More of the same would mean more failure at James Lick High School in East San Jose. The school ranks in the bottom 10 percent in the state, even when it’s compared to schools with similar demographics: Most students are low-income Hispanics; one third aren’t fluent in English. Some 300 students have […]
Archive for May, 2008
A “good” school in a wealthy suburb of San Jose is plagued by cheating.
Update: Kimberly posts on a British plagiarist who plans to sue the university for not catching him right away.
A student who admits down-loading material from the internet for his degree plans to sue his university for negligence.
Michael […]
Writing in the New York Sun, education professor David Steiner says his study of courses required for new teachers found bias toward progressive-constructivist ideas and hostility to high-stakes testing.
Given the divide between “back to basics” and the “constructivist-progressive” models, one would expect education schools to expose students to both points of view. Our research (which […]
Philadelphia students told a congressman what happens when inner-city schools can’t hire qualified teachers.
Instead of learning math, Yusef Perry said, he and his ninth-grade classmates at Sayre High School played basketball. Latoya Andrews and other biology students at Simon Gratz High endured weeks of being split up among other classes.
Kenneth Ramos, who attends Kensington […]
Students at a Chicago high school were warned they’d have to sit out prom if they let detentions pile up. Fifteen of 180 students ignored the warning. But they went anyhow. From the Chicago Sun-Times:
Jones College Prep Principal Don Fraynd thought he was giving his students a valued lesson in responsibility when he […]
Edith Foster, a classicist who writes curricula for the National Endowment for the Humanities, suggests a summer project: Teach your children to memorize poetry and speeches.
Memorization does not deserve its reputation as a killer of creativity. On the contrary, memorization is useful to the whole process of thought creation. It exercises intelligence and quiet concentration, […]
The kid who says, “Put me in, coach,” usually isn’t mocked for wanting to play. Idiotically, a middle school basketball coach in Pleasantville, New Jersey chose to humiliate a player who begged for playing time by giving him a “crybaby award” at a team banquet. The boy’s parents complained.
Last week, the coach […]
A boy who’s being taught at home wants to try out for his local high school’s soccer team. There’s no reason to deny home-schoolers a chance to play on a team, argues a South Carolina father.
Women who’ve never rowed a boat can get crew scholarships to universities with football programs, thanks to Title IX, which requires an equal number of scholarships to male and female athletes.
Ohio State elevated its women’s rowing program to varsity status nine years ago. Now, as the men’s club team runs programs such as Rent-a-Rower ($50 […]
Jon Stewart, who was graduated from William and Mary in 1984, was awarded an honorary doctorate.
I am honored to be here and to receive this honorary doctorate. When I think back to the people that have been in this position before me from Benjamin Franklin to Queen Noor of Jordan, I can’t help but wonder […]
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