John Kitzhaber to begin big push for parents to tell stories to little kids

Oregon Live - Betsy Hammond "Kitzhaber and Umqua Bank executive [...]

September 27th, 2014|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Achievement Gap, Books, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Family, Learning, Literacy, News, Oregon, Parental Involvement, Parenting, Parents, Reading, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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The real crisis in public education: Guest opinion

Oregon Live - Ramin Farahmandpur "With all eyes on the [...]

September 14th, 2014|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Performance, Accountability, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Funding, Learning, News, Oregon, Poverty, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Oregon 2014 test scores: Stagnant, with more than one-third of students failing math

Oregon Live - Betsy Hammond "Oregon high schools made near-zero [...]

September 10th, 2014|Categories: Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Achievement Gap, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Learning, Math, Mathematics, News, Oregon, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Oregon has one of nation’s worst school absenteeism rates, contributing to mediocre reading and math skills, study says

Oregon Live - Betsy Hammond "A new study of school [...]

September 2nd, 2014|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Performance, Accountability, Achievement Gap, Attendance, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Learning, News, Oregon, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Third-graders must know how to type, drop-n-drag to succeed on Smarter Balanced test

Oregon Live - Betsy Hammond "It turns out that to [...]

August 31st, 2014|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Performance, Accountability, Achievement Gap, Childhood Education, Children, Computer, Current Events, Education, Elementary School, Learning, News, Oregon, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Common Core test, Smarter Balanced, looms large over Oregon schools

Oregon Live - Betsy Hammond "As nearly 600,000 Oregon teachers [...]

August 31st, 2014|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Performance, Accountability, Achievement Gap, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Learning, News, Oregon, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Diploma seal rewards bilingual education

The Journal Gazette - Staff Writer "When Rachel Martinez-Regan graduated [...]

June 30th, 2014|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Performance, Accountability, Achievement Gap, Bilingual, California, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Foreign, Foreign Language, Graduates, High School, Language, Language Immersion, Learning, News, Oregon, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Nation’s No. 1-ranked teacher prep program operates in Oregon

Oregon Live - Betsy Hammond "The nation's best program for [...]

June 21st, 2014|Categories: Accountability, Current Events, Education, Learning, News, Oregon, Teacher, Teacher Accountability, Teacher Training, Teaching, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Wisdom of the Elders science camp combines Native American culture with traditional science

Oregon Live - Wendy Owen "They sat with their eyes [...]

June 21st, 2014|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Performance, Accountability, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Learning, News, Oregon, Science, Science & Technology, Scientific, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Why it matters — a lot — whether a high school freshman goes to school each day: State charts it out

Oregon Live - Betsy Hammond "You might remember The Oregonian's [...]

May 31st, 2014|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Performance, Accountability, Achievement Gap, At-risk Students, Attendance, Child Development, Children, Current Events, Education, Graduates, High School, Learning, News, Oregon, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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