Georgia Makes Full Online Courses Free
Georgia Virtual School Makes Full Online Courses Free. This is the Choice Media Ed Reform Minute for Thursday, May 30. Starting around five years ago, the state of Georgia saw the potential of online courses. Small school districts, mostly in …
Gun-Toting Utah Teachers: Your Kids Are Safe
Reprinted from The Salt Lake Tribune One Utah teacher’s worst nightmare goes something like this: A gunman slips into his school, draws weapons, aims and fires at his kids. "I can think of nothing worse than having to witness my …
Utah Charters Under New Performance Scrutiny
Reprinted from The Salt Lake Tribune For the first time, the State Charter School Board has evaluated Utah’s 81 charter schools in three key areas — academics, finances and governance — creating a baseline for comparing the schools next year. …
$10M Utah STEM Ed Program Gets Rolling
Reprinted from the Salt Lake Tribune Fewer than six weeks after the governor signed it into law, a $10 million program aimed at improving science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education in Utah is getting off the ground. The governor …
UT Board Denies Gov’s Common Core Request
Reprinted from The Salt Lake Tribune Hoping to ease some Utahns’ fears about Common Core academic standards, the Governor’s Office asked the state school board to change an application it submitted last year for a waiver to federal No Child …
Teacher Allegedly Sexually Assaulted Girl
Reprinted from KSL CLEARFIELD — A Clearfield High School agriculture teacher has been charged with sexually abusing a 17-year-old female student. Gaile Kristine Supp, 24, was charged with object rape, a first-degree felony, according to documents filed Monday in 2nd …
Turning Away from Paper Textbooks
Reprinted from The Salt Lake Tribune On a typical day, the only thing ninth-grader Jonah Warnick carries in his backpack is a binder. That’s because at his school, North Davis Junior High in Clearfield, students often use online texts on …
Utah to Implement Adaptive Testing
Reprinted from The Salt Lake Tribune In the future, Utah parents will tell their incredulous children about the days of pay phones, VCRs and dial-up Internet. Fill-in-the-bubble tests in schools will soon join that list. Across Utah, students are facing …
Utah Releases Revised Graduation Rates
Reprinted from The Salt Lake Tribune The State Office of Education has released slightly revised graduation rates for Utah’s Class of 2012 after discovering errors in the original numbers. The statewide graduation rate is still 78 percent, up from 76 …