Researchers at Penn State University are interested in finding out how teachers, school psychologists and school counselors use the Internet and social media for work purposes and are asking school personnel to complete a short survey. Your name will not be associated with your responses; this is an anonymous survey. The researchers simply want your honest feedback about how you [...]
Music teachers, school administrators and board members are invited to participate in the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) Foundation’s 2015 Best Communities for Music Education (BCME) program and complete a survey either for their district or school. The BCME program recognizes community efforts to provide high-quality music education for all students. The surveys - one for districts and one for [...]
The Kentucky Department of Education is seeking feedback on its Unbridled Learning College/Career-Readiness for All Accountability Model. The model, which includes multiple measures for determining school success, has been in place since the 2011-12 school year. Between now and August 20, an online survey will be available for stakeholder input on the various components of the system and how determinations [...]
Two Kentucky school districts recently were recognized in the 10th annual Digital School Districts Survey by the Center for Digital Education (CDE) and the National School Boards Association (NSBA). Carroll County and Taylor County school districts each placed in the top 10 districts in the small school category. Carroll County Schools was fourth in the rankings and Taylor County Schools ninth. The [...]
Kentucky teachers, like those in a nationwide poll, are enthusiastic about teaching the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) according to data released by the Kentucky Department of Education. The data stem from the Primary Sources survey of 20,000 public school teachers nationwide last summer. The survey, conducted by the Harrison Group, asked teachers across the country their thoughts on implementing [...]
Education Commissioner Terry Holliday Scholastic recently released some early results from the third edition of Primary Sources, a survey of more than 20,000 teachers across the nation. The early release highlighted three major findings concerning teachers’ views on the Common Core State Standards, which in Kentucky are called the Kentucky Core Academic Standards. Here are the key findings. [...]
After just one week, more than 21,000 Kentucky educators have taken part in the TELL (Teaching, Empowering, Leading and Learning) Survey of school working conditions. That represents about 42 percent of the school-based certified educators eligible to participate. Kentucky Education Commissioner Terry Holliday announced the news yesterday during a TELL Kentucky event at Collins Lane Elementary School in Frankfort. “I’m [...]
South Arts, a regional arts organization that serves nine states in the southeastern U.S., is working in partnership with the Kentucky Department of Education and the Kentucky Arts Council to conduct a research project that seeks to quantify access to and quality of arts education offered at K-12 public schools throughout the South Arts region, including Kentucky. This research is [...]
Researchers at the University of Kentucky are conducting a study on the types of education services that a child with autism receives in school. This approximately 30-minute phone survey will ask parents about services their child receives in the public school, how often they may receive it and the satisfaction with that service. Additionally, parents can voluntarily share their child's [...]
Data is meaningful if used to support collaborative efforts to identify and implement best practices within and among Kentucky schools.