Education News and Bookmarking for Mathetude community http://www.mathetude.com:80/rss/stories/upcoming.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/images/logo.png http://www.mathetude.com:80/ vi-vn Copyright (c) 2007 Mathetude.com javacola@gmail.com Wed Feb 08 10:56:46 CST 2012 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.mathetude.com:80/ U.S. News & World Report looked at the nearly 600 schools that qualified for the Gold, Silver, and Honorable Mention lists of the U.S. News Best High Schools and then evaluated their students' participation rates and performances on AP® exams in math and science. The following are the 208 high schools that performed the best in those subjects. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14490.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14490.html Mathetude nitajo 28/01/2012 Computers, wireless Internet, interactive digital workspaces, technical support staff, and high online engagement are keys to building a connected classroom. We surveyed schools from our Best High Schools rankings to gauge their connectivity. Of the 301 that responded, the following are the Most Connected Classrooms. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14489.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14489.html Mathetude nitajo 28/01/2012 Not long ago, honors courses were considered a hallmark of student achievement, a designation that impressed colleges and made parents beam. Now, those courses are vanishing from public schools nationwide as administrators move toward a more inclusive curriculum designed to encourage underrepresented minority students to join their high-achieving peers in college-level Advanced Placement classes. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14314.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14314.html Mathetude PiGuy 10/01/2012 More Fairfax County students — and particularly more Hispanic and black students — are taking college-level AP and IB exams, according to data released by the school system. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14313.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/14313.html Mathetude PiGuy 10/01/2012 The state Board of Education voted Thursday to approve an activities fund budget that cut several popular state programs. Cuts include $12 million in teacher bonuses and $100,000 for a robotics program. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/12675.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/12675.html Mathetude Buldog 23/06/2011 Adult education programs were hard-hit by changes in spending rules for school districts struggling to keep basic operations going during California's budget crisis, according to a new study recently released. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/12575.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/12575.html Mathetude nitajo 03/06/2011 Jay Mathews -- Parents in Fairfax County have proved themselves one of the largest and most powerful forces for innovation in American education. But they have taken a wrong turn in their effort to save the three-track system—basic, honors and AP/IB— in the county’s high schools. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/12555.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/12555.html Mathetude nitajo 30/05/2011 A teacher in Connecticut includes a course on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars after his students complete the Advanced Placement exam. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/12523.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/12523.html Mathetude Newman 23/05/2011 Since 1998, The Post’s Jay Mathews has ranked Washington-area public high schools using the Challenge Index, his measure of how effectively a school prepares its students for college. In 2011, the Post expanded its research to high schools across the United States. The formula is simple: Divide the number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate or other college-level tests a school gave in 2010 by the number of graduating seniors. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/12506.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/12506.html Mathetude nitajo 20/05/2011 Jay Mathews -- In a national context, as college-level programs such as Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate have become the prime means of preparing students for higher education, giving more students those opportunities has become crucial and controversial. Only half of students who go to college get to take college-level courses in high school, which many educators think is fine and others think is wrong. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/12505.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/12505.html Mathetude nitajo 20/05/2011