When Body Fat Affects Report Cards
If you were an elementary school student, which would upset you more: being picked on as the fat kid in class or having the teacher mention it on your report card? The Chicago Tribune reports: Elmhurst...
View ArticleInside The Sad World Of Standardized Test Essay-Scoring
Minneapolis’s City Paper delves into a dark corner of the education system: the ever-growing test-scoring industry. Every day, armies of underpaid, disenchanted, hungover slacker-temps slave away in...
View ArticleMany Public Schools Begin Charging Students For Attending Class, Textbook...
This is so sad: in school districts across the country, the concept of a free public education is fading into the past. The Wall Street Journal writes: Public schools across the country, struggling...
View ArticleSaving Public Education
The old DeWitt Clinton building, now John Jay College, Photo: Americasroof (CC) I’d like to use the word “justice” – that I felt compelled to tell the story of the school as a matter of justice. That...
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