So US News is challenging Newsweek for the right to rank high schools. Jay Matthews had put together one methodology premised solely upon AP/IB exams.
This approach is slightly different as it takes into account standardized test performance for all students.
Great article from the McClatchy folks on No Child Left Behind.
Every American should be forced to watch HBO’s Alive Day once a week until the war comes to an end.
I watched it with a group of high school students and was hard pressed to hold it together enough to process it.
L. and I just finished reading this trilogy together. Wonderful.
Powerful review by a feminist theologian, here.
This article offers a variety of answer to the question of how readers are made.
I like this ruling that forces charter schools to disclose their financial documents. It’s public money and I’m curious about how some of these schools set-up their budgets and the decisions they’re making.
I do wonder if it will take a journalist or an attorney to force schools to actually release this information.
Sad story here, detailing how an old school that served as a free source of texts for Philly teachers has closed.
The real tragedy is that most suburban high schools have closets full of texts and materials Philadelphia teachers would happily use. Textbooks aren’t the only answer — I would have happily traded all my textbooks for a high-speed copy machine with a real service contract — but they’re a start.
AUSTIN, TX—University of Texas professor Thom Windham once again furthered the cause of human inquiry in a class lecture Monday, as he continued his longtime practice of finding connections between things and other things, pointing out these parallels, and then elaborating on them in detail, campus sources reported.
