in Dallas would like too see teacher in the state not spend too much time in the classroom getting students ready for state exams.

The Houston Chronicle reports on the fourth year of this program to help get kids back into school and graduate. For the 2006-2007 school year they got over 200 dropouts to graduate. The article includes a video.

has added 54 elementary-school technology teachers so that each elementary student can receive 60 minutes of technology instruction a week. Each school in the area has been given 30 MAC laptops.

the amount of students going into the school system leaving around 300 students still with out enough textbooks to use for the school year. The article states they are short 4,400 textbooks.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution interviews this former Teach for America teacher that also was used in a dateline NBC piece.

on state exit exams is out. The report looks at the 22 states that have these exams and 4 more states that are going to have them soon.

Only a few states have End of Course exams which is the only type of exam I will accept. More states are moving towards this type of exam which is a good thing. They get into details on what5 each state uses which is a great thing.

In 2007 65% of high school students had some type of an exit exam, by 2012 the number jumps to 72%.

The states responded that these exams were mostly used to see if students meet state educational standards and were least used to see if they were college ready.