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Hats off to Lake Chelan High School!

Hats off!

This week we tip our hats to Lake Chelan High School for being nominated as a Department of Education Blue Ribbon School!


Hats Off to Maple Elementary School!

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This week, we tip our hats to Maple Elementary School in Seattle’s Beacon Hill neighborhood.


Graduation Matters: Improving Accountability for High School Graduation

This report contends that most states are setting low goals for improving graduation rates, and for ensuring that more low-income, minority, disabled and English language learner students earn a high school diploma.


Report Pans How States Set the Bar

Education Week

All teachers are not created equal

“In teaching, you go as fast as the slowest person,” summed up George Miller, House Education Committee Chairman in this article. He's introduced a new NCLB bill that gives federal grants to exemplary teachers and principals based on performance.


Our Nation's Report Card Day

Ah, report cards. Displayed on the refrigerator when it's filled with good grades, hidden from your parents as long as possible when bad grades prevail. But unlike those report cards that can conveniently get misplaced, there's no hiding from our Nation's Report Card.

One Baltimore School Struggles to Get Tests Scores Up

This is an interesting NPR piece on a Baltimore high school's effort to raise test scores. There are voices on both sides of the debate here. Some say that the method this high school is using (pulling kids out of class to study for the Maryland test) is wrong, while others are saying that the test is in fact, too easy, and the kids should be able to pass it without extra help.