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Joanne Jacobs:High school seniors? reading proficiency didn?t improve from 2002 to 2005 and declined from 1992 to 2005, according to the new Nation?s Report Card from NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress). In math, less than a quarter of students tested as proficient in 2005. Since 1992, the percentage of 12th graders reading at or above the basic level has slipped from 80 percent (more…)
One San Francisco-area elementary is radically re-thinking homework: A Menlo Park elementary school is saying no to homework for some of its students. The kids, and most parents and teachers like the idea.First graders spend a good six hours a day doing school work — what they do after school should not include homework. That’s the decision made last October by the principal of Oak Knoll (more…)
Csikszereda Musings posts pictures and writes about a mock funeral held in a Transylvanian village on the weekend before Lent begins. (more…)
The two terms “Taiwan” and “Republic of China” ( R.O.C.) has been intertwined together for the last decades. However, after several elections, with the switch in ruling parties from the pro- Chinese- unification party KMT to the pro- Taiwan- independence party DPP, these two terms are now at the focus of political controversy. With its […] (more…)