Education News Nuggets
There is no need for high school seniors to despair, for while tough economic times make fewer traditional scholarship dollars available, there are some new unconventional scholarship opportunities popping up: via
There is no need for high school seniors to despair, for while tough economic times make fewer traditional scholarship dollars available, there are some new unconventional scholarship opportunities popping up: via
Over the past decade, digital learning at the K-12 level has exploded?from a national enrollment of?40,000-50,000 in 2000 to an estimated 3 million in 2010. And this trend line is sure to get steeper, way steeper, in coming years.
?And we must all accept that [school] choice is part of securing the civil right of high-quality education.? * RiShawn Biddle, Editor, Dropout Nation
Fordham's Chester Finn will be speaking today at a Hudson Institute event, entitled, The 112th Congress and
Writing earlier this week in the Wall Street Journal, my friend and long-time former co-author, Diane Ravitch, challenged resurgent Congressional Republicans to return K-12 education to ?local control?
Who, after all, can resist that sunshine and all those casual, wavy palm trees? Not Michelle Rhee, it seems.
Another YouTube video making the rounds shows a furious fistfight between two Florida middle schoolers ? taken, of course, by a fellow student with cellphone.
While Michelle Obama was celebrating the House vote on the $4.5 billion school lunch bill yesterday, I was having a power lunch with a couple of 3rd graders at my local intermediate school.