In the Philadelphia School District will graduate on time says a new report of from Project U-Turn. The report does go into great detail on how they classify who is a drop out which I thought was great.

They even listed 6-year graduation rates which was around 10% bettter than 4-year rates.

in other countries is a new report out by the Center For American Progress.

The report starts out with a bunch of tables and then goes big time in text detail on how they get paid.

Countries include Most of Europe, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.

that only 9% of high school freshman will graduate with a college degree 5 years after they graduate from high school. The nationwide average is 68% says the report.

in the state of Oregon meet highly quailifed teacher stauts says the Oregon Deapartment Of Education.

in the New York City area are staying in preschool one extra year.  One study that looked at this idea showed some mix-baged results.

The program in the middle school grades teaches Mandarin Chinese along with learning about China in theor regular studies.