AND YOUR ENDOWMENT STILL GROWS TAX-FREE?
There are lots more poor students graduating from high school and going to college than ever before. Just not elite colleges. The New York Times reports top colleges educate roughly the same percentage of low-income kids as they did a generation ago. Separately, Vox notes Harvard, Yale, and Princeton are rich enough to let kids attend for free.
ELL TO PAY
Most of the 55,000 unaccompanied children who crossed the border illegally in the past will be enrolling in school in the U.S. “Most will require a number of supports that can be costly,” Education Week reports, “including English-language instruction, as well as counseling and mental-health services.”
DOWN AND OUT IN CALIFORNIA
Thousands of California students never make it to the ninth grade. “With most dropout prevention and recovery efforts centered on the upper grades,” notes the Hechinger Report. “These students slip through the cracks early on and are faced with bleak futures unless they find their own way back.”
CALMING CORE CRITICS
Florida's Republican governor Rick Scott said on Monday that Florida's department of education will ‘investigate’ all standardized testing and look for ways to deregulate selection of instructional materials. The moves are intended to calm critics of Common Core, Reuters reports.
YES, PLEASE, I’D LOVE TO DO A KEG STAND
GrubHub ranks the ten most polite colleges, based on orders including the words "please" or "thank you."
