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I have been working on a column for the AJC's Monday education page on an effort this upcoming legislative session to formulate a bill creating teacher report cards in Georgia and just chatted with House Majority Whip Edward Lindsey, R-Atlanta, about his interest in the issue.
Along with state Rep. Alisha Thomas Morgan, D-Austell, Lindsey visited Colorado recently to meet with the legislator there led a successful effort to pass a teacher effectiveness bill this year.
We talked about a range of education initiatives that Lindsey would like to see this session, including improving the substance of pre-k, reviewing how much testing we do in our schools, enhancing technical education in high school and saving HOPE.
But we talked mostly about whether Georgia was ready and able to rate teachers given the available data and all the controversies about whether such measures are fair:
His reply to my question on whether this was the time for report cards for teachers:
"If not now, when? We now have a situation where 50 percent of low-income students who enter ninth grade are not graduating. That is atrocious. We cannot allow demographics to control destiny. You have a wide range of people across the spectrum who believe that — from myself in the Republican category to the Secretary of Education to Alisha Morgan and lots of folks in between.
I am a great believer that given our present state of education nationwide, we need to be trying to figure out ways to move forward. Whether that means the present year or 2012 for all these education initiatives, I am about building coalitions and moving legislation. But I feel strongly that we have to move forward now. The status quo in education is not acceptable."
Lindsey was not surprised when I predicted strong teacher opposition to public report cards, but said that he wants to hear from teachers.
So, here is your first chance to comment on this possible legislation.
– By Maureen Downey, for the AJC Get Schooled blog
December 28th, 2010
11:33 am
He has absolutely no desire to hear from teachers. He won't read this, either.
Why is it so hard to simply fire ineffective teachers? This would save money all the way around. Why do politicians go around their a$$e$ to get to their elbows?
Fire bad teachers and be done with it!
December 28th, 2010
11:42 am
Just look at what happened to that teacher in California.
@What's best – define "bad teacher." If it's based on test scores, you fail. Heck, my EOCT scores change from semester to semester. One semester, I can have 80% passing and the next I struggle to get 50% passing. Does this mean I'm a "bad teacher?" I had students coming to Economics this semester not knowing how to make a simple line graph. It's rather hard to make sure you understand economics if you can't read or construct a line graph, so I have to go back and teach those skills. When I am rated on my students' test scores, it takes the ball out of my court and places it in the students' court. I've had students tell me that there are teachers at my school – and strong teachers at that – that the students would purposely sabotage if they could. When you're looking at test scores, even at the proposed 25% for EOCT, the required passing score is still quite low to pass the class. If you have a 75 in a class, you can still pass the class with as low as a 53 on EOCT if it's weighted at 25%, at the current 15%, that number drops to a 38. Our students aren't stupid. They know this.
I don't mind being evaluated on what I'm doing, but let me evaluate my students and have a true objective measure of my performance decide if I'm a good teacher or not – not an objective measure of my students' performance.
December 28th, 2010
11:44 am
Fine…as long as parents are rated, too. Suggested criteria: 1) hours spend with student on homework per week, 2) number of teacher conferences attended per year, 3) time put into school volunteer activities per month, 4) time spent taking student to library, after school or weekend enrichment programs (music, art, language (including ESOL), math, technology, or other nonsports activities), 5) ratio of household income spent on student's school activities and enrichment to household income spent on parent's cell phone, hair, nails, shoes, clothes (should be greater than 1, obviously).
To those who say low income families cannot afford enrichment – poppycock! Art museums, universities, and public recreation programs all offer low cost, free, or scholarship based activities for youngsters on weekends or after school, and public transit will take you almost anywhere in town.
You could throw in parent self-improvement as well – it takes a good role model for kids to see that bettering oneself is a lifelong goal.
December 28th, 2010
11:50 am
I have no problem with a teacher report card, as long as it is comprehensive. In addition to testing data, which it will certainly include, it should also have statistics about the number of EIP students vs gifted students, percentage of students on free/reduced lunch, average work day from clock in to clock out (which will end the myth of the 8 to 3 workday), number of discipline referrals (which will show how many disruptions to the learning environment a teacher has to deal with), percentage of parents who refuse to return phone calls or come in for a conference… That would be a great start. But let's not kid ourselves. They want to take CRCT scores, slap them on a "report card" and throw them out there for everyone to see because that would be 1. the easiest and 2. the most politically expedient.
I'd love for any of these politicians to come and spend an entire week in my classroom. It's an open invitation.
December 28th, 2010
11:51 am
Maureen, if Rep. Lindsey is truly interested in the "50 percent of low-income students who enter ninth grade [and] are not graduating" the first thing he needs to look at is what percentage of those students were committee promoted after failing the [sub-minimal performance] CRCT. Between the AJC and the GaDOE, those data ought to be available.
I will note that the General Assembly is the body that enabled committee promotion to begin with, thus ensuring that students without adequate skills could be socially promoted without remediation and eventually end up in high school without having the skills to do high-school level work.
December 28th, 2010
11:52 am
It starts with ADMINISTRATION …
Let the public see what happens with Atlanta Public Schools.
This is the same old political beat…
And the BEAT goes ON and ON.. as long as the EVER-READY Battery lives.
An the Northside of Atlanta can afford to purchase plenty of batteries to keep your eyes closed.
I think the PROOF will come out when those within Atlanta Public Schools are criminally charged for the mess they've made from the ADMINISTRATIVE TOP…TO THE BOTTOM.
AS I said…Hide and Watch.
The PROOF will evolve once the new governor takes office.
If the public approves of the Atlanta Public School scandal… And Governor Deal does nothing to those involved…I would say it would be a waste of time to give out report cards to the teachers on the low end of the pay scale.
Another horse and pony show?
Hide and Watch
Governor Perdue's office takes ACTION with APS
December 28th, 2010
11:54 am
Although I support the concept, if he looks into CO, LA, and NYC have done it will always be an imperfect system. Teachers have no control of the quality of input (students) they receive each year and are told to do the best with what they got (less and less resources). A teachers "grade" will fluctuate year to year based on the students she has. Also, the more affluent districts will almost assuredly have the majority highest rated teachers because many of their students come to school with great pre-K, traditionally less chaotic social-economic life, etc. Using APS as example Sutton vs Harper Archer. A teacher at HA may just trying to reach proficient while those at Sutton are reaching for exceeds. Another question is will the "grade" factor in if the previous years teachers did an poor job (5th grade) that will reflect in subsequent years (6th grade+).
I agree we need something but we need a strong and robust discussion (with a lot of teachers) before we march off with another GA baked approach to teacher quality.
December 28th, 2010
11:57 am
It doesnt matter. With many students receiving NON-deserved passing grades this procedure will no doubt trickle-up to the teachers. Most teachers are no more than just enabling, gossiping, stupid women who wouldnt be qualified to manage the local soup kitchen or cook french fries.
And even if some of these self sacrificing martyrs does manage to score "F"s across the board, nothing will be done.
Just another Pig in a poke.
December 28th, 2010
11:59 am
Any way they can- they will throw whatever and whomever under the bus to make way for cheaper, less experienced teachers. It is an absolutely atrocious and disgusting idea. Where is legislation being crafted to address similar areas? (Police, social workers, etc). When will they craft legislation to ensure the quality of what we inherently teach- or improve the communities we teach in? Stupid idea- the sad part is that they know it and continue running towards brick walls. We can be no more accountable than they can for the success or failure of the communities they represent.
December 28th, 2010
12:03 pm
You wanna see test scores and student learning improve? Well you pick the worst 5% of teachers at every school in the State of GA and FIRE THEM. NO counseling, no molly coddling, NO.
I gurantee you the remainder will be scared shytless and improvements will be seen almost immediately. Hand-holding and hiney kissing does not work but you threaten someones financial livelihood and watch how quickly thing take a turn for the better.
December 28th, 2010
12:03 pm
My EOCT scores are pretty good compared to state averages, particularly considering the number of socially promoted, IEP, RTI, and SST students in my classes. (I'm not sure that EOCT scores are anything to brag about in any case, considering that a student only needs to get about 43% of the questions correct to "pass" but most of my students who can read and who pay attention do pass.)
I choose to teach the lower-level students, but if you look at the honors-level classes, most of those students could pass the [sub-minimal performance] EOCT with at least a minimal score on the first day of school, and after instruction most will – and all should – pass the EOCT at the "exceeds" level.
Under Rep. Lindsey's plan, which teacher will get the better report card grade? The one who teaches the lower-level students and has some pass, or the teacher who has the higher-level classes where all pass?
December 28th, 2010
12:03 pm
RIGHT NOW, we have the entire APS system's TEST SCORES in question.
We have issues of fraud and misuse of tax money.
The administration is corrupt from top to bottom…and someone wants to divert your attention to a report card for teachers?
Get your head out of the sand.
The real truth will surface when we acknowledge the real issues.
There is nothing going on in the Governor's office… but the rent for tax paying citizens.
The Tax PAYING Citizen's on the Northside of ATLANTA need to to stand up to the new Governor. Their Northside APS test Scores are not any more VALID than those on the Southside.
Shame on those that keep trying to dodge the CORRUPT ISSUES WITH ADMINISTRATION
December 28th, 2010
12:05 pm
I fear they've already made up their minds that GA teachers are ineffective. They just want a "failing" report card to push their political agenda. They don't want to talk to the teachers. They see us as the problem not the solution.
Of course, they won't accept responsibility for their decisions or lack of decisions. Umm…just look at the thread about the HOPE scholarship and how the legislators failed to heed warnings from as far back as 2003).
I would really LOVE to have a seat at the table to discuss how to improve education in GA. I would love to have a voice in decisions that are made at the DOE and Gold Dome.
I don't mind being evaluated through a fair and realistic process. I think professional growth is important and necessary.
I've learned in my classroom that a punitive atmosphere inhibits growth and learning. It simply does not work and it won't work to improve the teaching force in Georgia. Playing "gotcha" only makes things worse.
Mr. Lindsey….you have the ability to invite the teachers of GA to the table. If you really want to push an educational agenda, how about visiting schools in GA and not Colorado? How about conducting district town hall meetings. Go to each local RESA and invite teacher representatives to discuss their visions for better schools. Ask us what we need! Don't assume. You may find the answers you are looking for right under your nose.
December 28th, 2010
12:05 pm
National Board Certification is a national program (i.e., doesn't require re-inventing the wheel) that has some research backing its effectiveness. Will the legislature consider reinstating the extra pay for NBCTs?
December 28th, 2010
12:06 pm
Perhaps if the Concerned Black Clergy of Atl were to lead us in a few versus of Kum-Bi-Ya things might improve. Im sure they think that would be a grand idea.
December 28th, 2010
12:08 pm
" would really LOVE to have a seat at the table to discuss how to improve education in GA. I would love to have a voice in decisions that are made at the DOE and Gold Dome."
Thats exactly part of the problem. Too many "know-it-alls" with stupid opinions to express that have no logic nor reason. Just do your job and let the grownups handle things.
December 28th, 2010
12:10 pm
Bad teacher:
Doesn't show up for work on time.
Doesn't meet deadlines.
Doesn't show up for assigned duties.
Does allow for "free time".
Does pass all students because they "tried".
Doesn't return parent phone calls.
Doesn't post grades in a decent amount of time.
Doesn't handle minor classroom disruptions (gum, talking out, getting up and wandering around the room, coming to class late, etc).
Does allow cheating.
Does sit behind desk while teaching.
Doesn't align instuction with standards.
That's a start.
If one simply looks to chronic tardies and chronic no shows for duties, one would be inclined to think that the rest of the school day is sub par.
December 28th, 2010
12:13 pm
This is great news. Way too many awful teachers (my middle schooler has 3 wonderful teachers, and one amazingly awful one, who has been complained about for years, and had absolutely nothing done about her). It amazes me that people like her are allowed to continue ruining our kid's education, and our government run/funded education system. Fortunately my wife is an ex-teacher, and can teach our daughter at night to make up for what is being done (nothing!) in the classroom.
I'm rated and ranked at work, as teachers should be as well. The ones on the bottom (and teachers, you all know who the worst teachers are in your departments) need to be put on probation, given some additional "help", and then if that doesn't improve them given "help" out the door.
December 28th, 2010
12:13 pm
What is Rep. Lindsey's contact information. I will be happy to contact him.
Dr. NO,
As a gossipy, know-it-all, not good enough to cook french fries teacher, shut your pie hole.
December 28th, 2010
12:16 pm
LOL…atleast you are intelligent to know your place. Other than that no doubt your report card will reflect "F"s across the board.
December 28th, 2010
12:17 pm
Why does no one say a word about research we already know? You just gave Lindsey a sound bite that will resonate with his buddies who neither know nor care about what happens in schools. His first questions should have been where do kids go when they drop out of school…at any level?
In a recently released Economic Policy Institute Briefing Paper, written by prominent educational policy wonks including Diane Ravitch, "Problems with the Use of Student Test Scores to Evaluate Teachers", both the Educational Testing Service and the Rand Corporation conclude: "The research base is currently insufficient to support the use of VAM for high stakes decisions about individual teachers or schools."
Should teachers be responsible for the test scores of kids placed in their classes just a week before the test. What do you do with the inclusion classes? Some schools team-teach…so who gets the raise? We're not testing first and second graders, so do those teachers get a bye? I guess it no longer takes a village anymore to raise a kid.
The US Dept of Education announced that Georgia was one of 26 states participating in PARCC or the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers and awarded 170 million to develop assessments. It will be interesting to see which testing company gets this payday. I am willing to bet my last three-year's of merit pay (oh, sorry, there wasn't any for us) that the new test will look suspiciously like the old test and important decisions about kids and teachers will be made on the basis of whatever they come up with.
December 28th, 2010
12:18 pm
I think it's fair to have report cards that reflect teacher scores. It's important, also, to reflect student scores as they begin the year, and than again at the end. And teacher performance should be judged based on what they have to work with.
And we should also have lawmaker report cards. They should show exactly how much campaign contributions (and any other "considerations") a lawmaker received from various industries and organizations, and exactly how they voted on any legislation that might affect those interests.
December 28th, 2010
12:18 pm
As a parent, I do want teachers held accountable in a quantifiable way, but I'd also like to see teachers evaluate their principals and other school staff members twice a year in a way that allows teachers to (a) point out all the useless paperwork and other busywork they're required to do to the detriment of their main mission, and (b) gives them a way to fight back against petty tyrants.
Ideally, PTAs and PTOs would do the surveys, so that the teachers could speak plainly without fear of reprisal. In fact, all parent groups, including our own, should be agitating for this already.
December 28th, 2010
12:19 pm
@Maureen….in the past when I've contacted legislators, I usually get a scripted response. "Thank you for your time and interest. We'll take what you say into consideration. Have a good day."
Perhaps Rep. Lindsay is different. I'll give it a try.
@Dr. No — most days I don't respond to trolls but here goes: You need to take your own advice and keep your stupid opinions to yourself. What logic or reason do you bring to the table? I've yet to hear anything of substance from you. Instead of making immature jabs, why don't you give offer up a few intelligent solutions. BTW—firing the bottom 5% isn't an intelligent solution since the attrition rate nationwide indicates that anywhere between 5-8% teachers leave the profession each year.
December 28th, 2010
12:23 pm
David, the pre-post test is very cheatable. Tell kids that it has no impact on their grade, and they are playing bubble guess. We can't grade them on what they don't know, either, so what is the solution?
The answer is to see how they did from post test to post test, but that requires annual testing, which is expensive and time consuming.
December 28th, 2010
12:24 pm
Dr. No you are a dam fool ,you do not have a clue about what is going on in education.Education starts at home.The early years is very important to a childs educational process.We need to stop social promotions that is 50% of our problem.Discipline is the other one.The state can cut their budget in half over night.keep your daddys stupid bull to yourself.Go have a meeting with your friends.people like you make Georgia look dumber than it is.
December 28th, 2010
12:27 pm
Im not aware of attrition rates, however, thanks for bringing that bit of info to the table. I will be placing a Gold Star beside your name on the teacher of the day calendar. Feel better now?
5-8% leave via attrition…very well let me revise my number to the FIRING of 10-13% or we could increase that number of well deserved firings…no?
December 28th, 2010
12:27 pm
I retired six years ago after a lifetime in the classroom. Every new program introduced was to improve the education of minorities (do your research)-not children of middle and upper class. Very little has been done for them. Nothing we have been able to do has changed as it has only gotten worse. Until attitudes toward education, a government supported life, morals, and the 72% illegitimate birth rate is changed, nothing educators can do will improve minority education.
December 28th, 2010
12:28 pm
As long as the "report card" factors in ineffective parent and student inputs, as well as interference from administrators and legislators, I can support this. How will he do this? Should we expect, no matter how dedicated the teachers, with students from my school (70% free lunch, 50% single parent, 20% drug/alcohol abusing, 20% ELL, $28,000 average annual family income, 50% parents with high school education) would seem nearly as "effective" as a teacher in a school where the family income averages above $100,000, etc ? Yet many of our teachers ARE quite effective, coaxing a year's worth of growth (if it could be accurately measured–another problem) out of students who come into third grade working on first grade level. Students who come to school reeking of marijuana smoke (from their parents). Kids whose parents have abandoned them to be raised by grandparents, great-grandparents, aunts, or DFACS. Kids whose goal it is to quit at 16 and work at the chicken plant. Kids who will be parents themselves in less than 10 years.
I get sick of folks saying SES doesn't matter. If it didn't matter, 75% (or whatever high percentage it is) of the HOPE scholars wouldn't be from middle or upper class homes. Should we give up on poor kids? Absolutely not, but we have to be aware that they have many challenges to overcome, in 8 short hours a day/180 days per year, the messages absorbed the 16 other hours be day.
I spend every day not only teaching the GPS, but trying to make up for years of non-exposure to things middle class folks take for granted. Things you have to know to understand how the world works. Things you have to know to understand your textbooks. Things you have to believe in order to break out of generations of poverty and ignorance.
Measure that, sir, and we can talk.
December 28th, 2010
12:28 pm
Sounds like our lawmakers once again have no clue about education. Perhaps they could volunteer some of their time in a classroom alone with students, not the best students but those who refuse to learn.
December 28th, 2010
12:28 pm
Another problem witih pre-post test is those students who are promoted to high school without adequate reading skills but without IEPs stating that tests will be read aloud. If the student can't read and comprehend the pretest or the posttest, s/he won't pass either, even if s/he has learned the subject matter.
December 28th, 2010
12:30 pm
There isn't a "quick fix" for the failing public school system. I was a public school administrator for 20 plus years, and every school I led made AYP (and there was no hanky panky played with test answer sheets). Currently, I am back in the classroom by my own choosing. Everyone wants to blame the teachers for the failing schools. The school is only as good as the leader at its helm. Most administrators take one class on teacher evaluation during their training. I have laughed at the inane comments written on my evaluation. In fact, my administrator never came into my room to formally observe me until the last two weeks of last school year. The problem is poorly trained school administrators who have been out of the classroom for many years. Clean up the school site's administrative team and you will see the school start to improve.
December 28th, 2010
12:31 pm
I contacted Rep. Lindsey via email. I will let you know if he responds. I will not hold my breath.
December 28th, 2010
12:32 pm
Teachers are NOT the problem. Waste at the county office is the problem, bad parents (or breeders), ineffective administration, and your kids watching too much TV are the problem.
December 28th, 2010
12:32 pm
As a retired teacher and principal I am opposed to a teacher's report card. Education has gone downhill ever since the government has become more involved. If the government would provide the resources and support, then stay out of it, the educator's could fix the problem. I possibly could change my mind if there was a report card for our legislators.
December 28th, 2010
12:36 pm
I guess that I will never cease to be amazed at dumbass efforts from politicians to "improve" public education. No improvement will occur unless the lack of classroom discipline and the lack of student motivation are addressed.
I will continue to re-state MACE's mantra until I am blue in the face: You cannot have good learning conditions until you first have good teaching conditions. Hey, Lindsey, the problem lies with the students and their parents (or lack of parents), not the teachers.
December 28th, 2010
12:37 pm
@What's best for kids…Most of your list is already part of my annual evaluation and my current administrator has written up teachers for several items on your list. Believe it or not, teachers who do not improve are not offered a contract.
Place a strong administrator in a building and the school will thrive.
December 28th, 2010
12:39 pm
IEP is the parents responsibility. One of my children was in the IEP program and I constantly was up at the school dishing out verbal harassment to these sorry teachers. Always with the "forgive me, I didnt know" response.
Well that wasnt good enough and after I began the public reamings and humiliation of the teachers in question thing vastly improved. Yeppers…I shamed and bashed them right in front of their collegues and others and it paid dividends for my son.
Plus I kindve enjoyed embarrassing, degrading these college educated egg-heads. Turns out they didnt know much about anything.
December 28th, 2010
12:40 pm
I'm in complete agreement with Late to the Party and Mikey D. By having a Teacher Report card parents are absolved from any responsibility in their children's education. I consider myself fortunate to have a parent respond to a conference request and actually show up to the meeting. However once there they still expect me, the teacher, to perform minor miracles daily with a child who does no homework, classwork, is disruptive, and barely fed. I've had many a parent ask me to write down a student's homework assignment in their agenda. At what point is the student responsible for their learning? As for returning parent phone calls, I'm sorry I can't return your call when it is convenient for you (during instructional time). I show up to work everyday long before I'm due. I bring work home, volunteer at school, and spend far more of my money than I should to make sure these children receive a quality education. And some politician who has no knowledge of education to grade my performance based on test scores? That's bull! During the ITBS this past fall I had a child to just sit there and refuse to work. Out of 8 sections he only finished 1 completely. What am I supposed to do with him? If you're basing my performance on objective evaluations then perhaps that would be fair. I stress the word objective and add the word fair to the previous statement.
December 28th, 2010
12:40 pm
I'm in. I'll call tomorrow, as I do want to be a part of this process. We need more teachers who are willing to stop complaining and start actually volunteering their time to be heard.
December 28th, 2010
12:42 pm
Maureen, did you ask Rep. Lindsey to come on the blog and discuss his ideas with us and/or respond to our ideas and comments?
December 28th, 2010
12:50 pm
People sure are quick to fire other people from their jobs. This report card thing is just another attempt at job evaluation that has been going on for the past 1,000 years. With this "new" report card we get hire new vendors to "study the issue," more vendors to create the forms, more bureaucrats to review the data, and more Ph.D. candidates to write papers describing the data. It's just another jobs program.
December 28th, 2010
12:52 pm
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December 28th, 2010
12:54 pm
I have not seen this mentioned so I thought I'd bring it up. File this under the "unintended consequences" category that seems to be growing every day: if teachers are graded on their students' performance, who do you think is going to go to the most needy students? If your income or job security is based on the performance of your students you are NOT going to go to the schools where students are chronically underachieving. Don't you think this will just increase the divide between the haves and the have-nots? I see this as increasing the dropout rate of the very students Rep. Lindsey says he's trying to help.
December 28th, 2010
12:55 pm
What we really need to report cards on our lawmakers. Most of the ones I have seen would get an F.
December 28th, 2010
12:57 pm
This is a true story. I was evaluated by my administration to be a middle of the road teacher due to my lack of differentation in the instructional delivery process. 100% of my students that year (and close to a 100% in most of the other years) have achieved the following results.
1) 100% passed the EOCT w/ approx. 81% exceeding standards (it should be noted these results were not only from the high achieving classes but the regular class I instruct).
2) In my A.P. classes over 84% of the students made an 3 or higher (3 is considered passing)
3) In my team taught classes, almost 90% of the students passed the EOCT. Those who failed were in the high 60's.
But somehow I am considered to be a middle of the road teacher. Although my husband laughed at the evaluation, do you really think I want this middle of the road report card to be made public? The report cards are only the reflection of an administrator who spent about an hour for the entire school year in my room.
P.S. this evaluation was supported by the principal. If this bill passes, you can go the bank that the number of teachers leaving the classroom will go to 5-8% + 1 teacher.
December 28th, 2010
12:58 pm
@catlady…I work in a Title I district and I know exactly what you are talking about. SES does matter. Personally, I love working with low SES students. My best teaching practices come from working with these students. "Success" with lower SES students, ESL, and special education students can't always be quantified by a passing CRCT/EOCT score.


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MILWAUKEE, Wis. – The No. 10 University of Louisville volleyball team won the BIG EAST Championship and regular season titles for the first time in the same season with a 25-19, 25-23, 26-24 sweep over Marquette on Sunday in the Al McGuire Center.
The Cardinals became the first BIG EAST team to win both the BIG EAST Championship and regular season titles in the same season since St. John's did in 2007. It also marked the 15th time a BIG EAST team accomplished this feat. The win was also Louisville's fifth BIG EAST Championship having won in 2006 and from 2008-10. It was also Louisville's 25th conference title counting regular season and tournament accolades.
"We are so excited," said U of L head coach Anne Kordes. "The greatest thing in the world to do is win a regular season championship and then back it up with a tournament championship. It's tough, it's exhausting and its pressure filled. I am so proud of our kids. If anyone has paid attention to us all year, even though we have some big stars, we're very evenly distributed with our offense, but it's our defense that we bank on. Marquette played phenomenal. Hats off to Marquette."
Tournament MVP Gwen Rucker recorded 10 kills, six digs and five blocks on Sunday to finish the three-day tournament with 38 kills and 52 swings with just four errors. Rucker hit .654 for the weekend.
Lola Arslanbekova, who was also named to the All-BIG EAST Championship Team, snapped Louisville's spell of five matches without a double-double. The senior had 13 kills and 11 digs for her 20th double-double of the season.
Caitlin Welch added a match-high 21 digs and was named to the All-BIG EAST Championship Team.
After not recording a hitting error in the first set in the quarterfinal and semifinal, the Cardinals ran into a stiff Golden Eagle defense in the first set and had five hitting errors. Despite its early struggles, Louisville regrouped to hit .300 in the opening frame and held Marquette to a .050 mark. Louisville was ignited by a 10-1 run which included three kills by Rucker, two by James and three blocks to take a 17-10 lead. Marquette fought back with a 5-1 run to cut the deficit to three at 20-17. Two late kills by Mattingly kept the Golden Eagles at bay.
Marquette used a 6-2 run to open up the second set with a 6-3 advantage. The Cardinals stormed back with an 8-2 run capped by the Uzbekistan duo of Arslanbekova and Tanya Lukyanenko to give Louisville a 13-12 lead. The Cardinals opened up a four point cushion at 16-12 before the Golden Eagles answered with a 4-0 run to knot the score at 16 all. The two teams traded points until Brooke Mattingly and Emily Juhl connected on back-to-back kills to give Louisville the 20-18 advantage. After Marquette pulled to within one at 24-23 Mattingly notched her sixth kill of the match to give Louisville the set. Louisville hit .250 in the frame to Marquette's .214.
The Cardinals jumped out to an 8-4 lead in the third set before the Golden Eagles used a 5-1 run to tie the score at nine all. The two sides traded points until Marquette's Elizabeth Koberstein and Danielle Carlson blocked Arslanbekova to give the Golden Eagles the two point edge at 18-16. Juhl carried the Cardinals down the stretch before Arslanbekova polished off the Golden Eagles. Juhl recorded three kills and combined with Mattingly on a block to tie the score at 20. Arslanbekova added two timely kills before Holly Mertens sailed an attack attempt wide to give Louisville the win. Louisville hit .244 in the final frame to Marquette's .231.
Louisville will play the Ohio Valley Conference champion Belmont on Friday, Nov. 23 in Cardinal Arena at 5 p.m. Prior to the match, Louisville will honor its four seniors.

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County Commissioner-elect Brian Poole is qualified to take office.
That was the ruling the Cherokee County Board of Elections unanimously made late Monday morning, less than 24 hours before Election Day.
The board's ruling ends weeks of speculation as to whether the county would be forced to schedule a special election to fill the District 3 seat.
Poole, who lives in Towne Lake, was flanked by his attorney Charles Robertson and local supporters and left immediately after the ruling was made.
However, Robertson said he was glad to see the board rule in his client's favor.
"We are obviously pleased with it," he said. "We are not surprised. We thought the law was pretty clear."
Poole was accused by eight residents – Chris Hampton, Scott Ault, Teisha Ault, Jamey Cagle, Connie Miller, Bryan Roach, Eric Love and Linda Flory – for not paying state and local sales taxes in the state of Alabama. Poole allegedly owes $38,599.09 in sales taxes in the neighboring state.
Hampton was Poole's Republican challenger in the July 31 primary.
Canton attorney Jeff Rusbridge, who represented the residents in their challenge, also said he was not surprised by the board's decision
"Obviously, I will review the board's decision with my clients and we will have to determine whether they desire to move forward with any further action," he added.
Rusbridge late last month sent a letter to Cherokee County Elections Supervisor Janet Munda, asking the board to review the mater.
Along with the letter, Rusbridge also sent several documents that appear to be certificates of liens against Poole from the Alabama Department of Revenue, which were filed between 2009 and 2011, and copies of a voluntary bankruptcy filing Poole made in 2010.
Mr. Poole himself, in sworn statements submitted with his Chapter 13 bankruptcy petition in the Middle District of Alabama, Case No. 10-11227, admitted owing $29,855 in unpaid state and local sales and withholding taxes to the State of Alabama," the letter reads.
The board in a called meeting two weeks ago voted unanimously to move forward to schedule a formal hearing, but tabled making a decision after the formal hearing.
Poole is set to take office on Jan. 1. Poole has no Democratic opposition in the Nov. 6 general election. Both Poole and Hampton sought the seat after incumbent County Commissioner Karen Bosch opted not to seek re-election.


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Colossal statue of the emperor Hadrian discovered
A huge, exquisitely carved marble statue of the Roman emperor Hadrian is the latest find from Sagalassos, an ancient Greco-Roman city in south-central Turkey. Archaeologists estimate that the figure was originally between 13 and 16 feet in height (four to five meters). It is, says excavation director Marc Waelkens, one of the most beautiful portraits of Hadrian ever found.
The discovery was made by archaeologists from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), who, under Waelkens' direction, have been investigating the site since 1990. Last month a new excavation campaign started, and the Belgians resumed work at the Roman Bath, focusing on the southeastern corner of the complex.
On Sunday the first fragments of a over life-size statue, a foot and part of a leg, were unearthed. The foot is 31.5 inches (0.80 meters) long; the leg, from just above the knee to the ankle, is nearly five feet (1.5 meters). The elaborate sandal depicted on the footed indicated to the archaeologists that the fragments were from the statue of an emperor. On Monday, the almost intact head of the statue was discovered, revealing that the statue was of Hadrian, who ruled from A.D. 117 to 138. The head measures more than 27 inches (0.70 meters).
Construction of the bath complex in Sagalassos was started during Hadrian's reign, though the building was finished only several decades later. The bath complex is one of several major building projects at Sagalassos that can be dated to the time of Hadrian and the city had a sanctuary of the imperial cult dedicated to Hadrian and his successor Antoninus Pius.
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ROME — Under the fleeting light of an autumn half-moon, an Italian medical student made his way to the top of a modern high-rise in east Rome, not far from an ancient arch built by the emperor Claudius.
From the 11th floor of the apartment block, which once housed a pasta factory, the 21-year-old could probably just discern the darkened outline of the Colosseum about a mile away. It may have been the last thing he saw.
"I'm gay," the student, identified only as Simone D., said in a note discovered after he jumped to his death. "Italy is a free country. But there are homophobes, and those like that must search their consciences."
His suicide in the early hours of Oct. 27 brought sorrow to this city, but also a tragic sense of familiarity. It was at least the third death in Rome within 12 months of a young person who had decided to end his life out of despair over being gay or over the harassment he had endured. Two months earlier, a 14-year-old boy leaped from his balcony; before that, a 15-year-old hanged himself.
For many Italians, the deaths have served as a reminder of a sorry fact: Theirs is the only major nation in Western Europe to offer virtually no rights or protections to homosexuals. From a legal standpoint in Italy, gays and lesbians essentially do not exist.
Where other countries outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation, for example, Italy has no such ban (though European Union directives mitigate that lack slightly). At least 10 nations in Europe, including France and Spain, allow same-sex couples to marry; Italy, with a population of 61 million, makes zero provision nationally for such relationships, not even a weaker form of civil union or domestic partnership.
Representatives in the lower house of Parliament last year approved hate-crimes legislation covering anti-gay speech and violence. But the Senate may yet block the bill. Other countries, by contrast, have had similar laws on their books for decades.
"We're not talking about building a spaceship or getting marriage equality, which is utopia," said Marcello Signore, 25, a writer in Milan. "An anti-homophobia law is something that we should have had in the '80s."
Critics cite a fractured and conservative political establishment, a macho culture and the presence and outsized influence of the Vatican for Italy's laggardly approach to gay rights. They say that though the situation has improved for gays and lesbians in Italy's big cities, which boast gay social venues and community centers, life for homosexuals in small towns and rural villages often remains an oppressed and closeted one.
"I can do whatever I want in the city center of Rome, but I can't do whatever I want in my [home] city, which is in Sicily, or outside in the Roman suburbs," said Alfredo Capra, 27, an information technology student in the Italian capital. "People in the suburbs continue to live hidden."
Progress for gays and lesbians has often come with help and pressure from abroad, not from within Italy alone. When the head of the world's largest pasta maker, Barilla, declared in September that he would never use a same-sex couple in his advertising — "If the gays don't like it, they can go eat another brand" — gay groups around the world called for a boycott of his products. A satirical image of a Barilla pasta box stamped with the word "Bigotoni" instead of "Rigatoni" quickly made the rounds on the Internet.
Guido Barilla has since apologized for his remarks, and the company has promised to create more inclusive ads.
But the question of civil rights remains stuck in the hands of Italian legislators, who are a notoriously divided and fractious lot. Their incessant squabbling and fear of offending the Vatican, which sits imposingly in their backyard, have pushed gay rights far down the agenda. Though the Vatican does not campaign for political candidates, the influence of the Roman Catholic hierarchy at so many levels of Italian society makes lawmakers leery of incurring its wrath.
Activists find the inaction particularly frustrating because a majority of Italians express support in opinion polls for civil unions for same-sex couples.
"We have an Italian society open to gays," said Alessandra Filograno, an activist at Rome's Gay Center. "We don't have a political class in favor…. They seem to be the [mouthpiece] of the Catholic Church."
Matteo Renzi, the fast-rising young secretary general of the left-leaning Democratic Party, promised recently that civil unions would be included in his party's next electoral platform. But Maurizio Sacconi, a senator with one of Italy's center-right parties, warned that pushing for some kind of recognition of same-sex relationships was currently too controversial and would risk dividing Parliament further at a politically delicate time.
Sacconi said he did not support either "quasi-marriage" or even "second-class marriages" for gays and lesbians.
"For us, the priority is the family, which is formed by marriage between a man and a woman," he told the newspaper La Repubblica last month. "Principles of ethics are not negotiable for those who believe in them."
That doesn't mean there are no supporters of gay rights in positions of power. In September, a group of legislators with the populist Five Star movement, the largest party in Parliament but not a member of the ruling coalition, staged a same-sex hug-and-kiss-in at the chamber during debate over the hate-crimes bill.
But the constantly shifting kaleidoscope of government plus the demands of other issues such as Italy's foundering economy have hindered the fight for gay rights. So has the blatant prejudice of some lawmakers, like the one from the right-wing Northern League who mockingly held up a piece of fennel when openly gay representative Alessandro Zan stood to speak. In Italian, the word for fennel is used as a derogatory term for gay men.


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I've said this before and I'll say it again - regardless of how good a company's management may be, betting on their ability to successfully transition an existing model to "a new growth opportunity" is a huge risk. For every success story where a transition appears smooth such as Adobe, there are nightmarish outcomes such as Hewlett-Packard where "we keep going back to the drawing board.
However, there are also examples such as Jabil Circuit (NYSE: JBL) where the market views its transition as "not a great changeover yet, but the signs are positive." Nonetheless, for some investors, these "positive signs" have not been enough to prevent Jabil's stock decline.
Jabil has made 3 new 52-week lows in October alone. For some investors, "hiccups" in the company's transition has proven too much to bear. It also didn't help that Jabil missed Q4 estimates by 4 cents. However, with a solid Q1 performance, Jabil just may have bought itself some more time. Will it spend it wisely?
The quarter that was
For the period ending in November, the company reported first quarter revenues of $4.6 billion. Diversified Manufacturing Services (DMS) business grew 20%. This is important to note since it is Jabil's fastest growing segment and the area in which the company wants to fully transition.
Also noteworthy is that DMS now accounts for 47% of Jabil's overall business - in other words, in terms of the transition, so far so good. The company also reported a 17% increase in Enterprise & Infrastructure business. But its High Velocity business segment didn't fare so well – shedding 20% year-over-year.
Likewise, profitability was mixed. The company posted $170 million in operating income, which was flat year-over-year but broadly expected. The company earned 51 cents per share, or 3 cents lower from the year-ago quarter with core diluted earnings per share arriving at 61 cents.
These numbers were far from breathtaking. But they were good enough to convince investors that management has an excellent pulse on what it needs to do to successfully transition the company to the DMS business. The Street agreed - sending the shares up over 7%. For the performance management has this to say:
"As a result of this outstanding performance and the ongoing strength of our balance sheet, we were able to return $148 million in capital to shareholders during the first quarter of fiscal year 2013 through dividends and share repurchase. We see this positive performance continuing and continue to estimate operating cash flow of $1 billion in fiscal 2013."
Moving forward
Although things are progressing well now, the company's future will still rest on how successful this changeover proves to be. Today, Jabil is the world's third largest producer of electronics components. But the company has other ambitions. Jabil wants to build up its capabilities in other areas such as DMS, which just grew 20% in the quarter – so it makes sense.
Plus, the company has Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) as one of its biggest customers – another added motivation. In the fourth management warned investors about program ramp up difficulties. Presumably, these were related to the iPhone 5. Apple did report its own production challenges during the quarter, but these have since been resolved. Is there a connection there? It's certainly plausible.
Absent a breakdown of DMS production, it's possible that Jabil's 20% growth could have been positively impacted by stronger than expected iPhone sales. But we'll find out in a month when Apple reports on the holiday quarter. But Jabil is not all about Apple.
The company also has other prominent customers such as Research in Motion (NASDAQ: BBRY) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ). And although the macro climate has not been kind to neither RIM and HP, Jabil is still growing market share as evident by its 24% and 20% growth in its DMS business in two consecutive quarters.
Too, with the market expecting a strong rebound in RIM on the launch of BB10, Jabil should see increased demand if BlackBerries start taking off as some analysts believe. The same can be said about HP. As enterprise spending fully rebounds, Jabil will also benefit from any growth that HP experiences. This will make Jabil's current revenue guidance of $4.3 billion for Q2 extremely conservative.
Bottom Line
On the basis of the current quarter, I can say that Jabil shares are fairly valued today. So far, the company's transition is going far better than expected and management deserves a lot of credit for seizing a new growth opportunity - better yet, one that is working.
As it stands, Jabil has earned the benefit of the doubt and deserves more time for management to realize the company's true value. In the meantime, patient investors who are not adverse to risk should do well buying the stock at these levels. $19 today can easily become $25.
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It's been 10 years since the 9/11 attacks. It's a wound that seems very fresh in the minds of many. But with great anguish comes a sense of pride and unity among a nation that is still recovering from that tragic day in 2001.
"Nobody really knew what was coming and then the Washington thing happened," Dr. Neal Richmond said.
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