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Karl Priest comments on Liam's recent post: If you thing evolution is "modern science" you need a healthy dose of reality?
Karl Priest comments on Liam's recent post: If you thing evolution is "modern science" you need a healthy dose of reality?
From the Los Angeles Times: "California mandates testing every eighth-grader in algebra--ready or not"
Re Coby's post: It's worth noting that if frat houses throughout the country substitute video game beer pong for the real kind, then it stands to reason that fewer drunken antics will ensue. And why all this beer bashing, anyhow?
Re my post about a national service academy, Jonah Goldberg makes some fine, related points in the Los Angeles Times by arguing against what he calls "national service mania." His piece
That's how this Investor's Business Daily (IBD) article describes Senators Barack Obama and John McCain when it comes to education. While both senators have tried to build an independent image on other issues, on education they are staunch partisans.
Mike writes??that merit pay and charter schools are "anathema to the teachers unions." They're not at all anathema to the Democratic Party, though.
The rigorous-math crowd continues its string of victories in California with this decision to test all eighth graders in algebra.
Yes, Liam, some Democrats like charter schools and merit pay. But the base of the Democratic Party (the teachers unions) doesn't. And most politicians are careful not to alienate their core supporters. (Except on The West Wing.)
Kindergarteners urged to learn key languages WASHINGTON, DC (A.P.) -- Speaking to the National Association of Kindergarten Students (NAKS) today, presidential hopeful Barack Obama called on five-year-olds to embrace change and challenge themselves with languages from around the world. "Si se puede," said Obama. "Si se puede."
Check out the war of words happening at USAToday.com in response to its editorial (and a ridiculous
Chinese students are, overall, far more advanced in mathematics than their American peers. Which is probably why they can create Segway armies.
Great article in today's Wall Street Journal about the Catholic church vs. Catholic school unions.
Eduwonkette introduced her readers to some new blogs yesterday, including one chronicling the day-to-day life of "Mimi" the teacher. I know we've had some contentious back-and-forths about teachers on this site, but I think everyone can find some humor in this story from Mimi's site.
We love charters. They're a great idea. But even great ideas can go wrong, and when I read this great idea gone wrong, I thought it was a joke.
Recently chastened, I offer this less controversial fare:
Nancy Kober, Naomi Chudowsky, Victor ChudowskyCenter on Education PolicyJune 2008
That's the message South Carolina is sending to undocumented students now that it's become the first state in the nation to bar illegal immigrants from attending its public colleges and universities.
Watching the "Capitol Fourth" concert and ensuing fireworks on TV the other evening, four-year-old granddaughter in my arms, I grew as misty, sentimental, and patriotic as I usually do on America's birthday (which happens also be be little Emma's "half-birthday"). The next morning, however, I awoke with my ever-more-frequent sense of foreboding about the nation's future.
Michelle Rhee wants to pay teachers in Washington, D.C., close to $131,000 a year--but there's a catch. To make the big bucks, educators will have to sacrifice job security. The D.C. schools chancellor has proposed to establish two pay tiers, red and green.
By all means spare yourself the burden of reading, as I did this week in the esteemed National Review Online, that criticizing sneaky attempts to undermine evolution in k-12 science class is somehow akin to promoting eugenics.
Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam, referred to always as "young conservatives," have written a much ballyhooed book, Grand New Party, which purports to show Republicans how they can win in November and beyond. The key, say the authors, is to appeal to Sam's Club voters--i.e., working people without college degrees.
Must've been a slow day at the G-8 Summit. The Washington Post reports, on A1, that "Asian American students will outnumber white classmates for the first time" at Thomas Jefferson High School (colloquially known as T.J.) in Fairfax County, Virginia. Some fret that the highly selective school, which garnered the top spot in U.S.
Here's more on TJ, i.e, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, in Fairfax County, Virginia.
AP reports that he'll do it next week when he speaks at the NAACP convention. Update: More from Campaign K-12.
"Gambling addict gets 18 months for embezzling schools" It started with small stuff, like overhead projectors. But when she bet the library in a game of high-stakes hold???em, the clinic on red, and the playground on Federer, and lost them all, administrators suspected something was amiss.
Yesterday, he who is the Democrat presumed nominated, Barack Obama, said this: You know, I don't understand when people are going around worrying about, "We need to have English-only." They want to pass a law, "We want English-only."