| Pricey summer camps now hire parent liasons to cope with the demands of anxious parents who can’t let go for a few weeks. From the New York Times:
The liaisons are emblematic of what sleep-away... | |
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| Integrating schools by economic and social class raises achievement, argues a New York Times Magazine story, which looks at “the new integration” in Wake County (Raleigh), North Carolina... | |
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| Some 19,000 Washington, D.C. youths are learning that work means getting paid for showing up for summer classes — except you might get paid even if you don’t show up and you might not get... | |
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| Fight videos — often showing a group of teens beating a victim — are being posted online at YouTube and MySpace. It’s a hideous fad. From the Christian Science Monitor:
The hundreds... | |
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| Girls have caught up with boys in math scores, conclude a team of Wisconsin and Berkeley researchers in an article in the July 25 issue of Science. Girls now are as likely as boys to take high-level... | |
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| A nine-year-old New Zealand girl asked a family court judge to let her choose a new name to replace Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii, her parents’ choice. He made her a ward of the court to... | |
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| The Carnival of Education is up at The Ed Wonks’ place.
Assistant Principal Q6 of Assistive Principles wonders why technology hasn’t improved education. | |
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| Jay Greene, a fan of macaroni art, wonders why school can’t be more like summer camp, which his kids find enjoyable and often educational.
Forget it, responds Rory, a parent of five, at... | |
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| Locke High School, a disorderly, low-performing Los Angeles school, has reopened as a Green Dot charter school. LA Times columnist Steve Lopez reports on uniformed students tucking in their shirts... | |
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| California legislators want to encourage schools to reward middle and high school students for achievement or improvement on standardized tests. The bill ban cash incentives — and provides no... | |
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