Overall results from the 2011 administration of the ACT to Kentucky’s public school juniors and public school graduates show improvements in all subject areas and higher percentages of students ready for college-level coursework.
The 2011 Annual Kentucky Council of Teachers of Mathematics (KCTM) Conference will be Oct. 8 at South Warren High School in Bowling Green. With the implementation of the Kentucky Core Academic Standards, the theme this year is Driving the Standards: Content and Practices. Several sessions will be addressing both the content and practice standards. Those registered by Sept. 1 are [...]
ACT’s new video contest is calling on students to tell their friends why they should take the ACT. Winning entries could win thousands of dollars in scholarship money. The contest encourages students to think creatively as they make plans to attend college. Participants must be U.S. high school students who plan to apply for admission to a U.S. two-year or [...]
Nancy Rodriguez will join Kentucky Department of Education’s Division of Communications and Community Engagement staff as the new editor of Kentucky Teacher. Rodriguez has served as P-12 and higher education reporter for the Courier-Journal for nearly 10 years. She holds a master’s degree in communications and has extensive skills in editing, writing and information-gathering. Rodriguez will begin her new duties [...]
The annual Kentucky Association for Psychology in the Schools (KAPS) will be Sept. 21-23 in Lexington. The registration packets will be posted on the KAPS website and distributed by e-mail. Hotel reservations can be made at www.thecampbellhouse.net, using the block code KAF until Aug 23. The nightly rate for KAPS is $89.
The Kentucky Council for the Social Studies annual conference will be in Bowling Green on Sept. 21-22. The theme this year is “Social Studies for the Citizens of Tomorrow.” The keynote speaker will be Berry Craig, a local historian and journalist. For more information about the conference and registration, go to www.kcss.org.
The Kentucky School Boards Association (KSBA) is accepting nominations for local board members interested in running for a seat on the association’s 27-member board of directors. Five director-at-large seats will be filled by election during the business session of the 2012 KSBA Annual Conference, Feb. 4. The five positions currently are held by the following people, all of whom are [...]