Data about the work of the National Math and Science Initiative shows that the Dallas-based non-profit continues to help more students become proficient in those key subjects. That is part of the story that representatives from NMSI will tell in a briefing for members of Congress tomorrow in Washington.
From my perspective, they have a good story to report. A big part of the group’s work is getting more students to not only take Advanced Placement exams but to pass them. Data from NMSI’s third-year of work shows a 124 percent increase in NMSI students passing AP exams in math, science and English. That is better than the 23 percent increase in passing rates nationally.
Here are two more especially important parts of the data:
Black and Hispanic students taking NMSI AP exams in math, science and English had a 216 percent rate increase in their passing rates over that three-year period. And female students had a 144 percent increase in their passing rates for math and science exams.
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I have created a new series of videos on the Esri Education Team’s YouTube Channel and on my geography channel that describes the process of gathering field data with GPS and mapping and analyzing it with GIS in educational contexts. The videos feature explanations and demonstrations not only on the technical procedures involved with gathering data on locations and characteristics of data and then analyzing its spatial patterns, but also the pedagogical advantages to using these technologies within the context of spatial thinking in instruction. In short, they focus not only the “hows”, but also the “whys”.
Topics covered are suitable for all levels of education, formal and informal, in multiple disciplines ranging from environmental studies to geography, history, mathematics, and earth and biological sciences. The video
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In the name of search engine optimization, there are far more than fifty things you can do to get your website to rank high wherever potential customers can best look at you. However, with all these tactics, there are many that work to be able to increase traffic. There are a few which do nothing and presently there are perhaps handfuls which have an effect on you negatively. When you’re hiring consultants to get your internet site rank high for engines like google, you must have the specialist that uses ranking tools that work well.
Keywords are important with Seo however, if you are making use of them within the wrong way, you’ll find your company at the bottom or the double digits with search engine pages. Whenever you employ a seo organization or some professionals, make sure that they’ve got the best processes like making use of the keywords in the title, anchor text and so forth to improve traffic.
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The Plantation-based Gold Coast Hurricanes, propelled by University of Alabama signee Leslie Jury, mowed through the first two rounds of winner’s-bracket competition without allowing a run Wednesday at the ASA 18U Gold National softball championship in Santee, Calif.
Jury pitched 7 2/3 scoreless, allowing only six base runners in the Hurricanes’ 14-0 demolition of the Worcester Hawks and then the 4-0 victory over the hometown San Diego Renegades.
In the rout of Worcester, University of Florida signee and American Heritage graduate Bailey Castro hit a two-run home run as part of a nine-run seventh inning.
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My wife sometimes shows me paint samples. I tell her they all look fine to me. That was the way most school districts assessed teachers until recently, when many critics, including me, said that wasn’t good enough.
School districts, particularly in the Washington area, are now spending much time and money building complicated systems to identify the worst and best teachers, and some gradations in between. They are finding this hard to do. I am beginning to wonder if it’s worth so much effort.
My colleague Michael Alison Chandler recently reported that Maryland is having so much trouble designing its evaluation system that it has asked for a year’s extension on its $250 million federal grant to finish the job. D.C. schools are two years into their new system, called IMPACT, but good teachers and principals I know have found it unnecessarily aggravating. Its e Read more…
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