coming into the Denver area and up to 50 teachers from the program could be teaching in that area by the start of next year.  People in this program must teach in a school district for at least 2-years.  The article says they have 4,400 members.

says Commissioner Daniel Whelan at the School Reform Commission meeting held yesterday.  The says that around 6% of the around 11,000 teachers in the Philadelphia School District are not in school each day.

want high school students to face tougher graduation standards. Students in the state can select between college-prep, college tech-prep and career-prep programs.  The Education leaders want to drop the career-prep program.

The new standard wants students to take a foregin language and tougher math courses.

has passed rules saying the ACT exam is going to be taken by all 11th graders in the state.

all want to use one standard for admitting students into college.  Students would need to score over 250 points on an admission index to get automatic entrance into the University of Iowa, Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa starting in 2009.

The River Woods Elementary School uses this program uses peers to help students to learn math and other subjects they are having problems with.