By Doug Deane

August 30, 2011 (San Diego’s East County) -- The following local, state and national education news items are excerpted from a very informative e-newsletter published by Doug Deane, chair of the Business Education Committee at the San Diego East County Chamber of Commerce. Latest education news headlines include:

• GUHSD iParent Conference September 17
• Steady improvement in standardized tests
• The state’s new education blueprint
• How to measure school success
• Thought provoking videos from TED
• Algebra I for 8^th graders: an EdSource study
• Turning the classroom upside down
• How to get a real education
• Wind walkers
• Pathways to prosperity
• A special report on multimedia in schools
• Texas students sent from classroom to courtroom
• Feds say ‘no child’ benchmarks can be left behind
• Helping others succeed is teacher’s reward

By Doug Deane

March 8, 2011 (San Diego’s East County) -- The following local, state and national education news items are excerpted from a very informative e-newsletter published by Doug Deane, chair of the Business Education Committee at the San Diego East County Chamber of Commerce.

 Our picks for Deane’s top education stories from the latest issue include:

By Doug Deane 

February 6, 2011 (San Diego's East County)--The following local, state and national education news items are excerpted from a very informative e-newsletter published by Doug Deane, chair of the Business Education Committee at the San Diego East County Chamber of Commerce.

Our picks for Deane’s top education stories from the latest issue include:

• C. Allen Paul Award Winner and the Chamber Gala
• We the People Competition (Granite Hills)
• California is failing at Civic Engagement
• GUHSD Superintendent Swenson’s newsletter
• Bullying Prevention
• Service learning: lessons beyond the classroom from Edutopia
• “Third Age” program proves interested education for the mature
• San Diego High to screen “Race to Nowhere” documentary
• Book rentals available for community college students (Grossmont-Cuyamaca)
• Incentive program aimed at raising test scores (Hilltop Middle School)
• School district maneuvers on the odd side (Sweetwater Union)
• Education: a matter of national security
• For teens, a decade of lost opportunities
• Plan offered to overhaul discipline of teachers
• To really learn, quit studying and take a test
• Few students show proficiency in science, tests show
• GOP governors take aim at teacher tenure
• It may be a Sputnik moment, but science fairs are lagging