According to a recent study done by myself, it has revealed that out of all the acceptance letters sent to BCC students over the past 8 years only 191 of them were Ivy League schools. But the average Joe does not realize is that this figure equates to about 2% of acceptance letters that BCC [...]
The International Baccalaureate (IB) program enumerates four “ways of knowing”: sense perception, emotion, language, and reason. Ironically, however, the IB program only uses three, consistently neglecting to use its common sense. Particularly in its Creativity, Action, Service (CAS) program, the IB program is ridiculously unreasonable and detached from reality. The IB program’s idealistic demands and [...]
“Senioritis, from the word senior plus the suffix -itis (which refers to inflammation but in colloquial speech is assumed to mean an illness), is a colloquial term used in the United States to describe the decreased motivation toward studies displayed by students who are nearing the end of their high school, college and graduate school [...]
In the March 12th edition of the New York Times, James C. McKinley Jr. reports on the changes the The Texas Board of Education approved (approved–not simply suggested) to the history and economics textbooks used in Texas.
McKinley writes, “[the] curriculum will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American capitalism, [...]
On Saturday, in his weekly address, President Obama introduced his plan to overhaul No Child Left Behind. Obama introduced the plan as ”the best chance [for American students] to succeed in a changing world.”
What the key players say:
Obama: “[T]he nation that out-educates us today will out-compete us tomorrow.”
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, said that No Child Left [...]
The Washington Post is reporting that students at Winston Churchill (Potomac, MD) hacked into the school’s computer system and changed class grades.
Grades for 54 students were improperly altered in the first semester of this school year.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/03/AR2010030303047.html?hpid=newswell
