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Morning Announcements: November 17, 2010
Groups such as the American Association of School Administrators and the National School Boards Association are eyeing regulatory relief under No Child Left Behind, Education Week reports. The Grand...
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Key Pieces of High School Legislation
Wondering what are the key pieces of legislation affecting high school students? Check out this recently updated fact sheet from the Alliance for Excellent Education. It includes details on:Literacy...
View ArticleThe plight of the high school homeless
In the video clip below, the Washington Post profiles the plight of Landis Brewer, a homeless high school student. Landis suddenly became one of a growing number of teens without parents, guardians, or...
View ArticleRural Oregon sending more high school grads to college, despite the rougher road
Today, TheOregonian reported on college enrollment rates in rural parts of Oregon. Eighteen percent of Oregon's rural adults have college degrees, compared with about 31 percent of urban adults, which...
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Report Round-Up
Education and the Economy: Boosting Local, State, and National Economies by Improving High School Graduation Rates from the Alliance for Excellent Education. These findings, to be released on a rolling...
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Stats That Stick: April 13, 2011
The percentage of high school graduates completing a “rigorous” curriculum, with higher-level mathematics and science curricula, jumped from 5 percent in 1990 to 13 percent in 2009. Those who took a...
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Morning Announcements: May 20, 2011
In his School of Thought blog in TIME magazine, Andrew Rotherham explains, “Actually, College is Very Much Worth It.” Education Week blogger Erik Robelen writes about a coalition of school chiefs and...
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Morning Announcements: May 31, 2011
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that over a third of students entering college need remedial help and quotes Alliance President Bob Wise as saying, “It’s like a track meet where you have [students] run...
View ArticleAfternoon Announcements: May 16, 2012
As the days get warmer and spring starts creeping toward summer, high schools around the country are starting to prepare for Graduation Day. Today, we get two separate profiles on high school graduates...
View ArticleCommencement Speaker to High School Graduates: “You’re not special.”
"You're not special." That's the headline-grabbing line from a commencement speech at Wellesley High School in Massachusetts given by David McCullough Jr. (son of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and...
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