When 15-year-old Chelsea Rhoades left for school early one day last December, her family expected it to be just another normal, uneventful day at one of Indiana’s premier public high schools but school officials had slightly different plans.
College Prep
Cake Course Nation
If you ever doubted that most high school students are basically lazy, you know have some proof thanks to a recently completed survey.
Establishment Fights Charter Challenge
The GOMs (Gatekeepers of Mediocrity) seem to have won.
Reading Regression
According to an ACT yearly report, only about half of this year’s high school graduates have the reading skills they need to succeed in college, and even fewer are prepared for college-level science and math courses.
Bay State Babylon
I just graduated from Buckingham Browne and Nichols, a prep school dedicated to the proposition that straight white males are the lone source of all evil.
Excelling at Home
There is actually good education news in California, although it does not emanate from the state’s public school system.
Tarheel school choice
Support for school choice is on the rise in North Carolina.
Back To Basics Battle
If American students excel in elementary school, but falter in high school and beyond, what’s going on?
The Dropout Dilemma
American high schools are again under fire, and this time, Judge Manning (the judge presiding over the Leandro case) isn’t the one fanning the flames. Rather, Governors from most of the states have entered the fray, calling for reforms to American high schools and to data collection on graduation rates.
Failure of Schools Might Lead to School Choice
This week, North Carolina schools presented citizens with a good news/bad news proposition. As forecasted in last week’s journal entry, Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) results for North Carolina schools were released Monday. Not surprisingly, this year’s results show a higher percentage of schools not meeting more stringent federal accountability standards.
Book Review
Book Review: Is ‘The Dying Citizen’ a Prediction of America’s Future?
America’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice…
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