Florida State is cutting the academic fat to focus its resources on athletics, reports The Onion.
SARASOTA, FL—Bowing to pressure from alumni, students, and a majority of teaching professors of Florida State University, athletic director Dave Hart Jr. announced yesterday that FSU would completely phase out all academic operations by the end of the 2010 […]
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This Week in Education will be an Education Week blog in 2007. Alexander Russo says access will remain free.
Education is bunk, argues John Derbyshire in New English Review. Kids aren’t that malleable, he argues. The children of uneducated parents will not learn much in school; if they do, it’s because the teachers are “saints and masochists,” who are in short supply.
Genes? What are you, some kind of Klansman or Nazi? […]
What’s 1/3 + 1/4? Asked by a radio host, the president of the New York City teachers’ union said she couldn’t answer without a pencil and a piece of paper. Another guest, Marc Tucker of the National Center on Education and the Economy, supplied the correct answer, seven twelfths.
According to New York State standards, adding […]
The Carnival of Homeschooling will celebrate its anniversary next Tuesday. Send your submission to CarnivalOfHomeschooling@gmail.com by 6 PM (PST) on Monday; earlier is even better. Include title and URL of the post, name and URL of the blog and a brief summary of your post. Why Homeschool is the host.
In New York, school officials can exempt children from immigrant families from testing for five years, allegedly to protect them from the embarassment of doing poorly on an English test. The exemption also protects school districts from the embarassment of admitting that many of their students can’t read proficiently, observes the New York Times. Students […]
In Iron Science Teacher competitions, blowing things up is always a hit, reports Teacher Magazine. For nine years, the Exploratorium in San Francisco has produced the live competition modeled after Iron Chef. Science teachers attending the Exploratorium’s summer training program compete to produce the best 10-minute classroom science activity.
The show, which is Webcast live four […]
In response to USA Today’s top education stories of the year, Eduwonk argues the real story is NCLB’s survival, despite lawsuits and state threats to defy the law.
Dogs that don’t bark don’t make news but the press falls all over themselves to write stories every time the National Education Association files another frivolous suit […]
“Seat-time credit” remains common practice in New York City high schools, reports the New York Sun. Students who fail their schoolwork and tests can earn credit for the course if they have good attendance and complete a project assigned by their teacher.
Some teachers are criticizing the policy as veiled social promotion that allows schools […]
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