| Girls have caught up with boys in math scores, conclude a team of Wisconsin and Berkeley researchers in an article in the July 25 issue of Science. Girls now are as likely as boys to take high-level... | |
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| A nine-year-old New Zealand girl asked a family court judge to let her choose a new name to replace Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii, her parents’ choice. He made her a ward of the court to... | |
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| The Carnival of Education is up at The Ed Wonks’ place.
Assistant Principal Q6 of Assistive Principles wonders why technology hasn’t improved education. | |
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| Jay Greene, a fan of macaroni art, wonders why school can’t be more like summer camp, which his kids find enjoyable and often educational.
Forget it, responds Rory, a parent of five, at... | |
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| Locke High School, a disorderly, low-performing Los Angeles school, has reopened as a Green Dot charter school. LA Times columnist Steve Lopez reports on uniformed students tucking in their shirts... | |
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| California legislators want to encourage schools to reward middle and high school students for achievement or improvement on standardized tests. The bill ban cash incentives — and provides no... | |
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| The $20,000 question, posed by the Chicago Tribune, is why Illinois “is squandering taxpayer money on dubious after-school grants, including many that rewarded one lawmaker’s political... | |
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| Twiggs County in central Georgia will let principals paddle misbehaving students, with their parents’ permission. | |
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| In a visit to Oakland Military Institute, a college-prep charter school, teacher-blogger Darren Miller finds explicit standards.
There are standards of behavior, standards of academic work,... | |
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| This week’s Carnival of Homeschooling, hosted by Life on the Road, has a Labors of Hercules theme. | |
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