Top Stories and Commentary for Thursday, November 30, 2006
Alarcón to poor: You can graduate Chevron to fund effort to prove it By Tony Castro/Los Angeles Daily News
SYLMAR - What do an A student from Sylmar High School and a D student from Beverly Hills High have in common? Surprisingly, they enter college at […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Influx of English learners a challenge for California Tyche Hendricks, Jill Tucker/San Francisco Chronicle
Almost 30 percent of the non-English speakers in the United States live in California, many of them in households that are "linguistically isolated" because they lack adults or teenagers proficient […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Escaping ‘Average’ Innovative Programs Make the Case That High-Level Classes Aren’t Just for the Gifted By Jay Mathews/Washington Post
School leaders in Seaford, Del., had noticed for some time that very few average students took the most challenging courses in the town’s secondary schools. As was […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Monday, November 27, 2006
Second-year seniors in exit-exam limbo By Philip K. Ireland/North County Times
NORTH COUNTY —- Like high school students all across the state struggling to pass the California High School Exit Exam, a small group of seniors in North County will spend the next few […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Report: School District Dropped the Ball with Bond Money Audit, review of CUSD construction bond program raises questions of mismanagement, incompetence; experts project $27M shortfall By Allison Jean Eaton/Compton Bulletin
The Compton Bulletin has obtained a copy of a forensic audit outlining a number of shortcomings […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Those Who Pass Classes But Fail Tests Cry Foul By Ian Shapira/Washington Post
Sylvia James hardly considers herself clueless in mathematics. After all, she finished sixth grade with a B-plus in the subject and made the Honor Roll, which she saw as a victory in […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Monday, November 20, 2006
Schools Slow in Closing Gaps Between Races By Sam Dillon/New York Times
When President Bush signed his sweeping education law a year into his presidency, it set 2014 as the deadline by which schools were to close the test-score gaps between minority and white students […]
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Top Stories and Commentary for Friday, November 17, 2006
State Secretary of Education abruptly resigns By Grace Rauh/Daily Review
State Secretary of Education Alan Bersin is leaving his Sacramento post to spend more time with his family, his spokeswoman said Thursday. His last day will be Dec. 15. […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Thursday, November 16, 2006
Class of 2007 remains hopeful Schools look at new tactics for exit exam By Cynthia E. Griffin/Our Weekly
As students like Class of 2006 senior Ashley Rucks move beyond a year that should have been one of the high points of their lives but was not, […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Wednesday, November 15, 2006
CA Head of the Class in Overcrowding
Class size is not just a problem in the Los Angeles school district. KFWB’s Penny Griego reports the entire state of California is lagging way behind the rest of the country.
Equality efforts slipping, report says […]