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Things to Do if Your Loved Ones Experienced Criminal Charges

Published: March 12th, 2012 | Categories: Education Center | 0 Comments

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When someone you love is in trouble, all you can think about is how to help them. It is especially scary if the loved one is already in jail when you learn about the situation. Be aware that there are certain actions that can harm their case. As soon as you learn of their legal troubles, take these steps to protect them from further legal trouble and get their defense on the right track.

Get the Right Information

Find out exactly where the loved one is. If the person is in jail, get the exact location and address. Ask who the arresting officer or officers were and precisely what the loved one is charged with. The charges can sometimes change later, but you need to know exactly what the charges are at the time of arrest to mount a good legal defense.

Watch What You Say

Jail phones are not secure, and the information discussed on these phone lines is not privileged. Read more…

Trivia Tuesday: MIT Sloan’s Condensed Core

Published: March 8th, 2012 | Categories: Education Advisor | 0 Comments

Hello, and welcome to another edition of Clear Admit’s weekly Trivia Tuesday column, in which we take an in-depth look at program elements that differentiate the leading MBA programs from their peers. This week, we’re taking a peek into the Clear Admit School Guide to MIT Sloan to share with you an excerpt about the school’s distinctive condensed core curriculum, which gives students the chance to take three full semesters of electives.

“Like other MBA programs, MIT Sloan requires students to complete a series of core courses designed to provide an overview of important business disciplines. Sloan’s core offers a broad foundation on which students can build throughout their next three semesters of elective courses, providing an introduction to accounting, business statistics, economics, managerial communication and organizational processes, with an additional course in either finance or strategic marketing.

“Sloan’s core is the shortest of any of its peers, requiring just one semester of courses. The remaining three semesters are devoted wholly to electives, a fact particularly appreciated by students who already have a strong background in their target industries. However, with eight required courses in just three months, students’ first semester at Sloan is extremely busy.

“One distinguishing feature of Sloan’s core curriculum is the degree to which professors, in the words of one student, ‘conspire’ in teaching the core courses. Students report that professors often examine the same case study from multiple perspectives in different courses. For instance, students might examine the financial questions raised in a particular corporate situation in Finance Theory I, move on to evaluate the company’s accounting practices in Financial Accounting and, in Communication for Managers, brainstorm alternative communication strategies the players in the story could have used….”

To read more about the Sloan curriculum, as well as to obtain in-depth program information, be sure to check out the Clear Admit School Guide to MIT Sloan! All Clear Admit School Guides are

Hamilton Co. Schools Release Rezoning Maps

Published: March 8th, 2012 | Categories: Education Center | 0 Comments

Hundreds of East Hamilton students will have to change schools, if a Hamilton County schools rezoning plan is approved.

Tuesday night school officials would not provide copies of the rezoning maps, but did release those maps Wednesday afternoon. There are 3 maps of proposed zones (Elementary, Middle, High).

Proposed New High School Zones

Proposed New Middle School Zones

Proposed New Elementary School Zones

for more information on Tuesday night’s public meeting.

The Thursday night meeting for Ooltewah parents starts at 6 p.m. (March 1) at Ooltewah High School.

Worse Than Awful: An Insider’s View of Educational Publishing

Published: March 5th, 2012 | Categories: Teaching News | 0 Comments

Can’t figure out a problem in your child’s math textbook? Maybe it’s not you. “It could be that key information or steps are missing, that the problem involves a concept to which your child hasn’t yet been introduced. Perhaps the problem is structurally unsound for a host of other reasons,” notes veteran textbook writer and editor Annie Keeghan at the blog Open Salon.

The “new normal” in educational publishing is “a severe lack of oversight in the quality of curriculum being produced” and a “frightening apathy” to do anything about it. Keeghans piece, Afraid of Your Childs Math Textbook? You Should Be is a jeremiad. It does for textbook publishing what The Jungle did for the meatpacking industry.

Keeghan paints a bleak and dispiriting picture of a business gutted by mergers, competition for fewer available dollars, and an increased focus on sales and marketing at the expense of producing quality products. Materials rushed to market

NYC teacher rankings released

Published: February 29th, 2012 | Categories: Education Center | 0 Comments

New York City is set to release rankings of thousands of public school teachers who were rated on their ability to affect students’ progress on standardized tests.

The rankings track 18,000 math and English public school teachers from fourth through eighth grades The New York Times reports that three years of ratings were released. They’re based on how students progressed from one year to the next. The rankings gauge the extent to which their teachers were responsible for the students’ progress.

The release of the information comes after a yearlong legal battle with the United Federation of Teachers. It sued unsuccessfully to keep the names confidential.

School administrators, teachers and others have criticized the Teacher Data Reports. Critics say there are large margins of error and factual errors or omissions.