Skip to main contentRemainders: Against using attendance data to screen students
By | February 7, 2013, 1:18am UTC - A parent and child psychologist says attendance is a problematic way to screen students. (SchoolBook)
- Advocates for physical education in schools will rally Thursday, not for the first time. (Insideschools)
- An Idaho legislator wants to make all students read Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged.” (Spokesman-Review)
- The new early childhood education chief in North Carolina has lobbied against pre-K. (WRAL)
- Negotiations over education legislation are an essential plot point of Netflix’s “House of Cards.” (Russo)
- A student at the Seattle school where teachers are boycotting state tests offers support. (Facebook)
- Even states that collect lots of data about teachers collect little about principals, a study found. (EdWeek)
- Germany’s education minister was found to have plagiarized her dissertation but won’t resign. (BBC)