Pennsylvania is one step closer to finding out just how much teacher cheating occurred on its 2009 standardized tests as cities nationwide try to make sense of the phenomenon. On Monday, the state reported that it had received 83 percent of districts' internal probes into schools suspected of cheat... 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...
An overlooked corner of the dropout problem became more visible Thursday when state officials for the first time released the dropout rate for eighth-graders. Statewide, about 3.5% of eighth-graders - 17,257 in all - left school and didn't return for ninth grade, according to the state co... Read more...
Sudden Infant Death Syndome (SIDS) is the leading cause of death of babies aged one-month to one-year-old. And no one knows exactly what causes it. But two Israeli students from Ben Gurion University have an automated prevention system that eradicates it. The system detects bodily changes known t... Read more...
A 'Grand Bargain'--for Surrender [col. writ. 8/6/11] '11 Mumia Abu-Jamal The recent debt-ceiling kerfuffle, which was 'resolved' at the 11th hour amidst political and economic chaos, was less a deal than a defeat. For deals are made when both sides succeed in getting what they want wit... Read more...
Andrew Theodorakis/News - Frank Borzellieri, who tried to ban "anti-American" books and fire an openly-gay teacher as a Queens school board member, is the new principal of a Bronx Catholic school. A firebrand educator with ties to a white supremacist group is running a Bronx Catholic school w... Read more...
Ever since the Democrats established the legality of mandatory minimums and three-strike laws under the leadership of the late Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, African Americans have literally had the book thrown at them and the key thrown away. Regardless of circumstances, as convicted felons they a... 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...
Being the principal of a "community school" means Kimberly A. Johnson doesn't have to go it alone in addressing some of the social or health problems that distract children from doing well in school. Within just a couple of days last month, a nearby Wal-Mart store agreed to a request from one o... Read more...