"Forty-six states and the District of Columbia today will announce an effort to craft a single vision for what children should learn each year from kindergarten through high school graduation, an unprecedented step toward a uniform definition of success in American schools," as reported in the Post. A tad bit more of the article... "The push ...
By Rucks Russell HOUSTON -- “He said he’d give me a hundred balloon bucks if I pretended to be somebody else,” said Vecino Rogers, a 9-year-old fourth grade student at Alexander Elementary School. “I knew it sounded funny, but I wanted the money.” Read more here
As "reported" in the NYTimes, "The soaring dropout rate is causing the United States to lose ground educationally to rivals abroad and is trapping millions of young Americans at the very margins of the economy. The Obama administration acknowledges the problem in its new budget, which includes a $50 million dropout prevention program, but ...
From the Christian Science Monitor, an article worth reading by Stacy Teicher Khadaroo. "About 30 million people – 14 percent of the US population 16 and older – have trouble with basic reading and writing. Correlating factors that were explored in a new government report include poverty, ethnicity, native language background, and disabilities.... Of these ...
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