New DVD Available in the UGL

White Teachers/Diverse Classrooms: Teachers and Students of Color Talk Candidly about Connecting with Black Students and Tranforming Outcomes, has interviews with black students, white and black teachers, educational experts and school administrators. It supports the ideas and insights in the companion book White Teachers/Diverse Classrooms: a guide to building inclusive schools, promoting high expectations, and eliminating racism. (At Purdy/Kresge Library, Call no. LC 1099.3 .W48 2006)

Digest of Education Statistics: New Site

The new Digest has been fully integrated into the NCES web site system that permits convenient access to all the Digests since the 1995 edition. An easy-to-use menu allows one-click access to individual tables and figures from each Digest.

Visit: http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/

Early Reading First Evaluation Report

"The report, conducted by outside researchers under contract to the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education, found the program has had the most significant effect in improving classroom activities and materials, as well as teacher practices related to literacy development...
But the program appeared to have no effect on the preschoolers’ oral-language skills, social or emotional development, or phonological processing—awareness of the sounds that make up words." Education Digest, June 12, 2007.

Massachusetts: More than half of minority and hispanic teaching applicants fail licensing test

Excerpt "Education school deans in the last year began expressing concerns about the minority teachers' high failure rates to state officials and asked the state to evaluate the validity of the test and consider other ways of judging prospective teachers. They and others say the minority teachers' results raise questions about whether the design of the Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure is culturally biased and whether the quality of education that minority teaching applicants receive is good enough." Boston Globe, August 19, 2007

Chronicle Reports "Universities fail to reward science and math professors for working with schoolteachers"

You'll need to be on the WSU campus to read the article.

"Science professors receive few professional rewards for joining projects financed by the Math and Science Partnerships program, the federal government's principal effort to improve math and science teaching in elementary and secondary schools, a recent report says. The report calls this "a major roadblock" for the program. "

Comparative Indicators of Education in the United States and Other G-8 Countries: 2006

Comparative Indicators of Education in the United States and Other G-8 Countries: 2006 "This report describes how the education system in the United States compares with education systems in the other G-8 countries--Canada, France. Germany. Italy, Japan, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom. Twenty indicators are organized in five sections: (1) population and school enrollment; (2) academic performance; (3) context for learning; (4) expenditure for education; and (5) education returns: educational attainment and income." NCES site description