The Hartford Courant reports on this specialty Magnet school that aims to prepare students for college as well as for careers in policing, firefighting, homeland security, corrections and emergency medical treatment.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports on this school district that is planning to give every student a laptop.

on a teacher they call “Rebecca” who up and quit Samuel H. Daroff School after seven days. She says she had to break up fights between her fourth-graders, who cursed and threatened each other.

on a proposal by the state to standardize how the GPA is calculated by schools in the state.

In the proposal they want to dump career and technical education classes from the GPA calculation. The career and technical education classes due still count towards high school graduation requirements. I say that blows. All classes you take must count towards the final GPA.

The proposal also calls for an elimination of extra credit for students who take Pre-Advanced Placement courses or Pre-International Baccalaureate courses in ninth and 10th grades. Backers of this change say that the classes have different rigor from school district to school district.

I will agree with them. To fix it all you have to do is to make sure a higher level class has the same rigor in every school district in the state.

The New York Times reports on middle school students at 109 schools using this computer game in order to help learn algebra.

serve low income students could wind up getting taken over by the state due to not meeting state standards for improvement over the past three years.