“To expand its ability to provide resources and interactive opportunities for students and faculty members across the country, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is launching a fully redesigned Campus Freedom Network (CFN) website. The new CFN website will allow students and faculty to communicate quickly and effectively both with each other and […]
“State Sen. DiAnna Schimek of Lincoln has proposed a bill to recast Nebraska’s generally loose regulations over home-school students. Her bill would require home-school students to take state-mandated tests or have their schoolwork assessed by an outside evaluator. If students’ progress falls short academically, they would be sent to public or private schools. Nebraska’s home-school […]
“In the year and a half since the report of the Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education, the U.S. Education Department has invested significant time and energy on pressuring accrediting agencies to prod colleges to more effectively measure and more transparently report the academic outcomes of their students. In many ways, […]
“The massacre at Virginia Tech last year sent colleges nationwide scrambling to improve how they get alerts to students during crises on campus. One solution: Text messages sent to cell phones. But while hundreds of campuses have adopted text alerts, most students are not embracing the system — even in an age when they consider […]
“Are Texas parents satisfied with the progress their children are making in the public schools? Is Cynthia Tyroff’s philosophy of education working, or are substantive changes needed? That is the question before the Texas State Board of Education. Cynthia Tyroff is the Secondary Language Arts Supervisor (Grades 6-12) for Northside ISD, San Antonio, Texas. Tyroff […]
“Being a military family means frequently moving around the country or even overseas. As parents know, moving can disrupt a child’s education, especially when changing states. Each state has slightly different laws and standards. For military families, homeschooling rises from the pack as a viable alternative to public education. There are issues to be considered […]
“I don’t know when or why or how the issue of keeping Wisconsin’s public ‘virtual’ charter schools open became caught up in the partisanship of the Capitol. But I sure hope the members of the state Assembly follow the lead of Sen. Jon Erpenbach and not those of his fellow Democrats in the Senate who […]
“‘Let sleeping dogs lie,’ or perhaps ’stop beating a dead horse.’ Those old sayings could well apply to the Poudre School District Board of Education’s split decision Tuesday to apply for exclusive chartering authority from the state. For three consecutive years, the PSD board has applied for exclusive chartering authority through the Colorado Charter School […]
“The more I write about global warming, the more I realize I share some things in common with the doubters and deniers who populate the blogosphere and the conservative movement. Like them, I am dubious about the process used by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to write its reports. Like them, I […]
“Plants trees and algae do it - even some bacteria and moss do it, but scientists have had a difficult time developing methods to turn sunlight into useful fuel. Now, Penn State researchers have a proof-of-concept device that can split water and produce recoverable hydrogen. ‘This is a proof-of-concept system that is very inefficient. But […]
