Rod Paige
Roderick Raynor Paige ( born June 17, 1933, Monticello, Lawrence County, Mississippi) is an American politician and education was from 2001 to 2005 Minister of Education of the United States.
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Generally
Paige grew up in segregated Mississippi and built his career on the basic idea that education creates equal opportunities. First he was a college dean and school superintendent and then became the first African American who was Minister of Education. On January 20, 2001, he was introduced as the seventh minister of education of the United States into office by the U.S. Senate.
Paige earned a bachelor's degree from Jackson State University in Mississippi; then he graduated to the master and received his doctorate from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.
Career
College
Paige began his career as a trainer for college athletes. He then served a decade as dean of the College of Education Texas Southern University. He built there a " university center for excellence in urban education " on a research institute that focuses on issues that have to do with the training and the management of urban school systems.
School District
As a person of trust and leader of the Panel on Education for the " Houston Independent School District " ( HISD ) from 1989 to 1994 Paige worked with others to a "declaration of faith and vision," which aims to carry out fundamental reforms by decentralization. Main points are the training, accountability at all levels and the development of a common curriculum. The accelerated the ongoing, comprehensive process of restructuring of HISD.
Reforms
Paige was superintendent of schools in the 1994 HISD. As such, he created the "Peer Examination, Evaluation, and Redesign ( PEER ) Program," which solicits recommendations from companies and municipal employees to school support services and to strengthen programs. He started a system of charter schools, which many skills come ( textbooks, materials, personnel management ). He saw to it that the teachers of HISD as larger Texas schools are paid in order to strengthen competitiveness. Superintendent Paige makes the HISD for the first school district in Texas, which, as in the private sector contracts introduced by which older employees continue leading the employment relationship and were paid according to performance. He also introduced the " teacher incentive program ", which rewards teachers for outstanding performance and creative solutions to educational problems.
Other activities
Paige served on the monitoring committee of the Texas Education Agency ( " Texas Education Agency " ) and the " State Board of Education Tasks" in the high school area. He also led the youth working committee at the " National Commission for staff policy " at the U.S. Department of Labor. ( " National Commission for Employment Policy of the U.S. Department of Labor "). Paige is a member of the "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People " ( National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ). Paige is a former member of " Houston Job Training Partnership Panel ' (Houston Job Training Partnership Council), the community advisory board ( Community Advisory Board), the Texas Commerce Bank ( Texas Commerce Bank ), the American Leadership Forum (American Leadership Forum ) and the Board of Directors of the Texas Business and Education coalition ( Texas Business and Education coalition).
Praise and criticism
Prices
Paige has been actively involved in the education commission of the states and the Council of the Great City Schools. These activities earned him the " Richard R. Green Award" as an outstanding urban educators in 1999. 2000 Paige received the " Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize" in Education for its efforts to improve education. He also received in 2000 the " National Association of Black School Educators ' Superintendent of the Year Award". He was named " National Superintendent of the Year by the American Association of School Administrators' 2001.
NEA
At a meeting of the federal governors at the White House on 23 February 2004 Paige criticized the " National Education Association " (NEA ) due to their blockade of the " No Child Left Behind Act ", a historic reform of the education system and called the NEA a " terrorist organization ". He later apologized for his " unfortunate choice of words "; at the same time, however, he claimed, the NEA use " blocking fear tactics " to prevent the law. The NEA demanded his resignation.
Office at the end
On November 15, 2004 Paige announced his resignation as Minister of Education. The Financial Advisor to the White House, Margaret Spellings, was his successor.