Written by Angelina Weir on July 6, 2011.
The 2011 edition of Education Weeks Diplomas Count finds that the national high school graduation rate stands at 71.7 percent for the class of 2008, the most recent data available. This is the highest rate since the 1980s, and an increase after two consecutive years of decline. However, the report also projects 1.2 million students from this years high school class will fail to graduate 6,400 students lost each day of the year, or one student every 27 seconds. While the graduation-rate recovery occurred across all demographic groups, rates for those historically underserved remain a concern. Among Latinos, 58 percent finished high school with a diploma, while 57 percent of African-Americans and 54 percent of Native Americans graduated. On average, 68 percent of male students earned a diploma compared with 75 percent of female students, a gender gap virtually unchanged for years. High school-completion rates for minority males consistently fall near or below 50 percent. Suburban students graduate in considerably higher numbers than urban ones, 76 percent versus 64 percent. Read more…
Written by Laura Lawley on July 6, 2011.
(WHAS11) Bullying in schools is becoming more frequent and more severe.
Next week, educators can learn what they can do in the fight against bullying at a seminar in Louisville. Lisa Cain, a teacher from Bardstown, Kentucky stopped by the WHAS11 studios on Thursday with more information on the seminar.
The Bullying Seminar is Thursday, July 14 at the Louisville Marriott downtown. For more information, call 270-307-1334.
Written by Jade Nowland on July 6, 2011.
Dr. Phillips will forfeit every victory from its most successful football season in school history.
“We had received information that a player may have been living out of district,” athletic director John Magrino wrote in an email to the Sentinel. “The information was turned over to OCPS [Orange County Public Schools], and after a full investigation, it was confirmed that the residential documentation provided by the family was not accurate..
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Written by Gabrielle Batchelor on July 6, 2011.
HOUSTON (AP) — The principal of a Houston charter school where a teacher beat a student in a videotaped attack has been acquitted of a misdemeanor charge in the incident.
David Jones had been charged with failure to report child abuse. A teacher at Jamie’s House Charter School was fired when a cell phone video that caught her beating a 13-year-old student in class was made public.
Jones’ attorney, William Stradley, says the principal was acquitted in 10 minutes by a jury Thursday after a two-day trial.
Stradley says Jones did not know about the serious nature of the incident until the video became public.
The teacher pleaded no contest in April to a charge of injury to a child under 15. She was given probation.
Two others charged await trial.
Written by Laura Lawley on July 6, 2011.
Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee will soon become the 29th university in the country to have a veterinary college and the first to offer an accelerated degree program for veterinary students, reported Inside Higher Ed.
According to LMU News, large-animal medicine will be the core focus of the new program. The Knoxville News Sentinel reported that the program will serve a huge need as there is a shortage of large-animal veterinarians across the country, particularly in Appalachia, where LMU is located. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is also stepping in to address the shortage–last month, it announced a program that would repay student loans up to $25,000 per year if graduates practiced in specified areas of need, some of which are in surrounding counties near LMU.
“If these holes are going to get filled in the country, it’s very obvious for us to be one of those new programs,” said Stowers.
LMU’s veterinary program will be the first in the nation to offer an accelerated degree, which officials told Inside Higher Ed would cut down tuition costs and attract talented students to the region.
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