"Colleges don’t favor men to help struggling boys. They do it to keep their gender ratios from pushing past the dreaded 60% threshold..." (Seminal moment arrives in the ‘boy troubles’ debate Richard Whitmire)
[...]"Colleges don’t favor men to help struggling boys. They do it to keep their gender ratios from pushing past the dreaded 60% threshold..." (Seminal moment arrives in the ‘boy troubles’ debate Richard Whitmire)
[...]One year after his election, what has Obama achieved? Christian Science Monitor
Obama
got off to a quick start. But almost one year after winning the
presidency, his deeds are at risk of paling next to his aspirations.
Last week in Chicago, firebrand state senator James Meeks (D-IL) suggested that things were getting to be so bad with the Chicago Public Schools that he might be open to private school vouchers. Andrew Coulson at Cato notes that Meeks joins a "small but growing" handful of [...]
I can’t believe I’m saying nice things about the districts that beat us out for the American Federation of Teachers Innovation Grants. Seriously, each proposal is excellent, and when seen as a diverse whole, and also in the context of comparable innovations by our brothers and sisters [...]
I'm a week late to this (The Ed Deformer's Monster Mash) but there's still much to enjoy if you haven't seen it already.
Duncan is a particularly enthusiastic Frankenstein, and Rhee is a deliciously emotionless BOF. Thanks [...]
Report says aid kept, added 7,000 area education jobs Washington Post
Education
spending accounted for a large portion of the overall federal economic
stimulus package, which injected $159 billion in grants and loans into
the economy and had created or [...]
Alexander Russo, john thompson, Marc Dean Millot, Cheryl Sattler
