An idea hatched by some private schools — including Blake in Minneapolis and Mounds Park Academy in St. Paul — may be about to revolutionize how your kids get into college, let alone how they approach their work in high school.
They want to get rid of grades and course information in high school transcripts. Read more →
A Minnesota school district is putting weight behind the philosophy that substance abuse deserves treatment more than punishment.
Up until recently, the long-time policy for athletes in the Austin, Minn., schools was if a player is caught using chemicals, they’re benched for nine games or nine weeks, whichever is longer. A second offense carries a one-year suspension from the sport. A third infraction carries an additional year’s suspension. Read more →
Although he’s given credit for the assertion, Thomas Jefferson never actually said ‘an educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people.’ Maybe he knew better. The country has now survived 241 years, most of them with a sizeable percentage of the population having no clue about the origins of the nation.
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Jesse Sparks, of Cambridge, Mass., could have done what a lot of college football players might do when the football program at their school was dropped: go somewhere else.
But Sparks stayed at Northeastern University, which agreed to honor his scholarship even without a football program. He wanted an education. Read more →
Four New Jersey Democrats are pushing a bill in that state that would require schools to teach kids how to interact with the police. Read more →
We have another story of a high school valedictorian wresting control from the school administrators who don’t want to give it up. Read more →
The University of Michigan has announced its offering free tuition to current or future in-state students from families making $65,000 a year or less. That’s about a $60,000 gift over four years. A somewhat similar idea in Minnesota never got out of the gate this year.
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Dennis Schreiber didn’t grow up wanting to be a teacher. He wasn’t drawn to it. He just thought he’d give it a try. There’s a lesson there somewhere. Read more →
There are times when we wish the news given to us was fake, but, sadly, today’s blockbuster from the Washington Post is not. Read more →
Marvin Wright, of Southwest Edgecombe High in Pinetops, N.C., showed why he’s the president of his graduating class when he told school administrators through his actions what they could do with the speech they told him to deliver instead of the one he wrote. Read more →
‘I do not believe we send our young minds to be victimized to read such immoral drivel,’ Carrol Sarsland wrote in his formal request to ban ‘The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.’
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What’s another day in June without a yearbook controversy in the nation’s schools?
This time it’s Wall High School in New Jersey where student Grant Berardo noticed a difference between the photo he submitted and the one that was printed, according to the Asbury Park Press. Read more →
Eighteen years ago, Phil Kiltie, a retired teacher in Alexandria, got a nice letter from Scott Lempka, who was once in Kiltie’s fourth-grade class, had grown up and become a teacher himself in Ohio.
Kiltie kept the letter. Teachers, we’re guessing, especially fourth-grade teachers, don’t get a lot of letters from their all-grown-up students. Read more →
It would appear that in at least one Georgia community, the Constitution isn’t highly regarded, so some of the students at a high school are going to provide a lesson plan.
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The Duluth News Tribune reports that someone posted a Snapchat message encouraging people to violate the school’s dress code. The crackdown targeted mostly girls whose shorts or dresses didn’t reach mid-thigh or whose bra straps were exposed. Read more →
Bob Collins