California 12th graders can’t graduate unless they can pass the exit exam. But many seniors who haven’t passed yet aren’t working very hard to learn the skills they need, reports the Sacramento Bee.
Juan, 18, has passed the English part of the test but not the math. You wouldn’t know it by looking at his […]
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In a final English exam, Australian students were “asked to compare an SMS message, ‘how r u pls 4giv me I luv u xoxoxo O:-),’ with a famous Keats love letter, ‘You fear, sometimes, I do not love you so much as you wish’,” reports The Australian.
And the 46,000 Victorian students who […]
In the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Kyle Zirpolo, who testified as a nine-year-old in the McMartin Pre-school case, confesses he lied about being molested to please his parents, who fed him rumors about the allegations, and his interrogators, who wouldn’t take “nothing happened” for an answer.
I remember them asking extremely uncomfortable questions about whether […]
Students learn math and science better when taught with abstract rather than “visually engaging” 3-D objects that “moved dynamically on a computer screen,” reports Science Daily.
The students were also more successful in applying what they learned to new situations when they were taught with abstract symbols rather than concrete objects, said Vladimir Sloutsky, co-author of […]
The fight over evolution is making Americans hostile to science, some academics fear.
Brown University biologist Kenneth Miller believes the rhetoric of the anti-evolution movement has had the effect of driving a wedge between a large proportion of the population who follow fundamentalist Christianity and science.
“It is alienating young people from science. It basically tells them […]
For a school principal in Newton, Massachusetts, the scariest Halloween specter was the possibility a few parents would boycott the traditional Halloween costume party. From the Boston Globe:
When students at Underwood Elementary School walk to their classrooms on Monday, there will be no witches, SpongeBob SquarePants, or Johnny Damons there to greet them.
No skeleton […]
Here’s a surprise: The federal program to connect all schools and libraries to the Internet is “extremely vulnerable to “waste, fraud and abuse.”
A federal program that has doled out more than $10 billion to help schools and libraries link to the Internet has wasted millions of dollars over its nine-year history, according to a […]
Jose is more popular than Michael for San Jose area toddlers, reports the Mercury News. Aditya, an Indian boy’s name that means “sun,” has outpaced Timothy and Paul.
Boys called Angel outnumber boys called John, a name that sailed over on the Mayflower.
Old-fashioned names — Hazel, Mathilda and Daisy — are coming back in style. […]
Six percent to 14 percent of students suffer from a math learning disorder, according to a recently published Mayo Clinic study. Some also have trouble learning to read, but many have problems only with math.
With private funding, the University of Nevada will open a public school for “profoundly gifted” children testing in the 99.9th percentile.
I wasn’t that impressed by the 10-year-old girl in the story. She reads up to six books a month? I averaged six books a week at her age. Of course, I wasn’t […]
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