Education news nuggets
Low on cash for the holidays? You can always save by eating cheese sandwiches.
Low on cash for the holidays? You can always save by eating cheese sandwiches.
?Attracting good talent is a challenge in the best of circumstances. And this is not the best of circumstances.'' [In reference to Atlanta schools] * Mike Casserly, Executive Director of the Council of the Great City Schools
At Commentary's blog, Contentions, Peter Wehner directs readers to a new study (from the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for American Values) that is, according to Wehner, ?both somewhat encouraging and quite ala
?Kids know effective teaching when they experience it.? So says Harvard's Ronald Ferguson, a researcher who designed questionnaires that were given to thousands of students across the nation and which asked those students to evaluate their teachers.
Americans may overwhelmingly believe that education is vitally important to the nation's economic success. But that doesn't mean they're willing to keep footing the bill for it.