in a new report out that students have a tough time fininshing homework.  500 parents and 200 middle school children were used in this report.

40% of parents surveyed said the students get too much homework and 25% of parents surveyed they could not help thier kids out because the assignment was too hard.

that are not meeting NCLB rules have gone up this year.  18% of schools are not meeting standards, 13% missed in the 2004-2005 school year.
They also have a companion article up as well. The article states that the U-PASS system they use is much better than the rules in the NCLB bill.  Schools that are proficient under the U-PASS is down 11% though, but they increased standards since so few schools missed proficiency standards.

has a report up on tutoring of students to get them into kindergarten.  The LA Times recently had one up as well.

and College Educators have launched a campaign to make sure that social studies classes get more attention.  The NCLB will be getting a big look at next year.  They group says that social studies class is getting the short shrift for classes such as math and reading.

is now going to teach Chinese and Japanese language classes with a 900,000 buck grant they are going to get from the Department of Education.

of Michigan has found graduation rate errors in 10 schools from the years 2002-2004.