on the U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan visit to California and urging the state top make changes on evaluations on teachers.

The state has issued new federal ratings for 61 Oregon schools this morning. These schools were just too small top get a grade last month.

that Michael Kim who is a special education teacher whom the city school district removed from the classroom more than seven years ago for alleged sexual harassment has appealed the decision giving the district permission to dismiss him.

on school district officials that are going to go door to door to try to get more dropouts to come back to school.

has out an interesting report looking at education standards in Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, the Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, and South Korea. This is a look into national set standards. Canada is the only county looked at with no national set standards.

The people behind the report that having national set standards does not mean local control is lost. They found some high performing countries are more decentralized than ours.

They want testing of kids in the 4th, 8th, and 12th grade level. That is what is done in the USA. Some of the countries on that list test at more grade levels.

They want coherent, focused, and rigorous standards for English, math, and science first. Then they want the same thing done for other subjects.

For each country they look at they give out good details on how each educational system works.

Washington Monthly has come out with their 2009 college rankings

The San Francisco Chronicle reports on the massive drop in the Stanford University Endowment. The articles says that more layoffs are to come.

The Detroit News reports on Oakland University professors that have given the okay for a strike.

The Dallas Morning News reports on Education Is Freedom program and Texas A&M University-Commerce that is going to announce a $3.2 million partnership that focuses on preparing and motivating DISD students to go to college and succeed once there.

The New York Times reports on Elliott Spitzer becoming a college professor.

The Pioneer Press reports on the University of Wisconsin System that is looking to spend 81.4 million on a new payroll system.