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Posted by BJ Goergen, Chief of Staff
New York City education chief Joel Klein talks about improving inner-city schools, competing globally, and how Jack Welch helps him groom his leadership team.
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Luce: Texas must seize a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for education funding
Texans have always accepted a challenge. One is at hand that we need to grab hold of with ferocity. Our state must compete to win federal Race to the Top funds so it can accelerate efforts to transform education.
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Guest View: On AP, Dartmouth missed out

The editorial headline in the Boston Globe on Aug. 26 read, "In AP Effort, Students Soar - and Teachers Unions Flunk."AP stands for advanced placement.

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Tom Luce is Dallas Morning News Guest Blogger

NMSI's CEO, Tom Luce, is the guest blogger for the Dallas Morning News today. Check it out!

http://educationfrontblog.dallasnews.com/

 
NONPROFIT-BACKED MATH AND SCIENCE PROGRAM SEES AP SCORE GAINS
STATE CAPITOL BRIEFS (MORNING EDITION) - TUESDAY, AUG. 25, 2009 STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE

Schools participating in a nonprofit-funded math and science training program saw student scores on advanced placement tests soar 39 percent, according to Mass Insight,

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Initiative Boosts AP Passing Scores, Group Says

EdWeek - Curriculum Matters Blog
The National Math and Science Initiative, an effort to increase Advanced Placement participation, particularly among disadvantaged students, appears to be showing results, according to testing information compiled by the organization.

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Editorial: Results show math, science aren't out of reach
Dallas Morning News
04:25 PM CDT on Monday, August 24, 2009

The conflicting data coming out about schools can make your head swirl. Too few kids ready for college.

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For Today's Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics
Published: August 5, 2009
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - At Harvard, Carrie Grimes majored in anthropology and archaeology and ventured to places like Honduras, where she studied Mayan settlement patterns by mapping where artifacts were found. But she was drawn to what she calls "all the computer and math stuff" that was part of the job.

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Ex-astronaut becomes math, science advocate

Glad to see this positive profile of Bernard Harris, one of our NMSI board members, in the Washington Times.

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Report: Students Who Study STEM in Postsecondary Education

Posted by Dale Fleury, Regional Director

Those who focus on STEM fields have a higher rate of completing a bachelor's degree program, 35 percent, compared to the overall student population, at 29 percent, according to a new report released by the National Center for Education Statistics.

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Recent Blog Posts

Why Paying Kids To Study Works In Texas

The March 8 edition of Newsweek has a helpful analysis of the recent working paper that shows students who receive incentives for passing AP courses not only earn better GPA's, they are more likely to earn their degrees - and the effects are more pronounced among minorities.

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Many Authorized STEM Projects Fail to Get Funding

Here is an article from EdWeek with some timely information about STEM funding:

Many programs in the America COMPETES Act never got any money.

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Warren East High Future Educators of America proudly announces another National Championship.

Posted by Pat Sherbert, Director of English Programs at NMSI:

Please take a look at the FTA 1st place video below about “Becoming A Teacher.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA7o0Kdqe7M

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