News Briefs
A Sacramento County Superior Court judge last week ordered the California state board of education to postpone its bold and expensive plan to require all 8th graders to be tested in algebra.
November 4, 2008
As part of an effort to promote the inclusion of financial education in state standards and required courses, the Washington-based nonprofit group Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy, and Citi, a global financial-services company, have mapped whether students are required to study financial education.
November 4, 2008
A conservative Republican seeking re-election to the Kansas board of education is defending now-repealed science standards that questioned the validity of evolution.
October 28, 2008
Policymakers should take steps to produce more minority students capable of becoming engineers and scientists, a new report argues.
October 20, 2008
Accelerated Math, a popular middle school mathematics software program, was found to have “no discernible effect” on student achievement in a review by the federal What Works Clearinghouse.
October 7, 2008
A first draft of new Texas state science standards removes language that says students should understand the “strengths and weaknesses” of scientific theories and hypotheses in biology.
September 30, 2008
Media experts have drafted guidelines to help teachers and students grasp the legal issues they say have unnecessarily restricted the use of online resources.
November 11, 2008
Business and higher education leaders are pleading with schools to teach "21st-century skills," but figuring out whether the skills have been taught well won’t be easy or cheap, a new paper warns.
November 10, 2008
At least 75 members of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges have pledged to produce more math and science teachers.
November 10, 2008
A growing number of states make American Indian history and culture a formal part of what all students should learn.
November 4, 2008
A recent decision by the College Board may make it harder to extend the advantages of Latin to the students likely to gain the most from them, warns teacher Lee T. Pearcy.
November 3, 2008
The states will experiment with long-range efforts to boost international competitiveness.
October 30, 2008
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