slowly due to a crack down on grade inflation. The average GPA is now down to a 2.94 from a 2.99 GPA in 2004.

are seeing the teacher shortage easing says the Times-Picayune. They have less than 100 vacancies now.

The New York Times reports on this New Jersey school that is now forcing freshman to select a major so they will have a specialized diploma when they graduate.

This is a nice idea, but if they do not wind up with a 2-year college degree or certificates of complete completion from a vocational major like plumbing when they graduate from high school all you are doing is given them crap.

would like to see the DARE program that goes into the schools be cut out of the budget to offset declining state tax revenues.

is going to give 6 million bucks to the college to help fund a scholarship for students that first in their families to go to college. The article this is one of the rare college sport teams that turns a profit.

The new exam replacing the MEAP exam shows that only 47% of high school juniors passed the math part of the exam, 60% passed reading, 83% passed social studies, 56% passed science, and only 40% could passed writing.