The promise of college tuition for local high school graduates has helped Kalmazoo, Michigan attract new homeowners and employers, reports the Wall Street Journal. Philanthropists agreed to fund the Promise in 2005.
It covers 65% of tuition costs at public colleges and universities in Michigan for students who spend at least their high school years [...]
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No Child Left Behind’s critics call it an “unfunded mandate,” notes Jay Greene. But what did schools think they were supposed to be doing pre-NCLB? Surely, they were trying to teach reading and math all along, he points out.
Let’s leave aside the fact that federal spending on education has increased 41% since passage of [...]
Americans’ commitment to education, hard work and economic freedom — rooted in “a ferocious belief that people have the power to transform their own lives” — made the U.S. the world’s economic superpower, writes David Brooks in the New York Times.
Starting in 1870, more Americans spent more years in school, far outpacing our [...]
Don’t ignore the mostly good news on education, writes Karin Chenoweth, author of It’s Being Done: Academic Success in Unexpected Schools, on Britannica Blog. High-performing student are “making steady gains” and low performers are “improving even faster in math and early reading.”
She cites a new analysis of National Assessment of Educational Progress [...]
Paying attention is a lost art in our noisy, jumbled, hyperactive age, writes Maggie Jackson on Pajamas Media. We’ve forgotten how to single task.
It’s no surprise more children are diagnosed with attention deficit disorders. But can kids learn to focus?
Inspired by skills training of monkeys, Michael Posner and Mary Rothbart at the University of [...]
The Carnival of Education is in full swing at The Chancellor’s New Clothes.
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The Onion’s crack pollsters ask Americans what they think of a new study finding that Girls=Boys in Math scores.
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Texas’ schools aren’t educating middle and high school students who lack English proficiency, according to U.S. District Judge William Wayne Justice. He ordered the state to change the current secondary-school program. Currently, schools offer bilingual classes through sixth grade; students who remain English Learners and new immigrants then take classes in English as a Second [...]
Consent of the Governed is hosting the Boy Scout edition of the Carnival Of Homeschooling.
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Teaching about climate change won’t be mandatory in California. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill that would have required climate change be taught in schools and included in science textbooks. The governor said the state shouldn’t dictate the specifics of what’s taught.
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