A push for diversity has backfired at a posh Seattle private school that happens to be the alma master of Bill Gates. Two black teachers who resigned are suing, claiming a “hostile atmosphere” promoted racial discrimination. The Seattle Weekly tells the story:
In 2003, Lakeside created a mission focus that made “diversity and inclusion” one of […]
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Today’s Harvard applicant has stronger credentials than the Harvard alum who’s doing the interviewing, writes Michael Winerip. An alumni Harvard interviewer, he’s done 40 interviews of local applicants over the last 10 years. Only one student was accepted.
Knowing me and seeing them is like witnessing some major evolutionary change take place in just 35 years, […]
Thousands of children who live in Mexico cross the border each day to attend U.S. schools, reports the Houston Chronicle. Their parents think U.S. schools are superior.
In El Paso, the Mexico-to-United-States trek to school is so commonplace that border officials opened a special lane just for students at one of the crossings this month. More […]
Education software does too work — if it’s used, writes Gregg Downey of eSchool News. A federal study that found students who used software didn’t learn more than a control group is “half-baked,” Downey argues.
At one point, the study itself reveals this astonishing fact: “For a typical 180-day school year, average daily […]
A straight-A student in the Chicago suburbs has been charged with “disorderly conduct” for a homework assignment that his teacher found “violently disturbing.” He did not make any threats in the paper, assigned as an exercise in using poetic conventions, nor did he single out anyone or any place as a target for his anger.
The […]
Frustrated by bureaucracy and exhausted by the struggle to control their students, thousands of California teachers quit the classroom, says Cal State’s Teacher Quality Institute. Nearly 22 percent quit in four years or less. At high-poverty schools, 10 percent of teachers leave every year.
… after six years in the trenches — transferred from campus to […]
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YouTube has a funny MadTV parody of movies that show a “Nice White Lady” uplifting inner-city students.
Omaha’s low-income children will have a privately funded safety net that will provide everything from high-quality preschools, mentoring and health services to a guarantee of money for college or technical training. Billionaire Warren Buffett’s daughter Susie and other citizens who became very wealthy by investing in Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway have pledged to fund the comprehensive […]
At a Washington-state high school, the dean of students saw one girl kiss another in the commons area. The kiss had been caught by the security camera. He called in the parents of one of the girls, who’d asked him to tell them if she was behaving in an unusual way. They watched the videotape […]
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