Jeffrey B. Daughtry, Ed.S. 
Instructor of Mathematics
Sarasota Military Academy
Sarasota, Florida 
    
The Daughtry Times® 
Education Through Integration

Est. 2004 | Spanaway, Washington

 
 

             
To consistently integrate modern day real-world occurrences amidst a series of educational 
disciplines into a challenging yet informative product inherent and conducive to student learning.

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2008-09 Edition

Degree of difficulty:

By 2008, I began to operate under the delusion that I was in fact the subject matter expert regarding the appropriate construction of word problems and linking them with ANY current event. I was wrong. On one occasion a student asked, "Why are The Daughtry Times® always so negative?" Apparently, I have never given that legitimate question much thought although recent titles included casualties of war, natural disasters, deaths via tobacco, excessive dropout rates...ok I get it already. Basically, that is what makes the news. Unfortunately, no one really cares if Joe Lunchmeat had a good day on the job; however, if he takes 23 hostages along his way to work - the news will broadcast it!


            
    Union Grove Middle School         Second Consecutive Unfeated
    Henry County School System          Football Championship Season
         McDonough, Georgia
       June 2006 - June 2008

Preliminary Reading Guidelines
Adopted from a Reading Across the Curriculum poster provides a list of steps one may employ to simplify the reading and comprehension of any passage, article, or related literary piece. A necessity for completion of any The Daughtry Times created on or after October 19, 2007

Traditional Writing Guidelines
Adopted from the Austin Road Middle School Writing Guidelines provides a series of tips to ensure one maintains compliance with appropriate paragraph writing techniques. A necessity for completion of any The Daughtry Times on or after October 19, 2007 - May 27, 2008


VOLUME IV

No. 117

Friday, January 11, 2008

Fresh starts for Clinton, McCain in New Hampshire primary
Powered by women voters and the Democratic faithful, Hillary Rodham Clinton rallied to a surprise victory Tuesday in the New Hampshire presidential primary, echoing the 1992 comeback that launched her husband to the White House. Barack Obama, the winner five days ago in the Iowa caucuses, finished a close second, spinning their race forward to a showdown 11 days from now in Nevada.

No. 118

Friday, January 18, 2008

'Idol' Takes a Ratings Dip -- Albeit a Slight One -- in Season Opener
The seventh-season debut of Fox's reality hit clocked 33.4 million viewers. That's 4 million viewers shy of last season's unveiling. But, on the bright side if you're a Fox suit, it's about 6 million more people than watched ABC, NBC, CBS and CW combined Tuesday night from 8 to 10. Last year's "Idol" kickoff bagged nearly 9 million more viewers than the combined
broadcast competition.

No. 119

Friday, January 25, 2008

House Leaders, White House Reach Deal on Economic Stimulus Package
With unprecedented speed and cooperation, Congress and the White House forged a deal Thursday to begin rushing tax rebates of $600 to $1,200 to most tax filers by spring, hoping they will spend the money just as quickly and jolt the ailing economy to life. Rebates would be even higher for families with children.

No. 120

Friday, February 1, 2008

McCain, Clinton Win Florida Primaries
Senator John McCain won a breakthrough triumph in the Florida primary, seizing the upper hand in the Republican presidential race ahead of next week's contests and lining up a quick endorsement from soon-to-be dropout Rudy Giuliani. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton won the Democratic primary, an event that drew no campaigning by any of the contenders -- and awarded no delegates to the winner because of a dispute between the state and national parties over the date of the primary.


No. 121

Friday, February 8, 2008

Tobacco Killed 100 Million in 20th Century, Could Kill 1 Billion in 21st
Tobacco use killed 100 million people worldwide in the 20th century and could kill one billion people in the 21st unless governments act now to dramatically reduce it, the World Health Organization said in a report Thursday.

No. 122

February 15, 2008

Land Next to Hollywood Sign Once Owned by Howard Hughes Up for Sale for $22M
A "for sale" sign is going up next to the Hollywood sign. A group of Chicago investors are putting the 138 acres of mountaintop property just to the west of the "H" in the Hollywood sign on the market Wednesday.

VOLUME V

No. 123

Friday, February 29, 2008

New Pledge: Starbucks Promises the Perfect Cup of Coffee Every Time
Nearly 7,100 company-operated Starbucks stores across the U.S. — all except the licensed shops in supermarkets, airports, malls, hotels and the like — closed at 5:30 p.m. local time Tuesday for a teach-in that was part espresso tutorial, part pep rally.


No. 124

Friday, March 7, 2008

Three-Day Grand Canyon Flood Aims to Restore Ecosystem
Four arcs of water unleashed from a dam coursed through the Grand Canyon in a flood meant to mimic the natural ones that used to nourish the ecosystem by spreading sediment. More than 300,000 gallons (more than a million liters) of water per second were released from Lake Powell above the dam near the Arizona-Utah border. That's enough water to fill the Empire State Building in 20 minutes, said Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne.


No. 125

Friday, March 14, 2008

The Original
In honor of The Daughtry Times four-year anniversary students engaged in a 54-student pizza party celebration as well as an opportunity to experience the inaugural edition initially distributed when they were eight years of age. To no surprise, they appreciated the food but could have lived without the work.


No. 126

Friday, March 21, 2008

Five Years in Iraq: 3,988 U.S. and 85,000+ Iraq Dead
President George W. Bush launched "Operation Iraqi Freedom" at 9:30 pm on Wednesday, March 19, 2003 in the United States, when it was already 5:30 am in Baghdad on Thursday, March 20, with a bombing blitz dubbed "shock and awe" by the American military. Sometime soon, five years later, the U.S. military will suffer the 4,000th death of the war in Iraq. These figures represent a major contrast to the 382 casualties in the Gulf War.


No. 127

Friday, March 28, 2008

March Madness Slams Business for $1.7 Billion
With as many as 37.3 million workers participating in March Madness office pools and up to 1.5 million watching games online from their desks, it is a wonder that any meaningful work is actually completed during the last two weeks of March, when the NCAA holds its men’s college basketball championship tournament, says outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc.


No. 128

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

High School Graduation Rates Plummet Below 50 Percent in Some U.S. Cities
Seventeen of the nation's 50 largest cities had high school graduation rates below 50 percent, with the lowest graduation rates
reported in Detroit, Indianapolis and Cleveland, according to a report released Tuesday issued by America's Promise Alliance.


No. 129

Friday, April 4, 2008

Truckers Pull Rigs Off Road, Others Slow to Crawl in Loosely Organized Protest of Fuel Prices
Independent truckers around the country pulled their rigs off the road and others slowed to a crawl on major highways in a loosely organized protest of high fuel prices.


VOLUME VI

No. 130

Friday, April 18, 2008

Metro Students Taking CRCT Soon
The Georgia Department of Education set aside April 2 through May 2 to administer the exams and allows local leaders to pick their testing dates. Fulton and Gwinnett officials say they give the test this week because students are rested from spring break and so schools can get the results back earlier. Other districts, including Cobb and DeKalb, pick the end of the testing window to give students and teachers more time to prepare.

No. 131

Friday, April 25, 2008

EDUCATION REPORT: Parents can prepare kids for curriculum tests
All third-graders must score at or above expectations in reading on the CRCT to graduate to the fourth grade. Likewise, students in fifth and eighth grades who score below the standard in reading and math cannot go to the next grade unless they attend summer school and pass makeup tests. Fulton County school officials say they expect most students will pass.

No. 132

Friday, May 2, 2008

Miley Cyrus Is Top Teen Earner Among Richest Kids: Report
Some people are born into money, some luck into it, and then there's Miley Cyrus. According to the new issue of People magazine, the "Hannah Montana" star is on track to rack up $1 billion in "Montana"-related sales during the 2007-08 fiscal year, putting her at the top of the heap of teen superstars earning adult-style wages.


No. 133

Friday, May 9, 2008

Myanmar Cyclone Survivors Describe Journeys of Horror and Misery
Some survivors arrived half-naked, others wore clothes they scavenged from the dead. Myanmar's rice-trading town of Labutta the only spit of high ground in a vast watery landscape — has become a beacon of hope for tens of thousands who lived through the cyclone's fury, most losing homes and family members. The survivors made the journey in rickety wooden boats with makeshift sails fashioned out of blankets, dodging the bloated corpses of buffaloes and dead neighbors floating in the murky waters.

No. 134

Friday, May 16, 2008

China Earthquake Death Tolls May Exceed 50,000
It was a Monday that started out like any other for 10-year-old Li Yi. The middle school girl was sitting in her classroom in Beichuan County in central China, unaware that in an instant her world would change, forever. Eyewitness accounts say the school building rocked and shook violently before collapsing from the destructive force of a 7.9-strength earthquake. Li Yi awoke to find herself buried alive -- one of an estimated 20,000 people trapped in the debris of what once were thriving villages and towns.


No. 135

Friday, May 23, 2008

Oil Retreats After Setting Fresh Record
Americans getting an early start on the Memorial Day weekend found that gasoline prices again sprinted to a new record high overnight, reaching a national average above $3.83 a gallon. Some analysts predict gas will break past $4 as early as next week.


No. 136

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

FINAL
In honor of achieving the impossible - a 100% success rate on the seventh grade mathematics Criterion Referenced Competency Exam (CRCT), the final is simply for extra credit purposes as opposed to a traditional assignment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 2008-09 ACADEMIC SCHOOL YEAR
        
     Henry County Middle School         
   Henry County School System          

       McDonough, Georgia
         July 2008 - Present


Serving as a Mathematics Coach in an instructional leadership capacity as opposed to traditional classroom teacher is a major transition which I have begun to adapt to. Initially, I was uncertain if I would even create another Daughtry Times but thankfully, enough correspondence and encouragement from former students' parents occurred to where I knew it would serve in the best interest of "Ensuring Success for Each Student." A major transition is clearly evident in the new series as the specific Georgia Performance Standards are identified for each question to ensure compliance with the curriculum map and state standards for grades six through eight. Additionally, these materials are being distributed on a much larger scale to where as many 800 students school wide will be in receipt as opposed to the students limited to Mr. Daughtry's class. This is not required of teachers to disseminate; however, simply provided as supplemental resource to accompany what they already have in place and not intended to serve in lieu of CMP, Exemplars, etc.


Georgia Performance Standards (GPS) specifically addressed in each edition of the 2008-09 Daughtry Times were strategically aligned in direct compliance with the Henry County School System curriculum maps and annotated adjacent to the respective grade level inquiry. This standards-based educational resource has statistically* proven to increase students’ ability to grasp, retain, and apply the concept via real-world application above and beyond the requirements of a traditional standardized examination.

*Over a four-year duration approximately 96.37% of Mr. Daughtry's assigned students met or exceeded standards on the Georgia mathematics Criterion-Referenced Competency Test (CRCT).

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Standards-Based Parent Resources to Reinforce Student Learning -
Grade 6 | Grade 7 | Grade 8

Grade 6 GPS Mastery Checklist | Grade 7 GPS Mastery Checklist  | Grade 8 GPS Mastery Checklist | Reading and Process Standards
                                      
- Middle School Mathematics Academic Alignment and Expectations -
Grades 6 - 8 Vertical Alignment Chart  | GPS Grades 6 - 8 Math | GPS Glossary  | CRCT Content Weights
Grades K-12 Word Problem Practice | Algebra Assistance | Word Problem Assistance

Grade 6 Curriculum Map | Grade 7 Curriculum Map | Grade 8 Curriculum Map     


Grade 6

Students will understand the four arithmetic operations as they relate to positive rational numbers; convert between and compute with different forms of rational numbers; understand the concept of ratio and solve problems using proportional reasoning; understand and use line and rotational symmetry; determine the surface area and volume of solid figures; use variables to represent unknown quantities in formulae, algebraic expressions and equations; utilize data to make predictions; and determine the probability of a given event.

CRCT PracticeGeorgia Online Assessment System - Log on ID: grade6 password: grade6 | Real World Application

Grade 6 CRCT Study Guide | Grade 6 Sample Questions | Language Arts | Science | Social Studies
Grade 6 Annual Curriculum Overview

Factors & Multiples                                                     
Fractions, Decimals, & Percents                                                 

Exponents, Expressions, and Equations                                            
Ratios and Proportions 
                                                           
Symmetry & Scale Factors  
                                               
Conversions  
                                             
Surface Area & Volume  
   

Grade 7
Students will understand and use rational numbers, including signed numbers; solve linear equations in one variable; sketch and construct plane figures; demonstrate understanding of transformations; use and apply properties of similarity; examine properties of geometric shapes in space; describe and sketch solid figures, including their cross-sections; represent and describe relationships between variables in tables, graphs, and formulas; analyze the characteristics of linear relationships;and represent and analyze data using graphical displays, measures of central tendency, and measures of variation.

CRCT PracticeGeorgia Online Assessment System - Log on ID: grade7 password: grade7 | Real World Application

Grade 7 CRCT Study Guide | Grade 7 Sample Questions | Language Arts | Science | Social Studies
Grade 7 Annual Curriculum Overview

Numbers & Operations  
Basic Algebra 
Graphing 
Data Analysis 
Geometric Figures  
Ratio, Scale Factors, Similarity 
Translation, Transformation, Rotation


Grade 8
Students will understand various numerical representations, including square roots, exponents and scientific notation; use and apply geometric properties of plane figures, including congruence and the Pythagorean theorem; use symbolic algebra to represent situations and solve problems, especially those that involve linear relationships; solve linear equations, systems of linear equations and inequalities; use equations, tables and graphs to analyze and interpret linear functions; use and understand set theory and simple counting techniques; determine the theoretical probability of simple events; and make inferences from statistical data, particularly data that can be modeled by linear functions. 

CRCT Lessons |CRCT PracticeGeorgia Online Assessment System - Log on ID: grade8 password: grade8 | Real World Application

Grade 8 CRCT Study Guide | Grade 8 Sample Questions | Language Arts | Science | Social Studies
Grade 8 Annual Curriculum Overview

Linear & NonLinear Relationships
Interpreting Tables, Graphs, Equations
Write/Simplify Equations & Expressions
Computations with Exponents
Algebraic Properties
Probabilty, Sets, & Subsets
Systems of Linear Equations & Inequalties
Square Roots & Pythagorean Theorem



 VOLUME I

No. 137

Firday, August 8, 2008


Iraq's Budget Surplus Could Top $79 Billion on High Oil Prices

Iraq could finish the year with as much as a $79 billion cumulative budget surplus as oil revenues add to leftover income the Iraqis still haven't spent on national rebuilding, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office made public Tuesday.

No. 138

Friday, August 15, 2008


U.S.
Foreclosure Filings Surge 55 Percent in July
The number of homeowners stung by the dramatic decline in the U.S. housing market jumped last month as foreclosure filings grew by more than 50 percent compared with the same month a year ago, according to data released Thursday.


No. 139

Friday, August 22, 2008

Study Cites Cheering as Most Dangerous School Sport for Girls
Data compiled by the University of North Carolina's National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research (NCCSI) cites 67 fatal or life-threatening injuries due to cheerleading since 1982, making it by far the most perilous sport for high school and college-age female athletes, Time.com reports. The study's author, Fred Mueller, cited increased competition and athletes willing to take greater risks as causes for the high incidence of injury, but warned that "there are definitely more accidents out there that we haven't even heard about yet," Time.com reported.

No. 140

Friday, August 29, 2008

SAT Scores Stay At Lowest Level In Nearly a Decade
For a second straight year, SAT scores for the most recent high school graduating class remained at the lowest level in nearly a decade, a trend attributed to a record number of students now taking the test. "More than ever, the SAT reflects the face of education in this country," said Gaston Caperton, president of the College Board, which owns the test and released the results.

No. 141

Friday, September 5, 2008

Online K-12 Schools Grow in Popularity

For Briana LeClaire, a mother of three in Meridian, Idaho, it was a no-brainer to enroll her two school-aged children in Idaho Virtual Academy, a K-12 Internet school that has more than 2,000 students. LeClaire is just one of the thousands of parents across the country who are choosing to enroll their children in virtual schools. Whether its home schoolers, child actors, elite athletes or children who are advanced or need more help, Internet schools for K-12 are growing. While online education used to be the domain of colleges and universities, that’s no longer the case.

No. 142

Friday, September 12, 2008

Apple Unveils New iPod Nano, iPod Touch
Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs took the wraps off a revamped line of iPods on Tuesday and trumpeted a truce with NBC Universal that means the TV network will begin selling programs again on iTunes. The iPod announcements were largely expected, and investors were less than energized, sending Apple's shares down $6.13, 3.9 percent, to $151.79 in afternoon trading.

VOLUME 2


No. 143

Friday, September 26, 2008

Incarcerated Getting Educated
Students in the Palmetto Unified School District in South Carolina have no Internet access, no PTA and no Friday night football. That's because their school is in a prison. Still, they have performed well enough behind bars to earn their school district an "Excellent" rating on the South Carolina Annual School Report Card each of the past five years.

No. 144

Friday, October 3, 2008

Teachers to Be Measured Based on Students’ Standardized Test Scores
New York City is beginning to measure the performance of thousands of elementary and middle school teachers based on how much their students improve on annual state math and reading tests. To avoid a contentious fight with the teachers’ union, the New York City Department of Education has agreed not to make public the reports — which described teachers as average, below average or above average with various types of students — nor let them influence formal job evaluations, pay and promotions.

No. 145

Friday, October 10, 2008

National Debt Clock Adds a Digit to Accommodate Growing Deficit

In these uncertain financial times, one thing remains certain the ever-expanding national debt. But it's growing at such an accelerated rate, the clock that has kept track of the deficit since 1989 has had to add a digit. The National Debt Clock switched its digital dollar sign to a 1 on Monday to accommodate the nation's ballooning deficit, past the $10 trillion mark, thanks to Congress' $700 billion bank stimulus package. The estimated population of the United States is 304,857,428 so each citizen's share of this debt is $33,325.66. The National Debt has continued to increase an average of $3.24 billion per day since September 28, 2007.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No. 146

Friday, October 17, 2008

Our outdated electoral system disenfranchises large numbers of voters

On November 4th, American citizens will wake to the sobering realization that the votes they cast on that day will not directly elect their next president. Instead, their votes will contribute to a state tally - the winner of which will obtain the votes of a number of electors equal to the size of their state's congressional delegation. As voting day quickly approaches, American voters must re-examine the antiquated, anti-democratic system of the 221-year-old Electoral College.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No. 147

Friday, October 24, 2008

Where They Stand; McCain and Obama Split on Education
If there's one feature that defines the presidential debate on education, it's this: near silence. The USA's teetering economy and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have all but squeezed out education, a topic important to previous elections. Obama wants $18 billion in new money, including $10 billion for early childhood education.

No. 148

Friday, October 31, 2008

Children more worried about the future, exams, and bullying
Children as young as 10 are reporting growing fear and uncertainty for their own futures as adult influences put the traditional idea of childhood under increasing threat. A survey of 150,000 children aged 10 to 15 found evidence of a generation increasingly under pressure to perform in exams, facing a growing threat from bullying in the playground and turning to adult activities such as drink and drugs. Children's charities and commentators said that the study carried out by Oftsed, the Government's education watchdog, showed that adult influences are increasing undermining the idea of childhood itself.

VOLUME III 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No. 149

Friday, November 7, 2008

U.S. chooses 'change', redraws electoral divide
Barack Obama did more than thump John McCain in the Electoral College tally; he also handily won the popular vote and redrew the great divide between red states and blue states. Riding a Democratic tide that bolstered the party's presence in both houses of Congress, Obama snared about 64 million votes to McCain's 56 million as of Wednesday afternoon.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No. 150

Friday, November 14, 2008

Jobless Claims Surge to 516,000; Average Trends Higher
The Labor Department says the number of new jobless claims were up 32,000 to 516,000 in the latest week. Economists polled by Thomson Reuters were expecting initial jobless claims to hit 484,000.  Continuing claims, which are considered an indirect measure of how difficult is to find a job, were also higher, gaining 65,000 to 3.9 million.


No. 151

Friday, November 21, 2008

The Absolute Worst Economy in the World: Zimbabwe
While the official rate on Monday was 19,393.94 Zimbabwean dollars to the $1 USD, the old mutual implied rate, generated from comparing the Zimbabwe and London stock exchanges, valued the currency at more than 642 quadrillion to one. When the currency was revalued this summer, an egg cost about $35 billion Zimbabwean dollars.


No. 152

Friday, December 5, 2008

Sorting Through Black Friday Data and Cyber Monday Spending Up 15 % Since 2007
According its 2008 Black Friday Weekend survey, conducted by BIGresearch and published on Sunday, the NRF said more than 172 million shoppers visited stores and websites over Black Friday weekend (which includes Thursday, Friday, Saturday and projections for Sunday), up from 147 million shoppers last year. 

Dec. 1 was second-heaviest online spending day on record, with $846 million in sales Online shoppers spent $846 million on Dec. 1, a 15% increase over the Monday after Thanksgiving last year, according to data from research firm ComScore, Inc.

No. 153

Friday, December 12, 2008

Math Gains Reported for U.S. Students
American fourth- and eighth-grade students made solid achievement gains in math in recent years and in two states showed spectacular progress, an international survey of student achievement released on Tuesday found. Science performance was flat. “We were pleased to see improvements in math, and wished we’d seen more in science,” said Stuart Kerachsky, acting commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics at the Education Department, which carried out an analysis of the performance of American students on the test. The study is directed by the International Study Center at Boston College.

         NEW DESIGN FOR 2009 
                          


VOLUME IV

No. 154

Friday, January 9, 2009

LA Unified May Layoff as many as 2,300 teachers, officals say
The midyear job cuts are being considered because the state budget crisis has left the district at least $250 million short. Newer teachers are the most vulnerable.The state deficit has created a shortfall of at least $250 million in the school district's nearly $6-billion budget, prompting officials to propose sending the layoff notices to 1,690 elementary school teachers and 600 math and English teachers in middle and high schools. The teachers at risk would be those with less than two years of service, who lack the greater job protection afforded tenured instructors.


No. 155

Friday, January 16, 2009

Perdue $1.2 Billion Needed to Create Jobs
Gov. Sonny Perdue asked state lawmakers Tuesday to approve $1.2 billion in construction borrowing to create 20,000 new jobs and build schools, university facilities and libraries. However, his budget plan also calls for no pay raises for 200,000 state employees and teachers next year. And it eliminates the $428 million homeowners property tax grants, which could lead to a property tax increase for Georgians this year.


No. 156

Friday, January 23, 2009

The 'toxic' Web generation: Children spend six hours a day in front of screens
Youngsters are shunning books and outdoor games to spend up to six hours a day in front of a screen, a survey has revealed. Children as young as five are turning their bedrooms into multi-media 'hubs' with TVs, computers, games consoles, MP3 players and mobile phones all within easy reach.

No. 157

Friday, January 30, 2009

Chick-Fil-A Blessed With Increased Sales
The Atlanta-based chicken chain reported Thursday system-wide sales for last year of $2.96 billion, up 12 percent from 2007. The company has increased sales every year since the first Chick-fil-A opened in Atlanta’s Greenbriar Mall in 1967. It was the 16th straight year of double-digit sales growth. Same-store sales rose 4.6 percent. The company added 83 stores, ending the year with 1,422 outlets.

 

 

 

 

 

 

No. 158

Friday, February 6, 2009

Gaza War Deals Blow to Schools 
The jewel of Gaza's bare-bones education system - a US-style school on lush grounds overlooking the Mediterranean - is now a mound of broken concrete. The territory's only laboratory for genetic testing, at a Gaza university, lies in ruins.


No. 159

Friday, February 20, 2009

Ninth Grade Academy Shows Success
Fewer F's, less time in the principal's office and better attendance have prompted Des Moines school officials to launch a third specialized program that separates ninth-graders from upperclassmen. North High School's freshmen next fall will be grouped as an academy in a separate section of the building, 501 Holcomb Ave., in an effort to better monitor their progress toward graduation. "It will be a lot more nurturing environment for the ninth-graders," North Principal Vince Lewis said. "They will be a house, a family."



VOLUME V

No. 160

Friday, March 6, 2009 

Hispanics Account for One-Fifth of K-12 Students
Roughly one-fourth of the nation's kindergartners are Hispanic, evidence of an accelerating trend that now will see minority children become the majority by 2023. Census data released Thursday also showed that Hispanics make up about one-fifth of all K-12 students. Hispanics' growth and changes in the youth population are certain to influence political debate, from jobs and immigration to the No Child Left Behind education, for years.

No. 161

Friday, March 13, 2009 

Boys and Girls Together, Taught Seperately in Public Schools
The single-sex classes at Public School 140, which started as an experiment last year to address sagging test scores and behavioral problems, are among at least 445 such classrooms nationwide, according to the National Association for Single-Sex Public Education.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No. 162

Friday, March 20, 2009 

Keep Teacher Performance Pay?
Children in Texas need and deserve the best and brightest teachers in the classroom. Yet many top college graduates pick other professions over teaching. President Barack Obama, in remarks to the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce on March 10, embraced the use of incentives to end the math and science teacher shortage, encourage experienced teachers to work in low-performing schools, and recognize and reward large gains in student achievement.

No. 163

Friday, March 27, 2009

Teachers Cutting Paper Usage; Kids Loving it
In classrooms throughout South Florida, paper is becoming more of a relic than an educational staple. The result: homework done online. Paperless term papers. Math problems completed on an interactive whiteboard. An entire course of physics problems contained on a single compact disc. And, schools hope, savings in an ever-tightening budget crunch.

VOLUME VI


No. 164

Friday, April 10, 2009

How 'soundbite TV' is driving children to disruption in school
Children's ability to concentrate during lessons is being eroded by TV soundbites, a teachers' leader claimed yesterday. Youngsters' attention spans are tuned to the fast pace of TV and they struggle to focus when a teacher delivers an in-depth lesson, according to Julian Chapman. Pupils can become disruptive when denied their usual diet of 'sound and vision bites', he warned.

No. 165

Friday, April 17, 2009

Georgia Students Brace for CRCT

During the next couple of weeks, anxious students will take the Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests, which measure whether students learned what the state says they need to know. Results help determine whether students in grades three, five and eight move on the to the next grade level. Scores also determine whether schools meet testing goals mandated by the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

 

 

 

No. 166

Friday, April 24, 2009

CRCT Testing Begins in Henry County
The spring assessment known as the Criterion-Referenced Competency Test (CRCT) has begun for Georgia students. Henry County school officials hope to improve on scores from 2008, when the district reported its students-with-disabilities sub-group performed slightly below state standards in English/language arts and far below state standards in math. Fewer than half of them met or exceeded state standards.

GRADE 6

Unit 1 -
Gathering Data
 | Concept Map | Parent Letter - Page 1 | Parent Letter - Page 2

Unit 2 - Fun and Games | Concept Map | Parent Letter  | The Locker Problem

Unit 3 - Fractions, Decimals, Ratios and Percents | Concept Map | Parent Letter | Making Pizzas

Unit 4 -
One Step Equations |
Concept Map | Parent Letter - Page 1 | Parent Letter - Page 2

Unit 5 - Circles and Graphs | Concept Map | Parent Letter

Unit 6 -
Symmetry |
Concept Map | Parent Letter 

Unit 7 -
Scale Factor |
Concept Map | Parent Letter

Unit 8 -
Solids |
Concept Map | Parent Letter

Unit 9 -
Direct Proportion |
Concept Map | Parent Letter  | Profit Predicting

Unit 10 - Games of Chance | Concept Map | Parent Letter - Page 1 | Parent Letter - Page 2

Unit 11 - Show What We Know

GRADE 7
Unit 1 - Dealing with Data | Concept Map | Parent Letter | The Eyes Have It

Unit 2 - Patterns and Relationships | Concept Map | Parent Letter | Walking to Scoops

Unit 3 - Rational Reasoning | Concept Map | Parent Letter

Unit 4 - Flip, Slide and Turn | Parent Letter

Unit 5 - Staying in Shape | Concept Map | Parent Letter | Similar Triangles

Unit 6 - Values That Vary | Parent Letter

Unit 7 - Slices and Shadows | Parent Letter

Unit 8 - Show What We Know | Parent Letter | Sample Multiple Choice Questions 

GRADE 8
Unit 1 - Probability

Unit 2 - Exponents

Unit 3 - Linear Equations

Unit 4 - Functions Relations

Unit 5 - Slippery Slope

Unit 6 - Parallel Lines & Congruence

Unit 7 -
Systems of Equations and Inequalities