Suppose colleges and universities stopped using the SAT as part of their admission process into undergraduate school? Decades ago, Bates College and Bowdoin College eliminated the use of the test in the admission process, and now, nearly one-fourth of the top...
There was an interesting article in today's New York Times, The Unfailing Belief in the Power of Teaching by David M. Herszenhorn. It's a story about Andres Alonso, whose family, when he was 12, fled Cuba and settled in New Jersey. Alonso went onto Columbia University...
There was an interesting article in today's New York Times, The Unfailing Belief in the Power of Teaching by David M. Herszenhorn. It's a story about Andres Alonso, whose family, when he was 12, fled Cuba and settled in New Jersey. Alonso went onto Columbia University...
There is a high school in a Georgia County (in the Metro-Atlanta area) that will remain nameless. I know about the school because I lived within two miles of it. I could be writing about any school in the State or the nation for that matter. Anyway, the school is...
There is a high school in a Georgia County (in the Metro-Atlanta area) that will remain nameless. I know about the school because I lived within two miles of it. I could be writing about any school in the State or the nation for that matter. Anyway, the school is...
Into today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper, the article "Long road to school sanctions" underscored the dilemma that this country is in with regard to the education of youth. Instead of educating youth, enormous resources have been and continue being spent of...
