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Welcome!
What is
Urban Edge?
Urban Edge is a new membership service that provides CUBE with relevant information to help your
district become aware of education issues around the
country. We will glean news sources, blogs, research studies, and NSBA's wide range of expertise for timely information that guides CUBE districts in making sound decisions.
In
the Field
TCU
and Fort Worth Team Up for Teachers
Most teacher prep programs look to undergraduates to
begin the conversation about teaching in urban
districts, but in Fort Worth, the Center for Urban
Education has created "the Aspiring Educators
Initiative," which asks high school juniors and
seniors to consider a teaching career. The
program is hoping to fill the gaps created in the
next few years when many teachers are of retirement
age.
Link
to TCU Story 4/15/08
Syracuse
Gives Grad Students a Break in Tuition
Because of the high cost of graduate school,
and due to the fact that N.Y. teachers must earn a
master's degree to be certified in the state, many
prospective teachers face a difficult decision about
whether to go into education at all. Syracuse
made that decision less challenging financially for
prospective teachers when they opened up a program
to recent Syracuse graduates who earned their degree
in the last five years, giving them one-third off
their tuition. The program is designed for
teachers only, not prospective administrators, and
focuses on urban, rural, and arts education
especially.
Link
to Syracuse Daily Orange 4/18/08
(free registration)
Reform
AT&T
Opens Their Purse
Like many other companies and foundations,
AT&T threw their hat into the high school reform
movement by committing to give $100 million to
prevent high school dropouts. One piece of the
plan is to give money to non-profit organizations as
grants for high school improvement programs, as well
as creating a job-shadowing program for 100,000
students. AT&T joins other big givers like
Dell, State Farm, GE, and Boeing, to name a
few.
Link
to Ed Week Story 4/28/08
Seattle
Looks at Ways to Include Special Ed Students
Seattle is trying a new approach to teaching
special education students at one school, and they
hope to emulate the plan at other Seattle schools in
the near future. Including more special
education students in general education classrooms
and keeping special education students in their
neighborhood schools are among the new ways to place
students. Balancing the least restrictive environment
and the special needs of students is challenging,
but Seattle hopes that co-teaching is a way to
tackle the issue.
Link
to Seattle Times 4/30/08
Advocacy
U.S.
Department of Education to Hold Regional Meetings
for NCLB Updates
Four regional meetings will occur in May to discuss
proposed NCLB regulations that were released last
week. The meetings will occur in Massachusetts,
Georgia, Missouri, and Washington (state).
NSBA and CUBE encourages you to participate in this
important process on the impending
legislation. For more information, click
here or contact Kathleen Branch in NSBA's Office
of Advocacy at kbranch@nsba.org.
On
Deck...
CUBE's
Issues Seminar is coming up June 19-22, 2008 at
the Four Seasons Hotel in Miami, Florida. Join
us for this important discussion on Family
Involvement throughout the weekend as we welcome
inspirational Karen Mapp, Miami Superintendent Rudy
Crew, and N.E.A. President Reg Weaver as our key
speakers. For more information, check
out the brochure.
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