Instead of finding out that American students are even more awful at reading than their European counterparts than ever before, the Program for International Student Assessment seems to have discovered that a printing error means America gets off scot-free! The scores are thrown out!
The reading scores of U.S. students on an international test are being [...]
I didn’t know this was happening, but all of a sudden, too many kids getting perfect SOL scores became a problem.
Even though statewide pass rates for history and science exams were the same, far more students scored “Pass/Advanced” or perfect on the history test. So what?
Really, it doesn’t matter. The SOL tests and No Child [...]
According to a new Census Bureau report on the lives of children:
Children living at twice the poverty line were twice as likely to have been read to in the last week.
6-11 year olds living at twice the poverty line were twice as likely to participate in sports or take lessons.
Children living at twice the poverty [...]
The state’s formula for funding local school districts is a complicated affair known as the Local Composite Index (LCI), as opposed to the number of pupils that the school system enrolls, a convoluted mess described by NLS. Rather than rehash what he said, I present a map (whodathunk?) that lays out the situation:
Note the general [...]
This editorial in the Daily Press caught my eye:
A new way to address these problems has opened up to public schools. The federal Department of Education has issued new regulations that allow them to offer single-sex classes so long as “substantially equal” opportunities are available to the other sex. For some local schools and school [...]
Two bills that apply to the high-schoolers among us:
Home Ec and Woodshop: Delegate David Nutter’s (R-Christianburg) HB 1442 would replace the diploma requirement of two consecutive electives with a requirement for two consecutive career or technical credits. No word on whether Gourmet Foods or weight training would count as a career elective. HB 1142 reported [...]
Plagiarism-
1. the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one’s own original work.
2. something used and represented in this manner.
It appears that angry students at McLean High school were granted a hollow victory in their fight against a policy forcing students to submit [...]
There was much rejoicing.
