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 CLIC WORKSHOPS
TOPIC: The Education Research Guide
PRESENTER: Carole Lohman or Kay Buchanan
TIME: 10am-11am You need only attend one session.
DATE: November 15, 16, 17, 19
LOCATION: Curry Library Innovation Commons, Room 302, Ruffner Hall
DESCRIPTION: Start your research by using the Education Research Guide developed by the CLIC librarians. The guide features the available databases focusing on Education and Psychology along the left side of the page and across the top of the page, the tabs include links to statistical resources, handbooks, information about test instruments, dissertations, newspapers, and more.
UVa Librarians have created research guides for a variety of subjects. These later guides can prove quite helpful when you research out of the area of education.
 WORKSHOP
TOPIC: Creating an Employment Portfolio Workshop
TIME: 6pm - 7pm
DATE: November 16, 2010
LOCATION: Curry Library Innovation Commons, Room 302, Ruffner Hall
DESCRIPTION: The session will review the different kinds of portfolios and the information to include in an employment portfolio, focusing on reflection as a key tool in successful portfolio creation.
AS OF NOVEMBER 3rd, RESERVATIONS WERE CLOSED FOR THIS EVENT.
 WORLD GIS DAY
TOPIC: Short talks on a variety of UVa GIS projects
FOOD: You bring your lunch, and we’ll provide the drinks, cookies, and conversation about GIS topics. After lunch, we’ll be cutting the traditional Scholars’ Lab World GIS Day Cake!
Presenter: 20 presenters engaged in lightening rounds
Time: Tuesday, November 16 at Noon-3:30pm
LOCATION: Alderman Library, 4th floor NE
in the Scholars’ Lab.
This annual report, Characteristics of the 100 Largest Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts in the United States: 2008-09 provides basic information from the Common Core of Data about the nation's largest public school districts in the 2008-09 school year. The data include such characteristics as the number of students and teachers, number of high school completers and the averaged freshman graduation rate, and revenues and expenditures. Findings include: In 2008-09, these 100 largest districts enrolled 22 percent of all public school students, and employed 22 percent of all public school teachers. The districts produced 20 percent of all high school completers (both diploma and other completion credential recipients) in 2007-08. Three states -- California, Florida, and Texas -- accounted for almost half of the 100 largest public school districts. Current per-pupil expenditures in fiscal year 2008 ranged from a low of $6,363 in the Granite District, Utah to a high of $23,298 in Boston, Massachusetts.
 NATION'S REPORT CARD: MATH
Nation's Report Card in mathematics and reading for Grade 12 will be released on November 18 at 10 a.m. at http://nationsreportcard.gov.
To understand more about the upcoming report, explore 2009 mathematics and reading results for grades 4 and 8 for the nation and states at http://nationsreportcard.gov/about.asp.
NAEP is administered by the National Center for Education Statistics within the Institute of Education Sciences.
 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
This special report, "Professional Development: Sorting Through the Jumble to Achieve Success" from Education Week aims to provide a fresh look at teacher professional development. The stories examine many facets of the training, including its research base, implementation in districts, cost, and evolution. For the project, our reporters drew on interviews with teachers, administrators, and scholars.
It is our hope at Education Week that the report will generate new conversations for those school leaders charged with upgrading the quality of teacher professional development.
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 TEA & TECHNOLOGY
PRESENTER: Monty Jones
WHEN:: Noon-1pm, Thursday, November 11, 2010
LOCATION: Curry Library Innovation Commons, Room 302, Ruffner Hall
TOPIC: Virtual Education in the Curry School Teacher Education Program: Preparing Future Teachers
As many as half of all secondary courses may be taught in virtual education environments by the year 2020. In response to this trend, a virtual education internship was established to identify effective approaches to preparing future teachers to work in this environment. Monty Jones, a doctoral student in Instructional Technology, was selected as the first Virtual Education intern. In this Tea and Technology session, Monty will provide an overview of his work to date and solicit input from those with interest in this area. Monty will also discuss an online file-sharing tool, DropBox, which is being piloted in Curry School courses this fall.
 EDUCATION RESEARCH LECTURESHIP SERIES
PRESENTER: Dr. Jonah Rockoff
WHEN: 11am-Noon, Friday, November 12, 2010
NEW LOCATION: Curry Library Innovation Commons, Room 302, Ruffner Hall
TOPIC: Information and Employee Evaluation: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Public Schools
Jonah Rockoff is the Sidney Taurel Associate Professor of Business at the Columbia Graduate School of Business and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
 NEW READING ROOM
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The former Barrett Room on the second floor of Alderman Library (east side) has been refurnished to provide a reading room and home for the University Library’s current and future Asian and Buddhist studies collections. The new Asian Studies Room has created an inviting space open to all members of the university community. Changes in the room include the exposure of two North windows to allow natural light, upgrades to electrical access, and new furniture and carpet. Existing glass-front shelving has been left in place to house Asian Studies reference material and current periodicals. The offices of the Library’s subject specialists for Tibetan, Japanese, Chinese, Korean and South Asian Studies are located adjacent to the room. In addition to supporting the Asian Studies programs at the university, the room offers students a beautiful new quiet study space adjacent to the popular McGregor Room.
THE CLIC LIBRARIANS 
On Thursday, November 11, the CLIC librarians will be away from the CLIC all day. Kay is attending a Library Council meeting at the American Psychological Association and Carole is attending a meeting for the Virginia Library Association. On Friday, November 12, Carole will work from 8am -10:30am and 3pm-5pm. If you need help while they are away, you can email them, call and leave a message, or contact a member of the Alderman Library staff
at 434-924-3017.
 NEW HANDBOOK
TITLE: Handbook of Research in the Social Foundations of Education
LOCATION: Handbook Area
CALL NUMBER: LC 191.4 .H36 2010
Table of Contents
 RESOURCE CENTER
The PreK-3rd Data Resource Center is an online resource center designed to expand the knowledge base and provide tools for the access and handling of Prekindergarten through Third Grade longitudinal data.
The Center hosted a Social Sciences Data Fair this week. All sessions were recorded and the recordings and presentation slides posted should you desire to view the presentations at a later date.
 NEWSLETTER
Click here to read previous issues of the Education Services newsletter.
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NEW READING ROOM