Education resources
Saturday, July 23, 2005
cong Sci & Edu
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
What Is FREE? -- Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE)
Sunday, September 12, 2004
People For the American Way - Milwaukee, WI Voucher Program
People For the American Way - Milwaukee, WI Voucher Program
The Wisconsin law governing the Milwaukee voucher program requires participating schools to select voucher students randomly to guard against discrimination based on race, geography, academic status, religion, and other factors. However, an analysis by PFAWF and the Milwaukee Branch of the NAACP of voucher schools’ written random selection plans for the 1998-99 school year revealed that one third of the participating schools were not complying with the law. Instead, a number of the schools had “random selection” plans that granted illegal preferences to students based on religious, academic, and other grounds. For example, the Saint Alexander School’s plan stated: “New students to Saint Alexander’s will be accepted in the following order: Siblings, Catholic Students from Saint Alexander’s Parish, Catholic Students from other parishes, and then non-Catholic students” [emphasis added].12 The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) ordered all schools to delete such provisions from their random selection plans.13 In fact, DPI adopted a new rule requiring that a private school’s random selection plan must be approved by the agency before the school may participate in the voucher program.14
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The Wisconsin law governing the Milwaukee voucher program requires participating schools to select voucher students randomly to guard against discrimination based on race, geography, academic status, religion, and other factors. However, an analysis by PFAWF and the Milwaukee Branch of the NAACP of voucher schools’ written random selection plans for the 1998-99 school year revealed that one third of the participating schools were not complying with the law. Instead, a number of the schools had “random selection” plans that granted illegal preferences to students based on religious, academic, and other grounds. For example, the Saint Alexander School’s plan stated: “New students to Saint Alexander’s will be accepted in the following order: Siblings, Catholic Students from Saint Alexander’s Parish, Catholic Students from other parishes, and then non-Catholic students” [emphasis added].12 The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) ordered all schools to delete such provisions from their random selection plans.13 In fact, DPI adopted a new rule requiring that a private school’s random selection plan must be approved by the agency before the school may participate in the voucher program.14
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Saturday, August 14, 2004
gapingvoid: how to be creative
gapingvoid: how to be creative: "how to be creative"
Sunday, August 08, 2004
Hardy Brain Training and Tutoring
Hardy Brain Training and Tutoring
Hardy Brain was founded by Sherrie Hardy and her two daughters in 2002. The business consists of two separate corporations: Hardy Brain Training, Inc., which provides unique and innovative programs to improve our clients lives, and Hardy Brain Training Foundation, Inc., a 501 (c)3 not-for-profit corporation that offers partial scholarships when funds are available.
Hardy Brain was founded by Sherrie Hardy and her two daughters in 2002. The business consists of two separate corporations: Hardy Brain Training, Inc., which provides unique and innovative programs to improve our clients lives, and Hardy Brain Training Foundation, Inc., a 501 (c)3 not-for-profit corporation that offers partial scholarships when funds are available.
Saturday, August 07, 2004
Editorial: Failed states?/Iraq, Afghanistan on the edge
Editorial: Failed states?/Iraq, Afghanistan on the edge: "You hear it all the time from defenders of the war in Iraq: Lots of progress is being made, but the cynical media are ignoring this 'good news.' In fact, things aren't going better in Iraq -- or Afghanistan -- than the media are reporting; the realities are far worse. Both nations are at risk of ending up as failed states -- breeding grounds for a large new generation of America-hating terrorists.
That conclusion comes from a cross-party committee of the British House of Commons. Issued last week, it warned that unless NATO countries send more troops to Afghanistan, this 'fragile state in one of the most sensitive and volatile regions of the world could implode, with terrible consequences.' Afghanistan, one former defense minister said, 'is on a knife edge.'
The British report came less than a day after Doctors Without Borders, which had served the people of Afghanistan through a quarter-century of brutal turmoil, withdrew because of increased security concerns for its people.
Of Iraq, the British members of Parliament said the war had actually heightened the threat of terrorism: It had made Iraq 'a battleground for Al-Qaida, with appalling consequences for the Iraqi people.' The failure of Britain and the United States to impose order in Iraq, the British legislators said, means the country is in real danger of chaos.
In Afghanistan, the problem is reducible to two factors: too few foreign troops to stabilize the security situation and too little foreign aid for reconstruction. The United States likes to pretend that Hamid Karzai and his government control the future of Afghanistan, but the truth is that without massive amounts of additional outside help -- both personnel and money -- the Karzai experiment in Afghanistan will go sour. As it did following the defeat "
That conclusion comes from a cross-party committee of the British House of Commons. Issued last week, it warned that unless NATO countries send more troops to Afghanistan, this 'fragile state in one of the most sensitive and volatile regions of the world could implode, with terrible consequences.' Afghanistan, one former defense minister said, 'is on a knife edge.'
The British report came less than a day after Doctors Without Borders, which had served the people of Afghanistan through a quarter-century of brutal turmoil, withdrew because of increased security concerns for its people.
Of Iraq, the British members of Parliament said the war had actually heightened the threat of terrorism: It had made Iraq 'a battleground for Al-Qaida, with appalling consequences for the Iraqi people.' The failure of Britain and the United States to impose order in Iraq, the British legislators said, means the country is in real danger of chaos.
In Afghanistan, the problem is reducible to two factors: too few foreign troops to stabilize the security situation and too little foreign aid for reconstruction. The United States likes to pretend that Hamid Karzai and his government control the future of Afghanistan, but the truth is that without massive amounts of additional outside help -- both personnel and money -- the Karzai experiment in Afghanistan will go sour. As it did following the defeat "
