July 9, 2011
I looked at the website for “Lawrence O. Picus and Associates.” Here's some of what's on the first page:
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Lawrence O. Picus Professor and Director, Center for Research in Education Finance
USC Rossier School of Education
Past President of the American Education Finance Association
Principal Partner, Lawrence O. Picus and Associates
Bio
CV
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (818) 980-1881
Fax: (818) 980-1624
Allan Odden Professor of Education Leadership and Policy Analysis
Co-Director, Consortium for Policy Research in Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Past President of the American Education Finance Association
Principal Partner, Lawrence O. Picus and Associates
Bio
CV
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (608) 239-4671
Fax: (608) 442-8453
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I looked up the website for the USC Rossier School of Education. Here's something that it said on the first page of its website:
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Rossier News Gallagher to Take Part in First Clinton Global Initiative America Karen Symms Gallagher, dean of the USC Rossier School of Education, was invited to participate in the inaugural Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) America, the first CGI meeting to focus solely on the United States.
Center for Urban Education Changes University of Wisconsin Transfer Policy A two-year research project led by the Center for Urban Education has resulted in significant changes to the state’s postsecondary system that should improve the transfer rates for students of color.
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The two colleges where Picus and Odden are professors and directors are very connected to each other, as you can see from the second blurb from the USC Rossier website.
I followed the link that started "Gallagher to Take Part in First Clinton Global Initiative America." Here's some of what it said:
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"Karen Symms Gallagher, dean of the USC Rossier School of Education, was invited to participate in the inaugural Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) America, the first CGI meeting to focus solely on the United States.
To be held in Chicago on June 29-30, CGI America will bring together more than 600 leaders from businesses, nonprofits and all levels of government to develop and highlight ideas for spurring economic growth and creating jobs in the United States.
Gallagher will join members of the “100,000 in 10” Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Initiative, which was organized by the Carnegie Corp. and includes 26 cross-sector partners who have pledged to meet President Barack Obama’s two-step challenge for 10,000 new STEM teachers in two years and 100,000 new STEM teachers in 10 years.
USC Rossier, the first school of education to join the Carnegie Initiative, will join with other partners, including The Opportunity Equation, the American Museum of Natural History, Citizen Schools, the National Math + Science Initiative, the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation and Teach for America in being recognized by former President Bill Clinton for a commitment to increasing the supply of excellent teachers in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
At the CGI America meting, Gallagher also will participate in a STEM education in K-12 working group to examine strategies for improving the quality of STEM education, erasing inequality in the educational system, linking classroom teaching to workplace demands and increasing opportunities for teachers in STEM fields to access continuing education and up-to-date technology.
Gallagher and the other founding partners of the “100,000 in 10” STEM Initiative first met in January to build a “Blueprint for Action,” which addresses three key goals:
• increasing the supply of new teachers in STEM fields by recruiting and preparing highly skilled individuals, many of whom ultimately will work in high-need schools
• retaining excellence in the field of STEM teaching by sharing best practices, building professional development opportunities and recognizing excellence
• building the movement by supporting innovative techniques and funding appropriate training."
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I looked up "Barack Obama STEM" project; it's all about media and corporate funding for schools.
The STEM project's initial blog post is dated November 23, 2009. Here's one of the more recent blog post captions along the side of the first page of the STEM project's website:
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Entrepreneur Advances Technology and Job Creation Across America In 1966, Kevin Didden seized an opportunity to improve technology in the world's oil fields, and started CiDRA, which specializes in the installation of sensors in active oil wells. Since that time, he has started three more successful companies in various technical areas, creating jobs and driving innovation wherever he goes.
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Here's more from the STEM website:
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"Public Private Partnerships
Time Warner Cable’s “Connect a Million Minds” Campaign: Time Warner Cable, in partnership with FIRST Robotics and the Coalition for Science After School, is launching a campaign to connect over one million students to highly-engaging after-school STEM activities that already exist in their area. Time Warner Cable will use its media platform, Public Service Announcements, 47,000 employees, and a “connectamillionminds.com” website where over 70,000 parents and community members have already pledged to connect a child to STEM. Time Warner Cable has made a commitment of $100 million over the next five years to support this campaign, and will target 80 percent of its corporate philanthropy to STEM.
Discovery Communications’ “Be the Future” Campaign: Discovery Communications, in partnership with leading research universities and federal agencies, is launching a five-year, $150 million cash and in-kind “Be the Future” campaign. This will create content that reaches more than 99 million homes, including a PSA campaign across Discovery's 13 U.S. networks, a dedicated commercial-free educational kids block on the Science Channel, and programming on the “grand challenges” of the 21st century such as their landmark Curiosity series. Discovery Education will also create rich, interactive education content that it will deliver at no cost to approximately 60,000 schools, 35 million students, and 1 million educators, and through a partnership with the Siemens Foundation, will create STEM Connect, a national education resource for teachers.
Sesame Street’s Early STEM Literacy Initiative: Celebrating its 40th Anniversary, and with First Lady Michelle Obama appearing on the first episode, Sesame Street, in partnership with PNC Bank, is announcing a major focus on science and math for young children and a $7.5 million investment in the effort. Sesame Street’s new season kicked-off with “My World is Green & Growing,” which will be part of a two-year science initiative designed to increase positive attitudes towards nature, deepen children’s knowledge about the natural world and encourage behavior that shows respect and care for the environment. Twenty of the 26 new episodes will have a focus on STEM; 13 focus on science and seven focus on math. In addition, Sesame Workshop, in partnership with PNC Bank’s Grow Up Great Program, is announcing a new math initiative for preschool children entitled Math is Everywhere.
“National Lab Day,” Bringing Hands-on Learning to Every Student: National Lab Day is a historic grassroots effort, online at nationallabday.org, to bring hands-on learning to 10 million students by upgrading science labs, supporting project-based learning, and building communities of support for STEM teachers. The effort is a partnership between science and engineering societies representing more than 2.5 million STEM professionals and almost 4 million educators, with strong financial support from the Hidary Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and industry partners. Collectively, this partnership is committed to working with more than 10,000 teachers and 1 million students within a year, and 100,000 teachers and 10 million students over the next four years.
National STEM Game Design Competitions: The MacArthur Foundation, Sony Computer Entertainment America, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) and its partners (the Information Technology Industry Council, the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, and Microsoft) are launching a nationwide set of competitions that include the design of the most compelling, freely-available STEM-related videogames for children and youth. The competitions will include the 2010 Digital Media and Learning Competition, a $2 million yearly effort supported by the MacArthur Foundation that advances the most innovative approaches to learning through games, social networks and mobile devices. One of the competitions will be open only to children, to help them develop 21st century knowledge and skills through the challenge of game design. This year Sony will participate in one segment of the competition and encourage the development of new games that build on the existing popular video game Little Big Planet."
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I also looked up the website for "University of Wisconsin-Madison," where Mr. Odden is "Professor of Education Leadership and Policy Analysis," and "Co-Director of Consortium for Policy Research in Education."
One of the things it says on the first page of the University of Wisconsin-Madison website is this:
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Badger Athletics July 5: Wood uses lessons learned in Madison to help around the world
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That caption is under a picture of a grown man standing next to a little, black girl who is wearing a red dress.
Very close to that picture is another picture, showing people by a river or lake, and a green and white striped umbrella.
Copyright L. Kochman July 9, 2011 @11:00 p.m.
I looked at the website for “Lawrence O. Picus and Associates.” Here's some of what's on the first page:
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"
Lawrence O. Picus Professor and Director, Center for Research in Education Finance
USC Rossier School of Education
Past President of the American Education Finance Association
Principal Partner, Lawrence O. Picus and Associates
Bio
CV
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (818) 980-1881
Fax: (818) 980-1624
Allan Odden Professor of Education Leadership and Policy Analysis
Co-Director, Consortium for Policy Research in Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Past President of the American Education Finance Association
Principal Partner, Lawrence O. Picus and Associates
Bio
CV
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (608) 239-4671
Fax: (608) 442-8453
"
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I looked up the website for the USC Rossier School of Education. Here's something that it said on the first page of its website:
-----------------------------------------------------------
"
Rossier News Gallagher to Take Part in First Clinton Global Initiative America Karen Symms Gallagher, dean of the USC Rossier School of Education, was invited to participate in the inaugural Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) America, the first CGI meeting to focus solely on the United States.
Center for Urban Education Changes University of Wisconsin Transfer Policy A two-year research project led by the Center for Urban Education has resulted in significant changes to the state’s postsecondary system that should improve the transfer rates for students of color.
"
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The two colleges where Picus and Odden are professors and directors are very connected to each other, as you can see from the second blurb from the USC Rossier website.
I followed the link that started "Gallagher to Take Part in First Clinton Global Initiative America." Here's some of what it said:
----------------------------------------------
"Karen Symms Gallagher, dean of the USC Rossier School of Education, was invited to participate in the inaugural Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) America, the first CGI meeting to focus solely on the United States.
To be held in Chicago on June 29-30, CGI America will bring together more than 600 leaders from businesses, nonprofits and all levels of government to develop and highlight ideas for spurring economic growth and creating jobs in the United States.
Gallagher will join members of the “100,000 in 10” Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Initiative, which was organized by the Carnegie Corp. and includes 26 cross-sector partners who have pledged to meet President Barack Obama’s two-step challenge for 10,000 new STEM teachers in two years and 100,000 new STEM teachers in 10 years.
USC Rossier, the first school of education to join the Carnegie Initiative, will join with other partners, including The Opportunity Equation, the American Museum of Natural History, Citizen Schools, the National Math + Science Initiative, the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation and Teach for America in being recognized by former President Bill Clinton for a commitment to increasing the supply of excellent teachers in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
At the CGI America meting, Gallagher also will participate in a STEM education in K-12 working group to examine strategies for improving the quality of STEM education, erasing inequality in the educational system, linking classroom teaching to workplace demands and increasing opportunities for teachers in STEM fields to access continuing education and up-to-date technology.
Gallagher and the other founding partners of the “100,000 in 10” STEM Initiative first met in January to build a “Blueprint for Action,” which addresses three key goals:
• increasing the supply of new teachers in STEM fields by recruiting and preparing highly skilled individuals, many of whom ultimately will work in high-need schools
• retaining excellence in the field of STEM teaching by sharing best practices, building professional development opportunities and recognizing excellence
• building the movement by supporting innovative techniques and funding appropriate training."
---------------------------------
I looked up "Barack Obama STEM" project; it's all about media and corporate funding for schools.
The STEM project's initial blog post is dated November 23, 2009. Here's one of the more recent blog post captions along the side of the first page of the STEM project's website:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"
Entrepreneur Advances Technology and Job Creation Across America In 1966, Kevin Didden seized an opportunity to improve technology in the world's oil fields, and started CiDRA, which specializes in the installation of sensors in active oil wells. Since that time, he has started three more successful companies in various technical areas, creating jobs and driving innovation wherever he goes.
"
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Here's more from the STEM website:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Public Private Partnerships
Time Warner Cable’s “Connect a Million Minds” Campaign: Time Warner Cable, in partnership with FIRST Robotics and the Coalition for Science After School, is launching a campaign to connect over one million students to highly-engaging after-school STEM activities that already exist in their area. Time Warner Cable will use its media platform, Public Service Announcements, 47,000 employees, and a “connectamillionminds.com” website where over 70,000 parents and community members have already pledged to connect a child to STEM. Time Warner Cable has made a commitment of $100 million over the next five years to support this campaign, and will target 80 percent of its corporate philanthropy to STEM.
Discovery Communications’ “Be the Future” Campaign: Discovery Communications, in partnership with leading research universities and federal agencies, is launching a five-year, $150 million cash and in-kind “Be the Future” campaign. This will create content that reaches more than 99 million homes, including a PSA campaign across Discovery's 13 U.S. networks, a dedicated commercial-free educational kids block on the Science Channel, and programming on the “grand challenges” of the 21st century such as their landmark Curiosity series. Discovery Education will also create rich, interactive education content that it will deliver at no cost to approximately 60,000 schools, 35 million students, and 1 million educators, and through a partnership with the Siemens Foundation, will create STEM Connect, a national education resource for teachers.
Sesame Street’s Early STEM Literacy Initiative: Celebrating its 40th Anniversary, and with First Lady Michelle Obama appearing on the first episode, Sesame Street, in partnership with PNC Bank, is announcing a major focus on science and math for young children and a $7.5 million investment in the effort. Sesame Street’s new season kicked-off with “My World is Green & Growing,” which will be part of a two-year science initiative designed to increase positive attitudes towards nature, deepen children’s knowledge about the natural world and encourage behavior that shows respect and care for the environment. Twenty of the 26 new episodes will have a focus on STEM; 13 focus on science and seven focus on math. In addition, Sesame Workshop, in partnership with PNC Bank’s Grow Up Great Program, is announcing a new math initiative for preschool children entitled Math is Everywhere.
“National Lab Day,” Bringing Hands-on Learning to Every Student: National Lab Day is a historic grassroots effort, online at nationallabday.org, to bring hands-on learning to 10 million students by upgrading science labs, supporting project-based learning, and building communities of support for STEM teachers. The effort is a partnership between science and engineering societies representing more than 2.5 million STEM professionals and almost 4 million educators, with strong financial support from the Hidary Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and industry partners. Collectively, this partnership is committed to working with more than 10,000 teachers and 1 million students within a year, and 100,000 teachers and 10 million students over the next four years.
National STEM Game Design Competitions: The MacArthur Foundation, Sony Computer Entertainment America, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) and its partners (the Information Technology Industry Council, the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, and Microsoft) are launching a nationwide set of competitions that include the design of the most compelling, freely-available STEM-related videogames for children and youth. The competitions will include the 2010 Digital Media and Learning Competition, a $2 million yearly effort supported by the MacArthur Foundation that advances the most innovative approaches to learning through games, social networks and mobile devices. One of the competitions will be open only to children, to help them develop 21st century knowledge and skills through the challenge of game design. This year Sony will participate in one segment of the competition and encourage the development of new games that build on the existing popular video game Little Big Planet."
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I also looked up the website for "University of Wisconsin-Madison," where Mr. Odden is "Professor of Education Leadership and Policy Analysis," and "Co-Director of Consortium for Policy Research in Education."
One of the things it says on the first page of the University of Wisconsin-Madison website is this:
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"
Badger Athletics July 5: Wood uses lessons learned in Madison to help around the world
"
--------------------------------
That caption is under a picture of a grown man standing next to a little, black girl who is wearing a red dress.
Very close to that picture is another picture, showing people by a river or lake, and a green and white striped umbrella.
Copyright L. Kochman July 9, 2011 @11:00 p.m.