Teen Gets Perfect Scores on SAT, ACT USA Today
During the 2006-07 school year, more than 2.2 million ACT tests were administered. Only 177 came back with a 36. And of the nearly 2.6 million SAT exams taken, only 335 came back with a 2400.
Bill Clinton’s bid to save the world LA Times
The former president’s Clinton Global Initiative draws an array of leaders and activists, and plenty of money for their causes.
Prospective Principals Groomed Through TFA-District Partnerships EdWeek
TFA aims to have more than 800 alumni leading their own schools or districts by 2010, as part of a school leadership initiative launched last year.
Texting, Facebook used to alert students MSNBC.com
As the school year starts, colleges around the country are applying the lessons of Virginia Tech and using high technology to get the word out fast in a crisis.
Book Asks How Bad Schools Happen to Good Suburbs NY Sun
To write their book, “Not as Good as You Think: Why the Middle Class Needs School Choice,” Ms. Murray and two other researchers at the San Franciscobased Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy studied California public schools.