To boost graduation rates, some Michigan schools place freshmen in a separate building, hoping to insulate them from older students and build class morale. The Detroit Free Press writes about a Detroit high school, Southeastern, that six years ago graduated 60 students from an initial class of 500, and last year graduated 199 from a […]
Archive for May, 2008
The new Carnival of Education features Ms. Smlph’s excellent advice for new teachers. Among other things, she tells them to plan, plan, plan some more — and then be prepared for things to go wrong.
There will be a fire drill, tornado drill, school-intruder drill, or a drill to practice what to do in […]
Christian schools are suing the University of California for discounting the value of students’ grades and demanding higher test scores for admission. The Christian schools say it’s religious bias. UC thinks these schools don’t do an adequate job of teaching science (i.e., evolution) or other subjects.
The University of California system rejected (Calvary Chapel Christian) […]
In Left Behind, Way Behind, New York Times columnist Bob Herbert quotes a task force report:
First the bad news: Only about two-thirds of American teenagers (and just half of all black, Latino and Native American teens) graduate with a regular diploma four years after they enter high school.
Now the worse news: Of those who […]
Dave Barry’s 1993 back-to-school column is a classic.
Summer vacation is almost over, so today Uncle Dave has a special back-to-school ”pep talk” for you young people, starting with these heartfelt words of encouragement: HA HA HA YOU HAVE TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL AND UNCLE DAVE DOESN’T NEENER NEENER NEENER.
Read it all.
A new KIPP middle school in a low-income, high-minority neighborhood of San Jose is starting off with a bang, reports the San Jose Mercury News.
Last year, KIPP Heartwood’s inaugural class of 73 fifth-graders outscored students in some of the highest-achieving districts in the valley on the California STAR program, the state’s standardized tests. On the […]
Housing developers hope to lure families by creating a network of schools, possibly a charter school district, in Aurora, Colorado, which is known for underperforming public school. The Denver Post reports:
These developers, who collectively own thousands of acres east of E-470, see the need to create attractive schools as a business decision: The […]
From an entertaining look at “how the future looked” in the New York Times, here’s a 1915 interview with filmmaker D. W. Griffith:
The time will come, and in less than 10 years, when the children in the public schools will be taught practically everything by moving pictures. Certainly they will never be obliged to […]
Kris, a special education teacher in Des Moines, is now “collaborating” with mainstream teachers in their classrooms, instead of helping her mildly disabled students in a special class known as Resource. Here’s the problem:
For example, let’s say I’m “collaborating” in a Conceptual Algebra class. Let’s say there are six Resource students in that class. […]
At a high school in Britain, students will be allowed to use the “f-word” in class, but only five times per lesson. From the Daily Mail:
“Within each lesson the teacher will initially tolerate (although not condone) the use of the f-word (or derivatives) five times and these will be tallied on the board so all […]
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