Education Chief to Warn Advocates That Inferior Charter Schools Harm the Effort
Education Secretary Arne Duncan plans to invite invite charter school leaders to help out in the administration’s broad effort to remake several thousand of the nation’s worst public schools. feeds.nytimes.com |
The Career Path to Pro Tennis Often Passes High School By
Although alternative schooling is not new to junior athletics, tennis is perhaps the only sport whose full participation requires it because of year-round competition and travel. feeds.nytimes.com |
Another SNP election pledge has yet to bear fruit, complain critics
AN ELECTION promise to give all primary school children free fruit has yet to be delivered by the Scottish Government, official figures show. news.scotsman.com |
Interview: James Fraser, UHI principal
JAMES Fraser knows what it is like to have to leave home to get ahead in life. In the 1960s, he caught the bus out of the Highlands and headed for the city in search of a degr news.scotsman.com |
Law School Admissions Lag Among Minorities
Over the last 15 years, the percentage and the number of black and Mexican-American students at law schools have fallen. feeds.nytimes.com |