The Daily Report Card: Special Education, Stealing Students From Kentucky, And The Mind Trust

In The Classroom Today

In RTI Era, is Federal Special Education Law Out of Date? – On Special Education – Education Week When districts first started adopting response-to-intervention, the approach quickly became the target of criticism from parents who believed school districts were trying to put off more costly special education services. RTI, an approach that involves using an escalating set of techniques to address skills a student is struggling with, got a boost in 2004, when the federal law changed to require states to let districts use it if they chose. (blogs.edweek.org)

Kentucky college-going rates rise to 63%, marking highest percentage on record | KyForward.com According to the report, of the 2010 graduates currently enrolled in college, about 92 percent are enrolled at in-state colleges or universities. The highest numbers are at the University of Kentucky (2,638) and Western Kentucky University (2,391). Of the 8 percent enrolled in out-of-state schools, Indiana University Southeast had the highest number enrolled at 145. (kyforward.com)

Refund our Mind Trust report money | Our Schools opinion blog | The Indianapolis Star | IndyStar.com At a time when school budgets in Indiana have been cut to the bone, the state Department of Education just spent half-a-million dollars on a report about Indianapolis Public Schools that recommends investing in preschool education, hiring the very best people you can find, cutting the bureaucracy, and giving schools and teachers more autonomy. Heck, Dr. (Tony) Bennett, just about any good IPS teacher could have told you the same thing for a lot less money! A teacher would have also explained that the problems in IPS are not mainly about the structure and organization of the school system, but rather are rooted in the culture and environment of the home and surrounding community. (blogs.indystar.com)