)

http://goo.gl/OmOgy (KTVX)

http://goo.gl/oFXlM (KSTU)

Utah leaders set goal of 20,200 volunteers in schools Prosperity 2020 chair: Business community ‘needs to step up.’

Seven-year-old Xavier Beebe didn’t know a lot about the governor before he visited Xavier’s school for a news conference Tuesday.
But Xavier knew all about reading.
“It’s fun to have people read to you,” the second-grader said after listening to the state’s highest elected official read aloud a picture book about a late-blooming tiger.
Gov. Gary Herbert joined business leaders at North Salt Lake’s Foxboro Elementary for a news conference on Tuesday to highlight a new project aimed at putting 20,200 volunteers into Utah classrooms by the year 2020.
http://goo.gl/2FMiI (SLT)

http://goo.gl/IDwzQ (DN)

http://goo.gl/Q8epl (Utah Business)

http://goo.gl/TGxPw (KSL)

Or the website
http://www.prosperity2020.com/

Students in popular dual immersion program get closer to Chinese culture

OREM — Students enrolled in Chinese dual immersion programs from across the state met for the Chinese Summer Days Camp at Utah Valley University this week for some cultural education.
“The reason we are doing all of this is to try and bring them closer to the Chinese culture,” said Stacy Lyon, world languages director at Renaissance Academy in Lehi. “The further away a culture is from our own, the more difficult it is to learn the language.”
The camp was held Monday and Tuesday at UVU for students, parents and teachers who are involved with both Chinese immersion and dual immersion programs across the state.
http://goo.gl/nR8yD (DN)

http://goo.gl/d4TuS (PDH)

http://goo.gl/5cSc8 (KUTV)

http://goo.gl/gOu2i (KSL)

Utah spends more, gets less from education of inmates than regular adults Education » Audit calls for more funding parity between jails, prisons.

Providing inmates with educational services is viewed as one way to keep them from returning to prison, but a newly released audit says the Utah State Office of Education is spending more money per student providing academic services to inmates than it does on traditional adult education clients and has little data to show how academic achievement boosts job prospects or reduces recidivism.
The audit also found some inmates take hundreds of hours of classes with little to show for it, while others continue in educational programs even after earning a diploma or certificate — resources auditors said could be used to help other inmates or funneled into other programs.
In one program, an inmate student achieved only one level gain after more than 1,000 “contact” hours. Another inmate student who received a diploma, notching a high GPA, had more than 3,000 contact hours but still tested at a first grade level in math, which allowed the inmate to continue receiving educational services.
Better monitoring is needed, an auditor told the Legislative Audit Subcommittee Wednesday.
http://goo.gl/pmKeI (SLT)

http://goo.gl/3j7GD (DN)

A copy of the audit
http://le.utah.gov/audit/12_11rpt.pdf

Rittel settling in as PSD superintendent

PROVO — Empty 3-inch binders line the top of the window credenza in Keith Rittel’s office. Each one represents a school in the Provo School District. Since June 18 Rittel, the new superintendent, has spent 10 to 12 hours a day getting to know leaders and stakeholders in the district and the community, collecting data to fill those binders.
“I’ve met with every building principal, all the members of the cabinet, some board members, city officials and others in the community,” Rittel said. “I did it intentionally. It takes care of introductions and gives some perspective.
“What I’m seeing is people highly qualified running the district. They have good ideas in ways to manage the district.”
http://goo.gl/ZuyCT (PDH)

Child Poverty in Utah

The newest annual KIDS COUNT report released by the Annie E. Casey Foundation provides a clear picture of the impact of the recession on Utah’s children. And while it sounds like good news to report that the economic well being of Utah children is 13th best in the nation, other numbers aren’t so good, least of all, the fact that the number of Utah children in poverty rose by 45 percent from 2005 to 2010. Today, we’re breaking down the data, looking at the factors that contribute to the rise of child poverty in Utah, and what policymakers should do about it.
http://goo.gl/gWuco (KCPW)

Learning leadership skills at Utah Guard Freedom Academy

About 100 high school student body officers from around Utah are participating this week in the Utah National Guard’s 51st annual Freedom Academy.
The academy, which got under way Sunday and continues through Friday, features classes and activities aimed at helping the students learn leadership skills, according to a news release. It also promotes patriotism and provides motivation to get involved in the National Guard.
http://goo.gl/NjqAp (SLT)

Players from the Ogden Raptors read to summer school students at Odyssey Elementary

OGDEN — Local stars sparked Tuesday, causing school kids to beam.
The stars were eight players from the Ogden Raptors, many of them recent arrivals in this country, and on an English-language field trip to Odyssey Elementary School to read with summer school students.
The students are children who needed an early start on their next grade course work in order to do their best when classes start later this month.
http://goo.gl/qx43p (OSE)

School Lunch, School Breakfast and Special Milk Policy Announced

Salt Lake City, UT – – Statewide Local Educational Agencies (LEAs) announced their policy for free and reduced-price meals and free milk for children unable to pay the full price of meals/milk served under the National School Lunch, School Breakfast, and/or Special Milk programs. If the LEA participates in the program, they will have a copy of the policy, which may be reviewed by any interested party. Household size and income criteria will be used for determining eligibility this year. Children from families whose income is at or below the levels are eligible for free or reduced-price meals/free milk.
http://goo.gl/baJaJ (KCSG)

Children’s radon poster contest seeks entries

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah children have an opportunity to raise awareness about the risks of indoor radon by participating in the 2013 National Radon Poster Contest.
The Utah Department of Environmental Quality, Division of Radiation Control has coordinated this year’s contest in partnership with Kansas State University and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The state contest officially opened Wednesday and runs through Oct. 15.
Children ages 9-14 enrolled in a public, private, territorial, tribal, Department of Defense, or home schooling are eligible to participate.
http://goo.gl/LA0XR (DN)

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OPINION & COMMENTARY
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Classless thieves in Lehi steal from the blind Salt Lake Tribune commentary by columnist Paul Rolly

The Utah Foundation for the Blind and Visually Impaired is sponsoring a “sports week” that runs through Saturday at Lehi High School for about 25 visually impaired Utah teenagers.
The teens stay in Lehi hotels all week, and volunteers assist them as they compete in various sports like wrestling, judo, track and field, gymnastics and soccer.
The organization uses specialized soccer equipment, including balls with rattles inside so the players can hear the ball while competing.
The event started out on a positive note, with a lot of excitement from the teens and their parents.
Then, Tuesday morning, they all discovered that sometime Monday night, someone stole all their soccer equipment stored at the high school.
http://goo.gl/ZVtpx

Cheapskates on a Plane
Salt Lake Tribune editorial cartoon by Pat Bagley http://goo.gl/Oji9F

With the iPad, Apple may admit smaller could work A 7-inch iPad mini may debut by the fall to battle tablet rivals.
Salt Lake Tribune commentary by columnist Vince Horiuchi

In 2010, Steve Jobs famously interrupted an Apple earnings call to explain why his company would never make a 7-inch iPad. The screen is just too small to work the apps on it, he insisted.
“It is meaningless, unless your tablet also includes sandpaper so that the user can sand down their fingers to around one quarter of the present size,” said the tech titan, who died last year.
“We think the current crop of 7-inch tablets are going to be DOA, Dead on Arrival,” he added. “Their manufacturers will learn the painful lesson that their tablets are too small, and increase the size next year.”
So much for Jobs’ being able to see into the future on every front.
The fact is, consumers have since embraced the 7-inch computer tablet. Consider the success of the Kindle Fire and the Google Nexus 7. They’ve been so successful that Apple may be seriously re-thinking its position.
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So, creating an iPad mini may make corporate sense for Apple, but does it make sense for consumers? Here are some reasons why a cheaper tablet with a smaller form factor may fit into the lifestyle of many people who don’t have one.
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Education • If there is one market that Apple would love to penetrate more it is schools. The iPad already is making inroads as the preferred teaching device for many students. For example, the Piute School District has issued iPads to all its high school freshman, and even elementary schools in Utah are using them in classrooms.
But at $400 apiece, that can be a big investment. So, if Apple produced a $199 iPad mini — which schools could purchase for $159 to $179 through an education discount — educators would notice.
http://goo.gl/VBTzG

Another bite at the “parent trigger”
Deseret News commentary by columnist Mary McConnell

Blog readers know that I admire education commentator Rick Hess. He combines an ardent commitment to reform with a welcome insistence on asking how proposed reforms would work for teachers, parents, and students – in military parlance, the “boots on the ground.”
So I wanted to share his recent comments on California’s parent trigger laws. Parents in Adelanto, California have been trying for several years to employ California’s parent-trigger law to transform Desert Trails Elementary – a poorly-performing school serving a largely low-income, Hispanic population – into a charter school. They just won a court case, and it looks as if they’re finally going to get to pull the trigger.
Hess applauds the parents’ initiative, and generally supports parent triggers, but he also sounds some warning notes.
http://goo.gl/JKyFL

Education is serious business
KSL commentary by Marty Carpenter, communication director for the Salt Lake Chamber

SALT LAKE CITY — Nothing is as critical to a healthy economy as a well-educated and well-trained workforce. That applies to Utah’s ability to compete with the rest of the nation just as it applies to the ability of the United States to compete with the world.
Businesses understand the importance of a first-class workforce and, here in Utah, they have shown a determination to make a difference. Eighteen chambers of commerce, economic development agencies and other education-minded business organizations have signed on to the Prosperity 2020 movement. They have set three specific education goals to reach by the end of the decade:
http://goo.gl/Jel6y

We love our teachers
St. George Magazine commentary by columnist Rachel Barney

A few months ago I was sitting in a meeting with my 2-month-old daughter, Allison. The speaker asked everyone in the audience who was a teacher, anyone who had taught anything to anyone, to raise our hands.
On cue, my daughter raised her hand with the rest of us. Though my husband and I laughed about how cute it was, we agreed that Allison has already been a teacher to her parents. In the short time she’s been part of our lives she’s taught so many lessons — and I’m sure there will be many more to come.
Though we all can be teachers, some people seem to have a knack at educating our children on the important lessons they need to know — from reading and writing to the essential lesson of how to learn. Though parents have a large responsibility over their children, we also get a lot of help from the teachers at our children’s schools.
This year, St. George Magazine staff wants to honor another of our wonderful teachers in the Washington County School District.
http://goo.gl/tXT9Z

Olympic effort needed for education
USA Today op-ed by Michelle Rhee, founder and CEO of StudentsFirst

Like so many Americans, I’ve been hanging out in the living room with my family watching the Olympics. I’m sure I won’t be the only mom who has to clear furniture out of the way while my daughters try to imitate gymnast Gabby Douglas, also known as the “flying squirrel.” And no doubt my husband, Kevin Johnson, a former NBA player, will have the remote control on lockdown when Kobe, LeBron and the rest of this year’s Olympic basketball team hit the court.
I get as caught up in the Olympics as everyone else. But, as someone deeply involved in education, what I’d really like to see is some of the competitive spirit on display around our athletic prowess also directed to the competitiveness of our education system. Because the sad truth is that our students aren’t doing nearly as well as our athletes.
This spring, the Council on Foreign Relations warned in a new report that the United States has failed to adequately prepare kids to compete globally, a problem that the authors said was a threat to our national security. Now imagine what would happen if the U.S. Olympic Committee came out and said American athletes were so poorly prepared they wouldn’t even compete in key Olympic events, let alone win medals. We’d be furious and insist on a national effort to turn the problem around.
That’s not what happened when the council’s report came out. With the exception of a few headlines, it didn’t garner anywhere near the kind of urgent response it deserved.
http://goo.gl/3Gf03

Education reform’s central myths
The education debate rests on two faulty premises: that public schools are failures, and choice is the solution Salon.com commentary by Michael Lind, author of “Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States”

The “Overton Window” is not a new kind of low-glare, high-insulation windowpane. Nor is it the title of a paperback thriller like “The Eiger Sanction” or “The Bourne Supremacy.” Identified by Joseph P. Overton of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, the Overton Window refers to the boundaries of the limited range of ideas and policies that are acceptable for consideration in politics at any one time. In other words, the Overton Window is the “box” that we are constantly exhorted to think outside of, only to be ignored or punished if we succeed.
The debate about K-12 educational reform in the U.S. is an example of the Overton Window at work. For a generation, almost all of the debate about improving American schools has been limited to minor variations on two themes. First, it is endlessly asserted, American public education is a miserable failure, compared to the educational systems of our major economic rivals in Asia and Europe. Second, the solution to this alleged failure is the privatization and marketization of public education.
Such is the power of the “framing” produced by Overton’s Window that these propositions command broad assent among thoughtful and well-informed Americans, even though the facts do not support them.
http://goo.gl/WflcU

Education Advocacy Groups Seek to Engage, Tap Power of Parents Education Week commentary by columnist Sean Cavanagh

Vocal, determined parents are taking a prominent role in many of the biggest and most controversial debates over school improvement and school choice. But what, exactly, are parents’ interests in those issues? And what’s the connection between their interests and those of moneyed or otherwise influential groups trying to shape school policy?
Authors Patrick McGuinn and Andrew P. Kelly examine those issues and others in a pair of papers released today by the American Enterprise Institute, titled “Parent Power: Grassroots Activism and K-12 Education Reform.”
http://goo.gl/7yD1A

Copies fo the papers
http://goo.gl/W9ZUF

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NATIONAL NEWS
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Teacher union boss bends to school reform winds Reuters

DETROIT – In the maelstrom of criticism surrounding America’s unionized public teachers, the woman running the second-largest educator union says time has come to collaborate on public school reform rather than resist.
Randi Weingarten, re-elected this week for a third term as president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) with 98 percent of the vote, wants her 1.5 million members to be open to changes that might improve public schools.
That willingness to engage, she says, could win over parents, taxpayers, voters, well-funded pressure groups and cash-strapped cities that have blamed unionized teachers for high costs and poor performing schools.
“We have to unite those we serve and those we represent,” Weingarten said in an interview with Reuters at the AFT convention in Detroit. “And we have to think … what’s good for kids and what’s fair for teachers?”
http://goo.gl/fv7rY

U.S. Department of Education Kicks Off Connected Educator Month All August. All Online.
U.S. Department of Education

Because no educator should be an island, the U.S. Department of Education has declared August Connected Educator Month. Throughout August, more than 100 of the nation’s leading education organizations, communities, and companies will come together online to celebrate and explore the power of professional online communities and networks to meet the needs of education professionals – novices and leaders alike.
Connected Educator Month events will begin on August 1, with three days of the foremost innovators in education leading a series of online keynotes and panels, engaging participants in ongoing dialogue and learning.
http://goo.gl/uKuhP

Embattled education commissioner Gerard Robinson resigns Florida Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson’s tenure has been dogged by the public-relations pounding the department took after FCAT scores collapsed, followed a few months later by the school grades mix-up. His resignation is effective Aug. 31 News Service of Florida via Miami Herald

TALLAHASSEE — Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson resigned late Tuesday amid a months-long controversy over the state’s testing regimen and errors on school grades that forced the department to change the marks for dozens of schools.
In letters to Gov. Rick Scott and State Board of Education Chairwoman Kathleen Shanahan, Robinson said he was proud of his work with the department but wanted to spend more time with his family. Robinson was secretary of education in Virginia before taking the Florida job in August 2011.
Robinson’s resignation is effective Aug. 31, when he will have been on the job a little more than a year.
http://goo.gl/uzpyd

Nevada superintendent outlines goals for public schools Las Vegas Review-Journal

Taking a highly political job at age 75 has an advantage – freedom, said Nevada’s new Superintendent of Public Schools James Guthrie, who revealed five changes in store for the nation’s bottom-ranked educational system in a speech Tuesday.
“When you get there, 75, you don’t care. You say what you want,” he said, explaining that the job is not a steppingstone for him. He doesn’t have to worry that making waves will hurt his career. It’s a chance to do the job right, no ulterior motives.
But Guthrie, speaking at a luncheon hosted by conservative think tank Nevada Policy Research Institute at the Las Vegas Country Club, has come to realize in his three months on the job that change will be gradual and slowed by red tape, he said.
http://goo.gl/F0qq0

Study Finds Timing of Student Rewards Key to Effectiveness Education Week

Reward programs have a long tradition in classrooms—think of gold stars and perfect attendance certificates—but direct-incentive programs have had lackluster effects at improving student achievement. New research on student motivation suggests that the timing and format of several of these high-profile programs may explain some of their inconsistent results.
The new findings come in a working paper published this summer by the National Bureau of Economic Research. A team of researchers from the University of Chicago, the University of California, San Diego, and the Center for European Economic Research in Mannheim, Germany conducted a series of six experiments in three low-performing Chicago-area districts: Bloom Township, Chicago Heights, and Chicago. Steven D. Levitt, a University of Chicago economist and the author of the 2009 William Morrow book Super Freakonomics, led the study.
From 2009 to 2011, the researchers repeatedly scheduled low-stakes diagnostic tests of students in elementary and middle school as well as 10th graders. The students were not told about the potential reward until just before the second test; the researchers measured the incentives’ effect on students’ test-taking, not their long-term effort in learning the material.
Some students were promised no reward; others, either a trophy, $10, or $20 in cash given either immediately or a month afterward.
The team found younger students could be wooed by a trophy as easily as by money, but for older students, researchers only saw improvement with cold, hard cash.
http://goo.gl/c26Ud

A copy of the study
http://www.nber.org/papers/w18165.pdf?new_window=1

State agency says school laptop program on track Associated Press via (Boise) Idaho Statesman

BOISE, Idaho — State officials negotiating with computer suppliers to arm every high school teacher and student with a laptop under Idaho’s contested education reforms say they’re still on track to get the program started this fall.
The laptops are a cornerstone of public schools chief Tom Luna’s “Students Come First” reforms, which go before voters in November. But the plan to arm teachers with the devices first, during the upcoming school year, hit a snag last month.
That’s when Idaho officials abandoned the original bidding process meant to provide the devices, citing insufficient competition. As a result, the state Department of Administration is negotiating directly with providers of computers and services.
http://goo.gl/dbYvb

A New Kind of Hebrew School
San Diego Jewish Journal

There’s a new kid on the block in the realm of Hebrew language education, and it’s a form never before seen in San Diego.
This fall, Clairemont will become home to the city’s first-ever Hebrew language charter school, Kavod Elementary. The public school will serve 210 students in kindergarten through second grade in its first year and will add students and grades each year up to fifth grade. It’s the west coast’s first school to emerge from New York-based Hebrew Charter School Centers, a national nonprofit support network for Hebrew language schools.
As a charter school, Kavod aims to close the achievement gap in public education and create a diverse environment of children Jewish and not, of those who come from a Hebrew-speaking background and those whose who may simply want their child exposed to children from different backgrounds or to a language they’ll most likely never have the chance to learn again in public education. As a charter school, tuition will not be a factor, but as part of the public education system, Kavod will also be non-sectarian. It’s an unusual concept, unlike any other public non-sectarian or private Jewish day or Hebrew school that already exists in San Diego. Think of it like the French co-op schools popular for primary-grade children.
http://goo.gl/3ALAu

Fact Of The Day #3: U.S. Far From Head Of Class In Effective Education Spending Huffington Post

Wednesday’s “Fact of the Day” demonstrates how the U.S. is still struggling to make the grade when it comes to getting a return on investment in education spending.

http://goo.gl/WYymM

Nonfiction Previews, Jan. 2013, Pt. 4: Tracy Kidder, Michelle Rhee, Ali Smith, and More Library Journal

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Rhee, Michelle. Radical: Fighting To Put Students First. Harper: HarperCollins. Jan. 2013. 352p. ISBN 9780062203984. $27.99; eISBN 9780062204004. EDUCATION
From inner-city school teacher, to chancellor of the Washington, DC, school system, cover of Time magazine, and Oprah appearances, to founder of the advocacy organization StudentsFirst, Rhee has risen far and fast, courting controversy all the way. (Earlier this year, the Department of Education’s Office of the Inspector General began investigating whether Washington school officials cheated to raise standardized test scores during Rhee’s reign.) Here, Rhee tells her story while outlining ways to improve our educational system—and, given the importance of the issue, it’s worth reading the book, whatever we think of Rhee. With a 100,000-copy first printing.
http://goo.gl/XkKgd

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CALENDAR
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USOE Calendar
http://tinyurl.com/5x9oh9

UEN News
http://www.uen.org

August 2-3:
Utah State Board of Education meeting
250 E. 500 South, Salt Lake City
http://www.schools.utah.gov/board/Meetings/Agenda.aspx

August 9:
Utah State Charter School Board meeting
250 E. 500 South, Salt Lake City
http://1.usa.gov/Axtt5K

August 14:
Executive Appropriations Interim Committee meeting
1 p.m., 445 State Capitol
http://goo.gl/E0hoC

August 15:
Education Interim Committee meeting
2 p.m.
http://goo.gl/8WODJ

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