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Archive for May, 2007

Newsweek Admits An Error….

May 25, 2007 By: richard.ginn Category: Uncategorized

in the high school ranking list. McKinney North High School somehow got listed twice in the list.

The Governor Of Nebraska….

May 25, 2007 By: richard.ginn Category: Uncategorized

signs a bill repealing the planned breakup of Omaha school district along racial boundaries.

Good going for the Gov.

Parents In Cleveland Ohio….

May 25, 2007 By: richard.ginn Category: Uncategorized

are not so happy about a plan announced in February that would create some single-sex only schools.

Laurel Moore Article….

May 24, 2007 By: richard.ginn Category: Texbooks, Uncategorized

A fifth grade teacher is concerned that too many important people have been left out of the history textbook “History Alive! America’s Past” that is going to be used next year. People like Patrick Henry and Harriet Beecher Stowe missing. “Give me liberty or give me death” and the Trail of Tears is also missing.

Bert Bower who produced the book says that the missing is available through websites.

I am going to have to side with the teacher on this one. I do not want to see compromised textbooks, but I also do not want to see a teacher use 100% of a textbook and nothing else.

Leigh Abts Article….

May 24, 2007 By: richard.ginn Category: Uncategorized

The Washington Post reports on this research professor at the University of Maryland, College Park who wants to get an AP engineering class in all the schools.

95% Of The Consent Forms….

May 24, 2007 By: richard.ginn Category: Uncategorized

saying weather they want year-round schooling or not have been turned in say school officials. Around 1,000 to 1,200 still have turned in a form yet. Over 90% still want to be in a year-round school.