The teaching profession has changed dramatically over the past 40 years. The majority of the nation’s 3 million teachers have at least a master’s degree and an average of 15 years of experience.
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Gaining or Losing Ground? equity in offering advanced placement courses in California High Schools.
Analysis by researchers of the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute (TRPI) on Advanced Placement (AP) courses in California public high schools in the mid-1990s concluded that although high school AP programs offered talented youngsters the opportunity to stretch their mental horizons and preview the challenges of college-level
coursework, the programs were not available to all students in the state of California. The findings of this present report indicate that access to AP courses remains an unlikely opportunity for Black and Latino students and many
low-income/rural students regardless of ethnicity. AP courses continue to be an inequitable sorting mechanism that limits some groups’ college preparation opportunities.
Calling all Graduates get a job you deserve!
It’s that time again, when the country produces hundreds of thousands of new college graduates eager to jump into the work force. However, many of these bright, young college grads settle for jobs that require only a high-school diploma! Often, this is because they don’t know how to job-search or plan a career, and are urgent to simply land a job that pays the bills. Later, they find it difficult to get into a career because they have no good work experience on their resumes. What can a student or recent grad to assure that they land a position they deserve?
Terra Nostra: Solamente Salma exhibit.
Ford Motor Company’s Mercury brand has signed on to sponsor “Terra Nostra: Solamente Salma,” a series of actress Salma Hayek paintings by renowned film director Robert Rodriguez and accomplished muralist George Yepes. The exhibition features 16 acrylic on canvas paintings, each eight by five feet in size and will be on display at the Blue Star Contemporary Art Center in San Antonio, Texas, from April 7 until June 18, 2006.
Majority of parents have set little or no money aside for college costs.
The cost of a higher education is daunting for a lot of parents, and they may have good reason to worry. A new Wall Street Journal Online/Harris Interactive Personal Finance Poll reveals most (97%) U.S. adults who are the parent or legal guardian of a child 18 years of age or younger expect their oldest child in this age range to attend college, and nearly eight in 10 (79%) of these parents expect to pay for some or all of their child’s college education. While parents overall appear to have a reasonable expectation of how much they will probably need to pay, the poll finds that a majority has saved little or nothing for this anticipated expense.
A Half-Century of Learning: Historical Statistics on Educational Attainment in the USA.
In 1940, statistics on educational attainment were collected for every person enumerated in the census and from a sample of them thereafter. In 1940, only 25 percent of the population age 25 and older had a high school diploma, and just 5 percent earned a bachelor’s degree or more. By the close of the 20th century, these figures had increased to 80 percent with high school diplomas and 24 percent with bachelor’s degrees. Educational attainment data are shown by sex, race and Hispanic origin (since 1980) at the regional and state levels. These data are based on the decennial census and are separate from annual data collected in the Current Population Survey.
National spending per student rises.
U.S. public school districts spent an average of $8,287 per student in 2004, up from the previous year’s total of $8,019. In all, public elementary and secondary education received $462.7 billion from federal, state and local sources in 2004, up 5.1 percent from 2003.
