School Board Members Bring Back Plate Of Educational Research, Perspectives
Return To Four-Year High Schools Garners Support
Last updated Thursday, April 13, 2006 10:25 PM CDT in News
By Jaclyn Houghton
The Morning News
ROGERS -- One Rogers School Board member viewed last weekend's National School Boards Association conference in Chicago as an appetizer to a world of educational resources available for district consumption.
Joye Kelley, president of the local School Board, said the conference provided useful information on how to bridge the gap between poverty-level students and regular students, how to increase student achievement and parental involvement and how to improve community relations, among other topics. Kelley said board members received material on where to go and who to contact to get more information on educational issues.
All the Rogers School Board members attended the conference along with Superintendent Janie Darr.
"It's been a long time since everybody went," said Kelley, who has been to about seven or eight of the annual conferences in the 23 years she has served on the board.
Walter Schrader, Zone 4 board member, said it was helpful to hear several speakers discuss a national trend of having ninth- through 12th-graders in a high school, something district officials and board members in Rogers are currently discussing.
He said other speakers talked of the importance of giving students individual attention in the classroom. Schrader said it is important, as many speakers noted, not to get too caught up in testing where teachers end up teaching to the test.
Kelley said the conference reminded her that Rogers is not the only district dealing with a large free- and reduced-price lunch population, a large population of English-language learners and stricter mandates through the No Child Left Behind Act.
"It reassured us in some areas -- like we are on the cutting edge -- and in other areas we have a long way to go," Kelley said.
Reader Comments (No comments posted.)
The following comments are provided by readers and are the sole responsibility of their authors. The Morning News does not review comments before their publication, nor do we guarantee their accuracy. By publishing a comment here you agree to abide by our comment policy. If you see a comment that violates our policy, please notify the web editor.
Not already registered?
