ADE Briefs

An annual list of schools recognized for bringing more students to college- and career-readiness was released last week. The National Center for Educational Achievement (NCEA), released its 2010 NCEA Higher Performing Schools List for Arkansas on www.nc4ea.org. The 86 listed Arkansas schools demonstrate not only improved student performance, but also the ability move students beyond [...]

Neal Gibson, director of the Arkansas Department of Education’s Arkansas Research Center, will talk about making education data accessible, easy and meaningful for all stakeholders on March 4 at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro. His presentation, “Visualizing Student Growth for Evaluating Schools, Teachers and Students,” is sponsored by ASU’s Office of Research and Technology Transfer. [...]

Arkansas’s top two youth volunteers were named State Honorees this week by the Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, which recognizes outstanding student volunteerism. Abigail Gates, a senior at Clinton High School, and Leyton Gassaway, a seventh-grader at Crowley’s Ridge Academy, will each receive $1,000, an engraved silver medallion and a trip to Washington, D.C., for [...]

Because of recent inclement weather, Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has announced that the deadline for entries for the 2011 Youth Suicide Prevention PSA contest and the Youth Suicide Prevention poetry contest has been extended from Feb. 14 to Feb. 22. Students in all Arkansas public and private schools, as well as home-schooled students, are eligible [...]

The Public Charter School Dissemination Grant Application for 2011 is now available on ArkansasEd.org. The dissemination grant can be awarded for up to $25,000. Per federal guidelines, public charter schools eligible for this grant must meet the following guidelines: The public charter school has been in operation for at least three consecutive years and has [...]