on Texas and teacher quality with low-income and minority students. This is another report saying the same things I already reported on. The higher the poverty you get, the more you have teachers making less in salary and the more likely you are going to see those same schools with teachers that have lower amounts of experience.

local area colleges including Syracuse University that finally made it this year into the 1 billion dollar club in an endowment. The article looks at controlling college costs.

The Post-Standard looks at how this high school has lowered the dropout rate. They have launched the “Transitions Program” for ninth graders. It gives struggling ninth-graders intense intervention, individualized attention and a focus on basic study skills.

under a new idea would get two different transcripts. One would have the traditional classes and grades the other one would describe the student’s personal development which includes weather they did an internship, worked on the school newspaper, etc.. It would also include a faculty-approved summary describing students’ activities, experiences, and how they applied classroom knowledge to the real world.

I have to say I like this idea, It is certainly better than looking at a traditional transcript.

The Times-Dispatch looks at this school that is the first in the area to teach Mandarin Chinese to the students that go to that school The article also includes a short video with teacher Yan Li who teaches at that school.

a new way of grading students which they think can be used in every single school district in the state. The new way of grading students looks at growth schools are fostering to students.