Skip to main contentRemainders: American students failed a national civics test
By | May 4, 2011, 10:52pm UTC - Sandra Day O’Connor called students’ failing grades on a civics exam a “crisis.” (Times)
- For the most important age group — 12th graders — scores have fallen since 2006. (Eduflack)
- Mike Petrilli: Whether poor kids need different schools is a hard conversation worth having. (Flypaper)
- A Wildcat Academy teacher is giving her school the graphic novel treatment. (Edwize)
- A New Yorker comic pokes fun at the rigamarole of private school admissions. (Abacus Mom)
- A new book by the founder of Education Week lays out education principles for all. (Jay Mathews)
- Providence, R.I., has rehired three-quarters of the teachers it controversially terminated. (AP)
- Newark’s new schools chief, Cami Anderson, doesn’t know Diane Ravitch but gets her passion. (Russo)
- Prospective Republican presidential candidate Mitch Daniels unveiled his ed platform. (Politics K-12)