Archive for January, 2010
So it’s not about reputation or prestige afterall
At Princeton University, Grumbling About Grade Deflation – NYTimes.com “There are tons of really great schools with really smart kids applying for the same jobs,” said Jacob Loewenstein, a junior from Lawrence, N.Y., who is majoring in German. “People intuitively take a G.P.A. to be a representation of your academic ability and act accordingly. The [...]
The problem of viewing everything through partisan glasses
EducationNews.org – A Leading Global News Source – Texas high-schoolers to learn about conservative, but not liberal, groups under new standards Board member Don McLeroy, R-College Station, offered the amendment requiring coverage of “key organizations and individuals of the conservative resurgence of the 1980s and 1990s.” McLeroy said he offered the proposal because the history [...]
So our board members are products of our school system?
Textbook vote boots Henry, Sandra Cisneros Board Republicans also removed United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta for proposed inclusion in third-grade textbooks as an example of someone who exemplified good citizenship. Huerta is considered a civil-rights leader but Republican board members objected to her because of her past membership in the Democratic Socialists of America [...]
Tell me this isn’t just politics
Texas refuses federal school funds But Perry said Texas “reserves the right to decide how we educate our children and not surrender that control to the federal bureaucracy.” Perry’s objections seem to center on the fact that the grant rules give preference to states that sign on to a push for national curriculum standards. Perry [...]
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