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I need to brag a bit about Jay Matthew’s recent challenge index for American high schools results. They appear in Newsweek this week. I totally agree with Jay’s index even though many may not agree with it because they feel it doesn’t measure how “good” a high school is. That is perhaps true, but the [...]
There has been some recent discussion about this on the NACAC egroup. My last post:
I’m in the process of fighting this in my district. In a public school, I
don’t believe there is ever a reason to charge for transcripts. Really, how
many students might you have who have applied to an inordinate number of
colleges – maybe [...]
On the Payoff to Attending an Elite College, from the National Bureau of Economic Research
“Students who attend colleges with higher average tuition costs or spending per student tend to earn higher incomes later on.”
In today’s high-tech economy, just about everybody has gotten the message that it pays to get a college degree. What is less [...]
A discussion started on the NACAC list about the consequences of a student refusing to take the AP Exam in an AP course in which s/he is enrolled. One poster suggested that the best the student should be kept in the AP section but could only earn is a D or F. I agree with [...]
From the Sierra Club:
Representative Scott McInnis (R-CO) is pushing a bill through the House that, like the Bush Administration’s so-called “Healthy Forests Initiative,” does not focus scarce federal funding and resources where they would do the most good: in the Community Protection Zone adjacent to communities. Instead, the bill will continue to allow the Forest [...]
This from Valerie Williams’ NACAC Federal Update:
On Monday, May 13 The Department of Education held a workshop with educators and Department administrators to find ways to expand school choice nationwide. Secretary of Education Rod Paige called school choice “essential for authentic public school reform” and said this workshop was indicative of the Department’s effort to [...]
Thinking about one’s past provides many necessary points of reference as we
move on. The remembering itself is very selective – at any point in our
lives we can recall a situation to define the present. And every time we
recall, we are transforming that memory, a little bit each time, to fit the
now.
When I was 15, [...]
The entire article is at:
http://msn.com.com/2100-1103_2-999509.html
MSN UK tests potty surfing
By Joe Wilcox
CNET News.com
May 2, 2003, 11:58 AM PT
“MSN UK is creating what Microsoft calls the world’s first Internet
outhouse, or iLoo, complete with flat-screen plasma display, wireless
keyboard and broadband access. MSN UK spokesman Matthew Whittingham
described the portable toilet as the first “WWW.C,” referring to the term
W.C., or [...]
From the NPR web site
May 6, 2003 — The College Board has announced it will rescore all PSAT/NMSQT exams after a flawed question was identified.
“Try your hand at the question:
Here are the directions:
The following sentences test your knowledge of grammar, usage, diction (choice of words) and idiom.
Some sentences are correct. No sentence contains more than [...]
The printed version of Rolling Stone, 5/15 issue, has an article how the RunDMCa-whatever people are suing a college student for $98 billion for operating a peer to peer network. One of the student’s responses was something like, “..gee, I don’t have that kind of money.”
There was also a mention of the reasoning behind this [...]
