New Orleans Everywhere around the country, charter schools and their operators are poking through the concrete of school yards like weeds. Billionaires and beleaguered Mayors and school superintendents often herald their potential as a way out of their own gnarled path of over grown capacity and underfunded programs. Huge fights in Philadelphia and now Chicago are …
Category: Education
Student Testing and Teacher Evaluations Both Failing our Schools
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 …
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 …