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Many states set achievement standards so low that they can say their students are reading and doing math at their grade level when they haven't truly mastered the subjects, the Education Department asserted Thursday. The Obama administration said
With help from Washington, the for-profit college industry is loading up millions of low-income students with debt they'll never pay off.
Below is an exchange I recently had with a parent who took exception to a blurb of mine in the Arizona Republic about public education.
A mother in Mississippi has taken her local school district to court after her son was expelled from high school for what the school says was "gang activity" but what the mother say was singing and moving to the beat.
With the economy struggling, parents and students dared to hope this year might offer a break from rising college costs. Instead, they got another sharp increase.
A Delaware first-grader who was facing 45 days in an alternative school as punishment for taking his favorite camping utensil to school can return to class after the school board made a hasty change granting him a reprieve. "If we can't punish him, t
A Delaware first-grader who wanted to eat lunch at school with his favorite camping utensil, a combination of folding fork, knife and spoon, now faces 45 days in reform school. Hundreds of people were expected to attend a school board meeting Tuesday
Obama's Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings wrote that killing someone who called you a name was not aberrant behavior....
A 15-year-old special needs student says a Dolton police officer assigned to his former school slammed him against the lockers, wrestled him to the floor and then pinned him down, breaking his nose, all because he didn't have his shirt tucked in.
Some states are bending the rules that govern the use of the education stimulus dollars,
here is a clip from a PTA / PTO (whatever) meeting at Sand Hill Elementary School in Asheville, NC video:
Students beware: The summer vacation you just enjoyed could be sharply curtailed if President Barack Obama gets his way. The president wants schools to add time to classes, to stay open late and to let kids in on weekends so they have a safe place t
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Opponents of Obama are racists. Critics of ANY liberal policies are racists. In truth, liberals are racists. Anytime you point out some one’s race, skin color, gender, “sexual orientation”, or any other descriptive, you put them in a box with a l
Warning, if you are a parent with children in the TUSD school district, this will make your head explode. Today, Tucson’s school district hit the national scene, unfortunately for all the wrong reasons. Tucson schools create race-based system
The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to hear a case in which a kindergarten student, under an assignment in which parents were invited to read their child's favorite book, was denied permission to share a Bible story and asked to read a book about w
"They arrested them because they were afraid of what they might do in the future, which is a dangerous path for our government to take..."
"I think it's really unfortunate that politics has been brought into this," White House deputy policy director Heather Higginbottom said.
"It's simply a plea to students to really take their learning seriously. Find out what they're good at. Set goals. And take the school year seriously."
She noted that President George H.W. Bush made a similar address to schools in 1991. Like Obama, Bush drew criticism, with Democrats accusing the Republican president of making the event into a campaign commercial.
Three years ago, Los Angeles School Police Officer Ian
Mitchell King walked into a high school ceramics class at University
Senior High School in West L.A. and asked an attractive blonde senior to take a “stroll” with him to his on-campus security
office. There, he told her to sit on his couch and declared, “This is
about us. I’ve taken a personal interest in you.”
But some parents won't be allowed to "opt-out" their kids everywhere. At least one school district, Tempe Elementary School District No. 3 in Arizona, is not permitting parents to pull their children out of class during Obama's speech. "I have directed principals to have students and teachers view the president's message on Tuesday," Superintendent of Schools Dr. Arthur Tate Jr. said in a statement Thursday. "In some cases, where technology will not permit access to the White House Web site, DVDs will be provided to classes on subsequent days. I am not permitting parents to opt out students from viewing the president's message, since this is a purely educational event."
It’s every parent’s absolute nightmare that somebody hijacks the precious minds of their child or grandchild. The ultimate worth of each priceless soul is, in fact – to Christians, Jews and others – even MORE important than their physical lives! My God, what has our country become!? These videos need absolutely no explanation. Just watch and (it’s a timely phrase) SHOW AND TELL everyone you know to watch these – just 13 minutes total!
My latest Floyd parody offering about Obama indoctrination in the government schools... as well as his connection to Ayers and ACORN. www.chimpsyradio.com/cra.html video
Charlotte Iserbyt served as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, during the first Reagan Administration, where she first blew the whistle on a major technology initiative which would control curriculum in America's classrooms. OERI
Dougherty County School Police are investigating a complaint of excessive force against a sixth grade girl arrested for protesting having her picture taken.
Her father shows scratches on 11-year-old Treneashe Graddy's neck and back. She says she was thrown to the ground and arrested at Southside Middle School.
When school officials tried to take her picture for school identification, she refused because her hair was not fixed.
The family of an 8-year-old autistic girl who was arrested at school wants the school district and county to pay more than $500,000 in damages.
Charles and Spring Towry's third-grade daughter, Evelyn, has Asperger's syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder. She was arrested in January on suspicion of battery at Kootenai Elementary School after staffers said she spit on and inappropriately touched two instructors.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the governor should dispatch
state troopers to haul state lawmakers back into session. He wants them
to approve the bill giving him authority over city schools.
The 2002 law giving Bloomberg control of the nation's largest school system expired last month.
The four-year college degree has come to cost too much and prove too little. It's now a bad deal for the average student, family, employer, professor and taxpayer.
A student who secures a degree is increasingly unlikely to make up its cost, despite higher pay, as I'll show. The employer who requires a degree puts faith in a system whose standards, you'll see, are slipping. Too many professors who are bound to degree teaching can't truly profess; they don't proclaim loudly the things they know but instead whisper them to a chosen few, whom they must then accommodate with inflated grades. Worst of all, bright citizens spend their lives not knowing the things they ought to know, because they've been granted liberal-arts degrees for something far short of a liberal-arts educat
No Child Left Behind (NCLB) was going to save American education by imposing an incessant number of standardized tests which have accomplished nothing but to take significant time away from legitimate educational instruction.
No Child Left Behind (NCLB) has been nothing but an unmitigated disaster for our school children.
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