students in career academies.

on 153 schools in Maryland, 100 schools in Virginia and 11 schools in the District of Columbia that have made adequate progress last year under the No Child Left Behind Act even though they failed to meet performance targets for all groups of historically underperforming students. These schools fall under the “safe harbor” provision of the No Child Left Behind Bill.

The Miami Herald Reports on this teacher that got fired because she put pencil marks next to questions some fifth-graders had skipped or gotten wrong while taking Florida’s high-stakes standardized test to encourage them to try again.

The article says that she is one of the 50 Florida teachers, counselors and administrators the state has been disciplined in the past 10 years for cheating or making errors in giving the FCAT exam.

I can see putting pencil marks next to questions they skipped, but putting them next top the ones she got wrong was bad. I do think firing her was not good at all, but she did need a big punishment.

That 75 more colleges in the USA are going to sharing data with them as part of an effort to help families evaluate how actively involved their students are in academic and campus life.

that more than 2,000 teachers county wide could wind up loosing their jobs is the Gov. has his way. The article also says though that the whole state could be 100,000 teachers short next decade.

50 million bucks from the Duke Endowment of Charlotte to build a new medical education facility and an inpatient facility for pediatric patients.