Top Stories and Commentary for Thursday, May 31, 2007
California’s college crisis
Editorial/San Francisco Chronicle
CALIFORNIA not only has a high school dropout crisis. It also has a college enrollment crisis.
It’s bad enough that as many as […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Wednesday, May 30, 2007
California’s not-so-bad high school graduation rates
By Peter Schrag/Sacramento Bee
The latest numbers from the State Department of Education purporting to show that only 67 percent of ninth-graders graduate from high school three years later will be fodder for both […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Our diploma-less students
Editorial/San Francisco Chronicle
AFTER DECADES of educational reforms in California, it is profoundly disappointing that on the most basic indicator of educational success — the number of students who graduate from high school — the state is failing […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Friday, May 25, 2007
Insatiable schools
State teachers union has an endless appetite for tax dollars
Opinion by Lance T. Izumi/Riverside Press Enterprise Lance T. Izumi is director of education studies at the Pacific Research Institute and the co-author of recently released "California Education Report Card, Fourth Edition."
"It is […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Thursday, May 24, 2007
College graduate exodus threatens California
State faces worker shortage, housing prices fuel movement By Mike Swift/San Jose Mercury News
For decades, college graduates flocked to California to make their fortunes in aerospace, computers and other high-tech jobs. But that modern gold rush is over, and that is […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Judge rules in lawsuit over testing of non-English-speaking students
By Sandra Baltazar Martinez/Riverside Press-Enterprise
A San Francisco judge issued a tentative ruling Monday that could prevent school districts, including Coachella Valley Unified, from testing children in their native language. The ruling relates to a lawsuit filed in June […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Why AP and IB Schools Soar
Column by Jay Mathews/Washington Post
By the late 1990s, California voters and the University of California regents had banned admission preferences for minorities in the UC system, and several members of the faculty at […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Monday, May 21, 2007
Exit exam integrity
Accommodate, don’t exempt the disabled Editorial/Sacramento Bee
California’s 2-year-old exit exam requirement for high school graduation provides an incentive for individual students to prepare, puts pressure on schools to help struggling students and assures some consistency in the […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Monday, May 21, 2007
Exit exam integrity
Accommodate, don’t exempt the disabled Editorial/Sacramento Bee
California’s 2-year-old exit exam requirement for high school graduation provides an incentive for individual students to prepare, puts pressure on schools to help struggling students and assures some consistency in the […]
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Top Stories and Commentary for Friday, May 18, 2007
Miller signals openness to ‘substantial changes’ to NCLB in reauthorization
By David J. Hoff/Ed Week
Members of the House of Representatives want changes to the No Child Left Behind Act, and the chairman of the chamber’s education committee is […]