a short brief looking at California high school dropouts from the class of 2004.

The found that two years later 12% of them were back in school, 54% were working, while 34% were not doing either one of the two.

They also found that only 24% of the high school dropouts made it college. Out of that 24%, 14% of them dropped out, 9% were still in college, and only 1% got a college degree.

looking at schools in Maryland and the No Child Left Behind Act.

The report says that the amount of schools in the restructuring phase has jumped big time. They also found that the turnaround specialist option is fading for fixing a school.

that the Harvard Endowment has grown to almost 37 billion bucks now. The article says that the stock portfolio portion lost 12.7% while the tradeable commodities was up 35.8% for the year.

on the California budget impasse being tough on schools.

The Education Week people also have up a similar article.

on a free store for schools and teachers.

has found an extra 3,6 million bucks and is going to use that money to lower kindergarten class sizes and bring in more library staff.