Archive for the ‘Education’ Category

COLLEGE GRADS ARE STUCK WITH STUDENT LOAN DEBT AND NO JOBS, by Wayne Hodges
APPLE VALLEY, Ca – Houston, we have a problem. College graduates are leaving school saddled with student loan debt, shaky futures and, most importantly, can’t find decent jobs. Scary. Very scary. Megan Thomas, contributor to MSNBC.com, wrote an excellent article that chronicles [...]

GENERATION Y: LOTS OF STUDENT LOANS, NO JOBS AND A GRIM FUTURE. By Megan Thomas
APPLE VALLEY, Ca (MSNBC.com) – They are perhaps the best-educated generation ever, but they can’t find jobs. Many face staggering college loans and have moved back in with their parents. Even worse, their difficulty in getting careers launched could set them [...]

HIGHER EXPECTATIONS FOR ALL STUDENTS: WHY IS THAT A PROBLEM? By Hafeeza Majeed
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas – The meaning that you will grasp from my message could possibly be quite different than the meaning your friend, relative, spouse, neighbor, etc., etc., etc., grasps.  I am a highly qualified teacher, HQT, as defined by No Child Left [...]

Dana Chivvis, Contributor
COURT RULES NEW YORK CAN’T CLOSE 19 SCHOOLS, by Dana Chivvis
NEW YORK – A state appellate court has ruled that New York City cannot close 19 schools it had deemed as “failing” in December. In its decision, the court agreed with a lower court ruling that the city had failed to provide adequate [...]

A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE GOING TO COLLEGE UNNECESSARILY, by Karen Ditko
(Money Central MSN.com) – When I was younger, the plan for my future was pretty straightforward. You go to high school to learn, get good grades, and get into a good college. You go to college to get good grades and then get a [...]

EDITOR’S COMMENTARY
NEW YORK JOINS KANSAS CITY IN SCHOOL CLOSING PARTY, by Wayne Hodges

NEW YORK – Somebody. Please. Say it isn’t so. It appears the plague affecting the Kansas City School District has reared its ugly head on the east coast. Reports indicate New York City is in the process of closing a mind-boggling 19 public [...]

Dana Chivvis, Contributor
WAS “FAILING” NEW YORK SCHOOL FAILED BY THE SYSTEM? By Dana Chivvis
NEW YORK – The pink building that houses the Metropolitan Corporate Academy is a maze of caged stairwells and blue hallways, like many of the other 1,600 public schools in New York City. But MCA is different from most of those other [...]

EDITOR’S COMMENTARY
SUMNER HAS EXCELLED IN ACADEMICS; WHAT ABOUT OTHERS? By Wayne Hodges
KANSAS CITY, Kan – On May 16, 2005, Newsweek Magazine ranked Sumner Academy 75th in its list of “100 Best High Schools in America.” In 2004, the school was listed in 99th place. In 2008, Sumner came in at a highly respectable #183. [...]

TEACHER LOSES JOB FOR HAVING PREMARITAL SEX, by Mike Celizic MSN.com
ST. CLOUD, Fla – The couple sat close together with her right hand clasped in his left hand and her left arm cradling the 8-month-old daughter whose conception cost the woman her job. The couple’s sin, according to her former employer, Southland Christian School in [...]

VIDEO CATCHES SLEEPY STUDENT AT PRESIDENT OBAMA’S SPEECH, by Mara Gay
DETROIT, Mich – President Barack Obama’s graduation speech at a Michigan high school got plenty of applause, but it didn’t prove rousing enough for one student. He dozed off. As the president told Kalamazoo Central grads that “true excellence only comes with perseverance,” a sleepy [...]