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The Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence is transitioning leadership with the retirement of Dr. Stu Silberman and the selection of his successor…
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The Commonwealth is seeing gains and losses in its race to reach top tier national status in key areas of education. In 2008, the Prichard Committee for…
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A group of education organizations will meet in Lexington Thursday to prepare for their campaign to better fund public education in Kentucky. It’s the…
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The May first edition of the Wall Street Journal included an article by Stephanie Banchero entitled "Learning Goals Spur Backlash." To find out about if…
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The executive director of Kentucky’s Pritchard Committee for Academic Excellence is now blogging for a national publication and he’ll be keeping readers abreast of changes the state undergoes as it continues to roll out its new accountability system. Stu Silberman said he’ll try to post content twice a week on Education Week’s website EdWeekly.org and he hopes to share best practices and challenges that the commonwealth faces. “ I think that we will continue to be sharing our progress in Kentucky but this is also taking a look at the national issues," he said. In his first post this week, Silberman said Kentucky needed to provide better education and support to its education reforms in 1990. He said he hopes the blog opens that dialog to parents and policy makers for the state’s most recent education assessment and accountability changes. Silberman said he’ll share best practices, data and policy collected from nationwide sources.
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Dr. Stu Silberman is among the Commonwealth’s leading advocates for improving public education reacting to the Kentucky Senate’s failure to fund a…
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An effort by Governor Steve Beshear to expand preschool services in the commonwealth did not make it into the final state budget.Beshear put a $15 million…
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A coalition of groups has formed to press Kentucky lawmakers to approve a constitutional amendment that could legalize casinos in the Commonwealth. The…