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Today is not Presidents' Day. The holiday's official title is George Washington's Birthday. It is a day for celebrating the Father of our Country, whose greatness is often forgotten. Few Americans know that George Washington never received more than ...
2010-02-15 07:51:00
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Did Atlanta Public Schools ever look to see whether students and classes with sudden, unexpected score surges on state exams maintained those levels of proficiency the next year or when they moved on to high school? These questions are critical after ...
2010-02-15 08:05:00
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Greg Mankiw provides an answer in yesterday’s NYTimes, and suggests the Obama Administration comes up short of its advertised goal: From 2005 to 2007, before the recession and financial crisis, the federal government ran budget deficits, but they ...
2010-02-15 07:30:00
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It is obvious that crime is not the biggest threat to public safety in Ingham County. The biggest threat to the public is the county commissioners who support cutting the county police force and shrinking the jail. Shrink the jail? No. Shrink the ...
2010-02-15 07:23:00
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The Quantile Framework is a scientific approach to measuring a student's ability to think "mathematically" about a variety of skills, concepts, and applications. Quantile measures enable educators to monitor a student's development in math, target ...
2010-02-15 08:27:00
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The Linden-McKinley middle and high school will have received $38 million in improvements when it reopens in two years. But it's going to take more than a revamped school for the students to thrive in this North Side community when they return, some ...
2010-02-15 04:24:00
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APTOS -- During the first day of classes at Cabrillo College last Monday, Sasha Novikov, 22, watched as a student on the waiting list for her Spanish class offered to give $100 to any registered student in exchange for their spot. A few minutes ...
2010-02-15 03:26:00
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What can we learn about Tennessee students from the Advanced Placement report released last week by the College Board? Quite a bit, actually. The study, online at www.collegeboard.com/html/aprtn/index.html , is a snapshot of the state's 2009 ...
2010-02-15 02:15:00
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Last month I wrote about an initiative petition being pushed by the Oklahoma Education Association to require state funding for public schools at a rate no lower than the average funding per-child of our surrounding states. Arkansas' Constitution ...
2010-02-15 02:22:00
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But nowadays, there's another way to participate in science projects where yes, you miss out on the fun of cataloguing birds and collecting rainfall, but you put to advantage all that processing capacity in your laptop that you aren't using ...
2010-02-15 02:15:00
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BOCES student Tim Rustin, 19, stirs his broccoli and cheese soup in Paul Cerone’s culinary class. (ERICA MILLER/The Saratogian) SARATOGA SPRINGS — Trades and technical careers offer a rewarding alternative to higher education, and BOCES has the ...
2010-02-15 04:09:00
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Two teenagers kicked out of school for fighting claim the Beaufort County schools denied them their right to an education because it offered them no help keeping up with their classes while they were suspended for months. The case has attracted ...
2010-02-15 04:16:00
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Company Wins Four Awards and six Honorable Mentions in eProduct Category and Books in Social Sciences, Economics and Mathematics Elsevier, the leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced ...
2010-02-15 04:16:00
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