in the state of Kansas are no meeting NCLB rules due to the increased amount of testing.  58% of high school meet AYP goals this year along with 63.4% of K-8 kids.

has been given to the 4 x4 program in the state of Texas. A final vote is expected on Friday.

This special school helps low income students for college.  They go longer school days, have mandatory Saturday school, and summer school program

are now going to force all coaches to be certified teachers.  The state though fdoes not force this rule.

The American Promiss people have released this interesting report. The report lists five promisses:

1) Caring Adults
2) Safe place and constructive use of time
3) Healthy start and healthy development
4) Effective education for marketable skills and lifelong learning
5) Opportunities to make a difference through helping others
This report says that only 31% recieve enough of these promisses to be confident of success. They looked at 2 sets of age brackets for this report. The report also states that a person needs to recieve 4-5 of these promisses for success.

Students aged 6-11 and aged 12-17 who get 4-5 promisses will have more social competence, more frequent volunteering, more violence avoidance and get mostly A’s in class instead of students who get 0-1 promisses.

They say that high-income families that earn over 100 grand a year are twice as likely to get 4-5 of the promisses than families that earn less than 30 grand. If your parents are college graduates you are more likely to recieve 4-5 of the promisses.

I think this report is a must read that give us a different look at how to fix the educational system.

The report looks at performance among states, urban districts, public and private schools, and student demographic groups in a few cities.  Only the fouth and eighth grade was looked at with sample test questions included.

In the fourth grade seven out of the ten school districts scored as well as or better than students in large central districts.  For eighth graders six out of then school districts did the same thing.

34% of fourth graders and 43% of eighth graders were in the bottom catagory.

The perforamce overall was not good imo.