to cut achievement gaps and offer more support for low income students.

The AP and the Christian Science Monitor report on this. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has the list of schools that want to close the achievement gap.

Wisconsin who is refusing to administer a standardized test for eighth graders. David Wasserman does not want to administer the Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Exam because he feels the test is a poor way to measure student progress. He could get fired.

I wonder if a substitute teacher could administer the exam without the teacher getting fired.

The Tennessean reports on this school that has a coffee shop that makes around 200 bucks a day. All the money generated from the coffee shop will be turned in to scholarship money for the students that worked at the place.

Great idea.

on University of Colorado campuses recruiting more people from the military into the colleges.

want an end to college fees and let the added cost of going to college be set in the tuition price. They want it this way to showcase a more realistic price of going to college.

has approved new rules for special education students. Only the most sever special education students get short-term objectives.

They have a secondary article up stating parents and teachers not liking this rule change.