that Oak Park schools are going to now offer all-day kindergarten in the fall.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports on this state crated program that will allow high school seniors who meet certain requirements the right to earn college credit while still going to high school.

schools moving over to all day kindergarten.

in high school. It is another report looking at just students from California.

The report says that students with higher social economic status were more likely to have civic orientated classes. White students were more likely to have civic orientated classes than African-Americans.

on what students do not even know now. Some of the questions asked in the report was when the Civil War started, what was Brown vrs. Board Of Education, and were Plato and Aristotle were Greek philosophers.

The students got the history questions more right than the literature questions.

out showcasing what the state should do to curb dropout rates.

They say over the lifetime of all 20 year old dropouts in California from the year 2005 it will costs the state 46.4 billion bucks in revenue.

They recommend collecting and reporting more useful data which I agree with. I also agree with them on re-examining high school graduation requirements. They include others as well.