What You Wanted to Read About Education in 2014

Time to look back and…keep looking ahead. Here is what you were most interested in reading about in 2014.

#1 – ACT Aspire Results: What to Do with Them – September 25, 2014 [All articles on the ACT Aspire]

#2 – The Principal, the Test Scores, and the Investigation that Wasn’t – August 12, 2014 [This isn’t over yet, friends. State Superintendent Dr. Bice is still actively looking into what more needs to be done to determine why students ran out of time while taking the test in the spring of 2012. Stay tuned.]

#3 – ACT Assessments: What You Need to Know – April 9, 2014

#4 – The Integration of Hoover City Schools: The Numbers – May 17, 2014

#5 – Which Candidates Have Indicated Their Opposition to the Common Core? – June 1, 2014

These articles from 2013 were still very popular this year (looks like April 2013 was a particularly informative time?):

The New Alabama High School Diploma – April 18, 2013 [Here’s the updated article from May 2014: Multiple Pathways Lead to One Alabama Diploma]

New Tests for Our Children in Alabama’s K-12 Public Schools – April 16, 2013 [Here’s the update from September 2014: State-Mandated Testing for This School Year]

Common Core State Standards in the State of Alabama: Why Is This Such a Big Deal? – April 23, 2013

Superintendents’ Salaries for FY14 – November 5, 2013 [No update for FY15. Here’s an article with more perspective from August 2014.]

And lastly, this one, from 2012, still draws a large crowd.

What Are Teachers Supposed to be Doing in Our Classrooms? – May 23, 2012

So Now What Do You Want to Know?

I need to hear from you. Name those topics about which you’d like to know more.

There is plenty going on in Alabama these days.

Charter schools. Unified budget. Teacher evaluations. Standards reviews. Innovation contracts (my personal favorite!). ACT tests.

What kinds of questions do you have? What do you want to know??

Post it here (below) or email me at asc(at)alabamaschoolconnection.org. Looking forward to hearing from you….

NOTE: My sincere appreciation to all of you who read your education news here (and other places, for that matter!).

We all need to be consistently engaged with what is happening in our classrooms, in our boardrooms, and in our state legislature. 

Public education is a public pursuit. 

That public…..is us! 

Keep listening, keep talking, keep public education at the top of your priority list. 

And keep talking about it with your friends at work, in the grocery store, at the ballpark, in the church parking lots. 

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Happy New Year, friends.