Monthly Archives: February 2011

Database of Kentucky newspapers

The Library of Congress (LOC) has made available scanned and searchable images of newspapers from Kentucky, as well as other states, from 1860 through 1922 as part of their Chronicling America project. The newspapers from Kentucky include several from the central Kentucky area: Bluegrass Blade, Berea Citizen, Bourbon News, Winchester Sun and others. The full database is available here and [...]

By |2011-02-23T10:18:46-05:00February 24, 2011|

Webinar series from ‘Green Teacher’

Green Teacher’s 2011 webinar series, designed for both non-formal and formal youth educators, offers 30 free webinars on various environmental education topics this year. Nearly 800 non-formal and formal youth educators filled out our online survey and helped us choose the topics for these webinars. Each session will feature a 20-30 minute presentation and 30-40 minutes for questions. For more [...]

By |2011-02-23T09:32:14-05:00February 24, 2011|

TEK task force presents recommendations

The Governor’s Task Force on Transforming Education in Kentucky (TEK) presented Gov. Steve Beshear with its final report, including 35 recommendations that the group believes would enable Kentucky to better prepare all of its students for success in the 21st century, on Feb. 21.

By |2019-02-04T14:28:29-05:00February 22, 2011|

Pledging to improve college- and career-readiness

Education Commissioner Terry Holliday I recently sent a letter to Kentucky superintendents and board of education chairs asking them to pledge to increase the rates of college and career readiness in their high schools by 50 percent by 2015. This is critical to the success of our students, communities and the economy of the entire state. Our legislative [...]

By |2020-09-16T10:52:51-04:00February 17, 2011|

Highlands High School is state We the People champion

Highlands High School (Fort Thomas Independent) has won the state championship in the We the People…The Citizen and the Constitution civic education competition and will compete for the national title from April 30-May 2.

By |2019-01-22T15:29:06-05:00February 17, 2011|

Owensboro superintendent named KMEA’s Outstanding Administrator

Larry Vick, superintendent of the Owensboro Independent school district, is the recipient of the Kentucky Music Educators Association (KMEA) Outstanding Administrator Award for 2010-2011. He was presented the award during the KMEA professional development conference on Feb. 11. Vick was honored for his impact and support of music education.  Under his leadership, the district recently completed a multimillion dollar fine [...]

By |2011-02-22T08:38:12-05:00February 17, 2011|

State following Kenton’s collaboration lead on teacher evaluations

By Matthew Tungate matthew.tungate@education.ky.gov Kentucky Department of Education officials are using the Kenton County school district as a model in developing a statewide teacher-evaluation system. Since the 2009-10 school year, Kenton County has been using a rubric-based performance-evaluation model that teachers, school administrators and district officials collaboratively researched, designed and implemented, according to Michael Dailey, director of the Department of [...]

By |2019-01-22T15:22:05-05:00February 15, 2011|
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