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The New York Times Looks At Schools That Had….

August 02, 2010 By: Category: Uncategorized

massive drops in performance due to changes in scoring standards for state exams.

They also report on people such as Scott G. McNealy who use to work at Sun Microsystems who is trying to get open sourced math text books to students in the classroom.

They even have an article up on the summer camp for the cool and career-conscious 13-year-old.

The Detroit News Reports On CMA High School….

August 02, 2010 By: Category: Uncategorized

that is getting a makeover through the NBC show “School Pride.”

The Pioneer Press Reports On Minnesota Being One Of The First States….

August 02, 2010 By: Category: Uncategorized

to actually saying no to the “Common Core” standards. They say education should be controlled locally and the time frame for switching to national standards is too short.

The article does state the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation report showing that Minnesota does have standards that are worse than the Common Core.

The Daily News Reports On Over 15,000 Students…..

August 02, 2010 By: Category: Uncategorized

in the last school year in Philadelphia that have changed schools.

The Indy Star Reports On School Districts In Indiana…

August 02, 2010 By: Category: Uncategorized

that are already opening up.

The Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives…..

July 30, 2010 By: Category: Uncategorized

has a new report out that looks at the New Orleans school district five years later after Hurricane Katrina.

The report shows a massive drop off in the amount of school students in New Orelans after Katrina, but have doubled the amount of students since the Hurricane. The amount of school teachers in the area has also gone up a bit since the hurricane as well.

107 low-performing OPSB schools where moved over into the Recovery School District (RSD),

Race did not change much in the school district after the Hurricane. Whites and others only gained around 2% more each after the hurricane, but were at very low numbers.

The hurricane completely lowered the amount of the teachers in the local school district with 20+ years of teaching experience, but the salaries kept up with the rest of the state though.

Test scores the over the five year period continued to go up.