In a small town in New Hampshire, everyone’s talking about the “sex issue” of the high school newspaper.
HAMPTON, N.H. (AP) — Some parents are protesting the “sex” edition of the student newspaper at Winnacunnet High School. Several said they were especially offended by a photograph of two women kissing under the headline, “Why […]
Archive for May, 2008
Today’s my 55th birthday. I’m not feeling great about it. Two days ago, I noticed a black stringy thing floating hither and yon in my field of vision. An opthamologist confirmed it’s a “floater.” Some people get them as they age. There’s no treatment. “You just get used to it,” said the doctor, who appeared […]
Teens from an alternative school for problem students have learned that they can be helpers for even needier kids. The Orange County Register writes:
The kids from Santiago Creek alternative education school want to be needed.
The kids from Project Hope School for homeless children need to be wanted.
Both the big kids and the little kids get […]
Middle College High School, a program that lets students earn high school credits while attending community college, ineffective at boosting graduation rates, concludes What Works Clearinghouse, which found only one study that meets scientific criteria.
Another dropout prevention program, Twelve Together, produced “potentially positive effects” in keeping students in school but not in helping them […]
Colorado’s House Education Committee chairman wrote in an e-mail that there must be a “special place in hell” for charter school supporters. Face the State, a political blog, reprinted the e-mail from Rep. Mike Merrifield, D-El Paso, to Sen. Sue Windels, D-Arvada, chair of the Senate Education Committee.
“There must be a special place […]
Princeton is trying to get professors to deflate grades.
Since Princeton took the lead among Ivy League schools to formally adopt a grade-deflation policy three years ago — limiting A’s to an average 35% across departments — students say the pressure to score the scarcer A has intensified. Students say they now eye competitive […]
The day-care kids are alright, writes Emily Bazelon on Slate. Taking a closer look at the long-term study of day-care effects, she finds more misbehavior only for children who spent more than a few years in child-care centers.
When I reached the study’s author, Margaret Burchinal, yesterday, she asked if she could explain something she […]
Instead of taking over persistently failing schools, Massachusetts will give autonomy. The Boston Globe reports:
Over the next two years, Boston will try to transform English High.
Enrollment at the nation’s oldest public high school will be cut from 1,200 students to 800. The school day will be expanded by about an hour. And the stakes […]
In a gentrifying neighborhood in Seattle, white middle-class parents started to enroll their children in the local K-8 school, which is 75 percent black and primarily low-income. But race and class conflicts have made it hard to integrate Madrona School.
The newer parents helped revive the Parent Teacher Student Association (PTSA), started after-school programs and […]
On The Bleat, James Lileks writes about what’s changed in the media and what hasn’t. From a 1947 book on radio news writing comes a profile of the “average listener.”
“His formal education stopped somewhere between the end of grammar school and the second year of high school.”
The average person – or, more accurately, the […]
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