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Oregon Department of Education
Department of Education issues Final TAG findings: The Oregon Department of Education issued findings that Portland Public Schools is not in compliance with the Oregon TAG mandate and an order requiring a plan of correction. The findings were accompanied by a letter containing additional recommendations to PPS. On May 29th., 2008 PPS issued a Plan of Compliance
Portland Public Schools Compliance Plan, May 20th. 2008
Jefferson Community Survey posted
Portland TAG department offers presentations for parents for the 2007-8 school year on Oct. 25, Jan. 17 and May 21 http://www.tag.pps.k12.or.us/
Johns Hopkins offers Family Camp on Nanotechnology at Portland State University, Saturday, November 12th. http://cty.jhu.edu/family/science.html
Access alternative program opened in fall, 2003
Questions and Answers about ACCESS, 2003-4
ACCESS website http://accessalt.pps.k12.or.us/
Oregon Department of Education
Oregon Department of Education offers report on April/May 2004 TAG input sessions....go to http://www.ode.state.or.us/teachlearn/specialty/tag/pdf/summaryreportTAGEd.pdf
See also their issue brief at http://www.ode.state.or.us/teachlearn/specialty/tag/pdf/issuebriefTAG.pdf
U.S. News, General News
The No Child Left Behind Law requires High Schools receiving Federal funding to provide information on your child (including grades and ethnicity) to military recruiters. It also includes a provision allowing any family that wishes to opt-out (families must still provide personal information) In addition, the Department of Defense is compiling a database of student information. For more information go to:
This website is maintained by a coalition of advocacy organizations.
To print out opt-out letters for both High Schools and the Pentagon database in English or Spanish go to http://themmob.org/lmca/forms.html
A Nation Deceived:
How Schools Hold Back
America’s Brightest Students by
Nicholas Colangelo, Susan G. Assouline, Miraca U. M. Gross
The Templeton National Report on Acceleration from the Belin-Blank
International Center for
Gifted Education and Talent Development, University of Iowa
available free online or by mail from
http://www.nationdeceived.org/
NAGC/NMSA issue joint position paper and a call to action to meet the needs of high-ability and high-potential young adolescents. http://www.nagc.org/index.aspx?id=1027
NEW! The Achievement Trap: from The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. A study of the extent to which high achieving low-income students are losing ground year by year.
press release: .
http://www.jackkentcookefoundation.org/jkcf_web/content.aspx?page=3636348&mode=stage
full report:
http://www.jackkentcookefoundation.org/jkcf_web/Documents/Achievement%20Trap.pdf