One nation, undereducated about itself

In E Pluribus Unum, the Bradley Foundation questions whether Americans are learning about the ideas that hold us together as a nation. While most U.S. citizens told a Harris poll that there is a...

F is a Georgia pass

Georgia’s high-stakes tests for third, fifth and eighth graders are aren’t really high stakes, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The law says students will be retained if they...

Rich and rejected in Manhattan

Not a single student at Dalton, an elite Manhattan private school, was accepted at Harvard this year. For $31,200 in tuition a year, parents are peeved, reports the New York Post. Marymount, a...

Swingers

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Carnivals!

The Carnival of Education is in full swing at An Aspiring Educator’s Blog. Independence Day is the theme of this week’s Carnival of Homeschooling, hosted by Beverly.

Failure: B or D?

Last night, I edited op-ed columns by high school students participating in Mosaic, a summer journalism workshop at San Jose State run by an old friend and former colleague of mine. In one column, a...

Iowa may limit ‘timeouts’ in school

Iowa legislators may limit use of “timeout rooms” in schools, in response to a couple’s complaint “that their 8-year-old daughter was alone in timeout for more than three...

Are you smarter than an Indian 10th grader?

Are you smarter than an Indian 10th grader? Two Million Minutes has created the Third World Challenge, a shortened and simplified version of the test 10th graders in India must pass to gain...

Obscenely stupid

British students can get points for writing obscenities on their state English exams, reports The Spectator. One pupil who wrote ‘f*** off’ was given marks for accurate spelling and conveying a...

Farmworkers’ kids go to college

Eight years ago, Granger High in Washington’s Yakima Valley was a typical high-poverty, low-performing school, writes Karin Chenoweth of Education Trust in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Only...