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College offers far more than a career path
September 4, 2010My favorite teacher, Patrick Welsh, wrote an intriguing essay for USA Today about what he considers an overabundance of high school students going on to college. The same sentiments were expressed in a well-phrased letter from Eugene Morgan of Wheaton, published on The Post's editorial page June 20.
College offers far more than a career path
September 4, 2010My favorite teacher, Patrick Welsh, wrote an intriguing essay for USA Today about what he considers an overabundance of high school students going on to college. The same sentiments were expressed in a well-phrased letter from Eugene Morgan of Wheaton, published on The Post's editorial page June 20.
Democratic primary could determine fate of D.C. schools, for better or worse
September 4, 2010School opens today in the District. For the next three weeks, Americans who care about the future of urban schools will watch the city closely.
JAY MATHEWS
September 4, 2010 The weekly Jay Mathews education column is on break for a few weeks. But it'll be back next month when school starts.
Books at home push kids toward more schooling
September 4, 2010My wife's parents did not go to college. Linda's father was a carpenter. Her mother was an aircraft assembly line worker. They grew up in Oklahoma farming families, married, moved to Southern California and raised their children in blue-collar neighborhoods full of families just like theirs.
Books at home push kids toward more schooling
September 4, 2010My wife's parents did not go to college. Linda's father was a carpenter. Her mother was an aircraft assembly line worker. They grew up in Oklahoma farming families, married, moved to Southern California and raised their children in blue-collar neighborhoods full of families just like theirs.
Better data needed to accurately rate school systems
September 4, 2010Educational statistics expert Joseph Hawkins, one of my guides to the mysteries of test assessment, is impatient with the way the Montgomery County public school system is, as he puts it, "always telling the world how much better it is than everyone else." He finds flaws in its latest celebration of college success by county graduates, particularly minorities.
Long papers in high school? Many college freshmen say they never had to do one.
September 4, 2010 Kate Simpson is a full-time English professor at the Middletown, Va., campus of Lord Fairfax Community College. She saw my column about Prince George's County history teacher Doris Burton lamenting the decline of research skills in high school, as changing state and local course requirements and grading difficulties made required long essays a thing of the past.
Results of D.C. principal's controversial methods need to outweigh criticism
September 4, 2010Dwan Jordon, more quickly than any principal I have ever known, has made a name for himself in D.C. public schools.
Scores affect college choice but not necessarily success
September 4, 2010I wrote a story several years ago about great people who got terrible SAT scores. If you are wallowing in shame over your score in May, and quiver at the thought of taking the SAT again in October, consider the case of Bob Edgar, who got 730 out of a possible 1600. (That would be a 1100 or so on this era's 2400-point scale.)
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