After decades of federal meddling in education it has achieved a remarkable accomplishment: a sizable number of high school graduates are too uneducated to pass the entrance exam for military service.
Nearly one-fourth of the students who try to join the U.S. Army fail its entrance exam, painting a grim picture of an education system that produces ( Read more... )

A boy makes a hat with plastic soldiers on it and the school claims he has violated their "no weapons" policy.
David was assigned to make a hat last week for a project at the Tiogue School in Coventry. He chose a patriotic theme and glued plastic Army figures to a camouflage baseball cap. But school officials said the hat ran afoul of their no- ( Read more... )

Not many details but apparently the union has caved and agreed to the (quite reasonable, IMO) requirements that they work a few extra hours in an attempt to improve the dismal test scores of the district.
CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. - A school district that gained the support of President Barack Obama for promoting accountability after it fired all its ( Read more... )

People possessing the greatest minds of all time, like Albert Einstein, would not be permitted to teach at K-12 public schools because they lack(ed) an "education" degree. That is, they didn't spend thousand of dollars propping up a system of "teaching teachers" that has become a system of entrenched, unionized bureaucracy ( Read more... )

As in equally stupid.

Yes, the liberal solution to low science scores for blacks is to limit the academic opportunities for everyone else.

It takes a special kind of stupid to state that voluntary labs held before and after regular school hours are a detriment to black achievement but we are talking about Berkeley, here ( Read more... )

I've been teaching a lot of 8th graders about the Constitution and Bill of Rights lately and I have to tell you even the most ill-informed of them still look like Constitutional scholars next to most members of Congress and the executive branch ( Read more... )

As schools reopen around the country I wonder if the students will be apprised of the fact that all that stimulus money being spent out there is going to have to be repaid with their future tax dollars.

With the dearth of economics classes and collectivist bent to most "social studies" classes in public schools I'm thinking not.

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Reading, writing and...propaganda?
Being a substitute teacher has its rewards. You get to be a part of the education process and see first-hand what is happening in the schools ( Read more... )

Teachers can't teach: students can't learn what their teachers don't know.
WASHINGTON - For kids to do better in math, their teachers might have to go back to school. Elementary-school teachers are poorly prepared by education schools to teach math, finds a study being released Thursday by the National Council on Teacher Quality ( Read more... )

Fred Thompson would change NCLB to put responsibility for standards in local hands.
He said his message to states would be, "We expect you to get objective testing done and publicize those tests for the local parents and for the local citizens and suffer the political ramifications locally if things don't work out right."
I'm all for local control, ( Read more... )