Texas teachers are leaping through a loophole to boost retirement pay: A teacher who works for one day as a janitor, or in another school job covered by Social Security, becomes eligible for spousal benefits equal to half the spouse’s Social Security check. AP reports:
Thousands of Texas teachers have rushed to retire before a […]
Archive for May, 2008
The Washington Post profiles a graduate of SEED, the charter boarding school in Washington, D.C. that’s sending its first class to college.
A CBS producer also praises the school, which provides an alternative to low-income black students.
It’s expensive, as I’ve written before. And nearly half the students who started in middle school left […]
One in 10 students are targets of sexual misconduct by school employees, according to a report for Congress by Charol Shakeshaft, a Hofstra education professor. But Shakeshaft’s definition includes everything from rape to inappropriate jokes.
Misconduct is defined in the report as physical, verbal or visual behavior, from sexually related jokes or pictures of […]
Education reform can’t just fiddle with the status quo, writes Frederick Hess in Common Sense School Reform.
Good organizations, in schooling and elsewhere, are characterized by clear goals, careful measurement of performance, rewards based on outcomes, the elimination of unproductive employees, operational flexibility, the ready availability of detailed and useful information, personnel systems that recruit and […]
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Education is the top issue for Hispanic voters, according to a Zogby poll conducted for National Council of La Raza.
Education Trust has launched a web site in English and Spanish aimed at Latino parents. Among the depressing statistics in the report: Only 11 percent of Latino children will go on to earn […]
College professors in Baghdad fear that giving F’s could be fatal, says the Globe and Mail. Recently, a professor was murdered; students believe he was shot in retaliation for a bad grade.
Death-threat letters have become commonplace this exam season, and there have been at least two other recent attempts on the lives of university […]
Teaching social norms makes it possible for poor black students to do well in school, writes Abigail Thernstrom.
(Successful inner-city) schools combat what Harvard sociologist Orlando Patterson has called “the greatest problem now facing African Americans.” And that is “their isolation from the tacit norms of the dominant culture.” His statement is really the academic version […]
New York City’s math tests produce fuzzy results, writes Andrew Wolf in the New York Sun. For example, two thirds of last year’s fourth graders were on grade level in math, yet only 38.6 percent tested at grade level as fifth graders. What’s going on?
Wolf offers a story problem: There […]
College tuition at public universities costs students less, reports USA Today.
What students pay on average for tuition at public universities has fallen by nearly one-third since 1998, thanks to new federal tax breaks and a massive increase in state and federal grants to most students and their families.
Financial aid increased by 80 […]
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