Local boards to encourage more college attendanceNews from Durham Herald Sun: Dec. 27, 2014 @ 04:18 PM DURHAM — At a recent joint meeting of the school board and county commissioners, Commissioner Chairman Michael Page wondered if more could be done to encourage students who are not considered academic stars to attend college. Page, who [...]
Data: More Md. students graduating from high schoolNews from WBAL Baltimore: More Maryland students are graduating from high school than ever before, according to new data released Tuesday by the state. See the data: Graduation Rates | Dropout Rates Mobile users tap here for video The Maryland State Department of Education released a statement saying [...]
News from Deseret News: Ninth-grader Felix Firth uses a laptop in biology class at Wasatch High School in Heber on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015. Kristin Murphy, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — Monday morning, parents will wrap their children in coats and gloves and send them to thousands of classrooms across the state with the [...]
Local boards to encourage more college attendanceNews from Durham Herald Sun: Dec. 27, 2014 @ 04:18 PM DURHAM — At a recent joint meeting of the school board and county commissioners, Commissioner Chairman Michael Page wondered if more could be done to encourage students who are not considered academic stars to attend college. Page, who [...]
Local boards to encourage more college attendanceNews from Durham Herald Sun: Dec. 27, 2014 @ 04:18 PM DURHAM — At a recent joint meeting of the school board and county commissioners, Commissioner Chairman Michael Page wondered if more could be done to encourage students who are not considered academic stars to attend college. Page, who [...]
State schools chief: No more tests for high school graduationNews from TheNewsTribune.com: Washington state’s top education official wants to stop requiring students to pass high-stakes exams before they can graduate from high school, a proposal that would reverse years of standardized testing policy in the state. The idea from state schools chief Randy Dorn comes [...]
News from The Hindu: The Hindu Bangladesh has reduced its maternal mortality by 66 per cent between 1990 and 2010. Bangladesh is a classic case of a low- and middle-income country achieving the unachievable which many others failed to. It reduced its maternal mortality by 66 per cent between 1990 and 2010; the reduction was [...]
News from Chambersburg Public Opinion: “When my eyes are on a child, then that’s my child.” That quote by legendary Special Olympian Loretta Claiborne of York concludes a recent report by the Pennsylvania Family Support Alliance, “Childhood at Risk: An Exploration of Perceptions and Attitudes Regarding Child Abuse.” Leave it to Ms. Claiborne to express [...]
Ga. high school graduation gets more complicatedNews from McDuffie Mirror: Graduating high school in Georgia just got complicated, and graduating high school with a HOPE scholarship got even more complicated than that. Beginning this year, the state is requiring every eighth grader to complete a high school graduation plan at the end of the school [...]
Ga. high school graduation gets more complicatedNews from The Augusta Chronicle: Graduating high school in Georgia just got complicated, and graduating high school with a HOPE scholarship got even more complicated than that. Beginning this year, the state is requiring every eighth grader to complete a high school graduation plan at the end of the [...]
