My colleague Sarah Kaufman's Style section article -- "Is college overrated?" -- was a provocative attack on the notion that college is necessary for a good life. Her examples of Americans who developed wonderful careers without much or any college were well reported, and worth reading. I just wish ...
The "Thoughts on Public Education (TOP-Ed)" blog put out by the Silicon Valley Education Foundation had the clever idea to ask Kilian Betlach, who used to write the delightful "Teaching in the 408" blog, to ruminate on the school reform process. Betlach, previously a seventh-grade teacher in east ...
The announcement comes amid fears that exams are becoming too easy and failing to keep pace with those in other countries. This summer almost three-in-10 A-levels were graded at least an A and the number of Cs awarded at GCSE increased for the 22nd year in ...
Whiteflame128, a participant in my Admissions 101 discussion group, described what happened when he graduated from a Fairfax County high school and showed up for college enrollment with an entire freshman year's worth of credit from Advanced Placement courses and tests. "My advisor had absolutely no idea what ...