inviting kids to camp to smooth transition after buildings close

up looking at the black/white achievement gap and why it has stopped going down.

The authors discuss various issues that could help explain why progress stopped over the past decade:

• Inadequate care in early childhood
• The decline of communities and neighborhoods
• The explosion of single-parent families
• The employment plight of black males
• Stalled intergenerational mobility out of seriously disadvantaged neighborhoods.

The AP reports on the University of Georgia being ranked as the number 1 party school this year.

The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports on the HOPE scholarship dwindling finances worrying lawmakers.

The AP reports on average Virginia in-state tuition and fees that are up 10.6 percent.

The Sacramento Bee reports on Co-ed dorm rooms latest option for college students.

The Post Dispatch reports on Southeast Missouri State University that plans to start asking some students needing housing to return in the spring because its residence halls are full.

on to the Common Core standard.

The Denver Post reports on Colorado doing it.

The LA Times, Sacramento Bee, Union-Tribune, and the San Francisco Chronicle reports on California doing it.

that are mixed. It did an excellent job of predicting which schools and school districts should have received the benefit of the measure in their 2009 accountability ratings, but the formula was wrong one-third of the time about whether a student who failed one of eight TAKS tests in 2009 would pass in 2010.

They also report on experts that say that the state needs more minority teachers.

that have been spared from getting cut.