are going to be going to the Technology, Engineering, and Math-Science Academy in the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.  Students in this academy will discover practical uses for probability and statistics.

in a new report that college students are having a major decline in civic literacy.  The report looked at 50 colleges and ranked them all.

have up a National Press Club interview that she did yesterday mainly talking about the report that came out on the college educational system.

popular, but they are also unproven says this new Education Week Article.

The state of Virgina did a pilot program in Caroline County and the city of Franklin to give out extra money to the new teaachers.  One middle school and one high school in each city. In the 2004-05 school year only the high schools saw improvement.   In the last school year both types of schools saw improvement based on preliminary data.

on prgrams such as the Carolina Covenant that allows students who live in families with low incomes to go to college for a very low or no cost.

are not meeting the Annual Yearly Progress standards in the NCLB bill.  31 schools this year meet standards while 42 met standards a year ago.