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    PTA Partners with NBC Universal on Education Nation

    This is not surprising, coming from the outfit that took a million dollar payoff from the Gates Foundation to back the Common Core. Take a look at the Scorecard. How long do you think it will be before Gates and friends take it to the individual teacher level?

    Press release

    National PTA has partnered with NBC Universal on an exciting, unprecedented event to examine and redefine education in America. Education Nation, which began on September 26, 2010, with a nationally broadcast, in-depth conversation about improving education in the United States. The initiative began with an interactive summit at Rockefeller Plaza in New York City.

    The summit shined a spotlight on education and opened a national dialogue regarding the gap between how we perceive education and actual results being produced today. Education Nation included more than 300 leaders in government, politics, business, and technology--as well as school administrators, teachers, parents, and students from across the country--to tackle challenges in education and highlight exciting opportunities and big ideas in education reform. The goal of Education Nation is to provide clear information on how schools perform, re-imagine what education in America can be, build on national momentum within policy and reform communities, and inspire changes that enable our nation to prepare a skilled workforce to meet the demands of the future.

    National PTA President Charles J. "Chuck" Saylors and National PTA CEO Byron V. Garrett attended the summit and shared the value of family engagement as an effective solution to support academic achievement.

    Special coverage aired across all NBC News programs and platforms, extending beyond the two-day summit. "NBC Nightly News," "Today," "Meet the Press," "Your Business," MSNBC, CNBC, Telemundo, msnbc.com, and nbclearn.com highlighted educational success stories, uncovered staggering truths and myths about education, and demonstrated how poor education cripples our economy and society.

    An interview with Chuck Saylors and Lisa Jay, President of the Montebello Elementary School PTA in Suffern, NY, about the importance of parent involvement can be found online at NBC’s website.

    An interview with Byron Garrett and Vicki Phillips of the Gates Foundation can be found at MSNBC's website. They discuss a new "scorecard" that makes information about the quality of local schools easily accessible to parents on the web.

    Hillsborough County PTA President Melissa Erickson also appeared on NBC as part of Education Nation talking about Common Core State Standards.

    The Scorecard is designed to help families and citizens better understand how well their local schools are performing, to ask questions, and to get involved so all schools are held to high expectations.

    Press Release
    2010-10-06
    http://www.pta.org/6025.htm#3

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