going to ease into a new grading system where students will receive 1’s, 2’s , and 3’s instead of A’s, B’s, and C’s for the k-5 grades.

In the article they use a simple example where one student under the old system gets a D grade average for scores of 0,90,90,90 for four exams.  Under the new grading system the student would receive a 3 or a 4 score which is high grade for meeting expectations.

I am going to say NO,NO,NO to this.

students in this class are around five years old, but are not fully ready for the regular kindergarten pace.  Their is only a bit of writing in this class by the end of the school year.

says that higher education is her next challenge.  She wants to know why the costs keep going up each year.

The Washington Post reports that some students are finding that their is not enough seats in the testing center and last minute cancellations on exams.

on students that skip school in the area.  The article states that students that have skipped school has gone up big tim since 1999.

have a video interview up with Jay Green who wrote the book “Education Myths: What Special-Interest Groups Want You to Believe About Our Schools and Why it Isn’t So”