Accountability
Graduation Rates for Four Year Schools
Notice anything about the following sentence? Graduation Rates Over Time: Private Research Institutions – Students – The Chronicle of Higher Education We compare here the graduation rates at four-year colleges for the six years ending in 2008 with the rates for the six years ending in 2003. This is showing the six year graduation rate [...]
More evidence of the failures of our education system
9/11 Responders blame the Democrats for not getting their health bill passed. The Washington Monthly The assumption is based on an idea — Congress operates by majority rule — that should be true but isn’t. For much of the country, procedures like “filibusters,” “secret holds,” and “cloture votes” are completely foreign. Indeed, it’s very likely [...]
Interesting discussion on the value of Teach for America
The Answer Sheet – Valerie vs. Jay on Teach for America, KIPP, etc. Valerie vs. Jay on Teach for America, KIPP, etc. Ultimately, I think I have to side with Jay Mathews on this one. I think Valerie Strauss misses the point. Teach for America isn’t saying that you need “elites” in public schools to [...]
Clearly thinking is not a requirement for school management
Suit: Pa. school spied on students via laptops – Yahoo! News A federal lawsuit accuses a suburban Philadelphia school district of spying on students at home through school-issued laptop webcams. I’m trying to envision this. How did it happen that the school issued laptops, someone put software on them that allowed the school to access [...]
But no guarantees about course availability
Possible 5-year limit to get UT bachelor’s degree | AP Texas News | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle A task force on Tuesday recommended requiring students at the University of Texas to complete their bachelor’s degrees in 10 semesters or five years So do you think that means that the university will start reporting it’s four [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Do you think he’ll write a book on successful management techniques?
Texas Tech head coach suspended The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reported that Leach locked sophomore receiver Adam James in a closet because he thought the player was faking a concussion. I’m really having problems envisioning the scene. Not the getting the kid into the closet part but what the other adults at the scene were doing. Did [...]
Because most people can still master the material even if they don’t under a third of it…
Kerrville Daily Times Kerrville Independent School District officially supports the six plaintiff districts in claiming that commissioner Robert Scott is overreaching in his interpretation of a recently enacted law against minimum grades. Minimum grading policies are the practice of giving failing students at least 50 percent on report cards regardless of whether a student’s cumulative [...]
Now why are people worried about homeschoolers?
Recently, there’s been another article on the need to regulate homeschoolers. As best as most homeschoolers can figure out, it’s because we don’t think like everyone else and are passing that trait on to our children. See, it’s not about preventing harm, it’s about control and we all know how well that turns out education [...]