to have some standardized testing of students in math and English as early as kindergarten.

I do not think this will help students or the school district at all. Just way too early to do this testing.

are now going to be able to get a 10% discount on any book purchased from CourseSmart.

a drop of 2,125 students for the upcoming school year and that is going to cost them millions a bucks. The state will pay the school district between 4 grand and six grand a student.

and they are virtually flat from last year. A record amount of students, around 1.52 million, took the exam this year though.

The USA Today has up an interview on this author of the book “Spin Cycle: How Research Is Used in Policy Debates: The Case of Charter Schools.”

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says students will fair better if you use plain English first before you start to learn the scientific terms first.