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Afternoon Announcements: October 4, 2011
Education Week reports Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad is the latest state leader to come forward with his own ambitious plan to change education policy, one that would make dramatic changes to how teachers...
View ArticleStats That Stick: October 19, 2011
Number of amendments offered by members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee to the draft language to overhaul the No Child Left Behind Act: 144 Education Week's...
View ArticleHow Teachers Can Take Advantage of Technology to Improve Instruction
The following is a guest blog submitted by Jill Griebe, the District Literacy Coach for Eminence Independent Schools in Eminence, Kentucky, and a member of the Digital Learning Day Educator Working...
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Afternoon Announcements: November 16, 2011
Politico writes that eleven states have submitted waiver requests to get out from under provisions of No Child Left Behind, less than two months after the President Obama announced he would excuse...
View ArticleAfternoon Announcements: July 16, 2012
Monday is the undisputed* best day of the week. To celebrate that fact, High School Soup is giving you an extra large heaping helping of Afternoon Announcements today to feast on. You might even have...
View ArticlePromoting work-based learning efforts in Connecticut and Kentucky
A new case study from the Alliance and the National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium (NASDCTEc) focuses on efforts in Connecticut and Kentucky to support...
View ArticleMorning announcements: Why I hate school but love education
A new viral video incorporates rhythmic spoken word and overlay text to tell a perspective on schools and education. “If education is the key, then school is the lock,” the UK spoken word artist says....
View ArticleAfternoon Announcements: Obama Announces High School Competition in SOTU;...
The big news this morning is the high school competition President Obama announced during last night’s State of the Union address. The president said the competition will “redesign America’s high...
View ArticleAfternoon Announcements: Kentucky Districts to Receive $10,000 for Raising...
Kentucky education commissioner Terry Holliday is incentivizing districts to raise their high school dropout age from 16 to 18 by promising the first 57 that do a $10,000 state grant. Holliday’s...
View ArticleAfternoon Announcements: Gov. Bob Wise Comments on NAEP Results
"Today's economic trends show the rapidly growing need for college- and career-ready students; these results show that most of the nation's seventeen-year-olds are career ready, but only if you're...
View ArticleAfternoon Announcements: Mississippi Educators Support Common Core Standards
Learning with a personal tutor is one of the oldest and best ways to learn. Hiring a tutor for every student was never a realistic option. Now, new computer programs can customize education for each...
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