has released a report just looking at schools in the Philadelphia Area. They were only looking at math and reading scores.

The researchers found that after four years later for math scores the for-profit schools were ahead approximately 26 percent and 29 percent of a standard deviation or an extra 2/3 of school year. For non-profits after four years they were behind by 16% of the standard deviation.

For reading scores they had some interesting results. After 4 years for the for-profit schools they were only up 8 percent from standard deviation which is not much. For the non-profit schools they were behind 9% from standard deviation after three years, but up 4% from the standard deviation after four years.

it out. The report looked at countries in the OECD and that have taken the Program for International Student Assessment exam.

They say the USA and even the countries in the OECD have spent more on education and that school system performance in those countries is not up.

The report gets into quality teachers being important. On study they cite from schools in Dallas said that the difference in students who got three effective teachers in a row vs students who got the ineffective teachers in a row was 49 percentile points. They cite a study on England students saying that failing students at age 14 had only a 6% change of meeting the minimum school-leaving qualifications.

They say that top school systems pick teachers that graduate at the top of the class from colleges. Same thing done in the US with the Teaching Fellows program.

In Singapore only 1 in 6 get to become a teacher while it is only 1 in 10 in Finland. The high performing school systems have a tougher selection process says that report. In Singapore less than 20% of people that apply to want to be teachers get into training.

The report gets into salary and a couple of sections talking about different topics. I think this is a must read report.

from the AP. The school teacher is going to get reprimanded from the school district for not administering the Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Exam. He went back to the classroom after finding out that he could lose his job.

The most I would punish this teacher at this time imo is to just not pay him a salary for the days that he protested.

The Journal-Sentinel reports this corporation is giving 40 million bucks in order to help give a major financial boost to the Wisconsin Covenant program.

going to be the first school district in the nation to install security camera that use face recognition technology.

on what schools in the state are going to be doing with the extra 120 million they have received this year.