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29 June 2012 - 1:40 pm
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Afternoon Announcements: June 29, 2012

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Go ahead and give yourself a high five. You made it to Friday. The weekend is ahead of you, and if you’re in the DC area, that means sitting in front of a fan and trying desperately to find relief from this heat wave. Actually, looking at the weather map, there’s a lot of places across the country at the moment where you could be reading this in front of a fan. In any event, we have a bunch of pieces of news for you today to close your week out properly.

Five more states are free from key requirements of the No Child Left Act today because the Department of Education has granted waivers to Arkansas, Missouri, South Dakota, Utah, and Virginia. This brings the count of states that have been granted waivers up to 24. The Associated Press via Education Week has more on the implications of this story.

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28 June 2012 - 3:18 pm
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Afternoon Announcements: June 28, 2012

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Welcome to Thursday’s announcements. It’s a bit of a slow news day in terms of education policy today because of all of the national news surrounding Supreme Court decisions, Contempt of Congress hearings, and University President reinstatements. Here’s just a few bits of news for you today.

First, from Education Week, comes the news that Iowa, in the wake of its waiver request being rejected by the U.S. Department of Education, is requesting that it receive a one year freeze in NCLB state targets. This is new territory in the process because  Iowa was the first state to have its waiver application rejected. As NCLB targets continue to increase toward 100% proficiency demanded in 2014, more states who haven’t received waivers may have to request target freezes.

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27 June 2012 - 1:34 pm
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Stats That Stick: June 27, 2012

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The Stats! They Stick! They stick in your head and they cannot be unstuck! Here’s this week’s edition of the statistics we can’t get out of our heads.

First, although this isn’t a specific statistic, be sure to check out this excellent infographic from Civitas Learning (posted by The Huffington Post) that is a great reference of U.S. graduate and unemployment rates compared to those in other countries.

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27 June 2012 - 10:04 am
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Morning Announcements: June 27, 2012

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Good morning and welcome to Wednesday’s announcements! You’re still on the front half of this week until about 1pm today. Why not ease the wait until the midpoint of your week with a healthy dose of today’s education news?

Today’s must-read is from The Huffington Post, which shares an infographic that compares graduation rates and unemployment levels in the U.S. and other countries.  The infographic was released by Civitas Learning, and is quite compelling.

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26 June 2012 - 1:42 pm
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Afternoon Announcements: June 26, 2012

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Welcome to today’s edition of the afternoon announcements. We hope you’re having a great day out there and are ready to get some of today’s news.

Before we start off today, you should know (if you don’t already) that tomorrow at 1pm we’ll be hosting a webinar with Alliance president Bob Wise and Communities in Schools president Daniel Cardinali. The webinar will focus on the economic impacts of increasing high school graduation rates. The two presidents will discuss the findings from CIS’s return-on-investment study, conducted by one of the nation’s leading economic modeling firms. The study demonstrates that CIS produces meaningful and social impacts by increasing high school graduation rates and the lifetime benefits for students, businesses, and taxpayers.

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25 June 2012 - 3:25 pm
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Afternoon Announcements: June 25, 2012

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Hello and welcome to your Monday afternoon announcements! We’re late on delivering today, so without too much chitchat, let’s get on with it!

First, the U.S. Treasury Department recently released a report that told us something that we’ve known here at the Alliance for a while: education is a ticket to upward mobility. The Huffington Post reports that “for those born into the poorest fifth of American families, the obtainment of a college degree gives you an 80 percent chance of bettering your economic status over the course of a lifetime. Opt not to graduate college, and those odds drop to 55 percent,” according to “The Economic Case for Higher Education.”

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22 June 2012 - 1:06 pm
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Report Round-up: June 22, 2012

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Hello again! It’s time for your weekly dose of the Report Round-up, where we share the reports we’ve seen recently that we think merit your attention.

First, we’d be remiss if we didn’t share with you the Alliance’s latest effort: “A Framework for Advancing Career and Technical Education: Recommendations for the Reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Act.” As Congress takes up the Perkins Act, the Alliance wants to make sure that policy makers know that the legislation must continue to “ensure that the opportunities provided at the secondary school level are relevant, engaging, of high quality, and aligned with the career demands that lie ahead, and that such opportunities place a targeted focus on those youth who have traditionally been least likely to have access to the educational opportunities that prepare them to be both college and career ready.”

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22 June 2012 - 10:52 am
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Morning Announcements: June 22, 2012

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Here it is: the end of your work week. Friday is here and so are your announcements for the day. Check these out, then go ahead and feel free to check out for the day. You’ve earned it. Have a great weekend!

The Baltimore Sun starts us off today with a story about how a summer camp for homeless children is helping to ease their transition between elementary and middle schools. The article notes, “the 104-year-old Camp St. Vincent began its program this week, attempting to see that the most vulnerable students don't fall through the cracks and sustain substantial learning loss during the summer.”

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