Telecom provider renews Indiana deal
Posted on February 18, 2010 at 9:39 amEducation Networks of America said the Indiana Department of Education has renewed its contract for a four-year term with the option to renew for a fifth. ENA has since since 2005 provided a consortium of more than 350 schools with Internet access, managed-network and telecommunication services for members of the IDOE E-Rate Consortium.
Since ENA was first awarded the statewide contract, ENA has been able to increase the total Internet access available to Indiana schools by over 700 percent while simultaneously cutting the overall price of service, creating cost savings for the State and participating school corporations.
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Dollar General foundation funds literacy programs
Posted on February 17, 2010 at 12:48 pmThe Dollar General Literacy Foundation has donated $500,000 to Volunteer USA, a group that focuses among other things on improving family literacy. The local retailer’s grant is being matched by the Barbaba Bush Foundation.
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Professor to shape CEP’s Houston fate
Posted on February 1, 2010 at 10:54 am
The superintendent of Houston’s school board has recruited a Texas A&M professor to evaluate two alternative programs — worth almost $20 million per year — run by Nashville-based Community Education Partners.
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Bellevue Center High School?
Posted on January 26, 2010 at 8:48 amCouncil Member Charlie Tygard has met with community groups to discuss if and how Bellevue Center might be converted into a magnet school. Joey Garrison has the details.
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Alternative school provider taking Texas heat
Posted on January 4, 2010 at 11:49 amIt looks like Community Education Partners, the Nashville-based provider of schools for troubled students, will have to fight to keep a longtime $20 million contract with Houston schools, where a new superintendent isn’t convinced the company is doing better than the system would on its own.
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Two high schools on U.S. News list
Posted on December 10, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Hume-Fogg and MLK have both landed in the top 30 on U.S. News & World Report’s list of the country’s top high schools. Schools in Maury and Sumner County are also among the 27 Tennessee schools recognized by the magazine.
SEE ALSO: Area’s top high schools slip on Newsweek list from earlier this year
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Getting innovation back on track
Posted on December 2, 2009 at 10:13 am
After hanging at the Innovation Economy conference, Clive Crook says one group of constituents in the Great American Education Debate has the right idea.
The policymakers, at least, are aware. Agreement on what needs to be done was total. Accountability; competition; pay for performance; finding and training good teachers, and shedding bad ones. It’s not that hard, in principle. In practice, because of the teachers’ unions, it’s like pulling teeth.
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HealthTeacher went down to Georgia
Posted on November 11, 2009 at 7:40 am
From BusinessWire:
Community Health Works announced that teachers in Houston and Bibb County will be the first of seven central Georgia school districts to have access to HealthTeacher’s comprehensive K-12 online health education curriculum with the goal of improving the health literacy of children and teens in Central Georgia. The partnership will eventually encompass approximately 4,200 teachers in 105 participating schools across 7 districts.
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Vanderbilt researchers: Let’s talk about containing school spending
Posted on November 5, 2009 at 10:57 am
Professors James W. Guthrie and Arthur Peng worry that the Recovery Act billions being poured into school systems across the country will lead to persistently rising education outlays “regardless of the diminishing returns in terms of student outcomes.”
Based on historic spending trends and estimating that the federal government’s stimulus contribution will grow to approximately $90 billion, Guthrie and Peng project that national per pupil revenues could increase at a rate of nearly 2.5 percent annually over the next ten years.
Yet, reading scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have been level for four decades. And, for a half century, nearly one-third of the nation’s high-school students have failed to graduate with their class each year, while graduation rates for black and Hispanic students are even lower.
SEE ALSO: The full paper, “The Phony Funding Crisis“
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Schools cutting back on soda and snacks
Posted on October 7, 2009 at 7:31 am
A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows public schools around the country making big strides in offering their students more nutritious food and beverage options. Tennessee, along with Mississippi, gets special kudos. Check out the full report here; the nutrition data starts on page 140.
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Area’s top high schools slip on Newsweek list
Posted on June 9, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Hume-Fogg and Martin Luther King have stayed in the top 30 of the magazine’s popular list of the country’s top high schools, but dropped slightly. Hume-Fogg, which two years ago was 58th, also has passed MLK.
Among the eight Nashville-area schools on this year’s list, only Ravenwood and Fairview moved up. Hillsboro High plummeted almost 300 spots from 2008.
Healthways co-founder wins an Ingram
Posted on May 26, 2009 at 2:22 pmIt was announced today that Tom Cigarran, Healthways chairman, has been awarded the Bronson Ingram Award by the PENCIL Foundation.
Each year, the PENCIL Board of Directors recognizes a community member who has been a leader in bringing support to public schools, served as an advocate for public education in Nashville and made exceptional commitments to education through their work and their influence.
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MTSU offers high school entrepreneurship program, seeks minority mentors
Posted on April 15, 2009 at 1:45 pmMiddle Tennessee State University will host an entrepreneurship program for incoming high school juniors on July 15.
The program will feature seminars on business formation, innovation, planning and marketing. Local entrepreneurs from the music, restaurant, information technology and real estate industries will offer students their personal perspectives on launching a small business.
Funding for the program was made possible by a diversity grant from the Tennessee Board of Regents. The grant is made available to programs that have the potential to serve under-represented groups like ethnic minorities.
Many ethnic minority groups lag behind other U.S. populations in business formation, which according to MTSU is based to some degree on a lack of mentors within their family or close social network.
In response, the MTSU Business Communication and Entrepreneurship department is launching the Partners Providing Pathways program. The program seeks to connect entrepreneurship majors with mentors from the Middle Tennessee community. Those who are interested can call 898-2902.
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For-profit education firm at center of Austin brouhaha
Posted on March 31, 2009 at 2:34 pmCommunity Education Partners, which runs alternative schools in five states, appears likely to miss out on a $5 million-a-year contract with Austin’s school district — at least for now.
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Between Washington and Jefferson, a pie pitch
Posted on March 25, 2009 at 6:40 pm
With state funding cuts looming, an Idaho history and economics teacher has begun selling ad space on his handouts.
“I had concerns. I didn’t know what this would open up for us,” Cotant said. “But we’ve let this happen because it makes a point about what economic hard times can force people to do.”
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