Georgia education officials seek delay in new law requiring students to select career path

ATLANTA — Georgia Department of Education officials are asking state lawmakers to agree to a one-year delay of a program stemming from a new state law requiring students to pick a career path by ninth grade. Education officials are requesting that the program’s launch be delayed until the 2013-14 school year, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported [...]

Video Games Key to Learning for Chicago Charter School

By Joe Robertson, The Kansas City Star, Mo. (MCT) This is the future American school? Really? “You guys are killing me!” teacher Don Labonte shouts. He’s laughing. He’s roaring back over the din of sixth-grade science students who are hurling arguments over the custom-made board game that is the curriculum for the hour. But he [...]

Schools Focus On Career Readiness

By Maura Walz ATLANTA  —  When Tony Thaw was elected to Georgia’s Glynn County Board of Commissioners in 2003, he set out to solve a problem he says was preventing the county from realizing its full economic potential. “We have a deep port. We have I-95 running right through the middle. We have a beautiful [...]

2012 Career Pathways Summit Planning Underway

After last years amazing summit, we are excited to start planning for a 2012. There has been a lot of progress in Wisconsin since last June and we are looking forward to sharing our successes. The event will be held in Madison, WI in late 2012. An exact date and location has not been selected [...]

National Park Service Expanding Reach Into STEM

Agency plans to reach a fourth of U.S. students By Nora Fleming EdWeek Dense fog is slow to abate on this recent morning, as more than 200 6th graders scatter into small groups on the site of an old military camp in California’s Marin Headlands outside San Francisco. They are a mix of moods—eager, hesitant, [...]