Huffington Post has an article about how kindergarten has become the newest grade to have long wait lists From the federal government to school boards, policymakers and administrators are increasingly setting their sights on "college and career readiness" as the goal of K-12...
EDweek has an interesting article about how incentives for students to score well on the AP exams have shown positive results. However, contrary studies have shown that money incentives have grown cheating and no real gains in education as students only prepare for...
The New York Times has an article on how the ETS has started increasing security in their testing centers after a wave of cheating scandals has hit the floor Stung by a cheating scandal involving dozens of Long Island high school students, the SAT and ACT college entrance...
It was created by Alexis van Dijk, a student at Marymount Manhattan College whom I met after speaking there last night on my notion of a “Knowosphere.” I like it because it avoids overstatement and simply reminds viewers ... The rest is here: Student Communicators...
HIGHER EDUCATION UPDATE: 'Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse' & Other Hot New College Courses. Read the original: Instapundit » Blog Archive » HIGHER EDUCATION UPDATE...
The New York Post has an interesting article about how more recent high school grads need to take more remedial classes in college to be ready. CUNY has become a boot camp for “high-school do-overs.” A stunning 82.7 percent of freshmen at CUNY community colleges needed...
NJ Spot Light has an interesting article about the shift of student mentality. Being college ready in this day and age is a no brainer, yet students still see the lack of merit behind college. New Jersey has started using the ACT to assess student's college readiness, yet...
The New York Times has a very small, yet news worthy article. The US is not preparing it's young students enough for college. This has been a growing trend in the US for some time since the introduction of No Child Left Behind. Millions of students attend abysmally...
A daylong rally by City University of New York students against a planned tuition increase turned turbulent Monday evening when marchers ignored police requests to clear the lobby of a building where the university’s trustees were meeting and 15 people were...
The New York Times has stated that college readiness for high school students has reached an all time low. Due to lower standards to push students to graduation, colleges have taken notice and have been disgusted with the graduating classes. Many colleges had to increase...
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