that schools in the poorest cities in the state of Connecticut have the same quality of teachers in the wealthier cities.

up from the people at the Christian Science Monitor.  This program recruits high school seniors that are from low-income families and helps get them to go to college.  Students in the program have to maintain a 2.0 grade average, do 8 hours of community service and spend 2 hours per week on college admissions.

the report that charter schools do worse than regular public schools based on hierarchical linear modeling.

This is the same report that the Federal Statistics Commissioner Mark S. Schneider did not really want directed because it made judgments on how to interpret school data.

Phi Delta Kappa poll on the American educational system is out.
The poll shows that more people are learning more and more on the NCLB bill.  37% of the people polled says that the NCLB bill has made no difference in the school system at all.

to offer low-cost apartments to new teachers in this rural county.

to pay the College Board 1.2 million a year to encourage the around 150,000 high school sophomores and juniors to take the PSAT/NMSQT exam.