Ohio school counselors are a new targeted audience for the Ohio Economic-Education Summit on March 7, 2012 in Columbus. While understanding the multiple responsibilities of counselors, the summit planners recognize counselors as a critical group to assist with improving the state’s economy – an objective of the Summit – by better understanding Ohio’s main industries in need of workers today and in the near future. The fifth annual Summit’s primary sponsor, the Ohio Department of Education, Office of Career-Technical Education, is seeking for at least 50 counselors to be part of up to 600 secondary educators, college faculty, business/industry representatives and state officials at the 2012 event, which starts the evening of Tuesday, March 6, and concludes the afternoon of March 7. The Summit content is of particular interest to school counselors for the Grade 7-12 student population as the agenda focuses on 10 important Ohio industries where these students could most likely be working either directly after high school or after college. Check out the Web site at or contact for more information and to register online. The $90 c Read more…
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Economic Education Summit Seeking School Counselor Participants for March 6-7, 2012 Event
Hamilton County Schools Probing Possible Cheating
Hamilton County School officials are investigating what could be cheating on a state test at an elementary school.
County School Superintendent Rick Smith said administrators at Lakeside Academy of Math, Science and Technology reported the possibility of cheating as required.
The unidentified teacher involved said she got advice from a Memphis teacher that helped her prepare her daughter to take the state writing test and she doesn’t feel she did anything wrong.
School officials didn’t release details of the incident, but said it doesn’t appear that cheating is a widespread problem.
Apple gets into digital textbook business
Apple is launching a new version of its iBooks software, tailored to present vivid, interactive textbooks for elementary and high school students on the iPads.
IBooks 2 will be able to display books with videos and other interactive features, the company announced Thursday at an event at an event at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
It’s not clear how Apple plans to get it front of students, however, since textbooks are subject to lengthy approval processes by states. Also, few students have iPads, which start at $499.
Apple also revealed iBook Author, an application for Macs that lets people create electronic textbooks.
Major textbook publishers have been making electronic versions of their products for years. Until recently, there hasn’t been any hardware suitable to display the books, so e-textbooks have had little impact. PCs are too expensive and cumbersome to be good e-book machines for students. Dedicated e-book readers like the Kindle have small screens and can’t display color.
Tablet computers like the iPad, however, are both portable and capable of showing textbooks in vivid color.
Apple is also setting up a textbook section its iTunes store.
Among the launch titles will be two high school textbooks – Biology and Environmental Science – from Pearson PLC and five from McGraw-Hill.
Interreligious education is not about the God you worship, it is about discovering common goals
President’s Notebook
The Flame magazine, Spring 2012
By Deborah A. Freund, president of Claremont Graduate University
It almost goes without saying that to be a university president, it’s not enough just to be respectful of other people’s religious beliefs, but to have expanding religious diversity—as well as ethnic, cultural, gender, and class diversity—at the core of your administrative principles. I certainly do; especially being president of a university like CGU, which resides in one of the most diverse regions on the planet. There is no question that diversity makes a university stronger, but as scholars we are morally and intellectually obligated to open our doors to everyone.
And the more we learn about our neighbors of all stripes, the more effective we will be at greeting them with open arms in a way that ensures they will want to greet us back. This is
Chattanooga School Helps Another
A Chattanooga school with a surplus of parent volunteers is sharing with a school that doesn’t have enough.
The Parent-Teacher Association at Ganns Middle Valley Elementary School said it received volunteer applications from 300 parents this year. East Lake Elementary School, which restarted its PTA last year, has attracted about 12 members including teachers.\
After hearing about the struggles at East Lake, PTA officials at Ganns asked their parents to help.
Once a month, parents from Ganns travel about 20 miles to East Lake to help teachers with tasks such as copying, stapling and laminating.
“We just take some of the stress off teachers,” said parent Mendi Catlett. “The teachers really need to have time to teach.”
But in 2012, they hope to do more.
Catlett said the PTA at Ganns, which has 500 members, wants to adopt the East Lake PTA and help it increase membership and involvement. ”It’s time to take care of the community,” said Catlett, a former PTA president at Ganns. “Everybody wants to complain about inner-city schools. Bu