ust looking at Wake County area schools and what they could do in order to prepare students to better compete in the global marketplace.
One they suggest the school district doing to is to have a longer school year and school day. They also curriculum changes are going to have to occur.
The New York Times reports on a new school, called the Equity Project, that is going to be opening up this year where the starting salary is massive 125,000 grand.
The Indy Star reports on Ivy Tech Community College’s 23 campuses that could wind up not getting much extra money from the state as a record amount of people want to enroll.
The LA Times reports that 120 million in cuts that could come to community college physical education courses could mean thew dumping of many sports programs in the state.
The Union-Tribune reports on SDSU and graduate programs that have had application deadlines bumped up early due to the mess that California is in.
The AP is reporting on a Clemson official that has come out say that the college has manipulated the U.S. News & World Report ranking.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports on a record haul of scholarship money for the local school district.
The Des Moines Register reports on the University of Iowa dumping classes in German.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports on a panel hearing that was looking at the high cost of college education.
on some schools that are dumping letter grades for number grades and even this convaluted grading scheme:
M for “meets standards,” W for “working toward standards” or an E for “experiencing difficulty.”
The AP is reporting that 93% of third graders have passed the reading portion of the exam. 89% of fifth graders and 95% of 8th graders did the same thing.
The Dallas Morning News reports on one in 7 seven high school students failing at least one part of the TAKS exam.
They also have a secondary article up as well.
One article is on Diana Li at Mira Loma High School who wound up getting a perfect SAT score.
They also have their own article up on California looking at electronic textbooks.
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