Perhaps no research finding has influenced education policy more, or been subject to greater misinterpretation, than our ranking on international mathematics and science tests. Previous critiques of international comparisons have focused largely on flaws in sampling and the limitations of test ... Read more...
More than three-quarters of Illinois high school graduates aren't completely ready for college, based on their ACT scores, state results of the college-admission test released Wednesday show. Only 23 percent of Illinois' 2011 high school graduating class - public and private - met college readine... Read more...
009 American science fiction film directed by Alex Proyas and starring Nicolas Cage. The project was originally attached to a number of directors under Columbia Pictures, but it was placed in turnaround and eventually picked up by Escape Artists. Production was financially backed by Summit Enter... Read more...
The Cornell computer science department hooked up two artificial intelligence "chatbots" and recorded their conversation: .....WOW Read more...
The number of high-school graduates who took the ACT and met all four of its college-readiness benchmarks has risen for the third year in a row, with the ACT also testing its largest class ever this year. Twenty-five percent of the class of 2011 met the ACT College Readiness Benchmarks in... Read more...
When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr., creator of Sherlock Holmes If it's important to you to believe that Western society is structured such that "good" always triumphs - at least in 'big' matters, that Kojak always... Read more...
When Shawn Dove was in sixth grade, the students at his New York City school were asked to decide which academic track they wanted to follow for the next two years. He decided to choose "major gym," just like the rest of his friends. But when he brought the form home to his single mother and... Read more...
By Sangim Han and Rose Kim Chung Eunjung, a mother of two sons in Seoul, says South Korea's plan to give children extra playtime by ending Saturday classes means only one thing: more private tutoring. On June 14, President Lee Myung Bak's government announced it would recomm... Read more...