Coshocton, Ohio schools are offering performance pay to students.
The third- through sixth-graders in the study receive $15 for every score of “proficient” on a state exam and $20 for better results — so they can collect $100 if they have high scores in all five subjects. The money comes as gift certificates redeemable at […]
Archive for May, 2008
The Carnival of Education is delighting visitors over at The Median Sib’s place. I liked Mr. Lawrence’s post on literary works you can’t stand. He can’t bear Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Commenters nominated Catcher in the Rye, Kafka, Moby Dick, Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, Hemingway, Wuthering Heights, Proust, Ethan Frome, Billy Budd and even Charles […]
Due to a oddly configured “readability” formula, the popular Accelerated Reader program gives more points to a student for reading a Nancy Drew mystery than reading Shakespeare’s “Macbeth.” If kids really want enough points to earn a pizza party, they’ll read a long, point-rich Tom Clancy novel.
Accelerated Reader provides software that quizzes students […]
Denver schools that enroll charter or out-of-district students will get bonuses, reports the Denver Post. Denver’s district-run public schools have lost more than 8,000 students in the past six years. Popular schools will receive an extra $1,395 for each “new” student on top of regular funding. That’s about a 20 percent increase over normal per-student […]
New York City’s new small high schools are graduating more students and sending them to college, concludes a WestEd report funded by the small-friendly Gates Foundation. WestEd looked at 14 small schools created to replace low-performing high schools. All graduated their first class in 2006. While the citywide graduation rate is 58 percent, the new […]
Connections is the theme of this week’s Carnival of Homeschooling, which is hosted by PalmTree Pundit.
Alternaparents think they’re cool people raising cool kids — not at all like their boring parents — but Globe and Mail columnist Leah MacLaren suggests they grow up. And shut up about their kids.
. . . all this talk of the importance of punk rock and downing tequila shots between play dates is […]
At Arizona State, students who want to be RAs must play a role-playing game that’s supposed to sensitize them to “the effects of racism, classism and homophobia.” Ryan Visconti, a student given the role of a gay Hispanic, objected.
… Visconti said the students who designed the roleplay overlooked their own stereotypes, such as the […]
New Orleans needs teachers. The new post-Katrina charters are attracting young idealists, but the state-run system is having trouble, reports MSNBC.
The school system in New Orleans was in desperate condition even before Hurricane Katrina struck 17 months ago, with crumbling buildings, low test scores and high dropout rates.
After the storm, some of the worst […]
In a Fordham report, Whole-Language High Jinks, reading expert Louisa Moats warns that ineffective whole-language reading programs with names like “balanced literacy” are trying to grab funding intended for programs that have been proven far more effective. New York City, Denver and Salt Lake City have been misled by programs that are whole language in […]
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