The Buffalo News reports on this school and ESL students. The article says that the school district has 115 students from 18 different countries speaking a grand total of 19 separate languages.

the AP looks at this NYC program that has around 20,000 NYC kids in it. The program targets childhood obesity.

The Baltimore Sun has a great article on this teacher who teaches high school science classes.

comes out defending higher math and science students for students saying they are needed to better compete in the global business world.

away with letter grades in the elementary grade levels in order to stop grade inflation. They are going to go with a 1-5 number system. A 1 score being the lowest with five being the highest.

If you are going to it this way the letter grades can still do the same thing.

the merit pay plan idea passed by the teacher union in NYC is not going to do enough to lure teachers with seniority and in middle-class schools into the most challenging assignments.