Early edition: A coalition is pressing Pinellas school officials to set a timetable for closing the achievement gap between black and white students.
By THOMAS C. TOBIN, Times Staff Writer
ST. PETERSBURG - A coalition is pressing Pinellas school officials to set a timetable for closing the achievement gap between black and white students.
But the group also sounded a conciliatory note Monday, calling for a grassroots effort to fix some of the breakdowns in family life that often cause black students to perform poorly in school.
"When it comes to this community, we will sound the call for mentors, volunteers, men and women who can help us wrap arms around our children, our single mothers, our grandparents raising grandchildren (and), yes, our ex-felons fathers," said Louis Murphy, a prominent St. Petersburg pastor and a member of the coalition.
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Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Friday, December 15, 2006
A Call to Action for Our Schools
Ending high school at 16, paying teachers according to merit, turning schools over to independent contractors — a new report on U.S. education envisions radical change
By CLAUDIA WALLIS
Posted Friday, Dec. 15, 2006
If Americans want to maintain their customary high standard of living in today's global economy, we've got to rethink almost every aspect of our education system, including when kids finish high school and who runs our schools.
That was the conclusion of a blistering report from a blue-ribbon panel called the New Commission on Skills of the American Workforce, released Thursday in an all-day event in Washington, D.C. The commission of heavyweights included four former cabinet secretaries, the president of the American Manufacturers Association, the chancellor of the California State University system, executives from Viacom Inc. and Lucent Technologies, and other government and education leaders.
Its call-to-action report, entitled Tough Choices or Tough Times, cites studies showing that the U.S. share of the world's college-educated workers has shrunk from 30% to 15% in recent decades and that, even after all the outsourcing of the past decade, some 20% of U.S. jobs remain vulnerable to automation or offshoring to educated workers overseas.more
By CLAUDIA WALLIS
Posted Friday, Dec. 15, 2006
If Americans want to maintain their customary high standard of living in today's global economy, we've got to rethink almost every aspect of our education system, including when kids finish high school and who runs our schools.
That was the conclusion of a blistering report from a blue-ribbon panel called the New Commission on Skills of the American Workforce, released Thursday in an all-day event in Washington, D.C. The commission of heavyweights included four former cabinet secretaries, the president of the American Manufacturers Association, the chancellor of the California State University system, executives from Viacom Inc. and Lucent Technologies, and other government and education leaders.
Its call-to-action report, entitled Tough Choices or Tough Times, cites studies showing that the U.S. share of the world's college-educated workers has shrunk from 30% to 15% in recent decades and that, even after all the outsourcing of the past decade, some 20% of U.S. jobs remain vulnerable to automation or offshoring to educated workers overseas.more
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