The Role of Advanced Placement and Honors Courses in College Admissions
Saul Geiser and Veronica Santelices, Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California at Berkeley2004
Saul Geiser and Veronica Santelices, Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California at Berkeley2004
A year ago, responding to an outrageous piece by People for the American Way (as they pretentiously and falsely style themselves), I wrote in this space that a little "pork" in federal appropriations wasn't such a bad thing (see here). These Congressionally-earmarked projects, I argued,
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Cheri Pierson Yecke, Center of the American ExperimentFebruary 2005
This is no April Fools item. Teachers in America's leftist heartland, Berkeley, California, have announced that they will not assign their students written homework until they receive a pay raise. The local teachers' union initiated the strike and is requiring teachers not to "volunteer" outside of their contracted hours.
Like going steady in elementary school, everybody's talking about it, but nobody's actually doing it. We mean, of course, mounting a major challenge to NCLB.
Don't cancel your subscription to the New York Times just yet. Education reformers (and people of contrarian spirit everywhere) should be pleased with the announcement that reporter and columnist John Tierney is taking over William Safire's patch of the most-watched journalistic real estate in the world: the Times op-ed page.
The latest California Field Poll shows that, while many of Governor Schwarzenegger's reform proposals - the Govern-ator has dubbed this the "Year of Reform" in the Golden State - garner only lukewarm support, his idea of teacher merit pay (see here) is a genuine hit.
With legislatures across the country in full swing, school-choice proposals - both vouchers and tuition tax credits - are being debated all over. Parents rallied on the State House steps in South Carolina in support of Governor Mark Sanford's tax credit for home school and private school students. As Sanford said, "This is simply about recognizing that competition has made every product . . .