out saying that the amount of students going to Connecticut public 1-12 schools is going to drop by 17% in the next 17 years.

Link to graph.

This is a nationwide problem that is going to occur. For a more nationwide view look at this WICHE study.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports on 30 high school students at Cleveland State University’s Chester Building in a summer program examining skulls to see how a person died. A video is included as well.

on the local “Say Yes to Education” program ending with the last of the students getting a college degree. The amount spent on the program was 35 million. Over half of the 69 students went on to college for free.

out looking at mathematics instruction curriculum for elementary teachers at colleges. They did the same thing a couple a years ago for reading and blasted over 80% of the colleges they looked at for a poor curriculum.

They only look at 77 colleges, a lot of them are the state university, and feel that is enough for a quality sample. Most of the teachers wound up either taking two or three classes to meet college degree requirements.

They want teachers to acquire a deep conceptual knowledge of the mathematics that they will one day need to teach, but at a huge bunch of the colleges they looked found this never occurred.

The University Of Georgia stands out the best with nine other schools. 25 more schools would pass if they included more coursework. 37 schools just completely failed the NCTQ test.

They really do insert a whole load of sample math questions in the report which is great.

I have to say that findings are really bad. If 37 of 77 colleges have such crappy curriculum can we really call the elementary teachers coming out of these colleges “highly qualified.” I say no, but the the NCLB would call them that.

a report looking at the quality o0f teachers hired in the state. The report is all about the Index of
Teacher Academic Capital. The Index does show some nice gains at the high poverty area, but still show some massive gaps.

on English Language Learner students and performance in the classroom. The report only looks at five states that do have the highest amounts of ELL students.

The findings in this report show that if ELL students are isolated in a low income school the achievement gap does not go down at all for the ELL students.

In one example they give they say that in Florida for eighth grade math ELL students in a school that meets the minimum 30% of students in the school as white, the ELL students have a 30% passing rate. If the school does not meet the 30% white threshold only 10% pass.