Lakota East senior pitcher/outfielder Alex Corna has verbally committed to Ohio University, according to Lakota East coach Ray Hamilton.
Corna was a first-team all-GMC selection as an outfielder last season.
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Manufacturers struggling to find skilled workers
WASHINGTON – U.S. manufacturers cannot find skilled workers despite high unemployment, which means there is a need to align the nations higher education system with the requirements of industry, lawmakers were told on Tuesday.
Georgetown University public policy professor Harry Holzer told a congressional hearing on manufacturing that although the sector had lost more than two million jobs during the past four years and unemployment was high among factory workers, companies were still having difficulty filling vacancies.
“The ratio of job vacancies to new hires in manufacturing is higher than we find in any other major industry group, suggesting that employers are having some difficulty filling their newly created jobs,” said Holzer.
This implies that part of the unemployment problem confronting the economy is structural and will require gearing higher education to the needs of industry and encouraging companies to fully embrace on-the-job training.
Two years after the end of the 2007-09 recession, about 14.1 million Americans are still out of work. I
Teacher Prep Students to Benefit from New Collaboration
Earnest Palomino is an engineer who wanted to become a teacher. A move to Arizona and a distressed economy were the catalyst for him to enroll in Rio Salado Colleges post baccalaureate teacher preparation program. Two years later Palomino will see his goal become a reality when he teaches math to students at Dysart High School this fall.
The way Rio structures the program really prepares you for the next step. You begin with core classes, next practicums and then student teaching, Palomino said. They also go beyond academics and teach practical things like, control of the classroom.
For more than a decade Rio Salado College has been a leading provider of teacher preparation in Arizona and has helped students with bachelors degrees prepare for certification. Recently the college joined together with the New York Times Knowledge Network to provide a premier post-baccalaureate teacher preparation program. Read full article…
Pa. looking into possible cheating on state tests
PHILADELPHIA – The Pennsylvania Department of Education is looking into a report that has surfaced highlighting possible cheating on state standardized tests in at least 35 districts and noting aberrant scores in dozens of others, a spokesman said Tuesday.
The forensic analysis of the 2009 Pennsylvania System of School Assessment results does not assert cheating occurred, but says certain answer patterns and erasures make the results suspicious.
Among the school districts identified as having multiple testing irregularities are Philadelphia, Hazleton, Connellsville and Lancaster. Many other districts were cited for one or two inconsistencies.
The department was unaware of the report — issued in July 2009 under a previous administration — until it was published Friday by The Notebook, an independent news service covering the Philadelphia school district, said Timothy Eller, a spokesman for Education Secretary Ronald Tomalis.
“It’s very frustrating to the secretary that nothing was done in the past with it,” Eller said. Tomal
Computer Technology Degrees: An Investment in the Future
Technology moves fast. The evolution of mobile media has created an increased demand for mobile apps and programmers with the skills to produce them. Mobile software applications (apps) are the driving force behind the popularity of the iPhone and Android-based devices. Apps add functionality to a device by allowing users to do things like play video games, check their bank balance, or compare local prices while shopping.
Smartphones and handheld gadgets have already changed how many people communicate. Read full article…
School system reaches out for more feedback on assignment plan
Members of the task force that studied how to best implement a new student assignment policy for Wake County schools reached out to the community Monday to get more parents’ input on a proposed course of action.
School staff set up computers at seven schools in southeast Raleigh and eastern Wake County, where response to an online test drive of the Community-Based Choice plan, or so-called “blue plan,” has been slow.
The blue plan would allow parents to pick from a variety schools based on their address.
The trial run is designed to see what student distribution might actually look like.
“I wanted to see what it was going to be like and what the options would be,” said Annette Holmquist, a parent and employee at Hodge Road Elementary School in Knightdale.
The families of 10,260 students done have test drives, but Superintendent Tony Tata appealed Friday for at least 12,000 families to participate.
Only a handful of people showed up at the schools Monday to participate in the trial run.
“Even if we have the opportunity to sit down with one person, then I think it makes a difference,” said James Overton, who was the lead on (chairman of??) the task force, a group of Wake school administrators who devoted all their time to studying the best way to implement the new student assignment policy.
The blue plan allows parents to choose from four to six elementary schools, each linked with a middle and high school.