on students going cheap on prom night.

on Innovation high schools helping student achieve.

saying that more states in the USA are looking for bigger gains by the years of 2012-2013 just to meet the AYP goals of the NCLB bill.

They say that 23 states have backloaded AYP goals and that is a bad thing. No way are states going to see that much of a gain in math and reading scores in such a short period.

I feel a lot of these states are going to say we need an extra couple of years to meet the AYP goals. Not something I think will get changed by the Department of Education, but will have to be done though.

out. It says that scores for boys and girls are both up.

When I look at the data they give me it really only shows this for math scores at all grade levels, but only for nine-year-olds in reading.

The other data they show does showcase some major gaps between boys and girls between different races and in some data major gaps occur inside their own race.

When they look at SAT scores for math and reading gains did occur, but not even big ones though. Same can be said of the ACT scores. Gaps between some races are big though.

They do show a widening gap between the boys and girls when it comes to GPA.

Although they show increases for males and females getting bachelor’s degrees, females are getting more of them at a faster rate.

that the NAEP gap still persists for students in charter schools.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports on this school and the 25 high school students that took a trip to the Camden County College in order to get a taste of the programs that they offer.