Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
School officials are alarmed at the number of young students gulping down caffeinated energy drinks. Teachers in several schools complained that students were nervous and jumpy, during class. The number of fights have also increased.
In April, Hillsborough Middle School in central New Jersey became one of the first schools to ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Gonzales High School is taking extreme measures to enforce the dress code. Any student found to be in violation of the dress code will be forced to wear blue "prison" jumpsuits for a whole day. The Texas school district's leaders say this ridiculous experiment is "worth a try" to maintain ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Scandal is swirling around a Spokane, Washington diploma mill that is responsible for selling over 9,000 fake high school and college diplomas to U.S. immigrants and citizens.
The U.S. Justice Department says that many of the individuals who have purchased the fake diplomas work for the government, educational institutions and the ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
Those are some dirty words in education. Teaching to the test, what does it mean? The only definition I could find online was: “Teaching to the Test”: This phrase refers to the possibility that with the emphasis on test scores, teachers would focus their instruction on the test only. The ...
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Sunday, July 27th, 2008
Late Friday, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill that would have required climate change to be added to future science textbooks. The Republican Governor concluded that Sacramento should not impose educational mandates.
He said, "I continue to believe that the state should refrain from being overly prescriptive in specific school curriculum, ...
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Sunday, July 27th, 2008
A recent study published in the Journal Science found that boys are not better than girls in math. The report gathered the results of 7.2 million math test administered between 2005 and 2007. The scores were gathered from ten states.
The report focused on students in grades two through eleven. Janet ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
The United States of America has more than 18,000 public high schools. The US News ranks schools on how they prepare their students for college. The algorithm for determining the rankings uses K-12 data research analysis and School Evaluation Services.
Ultimately, the schools are evaluated by student's performance on state ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has brought out the big guns to push through California's overdue state budget. He is threatening to a sign an executive order that would pay thousands of state employees, health care workers, teachers and other service workers, the federal minimum wage of $6.55 an hour ($1.45 less ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Raising fuel costs have forced some rural U.S. schools to ponder a move to a four-day week. The National School Boards Association fears for rural school districts, where buses travel several miles round-trip each day.
More than a hundred schools in Kentucky, New Mexico and Minnesota have already adopted the four ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
I suppose Ms. Van Patton probably isn’t really a teen anymore. I would also guess that some would argue about her success. (Too many people define success in terms of money and or power) Being the old, bald, curmudgeon that I am though, I choose to say that any person ...
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