When fire threatened the third-grade classroom at a Minnesota school, the class fish saved the day. Dory was swimming in a vase on a desk.
A forgotten candle started a small fire on the desk on Jan. 24, setting off the smoke alarm and shattering the fish bowl, spilling enough water to put out […]
Archive for May, 2008
The Perfect Score is a typical teen flick that can’t deal with the moral issues it pretends to raise, writes James Bowman. A group of students plots to steal the SAT exam so they can achieve their college ambitions.
The leader of the conspiracy is Kyle (Chris Evans), whose SAT score of 1020 suggests that […]
Nearly half the competitors on a Tempe high school’s academic decathlon team are recent immigrants. The Arizona Republic reports:
High school student Carlos Ballesteros began learning English just over a year ago. Since then, the teenager from Mexico wrote an award-winning essay during an academic decathlon competition.
Ballestero’s teammate, Mauricio Leon, also is a […]
In North Carolina, Chapel Hill-Carrboro school district is eliminating advanced classes in the name of equality. From Misanthropyst comes a Raleigh News & Observer column by Rick Martinez:
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board voted to eliminate advanced language arts courses next year at two of its middle schools. This comes on top of dropping […]
Schools that want federal funds must teach phonics to new readers. I was stunned by this paragraph in a Christian Science Monitor story:
Critics also worry about the studies left out of the reading panel’s scope. Of 100,000 studies first culled by the panel, all but experimental research that adhered to the scientific method were […]
Via Interesting People, here’s a story about a Canadian student who won the right not to have his essay submitted to a plagiarism detection site called TurnItIn.com. The site compares a new essay to a huge data bank of old essays. McGill sophomore Jesse Rosenfeld refused to hand in essays through the […]
Matt Rosenberg, who’s been writing about education in Seattle, has started Rosenblog to cover a variety of topics.
Writing in Gadfly, Chester Finn makes some practical suggestions to cut college costs for students who’d just as soon do without the deluxe recreation center if they could earn a degree with less debt. Finn suggests letting students pay for amenities and services they really want, instead of folding everything into the tuition bill. […]
At Iraq at a Glance, the blogger’s mom, a teacher, posts on how English is taught at a “distinguished” girls’ school in Baghdad.
Sex, drinking, drug abuse and delinquency occur at similar rates in suburban and urban schools, concludes a new Manhattan Institute study.
Parents are fleeing urban schools not just because of low academic performance, but also because they believe suburban public schools are safer and more wholesome.Ê This study finds that fleeing from the city to the […]
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