Last month, I was in Frankfort serving as Grand Marshal in Governor Steve Beshear’s inaugural parade. I was honored to represent Kentucky teachers on this historic day and look forward to sharing the message that education is the key to Kentucky’s future. Such discussion of the future is certainly appropriate for this time of year. A new year [...]
Elementary schools will be assessed on three things this year: achievement, gap and growth.
Seventh-graders are making gains through online investment challenge.
Two Pike County elementary schools are among 66 schools that have been named National Title I Distinguished Schools for their performance in 2011 by the National Title I Association. The recognized schools are Blackberry Elementary School in Ransom, Ky., and Southside Elementary School in Belfry, Ky. All of the selected schools are recognized either for exceptional student performance overall, or for significantly [...]
More than $1.5 million in federal money will be provided to eight Kentucky communities to help them complete projects aimed at encouraging and enabling students to walk or bicycle to school safely, Gov. Steve Beshear announced yesterday.
The Real World Design Challenge (RWDC) is an annual competition that provides high school students the opportunity to work on real-world engineering challenges in a team environment. Student teams are asked to address a challenge that confronts the nation's leading industries, use professional engineering software to develop their solutions and generate presentations that convincingly demonstrate the value of their solutions. [...]
The Kentucky Board of Education is supporting legislation this session that would increase compulsory school attendance from age 16 to 18, provide funding flexibility to school districts and adjust the preschool funding formula.
Meyer helps special education students from across the globe, and they help her, too.