Summit Preparatory High, a top-scoring charter school in Redwood City, California lacks bad students, say local school officials. The charter needs a local sponsor due to a change in state law, but Sequoia Union High School District claims the school doesn’t have enough low-performing students. From the San Mateo Times:
One of the main reasons […]
Archive for May, 2008
Students who’ve left high school without a diploma or GED are enrolling in college, reports the New York Times. Non-graduates make up “2 percent of all college students, 3 percent at community colleges and 4 percent at commercial, or profit-making, colleges, according to a survey by the United States Education Department in 2003-4.”
Hudson Valley […]
Should government-funded preschool be targeted to needy children or provided to all children? Education Sector hosts a debate on the subject.
Meanwhile, Lisa Snell of the Reason Foundation links to a critique of a RAND study.
A Rand Corporation study that claims universal preschool will deliver $2.62 in benefits for every dollar spent by California taxpayers has […]
Merit pay may be gaining traction, observes Edspresso, citing this story on Illinois teachers’ unions surprisingly ho-hum response to Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s proposal to tie teacher pay to student performance.
Leaders with the Illinois Education Association and the Illinois Federation of Teachers — which together represent more than 210,000 educators — say they could support tying […]
Education in Texas hosts the Carnival of Education this week.
Politics favor charter schools, regardless of whether evidence shows higher test scores, writes Kevin Kosar, author of Failing Grades: The Federal Politics of Education Standards, on This Week in Education. Kosar sees the start of a shift in power from the entrenched few to the dissatisfied many. Charter advocates “have tapped into deeply held […]
The Common Room is hosting this week’s Carnival of Homeschooling.
For her master’s degree in education, Newoldschoolteacher had to create a portfolio with a “cohesive theme” that “illustrates our journey” through the year.
I’m thinking “Frustration,” “Disappointment,” or “Seething fury.”
The portfolio is a compilation of class assignments with a peppy theme.
For example, one person did a wedding theme, with her assignments grouped under subthemes […]
The spinster heroine of Jane Austen’s Persuasion becomes a college counselor for status-conscious high school students in an affluent, ambitious suburb in Paula Marantz Cohen’s Jane Austen in Scarsdale. Diane Ravitch recommends the book in Education Next.
How better to investigate and satirize contemporary mores than through the eyes of a high-school guidance counselor who […]
I’m in Ithaca, New York: My fiance’s daughter is graduating from Cornell with a degree in bioengineering. (And she’s looking for a job, preferably in public health, in Boston or the Bay Area or elsewhere.)
Via Truck and Barter, here’s a Gerald Bracey column pointing out that the statistics on the number of U.S., Chinese and […]
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