Old science test stumps ‘A’ students

Top science students in Britain failed a science test using questions from 1965 to 2005 exams. The Royal Society of Chemistry devised the two-hour exam. The oldest questions were the hardest:...

Redux

From last year: My ex-students are on strike. The following general scenario is one of the most common during office hours: “What can I do for extra credit?”“Other than the online...

Surprise! Whining Students!

Hat tip to Darren for pointing to these whiners. The Irwin Academic Services Center helps only about 550 of the school’s 37,000 students. And places like this in schools across the country...

Fired for Facebook

A kindergarten teacher may be fired for a Facebook comment that she was “teaching in the most ghetto school in Charlotte.”Charlotte Superintendent Peter Gorman recommended she be...

Newcomers get Thanksgiving

At Newcomers High, a New York City school for recently arrived immigrants, students understand Thanksgiving, writes Melanie Kirkpatrick in the Wall Street Journal.History teacher Tim Becker...