Friday, August 26, 2005
Rural Education in the News
From my Google News alerts...
EDITORIAL: Sizing up the numbers
New Straits Times - Persekutuan, Malaysia
Paradoxically, the astounding success of a policy designed to provide access to schooling to virtually anyone who needed it has produced a real conundrum in the form of very small primary schools with retarded educational development. Many of these under-sized rural schools have no electricity, water or telephones, let alone computers or well-stocked libraries and labs. The hardship allowance that teachers are paid for serving in the ulu does not seem to be much of an incentive since many can hardly wait to return to "civilisation" once their three-year term ends. While they are respectful and dutiful in class, many of their pupils do not have the drive to succeed. Attendance nosedives in tandem with rainy spells and the changing rhythms of village life. This truancy is encouraged by parents who would rather have them helping out at home and in the fields although they can’t give a helping hand when their children get stuck in their schoolwork. With inadequate facilities, high teacher turnover, and scant parental support, it is not surprising that these sparsely populated rural schools also suffer from academic under-achievement and a high drop-out rate.
Brad Lager, ed. chief to tour schools
Maryville Daily Forum - Maryville, MO, USA
Maryville's state representative and the state's commissioner of education will take a tour of local schools next week to learn about the challenges facing northwest Missouri teachers and administrators. Brad Lager, 4th District State Rep. and the House Budget Committee chairman, and Dr. Kent King will be touring some of northwest Missouri's schools on Wednesday, Aug. 31 and Thursday, Sept. 1.
Education policy Q&A: Brian Donnelly
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
The Herald invited politicians to answer questions at a range of policy forums - yesterday the focus was on transport. Today we examine education.Below are edited highlights of the 45-minute question and answer session with NZ First spokesman Brian Donnelly.
Launch of OKN raises hopes among rural women in Nepal
For more than a decade, READ - Rural Education And Development, Nepal - has been building community libraries. These libraries are run with the active participation of the community and have their own income generating scheme for meeting operating costs and financial sustainability. Over time they have organically expanded into community centres, dynamically involved in the overall development activities of the community. The community libraries are contributing in diverse fields, such as education, health, empowerment, childhood development and cultural promotion. They provide knowledge, information, inspiration, support and above all motivation to drive the community into shaping its own future.
Indigenous to sign education contracts
Ninemsn - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The Northern Territory government is hoping to improve "appalling" education outcomes by introducing individual contracts with remote Aboriginal communities. NT Education Minister Syd Stirling unveiled a four-year blueprint to improve education in communities - including the contracts, a revamp of bilingual education and making the school year flexible to allow for cultural ceremonies. "We've had appalling outcomes for the last 30 years in indigenous education in remote and rural communities," he said.
Push up eco reforms by cutting unwanted subsidies: PM
Hindustan Times - India
Sounding alarm bells on the high combined fiscal deficit of the centre and states, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday minced no words on the need to push up the economic reforms by cutting unwanted subsidies and improving the health of state electricity boards and oil Navratnas.
Tags: aera, rural, education
EDITORIAL: Sizing up the numbers
New Straits Times - Persekutuan, Malaysia
Paradoxically, the astounding success of a policy designed to provide access to schooling to virtually anyone who needed it has produced a real conundrum in the form of very small primary schools with retarded educational development. Many of these under-sized rural schools have no electricity, water or telephones, let alone computers or well-stocked libraries and labs. The hardship allowance that teachers are paid for serving in the ulu does not seem to be much of an incentive since many can hardly wait to return to "civilisation" once their three-year term ends. While they are respectful and dutiful in class, many of their pupils do not have the drive to succeed. Attendance nosedives in tandem with rainy spells and the changing rhythms of village life. This truancy is encouraged by parents who would rather have them helping out at home and in the fields although they can’t give a helping hand when their children get stuck in their schoolwork. With inadequate facilities, high teacher turnover, and scant parental support, it is not surprising that these sparsely populated rural schools also suffer from academic under-achievement and a high drop-out rate.
Brad Lager, ed. chief to tour schools
Maryville Daily Forum - Maryville, MO, USA
Maryville's state representative and the state's commissioner of education will take a tour of local schools next week to learn about the challenges facing northwest Missouri teachers and administrators. Brad Lager, 4th District State Rep. and the House Budget Committee chairman, and Dr. Kent King will be touring some of northwest Missouri's schools on Wednesday, Aug. 31 and Thursday, Sept. 1.
Education policy Q&A: Brian Donnelly
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
The Herald invited politicians to answer questions at a range of policy forums - yesterday the focus was on transport. Today we examine education.Below are edited highlights of the 45-minute question and answer session with NZ First spokesman Brian Donnelly.
Launch of OKN raises hopes among rural women in Nepal
For more than a decade, READ - Rural Education And Development, Nepal - has been building community libraries. These libraries are run with the active participation of the community and have their own income generating scheme for meeting operating costs and financial sustainability. Over time they have organically expanded into community centres, dynamically involved in the overall development activities of the community. The community libraries are contributing in diverse fields, such as education, health, empowerment, childhood development and cultural promotion. They provide knowledge, information, inspiration, support and above all motivation to drive the community into shaping its own future.
Indigenous to sign education contracts
Ninemsn - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The Northern Territory government is hoping to improve "appalling" education outcomes by introducing individual contracts with remote Aboriginal communities. NT Education Minister Syd Stirling unveiled a four-year blueprint to improve education in communities - including the contracts, a revamp of bilingual education and making the school year flexible to allow for cultural ceremonies. "We've had appalling outcomes for the last 30 years in indigenous education in remote and rural communities," he said.
Push up eco reforms by cutting unwanted subsidies: PM
Hindustan Times - India
Sounding alarm bells on the high combined fiscal deficit of the centre and states, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday minced no words on the need to push up the economic reforms by cutting unwanted subsidies and improving the health of state electricity boards and oil Navratnas.
Tags: aera, rural, education
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Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Blogging About Rural Education
Just a note that Michael Arnold over at Mr. Rural ED has posted an new entry to his blog entitled, "2005 NREA Conference." Make sure to check it out.
Tags: aera, rural, education
Tags: aera, rural, education
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Monday, August 22, 2005
Reminder - Community Development Academy -- Registration Deadline
Registration Deadline--September 2!!!
Fall into....
The University of Missouri Community Development Extension Program offers a series of three courses called the Community Development Academy. Each of the three courses is an intensive, experiential, five-day course that explores ideas and develops practical skills for effectively involving and empowering local citizens and leaders in community-based efforts.
Offered this fall:
For additional course information and to register, please visit our web site at:
Hurry! Enrollment is limited. This is an opportunity you won't want to miss!
If you have questions or would like to request a brochure, please contact Steve Jeanetta at (573) 884-3018 or e-mail: JeanettaS@Missouri.edu.
Tags: aera, rural, education
Fall into....
New Ideas, Community Building and Hands-On Training
at the
Fall 2005 Comunity Development Academy
The University of Missouri Community Development Extension Program offers a series of three courses called the Community Development Academy. Each of the three courses is an intensive, experiential, five-day course that explores ideas and develops practical skills for effectively involving and empowering local citizens and leaders in community-based efforts.
Offered this fall:
Course 1: Building Communities from the GrassrootsBoth Courses will be held September 18-23, 2005, at the Mercy Center in St. Louis, Missouri. (Courses 1 and 2 will be offered March 26-31, 2006, also at The Mercy Center in St. Louis.)
Course 3: Creating Capacity for Dynamic Communities
For additional course information and to register, please visit our web site at:
Hurry! Enrollment is limited. This is an opportunity you won't want to miss!
If you have questions or would like to request a brochure, please contact Steve Jeanetta at (573) 884-3018 or e-mail: JeanettaS@Missouri.edu.
Tags: aera, rural, education
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Sunday, August 21, 2005
Conference Update - Proposals Ready to be Reviewed
Dear reviewers,
Thank you for agreeing to review proposals in the Rural Education SIG. I have alsmost completed the task of assigning reviewers to proposals. This year we have more proposals that usual; which marks the third year in a row that submissions to the SIG have increased.
I will send a note to all of you on Monday, August 22, letting you know that all proposals have been assigned. I will try to assign proposals based on your interests. And, of course, sometimes I just think you are well qualified to review the proposal, or, frankly, it looks like an interesting match.
Talk to you soon (in cyberspace).
Dave Callejo
2006 Rural Education SIG Program Chair
Tags: AERA 2006, AERA, rural, education
Thank you for agreeing to review proposals in the Rural Education SIG. I have alsmost completed the task of assigning reviewers to proposals. This year we have more proposals that usual; which marks the third year in a row that submissions to the SIG have increased.
I will send a note to all of you on Monday, August 22, letting you know that all proposals have been assigned. I will try to assign proposals based on your interests. And, of course, sometimes I just think you are well qualified to review the proposal, or, frankly, it looks like an interesting match.
Talk to you soon (in cyberspace).
Dave Callejo
2006 Rural Education SIG Program Chair
Tags: AERA 2006, AERA, rural, education
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Thursday, August 18, 2005
The Weekly News
China calls for better rural education conditions
Xinhua - China
China will spend more in improving education conditions in rural areas, including building more boarding schools and lowering education fees, said State Councilor Chen Zhili. Progress has been made in improving rural education, but much work needs to be done, said Chen at a two-day working meeting which ended Tuesday in Hohhot, capital of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
WB President Wolfowitz in India promoting rural development
Khaleej Times - Dubai, United Arab Emirates
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz began a four-day visit to India Thursday by highlighting the need to develop infrastructure in rural areas, where 70 percent of more than 1 billion Indians live. “The World Bank is determined to be of help to India and India’s people and scale up the efforts to reach millions of people needing better access to service in the rural areas,” Wolfowitz said in a statement on his arrival in Hyderabad, the capital of southern Andhra Pradesh state, Wednesday night.
Schools struggle on borrowed South African land
Christian Science Monitor - USA
In this land of vast fields and never-ending sky, the Deo Gloria primary school is tightly enclosed by a barbed-wire fence draped in rough, green netting. Once, the school opened onto the surrounding farms, where many of the students' parents worked as low-paid laborers. But a few years ago, a new farmer bought the land, which includes the small school plot, and insisted on the fence. He said it was a safety measure. The school said it was a mean-spirited move to wall off its 280 pupils.
Study finds funding boost could ease teacher shortage
ABC Online - Australia
New research has found more money for student teacher placements in rural areas could help solve the teacher shortage. The study has been done by Rural Education Forum Australia, a national body looking to improve opportunities for country children and families. Executive officer John Halsey says increased costs are making it hard for students to take work in rural areas and there should be financial incentives to encourage them.
Giving back
Bluefield Daily Telegraph - Bluefield, WV, USA
Things get done when people take action. Success is as simple as that. A half-dozen years ago when former students of the old Ceres School in Bland County, Va., wanted to use the school's gymnasium for a reunion, they discovered that the building had deteriorated to such an extent that it was totally unusable. Undaunted, the reunion organizers held the event in a tent, but emerged with a determination to restore the two remaining buildings of the school complex for use as a community center.
Tags: aera, rural, education
Xinhua - China
China will spend more in improving education conditions in rural areas, including building more boarding schools and lowering education fees, said State Councilor Chen Zhili. Progress has been made in improving rural education, but much work needs to be done, said Chen at a two-day working meeting which ended Tuesday in Hohhot, capital of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
WB President Wolfowitz in India promoting rural development
Khaleej Times - Dubai, United Arab Emirates
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz began a four-day visit to India Thursday by highlighting the need to develop infrastructure in rural areas, where 70 percent of more than 1 billion Indians live. “The World Bank is determined to be of help to India and India’s people and scale up the efforts to reach millions of people needing better access to service in the rural areas,” Wolfowitz said in a statement on his arrival in Hyderabad, the capital of southern Andhra Pradesh state, Wednesday night.
Schools struggle on borrowed South African land
Christian Science Monitor - USA
In this land of vast fields and never-ending sky, the Deo Gloria primary school is tightly enclosed by a barbed-wire fence draped in rough, green netting. Once, the school opened onto the surrounding farms, where many of the students' parents worked as low-paid laborers. But a few years ago, a new farmer bought the land, which includes the small school plot, and insisted on the fence. He said it was a safety measure. The school said it was a mean-spirited move to wall off its 280 pupils.
Study finds funding boost could ease teacher shortage
ABC Online - Australia
New research has found more money for student teacher placements in rural areas could help solve the teacher shortage. The study has been done by Rural Education Forum Australia, a national body looking to improve opportunities for country children and families. Executive officer John Halsey says increased costs are making it hard for students to take work in rural areas and there should be financial incentives to encourage them.
Giving back
Bluefield Daily Telegraph - Bluefield, WV, USA
Things get done when people take action. Success is as simple as that. A half-dozen years ago when former students of the old Ceres School in Bland County, Va., wanted to use the school's gymnasium for a reunion, they discovered that the building had deteriorated to such an extent that it was totally unusable. Undaunted, the reunion organizers held the event in a tent, but emerged with a determination to restore the two remaining buildings of the school complex for use as a community center.
Tags: aera, rural, education
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Sunday, August 14, 2005
In the news - Weekly edition
From my Google Alert this week in the news...
Rural teachers find it difficult to find life partners
Borneo Bulletin - Borneo, Brunei Darussalam
Some teachers posted to the interior want to be transferred out after three years because they need to look for potential spouses. Being posted too long in a rural school is tantamount to depriving them of the opportunity to look for a life partner....
Delavan teacher top rural educator
Peoria Journal Star - Peoria, IL, USA
Delavan teacher Rich Lessen made state history last week when he won the National Rural Education Association Teacher of The Year Award. "This is really a recognition of our school, because we're a small school and everybody has to work together. It could be anybody on our staff at the school," he said Tuesday while packing up to head to the Illinois State Fair with students....
Rural-area teacher shortage looms
Salem Statesman Journal - Salem, OR, USA
Rural school districts traditionally have had a tough time attracting teachers because they can't pay as well as metropolitan schools or offer the amenities of cities. The federal No Child Left Behind education law will make recruitment even more difficult, rural educators said. Signed by President Bush in 2002, it requires all school districts to have "highly qualified" teachers in place by spring....
GES moves to provide more teachers in the country
GhanaWeb - Accra, Ghana
The perennial shortage of staff especially teachers in the rural areas of the country has for years now been a major impediment to the development of all levels of education in the country. Right down from the basic to tertiary levels, there are either lack of qualified teachers or no teachers at all to handle some of the subjects in the nation's numerous schools in spite of the high turnout of teachers from various teacher training colleges and other professional institutions in the country....
New System Gives Rural Children of Burkino Faso Chance to Learn
Voice of America - USA
The West African nation of Burkina Faso is one of the world's poorest countries. It ranks near the bottom of just about every development indicator, and education is no exception. Less than four out of every 10 Burkinabe children even attend first grade. Nonetheless, primary school attendance is slowly growing -- thanks, development experts say, to a fledgling effort to build small "satellite" classrooms in rural villages. The schools do much more than teach reading, writing and arithmetic. The secondhand desks are nicked with age, and the floor is dirty concrete. But the three-room schoolhouse is the pride of this tiny village of thatched huts, where chickens peck the dust for food and the local Lobi people eke out a meager living from fields of sorghum and millet....
Teachers shun interior postings for fear of being single
Daily Express - Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
Teachers are not keen to serve in the interior too long for fear of ending up as singles. Deputy Director-General Dato' Kusaini bin Haji Hasbullah (pic) said this is among reasons some apply for transfer. "These teachers think they must leave the place in order to meet someone ideal and marry. This is the reality they are facing and (there is) a need for the Ministry to understand and look into it." ...
Tags: aera, rural, education
Rural teachers find it difficult to find life partners
Borneo Bulletin - Borneo, Brunei Darussalam
Some teachers posted to the interior want to be transferred out after three years because they need to look for potential spouses. Being posted too long in a rural school is tantamount to depriving them of the opportunity to look for a life partner....
Delavan teacher top rural educator
Peoria Journal Star - Peoria, IL, USA
Delavan teacher Rich Lessen made state history last week when he won the National Rural Education Association Teacher of The Year Award. "This is really a recognition of our school, because we're a small school and everybody has to work together. It could be anybody on our staff at the school," he said Tuesday while packing up to head to the Illinois State Fair with students....
Rural-area teacher shortage looms
Salem Statesman Journal - Salem, OR, USA
Rural school districts traditionally have had a tough time attracting teachers because they can't pay as well as metropolitan schools or offer the amenities of cities. The federal No Child Left Behind education law will make recruitment even more difficult, rural educators said. Signed by President Bush in 2002, it requires all school districts to have "highly qualified" teachers in place by spring....
GES moves to provide more teachers in the country
GhanaWeb - Accra, Ghana
The perennial shortage of staff especially teachers in the rural areas of the country has for years now been a major impediment to the development of all levels of education in the country. Right down from the basic to tertiary levels, there are either lack of qualified teachers or no teachers at all to handle some of the subjects in the nation's numerous schools in spite of the high turnout of teachers from various teacher training colleges and other professional institutions in the country....
New System Gives Rural Children of Burkino Faso Chance to Learn
Voice of America - USA
The West African nation of Burkina Faso is one of the world's poorest countries. It ranks near the bottom of just about every development indicator, and education is no exception. Less than four out of every 10 Burkinabe children even attend first grade. Nonetheless, primary school attendance is slowly growing -- thanks, development experts say, to a fledgling effort to build small "satellite" classrooms in rural villages. The schools do much more than teach reading, writing and arithmetic. The secondhand desks are nicked with age, and the floor is dirty concrete. But the three-room schoolhouse is the pride of this tiny village of thatched huts, where chickens peck the dust for food and the local Lobi people eke out a meager living from fields of sorghum and millet....
Teachers shun interior postings for fear of being single
Daily Express - Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
Teachers are not keen to serve in the interior too long for fear of ending up as singles. Deputy Director-General Dato' Kusaini bin Haji Hasbullah (pic) said this is among reasons some apply for transfer. "These teachers think they must leave the place in order to meet someone ideal and marry. This is the reality they are facing and (there is) a need for the Ministry to understand and look into it." ...
Tags: aera, rural, education
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Friday, August 12, 2005
More Rural Education News
This one came courtesy of my eCollege Newsletter...
Chinese Government Looks to Distance Education to Bridge Urban-rural Gap in Education
A Chinese government official is requesting regional governments accelerate the building of the modern distance education network at rural schools in a bid to raise the quality of rural education.
Read the Entire Story
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Chinese Government Looks to Distance Education to Bridge Urban-rural Gap in Education
A Chinese government official is requesting regional governments accelerate the building of the modern distance education network at rural schools in a bid to raise the quality of rural education.
Read the Entire Story
Tags: aera, rural, education
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Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Blogging about Rural Education
I was alerted to this first blog entry about rural education by the Online Learning Update.
More rural folks need varsity studies: Yee - Malaysia Daily Express By Ray Schroeder
The Resource Development and Information Technology Ministry wants universities to be brought to rural folk, to provide an opportunity for more of them to pursue higher education, via e-learning. Its Minister Datuk Dr Yee Moh Chai said there were still ccommunities in the rural areas of the State not able to enjoy education at university-level. "Therefore, we need to get more people from the rural areas to enrol into a university via e-learning mode," he said, while commending the initiatives pioneered by Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) for this purpose.
And another one, not quite rural education, but about small schools...
Is small beautiful? by Joanne Jacobs
New York City's newly created small schools face tough challenges, reports the New York Times. Nearly 70 percent of the students started the year performing below grade level, often far below, in math and reading. The small schools - with themes like the law, performing arts, technology, and architecture - also strained to carve out identities in the face of large numbers of ambivalent students. More than half of pupils in the small schools had applied elsewhere and were rejected, or had applied nowhere and were simply assigned to a small school.
Tags: aera, rural, education
More rural folks need varsity studies: Yee - Malaysia Daily Express By Ray Schroeder
The Resource Development and Information Technology Ministry wants universities to be brought to rural folk, to provide an opportunity for more of them to pursue higher education, via e-learning. Its Minister Datuk Dr Yee Moh Chai said there were still ccommunities in the rural areas of the State not able to enjoy education at university-level. "Therefore, we need to get more people from the rural areas to enrol into a university via e-learning mode," he said, while commending the initiatives pioneered by Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) for this purpose.
And another one, not quite rural education, but about small schools...
Is small beautiful? by Joanne Jacobs
New York City's newly created small schools face tough challenges, reports the New York Times. Nearly 70 percent of the students started the year performing below grade level, often far below, in math and reading. The small schools - with themes like the law, performing arts, technology, and architecture - also strained to carve out identities in the face of large numbers of ambivalent students. More than half of pupils in the small schools had applied elsewhere and were rejected, or had applied nowhere and were simply assigned to a small school.
Tags: aera, rural, education
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Saturday, August 06, 2005
Rural education in the news...
From this week's headlines...
- Rajasthan Government to leverage rural education by linking Edusat with Gramsat from The Hindu
- President commissions rural education project from The Hindu
- NGO donates to Nandom Hospital from GNA
- Not one less for fee exempt education from the China Daily
More to come next week... If something was featured in your newspaper on rural education, please let us know by posting a comment to this message.
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Thursday, August 04, 2005
From the E-Mail Box of the Executive Director - News about 2006 Annual Meeting
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 19:30:46 -0400
From: "AERA News" aeranews@aera.net
Dear AERA Members:
As you may know, the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) was scheduled for San Francisco, California from April 8 to 12. In my July 7 e-mail to you, I indicated that the ongoing labor situation in San Francisco regarding a dispute between the hotel management and the hotel workers' union may make it impossible for the Association to schedule its meeting at certain hotels and still have a successful meeting. A briefing on this situation and the resolution passed by AERA Council on June 25th are included in my column in the August/September 2005 issue of the Educational Researcher (ER). The column is available online at:
With continued best wishes,
Felice
Felice J. Levine, PhD
Executive Director
Tags: http://drmandrake.blog-city.com/AERA, rural, education
From: "AERA News" aeranews@aera.net
Dear AERA Members:
As you may know, the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) was scheduled for San Francisco, California from April 8 to 12. In my July 7 e-mail to you, I indicated that the ongoing labor situation in San Francisco regarding a dispute between the hotel management and the hotel workers' union may make it impossible for the Association to schedule its meeting at certain hotels and still have a successful meeting. A briefing on this situation and the resolution passed by AERA Council on June 25th are included in my column in the August/September 2005 issue of the Educational Researcher (ER). The column is available online at:
http://www.aera.net/uploadedFiles/Publications/Journals/Educational_Researcher/3406/FromTheDesk.pdf.
I am writing to let you know that the 2006 Annual Meeting will continue to be held in San Francisco and also to notify you of two important changes. First and foremost, the primary site for Annual Meeting sessions will be The Moscone Center. While, as always given the size of the AERA Annual Meeting, functions and meetings will be scheduled at a number of hotels, the Center is a major facility and thus will be the headquarters site for the Annual Meeting. Second, and equally as important, the use of the The Moscone Center permits AERA to alter the dates of the Annual Meeting from April 8-12, 2006 to April 7-11, 2006. By starting one day earlier, AERA is able to avert any conflict for those who observe the Passover Holiday, which begins at sundown on April 12.
Remaining in San Francisco and relocating the Annual Meeting to the Moscone Center involved both the wisdom of the AERA Council and continuous collaboration and consultation with AERA President Gloria Ladson-Billings. We expect to hold a wonderful meeting in San Francisco in April doing what we do best--presenting research; discussing new findings, works in progress, and next stages of inquiry; investing in the next generation through our work with students and our commitment to professional development; and serving the public interest by the questions we ask, the studies we conduct, and how we disseminate our knowledge about them. What a perfect theme that our President and our Annual Meeting Program Chair, William Tate, selected for 2006--Education Research in the Public Interest. It is definitely the right theme for the right year!
This week, as we were finalizing arrangements for The Moscone Center, deadlines for the Annual Meeting online submission system were upon us. I am pleased to report 10,437 submissions--a record breaking number! We will now be turning to the next stages. Program chairs are about to commence the review process, and Robert Smith, Director of Meetings, and all of the staff will continue to work full force to organize a great meeting with this new plan in place.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at flevine@aera.net. Through these occasional e-mail news briefings to the membership, through AERA Highlights in ER, and through the AERA website (http://www.aera.net/), we will continue to keep you informed about the Annual Meeting.
I am writing to let you know that the 2006 Annual Meeting will continue to be held in San Francisco and also to notify you of two important changes. First and foremost, the primary site for Annual Meeting sessions will be The Moscone Center. While, as always given the size of the AERA Annual Meeting, functions and meetings will be scheduled at a number of hotels, the Center is a major facility and thus will be the headquarters site for the Annual Meeting. Second, and equally as important, the use of the The Moscone Center permits AERA to alter the dates of the Annual Meeting from April 8-12, 2006 to April 7-11, 2006. By starting one day earlier, AERA is able to avert any conflict for those who observe the Passover Holiday, which begins at sundown on April 12.
Remaining in San Francisco and relocating the Annual Meeting to the Moscone Center involved both the wisdom of the AERA Council and continuous collaboration and consultation with AERA President Gloria Ladson-Billings. We expect to hold a wonderful meeting in San Francisco in April doing what we do best--presenting research; discussing new findings, works in progress, and next stages of inquiry; investing in the next generation through our work with students and our commitment to professional development; and serving the public interest by the questions we ask, the studies we conduct, and how we disseminate our knowledge about them. What a perfect theme that our President and our Annual Meeting Program Chair, William Tate, selected for 2006--Education Research in the Public Interest. It is definitely the right theme for the right year!
This week, as we were finalizing arrangements for The Moscone Center, deadlines for the Annual Meeting online submission system were upon us. I am pleased to report 10,437 submissions--a record breaking number! We will now be turning to the next stages. Program chairs are about to commence the review process, and Robert Smith, Director of Meetings, and all of the staff will continue to work full force to organize a great meeting with this new plan in place.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at flevine@aera.net. Through these occasional e-mail news briefings to the membership, through AERA Highlights in ER, and through the AERA website (http://www.aera.net/), we will continue to keep you informed about the Annual Meeting.
With continued best wishes,
Felice
Felice J. Levine, PhD
Executive Director
Tags: http://drmandrake.blog-city.com/AERA, rural, education
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Wednesday, August 03, 2005
Announcement - Community Development Academy Fast Approaching!
From: UMC SSU Community Development (Community_Development@MISSOURI.EDU)
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 14:04:33
Fall into....
New Ideas, Community Building and Hands-On Training at the Fall 2005 Comunity Development Academy
The University of Missouri Community Development Extension Program offers a series of three courses called the Community Development Academy. Each of the three courses is an intensive, experiential, five-day course that explores ideas and develops practical skills for effectively involving and empowering local citizens and leaders in community-based efforts.
Offered this fall:
For additional course information and to register, please visit our web site at:
Hurry! Enrollment is limited. This is an opportunity you won't want to miss!
If you have questions or would like to request a brochure, please contact Steve Jeanetta at (573) 884-8946 or e-mail JeanettaS@Missouri.edu.
Tags: aera, rural, education
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 14:04:33
Fall into....
New Ideas, Community Building and Hands-On Training at the Fall 2005 Comunity Development Academy
The University of Missouri Community Development Extension Program offers a series of three courses called the Community Development Academy. Each of the three courses is an intensive, experiential, five-day course that explores ideas and develops practical skills for effectively involving and empowering local citizens and leaders in community-based efforts.
Offered this fall:
- Course 1: Building Communities from the Grassroots
- Course 3: Creating Capacity for Dynamic Communities
For additional course information and to register, please visit our web site at:
Hurry! Enrollment is limited. This is an opportunity you won't want to miss!
If you have questions or would like to request a brochure, please contact Steve Jeanetta at (573) 884-8946 or e-mail JeanettaS@Missouri.edu.
Tags: aera, rural, education
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Monday, August 01, 2005
Blog Statistics for July 2005
Well, our counter has climbed from 87 at the end of June 2005 to 289 at the end of July 2005. Our litle statistics tracker tells me that the 202 visits that we have had this week have come from 25 unique individuals coming from the United States, Canada, Australia, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.
It looks like the majority of people have found us from the link on the AERA website, however, others have come across us from search engines such as MSN, Yahoo!, Technorati, and Google (in that order).
It seems that our most popular entries this month were 2006 AERA Annual Meeting Submission Deadline, Special Update on 2006 Annual Meeting, and Blog Entries on Rural Issues (in that order).
Finally, the average visitor spent from 30 seconds to 5 minutes visiting our site, while 2 people spent more than an hour here this past month.
Tags: aera, rural, education
It looks like the majority of people have found us from the link on the AERA website, however, others have come across us from search engines such as MSN, Yahoo!, Technorati, and Google (in that order).
It seems that our most popular entries this month were 2006 AERA Annual Meeting Submission Deadline, Special Update on 2006 Annual Meeting, and Blog Entries on Rural Issues (in that order).
Finally, the average visitor spent from 30 seconds to 5 minutes visiting our site, while 2 people spent more than an hour here this past month.
Tags: aera, rural, education
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