Meet some high school students that are working their way through school:
Almost every weekday, 14-year-old Tiffany Adams rises before 6 a.m. in the Newark, New Jersey, home she shares with her grandmother and sisters. She dons her school uniform and catches two New Jersey Transit buses across the city, arriving at Christ the [...]
It surprises me that more parents don’t vote for more school choice. Under the current system, your kids go to school wherever the school board says they go to school — parents have very little say in the matter. Parents in Madison were reminded of that last night.
The pleas of an emotional audience [...]
My opinion on American education is simple: it’s outdated. We haven’t changed the way we’ve done school in over 100 years. Society, technology, and knowledge have all changed considerably during that time. I think it’s time that we took education apart, reexamined it closely, and figured out how to educate a new generation of children. [...]
Various teaching methods intrigue me. What makes a good teacher or a bad teacher? What makes a kid learn or sleep through class? How can we best prepare the next generation to face an increasingly complex world?
I tend to largely agree with Alex Tabarrok: Heroes are not Replicable.
You know the plot. Young, [...]
In “The Music Man”, con-man “Professor” Harold Hill was nearly run out of town on a rail for trying to sell the town members on a non-existent boys band. He was saved by a good singing voice, the love of a librarian, and the unexpected appearance of a real boys band — put together by [...]
Should nursing mothers get longer breaks on tests?
One test stands between Sophie Currier and her Harvard medical degree and a prestigious residency. But Ms. Currier says she runs a high risk of failing the test unless the National Board of Medical Examiners gives her additional break time to pump breast [...]
Maverick Leads Charge for Charter Schools - New York Times
Steve Barr, a major organizer of charter schools, has been waging what often seems like a guerrilla war for control of this city’s chronically failing high schools. In just seven years, Mr. Barr’s Green Dot Public Schools organization has founded 10 [...]
This post is a random grab bag of what I found interesting this weekend.
A Long Line for a Shorter Wait at the Supermarket. A search for higher customer satisfaction (and higher profits) led Whole Foods to revamp their checkout lines.
Lines can also hurt retailers. Starbucks spooked investors last summer when it said long [...]
From What special-ed cut means:
Several speech and language clinicians predicted some of the projected savings won’t materialize. Testing of children diagnosed with only speech and language disabilities will intensify, they said, in search of additional diagnoses — such as learning disabilities, or emotional behavioral disabilities — that would cement the [...]
I can tell that the home school market is growing. I don’t need to cite any facts, figures, or anecdotes to do so. I just need to make one observation: Amazon now has a homeschooling store. Cool.