Issues of Education

One school in Ocean City, Maryland has achieved what many think is improbable: 100% proficiency in reading and math proficiency as mandated by No Child Left Behind, although they’ve done it seven years early. In 2007, “184 students in the third and fourth grades at Ocean City Elementary School passed the Maryland School Assessment, or […]

Annually, Newsweek names America’s top high schools and this year BASIS Charter School in Tuscon is number one. Twenty-two of the top one hundred have a graduating class of smaller than 100 students.
BASIS Charter in Tuscon has 120 high-schoolers and 18 gradutes this year and number two is a magnet school Talented and Gifted in […]

New research published in Child Development tells us that even teens who do not do well socially in school but who feel good about themselves and comfortable with others can still be socially successful.
University of Virginia researchers studied 164 adolescents from diverse racial, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds who were interviewed at ages 13 and 14. […]

A report released Tuesday has found that there is “no direct correlation between student performance and conventional measures of education inputs, such as expenditures per pupil and teacher salaries.”
The report from the American Legislative Exchange Council’s annual Report Card on American Education, “found that despite dramatic increases in the amount of money spent on primary […]

A new study out of Israel has demonstrated that the presence of girls in the classroom “calms boys and improves their academic performance as well. A classroom with a higher percentage of girls decreases the amount of classroom disruption and improves the relationship between students and their teachers. Girls also do better in the same […]

According to the results of a nationwide test, only about one-third of eighth grade students and one-fourth of the high schoolers are proficient writers, but overall writing scores have improved in low-performing students since 2002. The skills of high performing 8th and 12th graders have stayed the same or declined.  88% of students scored at […]

Researchers from the University of Arkansas have found that for black and Hispanic high school students having a best friend of a different race makes a significant difference in the academic success of the black and Hispanic students.
The researchers suggest that counselors and teachers at schools can help “could create opportunities for students to interact […]

A new study by America’s Promise Alliance, investigating the high school graduation rates in our cities’ public schools and their suburbs finds that “in 12 cities, the gap exceeds 25 percentage points. Of those cities, nine are in the Northeast or Midwest.” America’s Promise Alliance which is an alliance of a group of foundations which […]

In order to clarify the confusing state graduation rates the United States will require that “all states to use one federal formula to calculate graduation and dropout rates.”
This will be one of the biggest regulatory changed required by the federal government and it underlines the administration’s sense that Congress won’t be able to rewrite the […]

Source:AssociatedPress
With the increasing numbers of students having labels of a variety of learning and other disabilities the numbers of students facing difficulties after graduation from high school is increasing.
During school, students are provided a myriad of assistance (extra time on tests, assistants in the classroom and a variety of therapies) usually authorized to children under […]