This is a good article that exposes some of the downfalls of the Chinese curriculum we are trying to copy here in our own backyard.
GOOD Lite: If China’s Education Policies Create Depressed Students, Why Are We Copying Them? http://goo.gl/mag/ys7hs
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No pardon for you. I don’t care if you were trying to get your child into a better school.
“School Residency Case: Board Rejects Pardon for Akron Mom”
And let it be noted
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From the site
About Kerbal Space Program
Kerbal Space Program is a multi-genre game where the player can create his own space program.
In KSP, you must build a space-worthy craft, capable of flying it’s crew out into space, without killing them.At your disposal is a collection of parts, which must be assembled to create a functional ship. [...]
Ironically, it was called the “Bray School”.What was also interesting was that Dr. Thomas Bray (one of the main financial contributors of the school) established a colony in South Carolina. The Brayboys (my heritage) hail from North Carolina. Brayboy is a name that originated from the Lumbee Indian tribe.
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More low-income kids are taking AP courses–good!
But are they passing or are we just celebrating the fact that they are taking these courses?
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MONTGOMERY (WNCF) – A report released Wednesday says Alabama is gaining ground with students involved with Advanced Placement.
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More taking AP exams, but fewer successfully
“Officials from the College Board, the group that [...]
Ashley loves her mostly-Black dorm at Stanford.
Ujamaa always is engaging in intellectual discussions and topics from around the world. Though there is always the latest gossip about celebs, people in my dorm take time to discuss issues affecting the community at Stanford, in the US, and in the world.
Allysia ain’t feeling it as much.
“While ethnic [...]
Need a way to measure just how far our public school system has fallen?
The status quo cannot be the end of our children!
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There has been a lot of pomp since the election of Barack Obama that we were going to see “volunteerism” and “giving back” reach unprecedented levels. Obama made volunteerism a centerpiece in his campaign and since being elected has kicked off a website (serve.gov) that points potential volunteers to opportunities where they can serve their [...]
Turn on any nature show on television and you will hear fascinated voice of a narrator explaining how a certain species of animal or insect learns to adapt to various situations in the wild. Why, it almost seems like they really know what they are doing. AAAAAMMMMAAAAZING!
When this outlook on the animal kingdom gets projected [...]
Here are six nuggets picked from around the web. Find your own dippin’ sauce!
Cobb county, Georgia adopts the “everybody’s a winner” grading system.
Some Cobb County parents plan to plead with the school board Thursday night to scuttle a move to standards-based report cards for third-graders, arguing that a 3-2-1 grading scale promotes mediocrity.
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The traditional A, [...]
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The “Poor Black Kid” Makes the Spotlight Again (sigh!)
by Duane on December 14th, 2011 at 9:36 pmGene Marks of Forbes.com recently posted an article entitled “If I Were A Poor Black Kid”. In the article he dishes out advice on how poor Black children can use much of the free technology around them to aid them in their education.
After reading his take, there wasn’t too much I disagreed with. In [...]