From this morning’s Dallas News:
Last year, 53 sophomores took the math TAKS test at Houston’s Jesse Jackson Academy. Two stood out from the crowd.
They were the only two whose answer sheets don’t show evidence of cheating.
Sorry, what was the name of that school? Ah, here it is - the Jesse Jackson Academy.
“Mind-boggling,” said David Harpp, […]
to homeschool. Aack, I said it again - “real” homeschoolers cry foul as I call what we do homeschooling. Nonetheless, if you live in Aurora you’d sure appreciate having another option
Last year, Aurora Public Schools didn’t have one traditional school rated “excellent” by the state. Students scored 20 percentage points or more below the state […]
Michelle Malkin
No wonder homeschooling is so popular.
Clear Commentary
Europe has always been a reliable bellwether of patently ludicrous ideas
Always reliable, Ace:
If that’s cheese, it’s my kind of cheese.
el presidente
I thought I’d let everyone in on a little secret….the enemy lies!
Once more, with feeling…
The ever-present Ace:
It’s just a triple decker sandwich of spiced stupid with stupid cheese smothered in stupid-sauce on whole stupid bread with a side of stupid-fries and stupid a la mode for dessert.
and
Physicists are baffled by the seemingly impossible. Noted structural engnieer Rosie O’Donnell could not be reached for comment.
Joshua, arguing with […]
Notorious Charter school-hater Sue Windells (D-Arvada) is back. This time Senate Bill 215 would regulate online schools under a new division of the state Education Department.
The Hope Online Learning Academy is at the center of the debate again, after last year’s poor showing in an audit of online schools. Under the bill approved yesterday,
districts like […]
So much ridiculousness, so little time…
Opinion Journal on Olbermann
It’s been said that a conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged by reality. Apparently a liberal is someone who’s been mugged by little girls.
Rod Dreher
“Sen. Dodd, did you ever fear that you might be the father of Anna Nicole’s baby?”
Hindrocket:
So it’s official: al Sadr’s position […]
Thank God, too. The now-well-documented school choice hater was caught in another enlightening moment of bias. Tuesday she exposes accusing online students of being too lazy to go to class. Nice. Thanks, from a online student’s dad!
A Senate committee struck down an online schools bill Tuesday, a day after the sponsor was criticized for calling […]
Well, you know what I mean. Didn’t I just mention this?
The University of Colorado’s College Republicans cooked up controversy and cookies Tuesday at an “affirmative action bake sale,” where baked goods were priced differently based on the buyer’s race and gender.
No, that’s not from 2002. That’s present time
I wrote a couple of weeks ago about writing requirements on the SAT. Well, scoring guidelines, anyway. I’d be remiss not pointing out this article by Will Fitzhugh.
Although style, fluency, tone, and correct grammar are certainly important in writing, folks like me think that content has value as well. The guidelines for scoring the new […]
It’s not enough that the Dems in the state legislature don’t want students to have the math and science skills they need, now they can’t even bring themselves to hold the most basic standard for a high school graduate. Yesterday, the House Education Committee killed a proposal to make English competency a high school graduation […]
Who knew? With bloggers posting on multiple sites sometimes it takes me a while to find them. Turns out RMA’s own Ben DeGrow also writes for a great education site called edspresso. Add it to your list - it’s now a daily read for me.
Recent Rocky Mountain News editorials have shown how exasperated everyone has become with the anti-charter school vitriol recently emitted from the state legislature. From today’s Rocky:
We’d have thought the charter debate was essentially over. Evidently, not so. Even with Merrifield out of the House chairmanship, Senate Democrats will have a major image problem as long […]
I haven’t linked them in a while, partly because they bugged me something fierce a while back. But still. The latest Carnival of Homeschooling and the Carnival of Education are both up and good reads.
Charter Schools, Virtual Academies and Homeschooling are legitimate educational options. Would that lawmakers in Colorado recognize that before public schools start […]
In the face of recent vitriolic opposition to charter schools in the Colorado legislature, Cheyenne Mountain Charter Academy’s 2006 CSAP results just blow away comparison to public schools.
Only 6 percent of Cheyenne Mountain Charter Academy eighth-graders scored proficient in writing on the Colorado Student Assessment Program tests last year.
That’s because 94 percent of them scored […]
Brand spankin’ new site Face the State has an exclusive report regarding an email written from Rep. Mike Merrifield (D - El Paso County) to Sen. Sue Windels (D - Arvada), both significant anti-school-choice voices in the state. Go there now!
UPDATE: Responses abound.
