Houston The very idea of watching 34 school employees along with a former schools superintendent indicted in Atlanta for a student testing scandal should bring chills up the backs of parents, school systems, and particularly politicians all over the country. Not that this is unusual. In fact it is another all too common cheating scandal …
Category: Education
Calculating Student Loans is Plain as Mud on Department of Education Site
New Orleans There was an interesting article in the paper today touting the calculator on the United States Department of Education (DOE) website. They claimed that it would be helpful in figuring out the real costs of education at various institutions. Sometimes they said, some universities might seem to expense to lower income students evaluating …
The Future is Now for Charter-man Barr to Apologize for McDonogh Oprah TV Exploitation
New Orleans I am a veteran (victim?) of four years of high school Latin during my time in the New Orleans public school system. One of Dr. Romeo’s classic often repeated quotations that is imprinted forever in my mind was his argument that he was not in loco parentis, meaning in his argument that he was …