The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports on this program that teachers in the Aurora district are going to.

reports on Margaret Spellings and her push behind the NCLB bill.

face action due to not meeting AYP goals says the Boston Globe.

is out. The report is on what parents and students in Kansas and Missouri feel about math and science teaching in the school system.

57% of parents say that we are far behind in teaching math and science. 65% of parents strongly agree that students with good math and science skills have good future prospects. 70% of parents feel they are doing a good preparing students for the future. Parents say that math is more important than science for getting into college.

65% of white students feel the science teacher knows a lot about the subject, while only 50% of blacks do. 68% of white students feels the science math knows a lot about the subject, while only 56% of blacks do. 63% of students say they need to know high level math skills. 72% of students say high level science should not be required of students.

The report includes a lot more data than what I reported.

on alternative certification for teachers is out.

The report says that 47 states have an alternative route to get teachers into the classroom.

The report does not list every single alternative program that was used for this report, only a couple did get talked about by name only.

They looked at basic information such as how many people get selected into the program, how much the program costs a student, how much coursework you have to do, etc… and put data into groups.

The report even stated what they wanted in a genuine alternative teacher certification program. They want a GPA above 2.75. I am not sure if that is too high a GPA to start. They want a major in the subject to be in the program. I can agree to that, but would like to see a major study if people with only a minor or two-year degree can hack it in the classroom. They want coursework requirement kept to a minimum and I fully agree with them. They want mentors for the teachers. I feel that then school district must provide them for any new teacher in a school district.

In the report was not to happy about these programs

has come out with a new report saying that freshman college students that bring a video game machine with them on average study 40 minutes less per week and have a GPA that is 0.241 points lower on a 4,0 scale.