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NEA Priority School, Romulus, MI: Teacher Home Visits Can Lead to School Transformation
At an NEA Priority School just outside of Detroit, the national Parent Teacher Home Visit Program (PTHVP) is helping teachers and parents engage on a whole new level. Instead of the traditional parent-teacher conference conducted in school, teachers go to students’ homes to hold conversations with parents about each student’s overall performance. This is not the typical parent-teacher conference conducted in the classroom. Instead, this is a reciprocal conversation conducted in the...
Related topics : home school teacher / home school education / home school program
MAP Test Boycott National Day of Action: Garfield High School Rally
SEATTLE, Washington (February 6, 2013) -- National Education Association (NEA) members that teach at Garfield High School, gathered with community activists, parents and students to hold a Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test boycott National Day of Action rally. Teacher refusal to administer the MAP test is motivated by its lack of proper alignment with their school district's curriculum.
Press Statement from NEA president Dennis Van Roekel: http://nea.org/home/54149.htm
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Related topics : online high school education / high school education at home / curriculum mapping high school
MAP Test Boycott Rally in Seattle, Wash. - Jan. 23, 2013
National Education Association (NEA) members in Seattle, Wash., held a rally on Wednesday, January 23, 2013, to address their refusal to administer the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test to students at Seattle's Garfield High School. Their refusal to administer the MAP test is motivated by its lack of proper alignment with their school district's curriculum. The crowd assembled was not only comprised of teachers, but of concerned students, parents and citizens. NEA president Dennis Van...
Related topics : curriculum mapping high school / high school online test
Budding Botanists: Florida Houses Nation's First Botany Magnet Program
A magnet high school in Florida has become the first in the nation to infuse a traditional curriculum with a heavy dose of botany. The initiative at BioTECH @ Richmond Heights 9-12 High School supplements core classes with college level botany courses in plant molecular systematics.
Related topics : high school core curriculum
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