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 NUA President Eric Cooper to deliver opening day keynote addresses to all staff |
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Eric Cooper, president of the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education, will kick off the new school year in the Liverpool Central School District with a presentation at Liverpool High School. READ MORE HERE
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Kids Teaching Kids
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| Educational leadership, September 2010 |
| Look for the September issue of ASCD's Educational Leadership, in which NUA's Yvette Jackson, Ahmes Askia, and Tyrone Geronimo Johnson write about middle school classrooms that come alive when students teach their peers. Click here for general information about ASCD's Educational Leadership journal. |
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Student Radio - Magnifying Voices, Preparing a Future |
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Veronica McDermott, ASCD Express, Vol. 5, No. 22, August, 2010 |
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"I feel like a CEO!" 6th grader Danny blurted out as he entered the school radio station, a classroom commandeered by speech and language teachers at Beardsley School in Bridgeport, Conn., one of the poorest school districts in one of the richest states in the nation. Beardsley School also has the dubious distinction of being among the first schools in Connecticut to have been labeled failing under No Child Left Behind. READ MORE HERE
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Art Costa receives NUA Lifetime Achievement Award |
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NUA Summer Academy; San Francisco CA; July 2010 |
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Blog Post: Touching the Spirit, Tapping the Soul |
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Katey Basye |
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Katey writes of her experience at the NUA Summer Academy in San Francisco: "I just spent a week at the National Urban Alliance (NUA) Summer Academy in San Francisco, substantiating, as NUA’s mission states, “an irrefutable belief in the capacity of all public school children to achieve the high intellectual performances demanded by our ever changing global community.” READ MORE HERE |
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Spotlight Webcast: Education, Equity and Poverty - Examining the role of poverty, race and opportunity in America’s schools and the nation’s education reform efforts |
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What are the steps that teachers, school administrators, policy makers and community leaders can take to improve educational achievement among children who live inpoverty? In this Spotlight webcast, two of the nation’s foremost education leaders, Dr.Eric Cooper, founder and president of the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education, and Dr. Dan Domenech, executive director of the American Associationof School Administrators, examine the impact of race and poverty on education. VIEW WEBCAST HERE |
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Rethinking Achievement |
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Eric J. Cooper, Greenwich Time; Stamford Advocate; May 21, 2010; also Connecticut Post |
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As the 2009-10 school year draws to a close, parents are getting a first look at their children's course loads for next year and receiving congratulations from well-meaning friends and families for assignment to gifted and talented, AP (Advance Placement) and other high-level classes. Many people consider enrollment in these elite courses to be some indicator of future accomplishment. Not necessarily. READ MORE |
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Beardsley Elementary School students (Bridgeport CT) prepare, plan, write, record, and produce radio show! |
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In 2001 Beardsley Elementary School in Bridgeport, Connecticut, was labelled a failing school under No Child Left Behind, one of the first schools in the nation to receive this designation. Today, the sounds of success are everywhere. Listen into this 30-minute radio show written, produced, recorded and hosted by the Grade 6 students during a marathon four-day session to gain insight into what success sounds like. click here to listen to the Beardsley students' radio show online! |
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(Claude M. Steele)
