students who have pay or they do not play sports. The article states that 88,000 southeastern students pay around 10 million to play sports. They article includes some short audio pieces as well.

In a nice secondary article they state that 32 states have pay to play program.

The Hartford Courant reports on this educational consultant that says high school seniors should not slack off in this final year.

reports on students having to select a major in high school. They mainly look at the the state of Florida and Latasha Jackson of Brighton, Mass.

is looking at the high cost of textbook prices. They article has a quick look at student Nathassia Torchon who works three jobs and can afford the precalculus textbook after going through two exams in the class.

is out on 26 states and state testing standards. The results they found were that reading exams were easier than the math exams. They also found that 8th grade exams are harder than exams in the elementary grade levels.

The report says that states vary differently in what is called “passing.” This is a big problem and if you had some national set standards for students this problem can mostly be fixed.

Some states have not changed standards in years says the report. I think this is a no-no.

Increases in scores can be tied to easier exams says the report. BAD, BAD, BAD.

The report is fully data filled and even looks at sample questions and talks about how hard they are.

This is one great report that I would have liked to have seen all states getting a look over.

is donating $655,624 today in order for schools to buy much needed musical instruments.